Conservation and Environmental Leadership
An undergraduate degree that prepares you to lead solutions to complex environmental challenges by understanding the connections between people, communities, and nature.
Conservation Leadership
A graduate program that prepares leaders to address complex conservation issues at local, regional, and global scales. The curriculum is built around principles of experiential learning, interdisciplinary instruction, and applied approaches.
Human Dimensions of Natural Resources
A flexible research-based master’s designed to educate and teach the dimensions of social science aspects of natural resource issues.
Communications for Conservation
A certificate that includes assignments you can apply directly to your professional or personal interests.
Beyond the classroom
- Earn a Wilderness Leadership Certification: Gain the skills to instruct and lead in mountain, river, and desert environments by adding wilderness leadership courses to your major.
- Learn at CSU Mountain Campus: Live in a cabin in the Rocky Mountains while taking immersive summer courses that count toward your degree.
- Build experience through an internship: Graduate with professional experience that strengthens your résumé and prepares you for your career.
- Study abroad: Travel internationally and learn conservation practices from experts and communities in other countries.
- Conduct research: Work alongside faculty to build research skills and tackle real-world conservation challenges at home and abroad.