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Undergraduate Certificate Programs Environmental SustainabilityProspective Students: call 267-468-8100 Current Temple Students: call 267-468-8200
The purpose of this interdisciplinary certificate is to provide students with basic knowledge needed to evaluate environmental problems and to draw ecologically and economically sound connections between environmental needs, policy issues, and current research. Educated students can, as citizens, make wise, informed decisions regarding the environment.
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Prospective Students: call 267-468-8100 Current Temple Students: call 267-468-8200
This credit certificate option from the Department of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture is designed for people interested in horticultural therapy. Courses provide training and background and introduce horticultural therapy skills.
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Prospective Students: call 267-468-8100 Current Temple Students: call 267-468-8200
This credit certificate provides an intensive learning experience in both woody and herbaceous landscape plants and a brief introduction to other areas of horticulture. Learning the names and usage of plants provides a deeper understanding for anyone interested in gardening and landscaping.
For the professional, it provides the essential knowledge of plants needed to design high-quality landscapes for clients. For the hobbyist, it provides information that enriches the gardening experience.
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Native Perennial Garden Design Prospective Students: call 267-468-8100 Current Temple Students: call 267-468-8200
This credit certificate provides information that enriches the residential planting design experience. Certificate courses provide learning experiences with fundamentals of horticulture, herbaceous plants, and planting design. The skills necessary for a well designed and maintained residential perennial garden will be gained from learning plant identification, cultural conditions, and appropriate use of plants and planting design. Course offerings for this certificate are available both day and evening/weekend.
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Sustainable Community Planning
Lynn A. Mandarano, P.E., Ph.D. Associate Professor, Community and Regional Planning 267-468-8304
The core courses in the graduate certificate in Sustainable Community Planning program introduce students to the broad range of issues and topics relevant to planning for sustainable development of our cities and regions. Elective courses provide the opportunity to deepen knowledge and training in specific areas of sustainability and environmental planning.
Students in the graduate certificate in Sustainable Community Planning will: 1) gain knowledge of the historical evolution of the concept of sustainable development and its multiple definitions; 2) understand the discourse of theory and practice of sustainable development at the local, regional and global level; 3) be able to develop indicators to monitor and evaluate the sustainability of site, community and regional actions, plans and designs; 4) recognize models of sustainability and know how to use such models to inform their professional practice; 5) understand how to incorporate sustainability principles into planning practice to address the interrelationships between social, economic and environmental factors; and 6) have improved research, writing, and communication skills.
This certificate meets the needs of public and private agency employees who work in the field of environmental planning without academic degrees in planning.
Bradley J. Flamm, PhD Assistant Professor, Community and Regional Planning 267-468-8305
This graduate certificate will introduce the broad range of issues and topics relevant to transportation planning and the specific relationships between transportation planning and land use planning. Through elective courses, the certificate also will provide the opportunity for students to deepen knowledge and training in specific areas of transportation planning.
The Transportation Planning Certificate program will develop: 1) knowledge of the key contemporary transportation and travel behavior challenges facing transportation planners and engineers; 2) critical thinking skills to address these challenges and analyze important debates in the field; and 3) familiarity with and basic competence in transportation planning methodologies. This certificate meets the needs of public and private agency employees who work in the field of transportation planning without academic degrees in transportation planning or transportation engineering.
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