Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 61.36
Liaison Elizabeth Swiman
Submission Date Jan. 30, 2015
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Florida State University
AC-4: Graduate Program

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 3.00 / 3.00 Elizabeth Swiman
Director of Campus Sustainability
Facilities
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Does the institution offer at least one sustainability-focused major, degree program, or the equivalent for graduate students?:
Yes

The name of the sustainability-focused, graduate-level degree program (1st program):
Sustainable Energy

A brief description of the graduate degree program (1st program):

The FSU-FAMU College of Engineering Mechanical Engineering program offers an MS in Sustainable Energy:
EML 5060 - Analysis in Mechanical Engineering I (3)
CHM 5153 - Engineering Electrochemistry (3) or an approved equivalent course
EML 5451 - Energy Conversion Systems for Sustainability (3)
EML 5452 - Sustainable Power Generation (3)
EML 5930 - Sustainable Energy Utilization (3)
Plus electives, seminar, and thesis credits


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The name of the sustainability-focused, graduate-level degree program (2nd program):
Urban & Regional Planning

A brief description of the graduate degree program (2nd program):

The Department of Urban and Regional Planning at The Florida State University educates students to think critically, exhibit technical competence, facilitate adaptive learning, and to effectively engage the political process over the course of their professional planning careers. Faculty conduct research and carry out service that contributes to a better understanding and shaping of resilient communities and ecosystems in order to promote human capabilities, social justice, sustainable livelihoods, and community health and safety.

Students select one of the six specializations listed below as their focus of study. Dual specializations are possible:
Environmental Planning and Natural Resource Management - deals with the protection and stewardship of air, water, land and other natural resources. Concerns include both the management of natural resources directly, as well as the mitigation of adverse impacts on these resources caused by human settlements and activities. The specialization offers an overview of key environmental issues, and provides the theoretical, methodological, and legal background necessary for the planner to have an effective role in dealing with these issues.

Housing and Community Development - Community development is concerned with the creation, preservation, and revitalization of neighborhoods and other small-area places, including commercial and public spaces that serve resident populations. It focuses on building the economic, physical, social, and political capital necessary to effect change. The housing component covers the general issue of providing decent, safe, and affordable housing for all residents, in locations that promote the well-being of households and the community.

Land Use and Comprehensive Planning - focuses on the development and implementation of policies to manage the location, timing, type, and density/intensity of land development. The land development process consists of three types of activities that need to be coordinated if desirable development outcomes are to be achieved. There is a special focus on the range of policy solutions implemented by government in the past, the methods of evaluating the need for policy solutions, and the methods for designing policy and implementation strategies.

Planning for Community Health - reflects the recent resurgence of interest in what civic stakeholders, local communities, and global society are doing to ensure that urban and urbanizing landscapes are healthy and desirable places. The way a community is planned--its land development patterns, transportation and housing options, or community design--plays an important role in shaping the health of those living there.
Planning for Developing Areas - prepares students for the challenges of guiding economic and social development in the context of increasing globalization, commonly defined as the increasing interconnectedness of people, places, and institutions worldwide. Courses address cross-cutting issues such as globalization, democratization, gender and development, and sustainable development.

Transportation Planning - transportation is essential to the function of cities and the well-being of their residents. Transportation systems make the exchange of goods and services possible, and they help shape the form of the built urban environment. The ways we design and use the transportation system affect all other aspects of planning, from the environment to housing and community development to health and land use development.


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Does the institution offer one or more graduate-level sustainability-focused minors, concentrations or certificates?:
No

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