Certificates

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATES

Explore the capacity of the natural world to refresh, renew, and re-engage the human spirit by promoting stress reduction, improved productivity, and personal well-being. Study the therapeutic and healing benefits of the restorative landscape, as well as essential programming and design principles. Apply your learning to a real project with an actual client.

Urban Green Infrastructure Certificate

Discover how strengthening a city's green infrastructure network increases community health and ecological resilience. Learn to recognize, quantify, and apply ecosystem services and amenities in an urban environment. Explore humanity's evolving relationship to nature as expressed in biophilia and emerging theories of landscape performance.

Develop integrated and elegant solutions to the complex infrastructural challenges facing growing cities and envision "high performance landscapes" that are multi-functional, yet culturally resonant. Experience the latest advances in urban landscape stewardship, and stay up-to-date with innovative, open source communication technologies, from wikis and social networking media to online collaboration and presentation tools.

INTERDISCIPLINARY CERTIFICATES IN THE COLLGE OF BUILT ENVIRONMENTS

The University of Washington's College of Built Environments has two interdisciplinary certificate programs available to students offered in the areas of Historic Preservation or Urban Design.

Students enrolled in the Bachelors in Landscape Architecture, Masters of Architecture, Masters of Landscape Architecture, Masters in Urban Planning, Interdisciplinary Ph.D in Urban Design & Planning, and the Ph.D in the Built Environment may choose to focus their courses in the areas of Historic Preservation or Urban Design, and may earn a certificate awarded by the College in one (or both) of these interdisciplinary programs while pursuing their professional degree.

Historic Preservation Program

Urban Design Certificate Program