Sustainable Cities Initiative
Sustainable Cities Initiative (SCI) is a cross-disciplinary organization within the School of Architecture and Allied Arts at the University of Oregon that seeks to promote research, education, service, and public outreach related to the development of sustainable cities. We address the region down to the building and recognize that well conceived solutions and thinking on sustainable city design cannot happen fully within any single discipline. SCI is grounded in cross-discipline dialogue and investigation as the key to addressing issues of sustainability within our communities.
SCI synthesizes existing faculty research work under a single theme, serves as a catalyst for expanded research and teaching endeavors, markets this expertise to scholars, funders, potential clients, and project partners, and works to synthesize and sponsor academic courses and certificates.
Ecological Design Certificate
The Ecological Design Certificate is a design-based, interdisciplinary program focused on the development of a practical framework for the integration of the built environment with locale and region specific natural systems. It is available to all graduate students within the School of Architecture and Allied Arts. Participating students are challenged to develop an in-depth understanding of the relationships between ecological processes, issues of cultural and social sustainability, and urban development and form, as well as how allied design and planning disciplines approach these relationships. Students will acquire a theoretical and pragmatic basis to carry these understandings into the world of practice.
The School of Architecture and Allied Arts at the University of Oregon has a national reputation as a leader in sustainable and ecologically sensitive design. The Ecological Design Certificate Program provides an explicit curricular structure in this area, encouraging students to develop a holistic, ecologically-based design awareness, solidifying the commitment of the University to ecological design, and promoting and upholding its capacity for leadership in the field.
Sustainable Leadership Certificate Program
The Sustainability Leadership program is a series of non-credit professional development workshops. These action-learning workshops are designed to give you both a theoretical foundation and practical application tools that can be used to move your organization toward sustainable systems.
Participants who attend ten one-day workshops will receive the Certificate of Completion in Sustainability Leadership from the University of Oregon. There are no pre-requisites and the workshops can be taken in any order.
Museum Studies Certificate Program
This certificate addresses the growing demand for professionally trained museum personnel across the country. It will provide University of Oregon students who are interested in museum work with an invaluable credential as they approach the job market.
Any student officially enrolled in a University of Oregon graduate program may apply to pursue the Museum Studies Certificate which is a masters-level, multi-disciplinary course of study sponsored by the Arts and Administration Program, the Department of Architecture, the Department of Art History, and the Department of Anthropology.
The program requires 28 credit hours, no more than 12 of which may count as both degree hours and certificate hours. All students will serve a 200-hour internship and all will make a public presentation at the end of the program.
