The UGA Atmospheric Sciences Program offers certificate programs at the graduate and undergraduate levels. The undergraduate certificate is offered in conjunction with a bachelor's degree from a participating program. The operational meteorology track of the undergraduate certificate meets the federal civil service requirements for employment as a meteorologist and the American Meteorological Society's recommended curriculum. The general atmospheric sciences track of the undergraduate certificate can be tailored to suit the students interests and career goals.
Environmental Ethics Certificate
The Undergraduate Certificate was designed to train undergraduate students to make decisions about environmental problems based not only on traditional logic, but also on philosophical, social, political, legal, economic, scientific, and aesthetic considerations. Consequently, undergraduate students in the Certificate Program benefit by viewing environmental issues from an interdisciplinary perspective.
The Undergraduate Certificate in Environmental Ethics began with the 1994-95 academic year and currently enrolls 55 undergraduate students. The Undergraduate Program is patterned after the successful Graduate Program and, like it, was the first certificate program of its kind in the United States.
International Agriculture Certificate
Designed to complement required courses for majors in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, the Certificate in International Agriculture can give students the advantage of a global outlook and exposure to other cultures that, upon graduation, will make them more competitive in the job market. Students participating in the Certificate program will concentrate on a specific country or region of the world. They will gain a working knowledge of the language as well as an understanding of the environmental, social, political, and cultural issues in that part of the world.
Water Resources Certificate Program
The Water Resources Certificate Program prepares students for related careers in environmental science and management. Protecting the long-term ecologic health of our rivers and streams is an important national goal. Yet our society has ever-increasing demands for inexpensive supplies of high-quality water. The purpose of the program is to train students to manage our scarce water resources for the maximum benefit of the world's population, while at the same time preserving the ecologic integrity of our aquatic resources.