Conservation Biology is a discipline concerned with the preservation, management and restoration of biodiversity. The field is inherently interdisciplinary and merges natural and social sciences to focus on understanding of the factors responsible for promoting and maintaining biodiversity on the one hand and the challenges of mitigating the extinction of species, preserving sensitive habitats and managing landscapes that support biodiversity on the other hand.
The graduate certificate provides graduate students in the natural sciences exposure to the social, economic and political approaches for conserving biological diversity. Conversely, graduate students in the social sciences are given the opportunity to obtain expertise in biological principles that can be used to understand how human altered habitats may lead to a loss of biological diversity.
The Conservation Biology program is an interdisciplinary graduate certificate that involves contributions from anthropology and sociology, biological sciences, economics, geography, geology, history, and political science. The program applies a multifaceted understanding of the factors affecting the preservation of biological diversity. It is centered in the Biological Sciences Department but includes faculty members from the departments of Environmental and Plant Biology, Economics, Geography, and Political Science.
Students currently enrolled in a graduate degree program can add the Conservation Biology certificate to their program of study.
To apply if you're a current graduate student at OHIO, use the instructions for Adding a Certificate on the Graduate College Admissions page.
The certificate requires two biology courses: BIOS 5810 - Animal Conservation Biology and BIOS 7970 - Seminar in Conservation Biology plus three courses for a total of 14 to 17 credit hours. Two of the three courses, offered by College of Arts and Sciences departments, must be outside your major field of study.
View Courses & Certificate Requirements in the Official Academic Catalog