Program Description
- STEM designated program
The Sustainability Leadership Certificate at Thomas Jefferson University prepares forward-thinking professionals to design and deliver sustainability initiatives in their current or future organizations. With our curriculum’s project-based approach, you will build vital skills in problem scoping, systems modeling, solution framing and change management and immediately apply them to the sustainability challenges facing your own organization or an assigned client.
As you progress through the program, your project advances with you, moving through stages from identifying and prioritizing key environmental challenges to developing and pitching an implementation plan for addressing them. Our faculty are prominent sustainability professionals ready to share their conceptual knowledge and practical experience as you master the strategies and tools needed to produce positive change in your field.
Learning Goals/Outcomes
- Build vital skills in problem scoping, systems modeling, solution framing and change management.
- Identify and prioritize key environmental challenges
- Develop implementation plans for addressing environmental challenges.
- Credits earned through certificate courses are transferable into the MS in Sustainable Design program.