Director: Courtney Flint, Department of Environment and Society
Location: Natural Resources 316
Phone: (435) 797-8653
E-mail: courtney.flint@usu.edu

Graduate Program Description

The Natural Resources and Environmental Communication and Engagement Post-Bachelor’s Certificate (NRECE) Program is administered by the Department of Environment and Society, S.J. and Jessie E. Quinney College of Agriculture and Natural Resources. The Department of Environment and Society is an interdisciplinary department focused on research, outreach/extension, and teaching on human-environment interactions; it espouses community engagement in research, outreach, and learning and is USU-designated as a community-engaged department. The NRECE Post-Bachelor’s Certificate is open to existing or incoming graduate students in masters or doctorate programs or to students who have a bachelors degree and want to do the certificate program on its own.

The NRECE Program provides an opportunity for, and certification of, knowledge- and skill-building in environmental communication and community engagement. Program outcomes focus on a broad range of communication strategies within the knowledge and action domains of natural resource management and the socio-ecological and environmental sciences. The program emphasizes a modern, two-way approach to collaborating and partnering with communities and stakeholders, with a more critical perspective on improving how environmental science communication occurs. Curriculum draws on a suite of courses with communication and engagement content both within and beyond the Department of Environment and Society.

The certificate curriculum consists of three components, for a total of 10 credits: (1) minimum of 6 credits of coursework with communications and/or engagement content from an approved list of course options; (2) one departmental seminar course (1 credit) that introduces a range of environmental science topics; and (3) a three-credit capstone requirement met either through a communication, engagement, or outreach component of the student’s master’s thesis or doctoral dissertation or through an independent project, whichever works best for the student.

Certificate

Students who complete the program receive a certificate in Natural Resources and Environmental Communication and Engagement. Notification of this certificate appears on the student’s transcript.

Natural Resources and Environmental Communication and Engagement (NRECE) - Post-Bachelor's Certificate

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