Centre for Sustainable Community Development - Undergraduate Certificate [Simon Fraser University, SFU]

This program offers recognition to those who seek accreditation in community-based social and economic development. It offers a practical credential within an undergraduate degree with little or no extra cost. The SCD Certificate program offers a wide range of theoretical and practicable approaches to alternate economic strategies and to ecologically sustainable communities, both rural and urban. This 19-unit program has been developed with the student’s need for cost and time effective accreditation in mind. Its four required SCD courses and four units of pre-approved electives can be completed in two to three terms, either in the classroom or entirely by distance education. For part-time study or in combination with a Bachelor’s program, this Certificate is also time effective. It can be completed in five terms, one course at a time in sequence, by combining classroom and distance education options.