University of Idaho
AC-3: Undergraduate Program

Today’s global environmental issues demand professionals who understand the science, economics, social and political factors behind them. Take advantage of this unique program that includes classes from a variety of sciences. Focus your studies through a range of courses in the biological, physical or social sciences, while you learn to protect, conserve and make a difference in tomorrow's world.

Examine the human dimensions of natural resource management and conservation and apply this knowledge while working with diverse stakeholders across disciplines and private and public sectors. Explore social-ecological systems and shape the relationship with the landscape that sustains us all. This nationally recognized program offers two options, Conservation Planning and Management and Conservation Science.

Sustainability and innovation are words to live by for professionals in Forest and Sustainable Products. An important part of the University of Idaho for over 100 years and accredited by the Society of Wood Science and Technology, our B.S. in Forest and Sustainable Products trains students to create and design new products from bio-based materials, from wood to recycled materials.

Through hands-on courses, our students apply what they learn in the classroom in our state-of-the-art laboratories in a variety of areas such as biofuel creation from wood waste, development of plastic-enhanced wood for construction, and innovative use of small-diameter trees. Our program is the only program of its kind with an integrated business curriculum that prepares students to work in the renewable materials and wood products industry; a $3 billion industry in Idaho. As a major in Forest and Sustainable Products, students take advantage of course work in five career tracks:

Bio-Energy
Bio-Based Materials
Construction & Design
Materials Acquisition & Supply
Renewable Materials Business Management

Master sustainability in academics website here: https://www.uidaho.edu/sustainability/academics

Our Climate Change Certificate fulfills a need for personnel who have a working knowledge of the science of climate change, its potential impacts, and adaptation and mitigation strategies to build climate resilient societies and landscapes.

Careers include scientists quantifying impacts, mitigation, and adaptation and practitioners and managers minimizing effects in natural and human systems.

Many of the issues facing our natural resources and environment can be resolved by restoring health, sustainability, and services of ecosystems that have been degraded by human activities. Restoration Ecology is the science that supports the practice of restoration, and is the foundation of any successful ecosystem restoration project. Enrolling in the Restoration Ecology certificate provides you a background in basic ecological principles within the context of restoration. Specifically, the certificate provides a strong understanding of plant and soil ecology and an overview of the tools to manage and restore disturbed and degraded rangeland and forest ecosystems.

The Environmental Communications Minor is offered through the College of Natural Resources but requires coursework in the humanities and journalism as well. This interdisciplinary minor introduces students to the communications skills in the context of natural resources, including environmental and cultural interpretation; communication psychology and media applied to non-captive audiences in natural resource situations. Additional coursework in environmental education and public involvement in natural resource management expand the scope of this minor.

Master sustainability in academic website: https://www.uidaho.edu/sustainability/academics

Data compiled by Sustainability Director Sarah Dawson