Academics
The Office of Sustainability facilitates sustainable education and learning at UW–Madison by highlighting relevant academic opportunities and resources, as well as administering the Sustainability Course Attribute. You can find a selection of academic opportunities and resources below.
To make suggestions or offer updates, please email info@sustainability.wisc.edu.
Courses
UW–Madison offers sustainability-related courses in many subject areas. The Sustainability Course Attribute helps students to find sustainability content.
Majors
Numerous academic programs at UW–Madison address environmental, social, and/or economic sustainability. Many schools and colleges also offer the opportunity to design individualized majors.
Graduate Programs
UW–Madison offers a range of graduate programs (master’s and doctoral) as well as doctoral minors related to sustainability, spanning the natural and social sciences, engineering, business, the humanities, and more.
Certificates
Undergraduate
Sustainability
This program combines coursework and community engagement to help students learn sustainability principles and how to apply them to issues on our campus and in the wider world.
Eligibility: Any UW undergraduate not earning an environmental studies degree or certificate or the engineering for energy sustainability certificate
Undergraduate
Engineering for Energy Sustainability
With courses spanning the engineering curriculum, this program addresses energy sustainability with firm roots in “real world” design and engineering practices.
Eligibility: Any UW undergraduate not earning the sustainability certificate.
Undergraduate
Environmental Studies
Through interdisciplinary courses and optional research or fieldwork, students can learn about society’s environmental challenges through science, policy, literature, art and/or philosophy.
Eligibility: Any UW undergraduate
graduate
Sustainability
This certificate’s interdisciplinary curriculum considers environmental, economic, and social factors of sustainability, including: Economics & Development; Systems Analysis, Planning & Engineering; and Environmental Policy, Health & Social Studies.
Eligibility: Any UW graduate student
graduate
Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE)
This program stems from the recognition that interdisciplinary (human and natural) scientific and scholarly approaches are key to solving some of the most complex and critical environmental problems.
Eligibility: Any UW graduate student
graduate
Energy Analysis and Policy at the Graduate Level
This program considers scientific, technical, economic, political, and social factors that shape energy policy formulation and decision-making, preparing students to become leaders in energy issues.
Eligibility: Any UW graduate student
graduate
Business, Environment and Social Responsibility
This program explores interrelations between business and its natural and social environment to help students integrate economic, environmental, and social dimensions into their decision-making.
Eligibility: Any UW graduate student
Campus as a living lab
Students can bring sustainability ideas to life through the UW–Madison Green Fund. Faculty, staff, and partners can connect with us to explore opportunities to collaborate across campus.