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Geography and City and Regional Planning

Environmental Planning Certificate

This certificate is to train students to understand environmental issues and address environmental problems, with a body of knowledge that integrates physical environment and human societies. It will also prepare students to investigate, and address, environmental problems in a systematic manner, in conjunction with their particular field of study.

Required courses (9 units)

List of required courses
Course Number Course Name Units
GEOG 115
or 
GEOG 128

Violent Weather/Climatic Hazards

Environmental Pollution


3 units
CRP 135
GEOG 129
or 
GEOG 132

Planning Law & Administration
Environmental Impact Assessment

United States Environmental Law


3 units
CRP 125 Environmental Planning 3 units

Electives (3 units)
Choose any one of the following courses:

List of elective courses
Course Number
Course Name
AGBS 155 Environmental and Natural Resource Policy
ANTH 128 Environmental Anthropology
CM 177 Sustainable Construction
CRP 135 Planning Law & Administration
ECON 117 Environmental Economics
EES 108 Soil and Water Sciences
GEOG 115 Violent Weather/Climatic Hazards
GEOG 127 Global Environmental Change
GEOG 128 Environmental Pollution
GEOG 129 Environmental Impact Assessment
GEOG 132 United States Environmental Law
GEOG 133 Environmental Policy Management
GEOG 135 Environmental Protection
GEOG 141 GIS I: Data Display and Manipulation
NSCI 115 Environmental Earth and Life Science
PH 161 Environment and Human Health
PLANT 105 Food, Society, and Environment
PLSI 157  Environmental Politics
PLSI 175 Water Politics and Policy
PSCI 168  Energy and the Environment
SOC 158 Environmental Sociology

Total Units (12)


For course descriptions, visit the Fresno State Catalog

For additional information please contact Assistant Professor, Chih-Hao Wang, Ph.D. at cwang@csufresno.edu.

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