Graduate Certificate
in Science & Technology Policy
Certificate Courses
Required Core Certificate Courses (9 credit hours total)
ENVS 5100 Science and Technology Policy
Spring 2019 Semester, Mondays 1:00 - 3:30 PM
Taught by Lisa Dilling
This course focuses on the role of science and technology in supporting policy and well as the role of policies in shaping the practice of science and technology.
ENVS 5110 Science, Technology, and Society
Fall 2018 Semester, Thursdays 12:00 - 2:30 PM [view flyer]
Taught by Roger Pielke, Jr.
This course focuses on the role of the expert in society as well as societal influences on science and technology.
ENVS 5120 Quantitative Methods of Policy Analysis
Fall 2018 Semester, Tuesdays 2:00 - 4:30 PM [view flyer]
Taught by Matthew Druckenmiller
This course focuses on disciplinary approaches to policy analysis and research, and will consider both quantitative and qualitative methods.
NEW ELECTIVE: ENVS 5100-004: Creating Usable Science - Theory and Practice [view flyer]
View 2018-2019 CU Course Catalog
Other Elective Certificate Courses (9 hours required)
The following courses have been identified from the CU course catalog as the type of courses taught in past years that would fulfill certificate elective requirements.
ASTR 4800: Space Science: Practice and Policy
ATOC 4800: Policy Implications of Climate Controversies
ATOC 5000: Critical Issues in Climate and the Environment
COMM 6330: The Rhetoric of Science: Is it Safe?
CSCI 6268: Foundations of Computer and Network Security
CVEN 5393: Water resources Development and Management
EBIO 5310: Ecology and Conservation
ECON 4545: Environmental Economics
EMEN 5010: Introduction to Engineering Management
EMEN 5040: Quality, Strategy, and Value Creation
EMEN 5080: Ethical Decision Making
EMEN 5300: Management of Research and Development
ENVS 5000: Policy, Science and the Environment
ENVS 5100-002: Environmental & Energy Economics
ENVS 5100-002: Special Topics in Environmental Studies: Environment, Media & Culture
ENVS 5100-003: Environmental Collaboration Designing, Organizing, Facilitating
ENVS 5100-007: Making Usable Science For Policy
ENVS 5701: Politics, Policy and Management: Foundations
ENVS 5702: Policy, Politics and Management: Theory & Practice
ENVS 5820: Renewable Energy Policy
GEOG 6402: Seminar: Comparative Environmental Studies
LAWS 7112: Mining and Energy Law
LAWS 6112: Foundations of Natural Resources Law and Policy
LAWS 7132: Energy Insecurity and Sustainable Energy
LAWS 7202: Environmental Law
LAWS 7241: Telecommunications Law and Policy
LAWS 7311: Patent Law
MCEN 5228-005: Global Engineering
OPIM 6820: Topics in Systems: Assessing Sustainable Energy Technologies
PHIL 5210: Philosophy and Social Policy
PHIL 5230: Bioethics and Public Policy
PHIL 5240: Seminar in Environmental Philosophy
PHIL 5290: Values and Social Policy
PHIL 5400: Philosophy of Science
PHIL 5450: History and Philosophy of Physics
PHIL 6400: Seminar in Philosophy of Science
RSEI 5200: Nuclear Power
TLEN 5010: Telecommunications Finance
TLEN 5106: International Telecommunications Policy
TLEN 5240: Law and Regulation
TLEN 5831: Special Topics: The Future of Telecommunications
