Undergraduate Certificate of Proficiency in Sustainability

Coordinated through SENS, the Undergraduate Certificate of Proficiency in Sustainability enriches a student's current degree program and helps them stand out from the crowd following graduation. By providing significant exposure to sustainability-related concepts and practices, students gain an understanding of how to integrate human-environmental systems within our current reality and how to critically evaluate sustainability efforts. Students choose their elective courses from one of three areas of focus: natural resources and sustainability, community and sustainability or food systems and sustainability.

The Certificate in Sustainability is intended to give students theoretical, methodological, strategic, and substantive exposure to sustainability-related concepts and practice. Students will choose either the natural resources and sustainability focus, the community and sustainability focus or the food systems and sustainability focus. The certificate will allow students to engage in problem-based, experiential learning across a broad range of sustainability topics. The program will begin in the student’s second year with ENVS 201.

The Course and Program Calendar outlines the program requirements.

Application Information

School of Environment and Sustainability

The School of Environment and Sustainability (SENS) offers four graduate degree options. The school seeks to bridge multiple disciplines across the natural, physical, social sciences, as well as the humanities and engineering to address the most challenging environmental and sustainability issues we face. Having been established in 2007 with over 100 alumni, our students benefit from innovative, forward-thinking mentorship of interdisciplinary researchers and practitioners as they are guided through exploratory exercises that emphasize critical thinking and alternative ways of knowing.

Undergraduate Environmental Degree Programs

Three colleges at the University of Saskatchewan offer undergraduate environmental degree programs. Whether you are interested in field-work, lab-work, policy, or planning, we offer an undergraduate environmental degree to fit your interests. In fact, there are ten undergraduate environmental degree options to choose from!

B.A. & Sc. in Environment & Society, College of Arts and Science
B.Sc. in Environmental Biology, College of Arts and Science
B.Sc. in Environmental Geoscience, Colleges of Arts and Science
B.E. in Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering
B.S.A. in Environmental Science, College of Agriculture and Bioresources
B.Sc in Hydrology, College of Arts and Science
B.Sc. (RRM) in Renewable Resource Management: Resource Economics and Policy, College of Agriculture and Bioresources
B.Sc. (RRM) in Renewable Resource Management: Resource Science, College of Agriculture and Bioresources
B.Sc. in Toxicology, College of Arts and Science
Cert. in Sustainability, School of Environment and Sustainability

This diversity of programs offer students an opportunity to explore many aspects of environmental work, ranging from bioresources and studies in soil science, water science, and agriculture, to environmental policy, risk assessment, communications, geography, and planning, to biology, toxicology, and more.

Environmental Programs Admissions

Indigenous and Land-Based Sustainability Programs

Indigenous Studies, College of Arts and Science
Indian Teacher Education Program (ITEP), College of Education
Saskatchewan Urban Native Teacher Education Program (SUNTEP), College of Education
Critical Environmental Education Cohort (graduate level), College of Education
Land-Based Indigenous Education (graduate level), College of Education

Other Sustainability Related Certificates and Minors

Kanawayihetaytan Askiy (KA) Program (certificate), College of Agriculture and Bioresources
- Diploma in Indigenous Lands Governance
- Diploma in Indigenous Resource Management
Critical Perspectives on Social Justice and the Common Good (minor), College of Arts and Science
Water Science (certificate), College of Arts and Science
Learning for Sustainability (free online course), Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching Excellence

Sustainability Course Inventory

If you would like to view a complete inventory of the sustainability-focused and sustainability-inclusive courses offered at the University of Saskatchewan, please visit our dedicated Sustainability Course Inventory page.