Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Urbanism
Twelve credits to analyze, design, and shape more just and resilient cities.
The Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Urbanism provides graduate students with an interdisciplinary framework for understanding and addressing the social, environmental, and spatial challenges facing contemporary cities.
Through coursework in urban geography, mapping and representation, global urbanism, and engaged urban design, students develop the tools to analyze urban conditions, understand urbanization across different contexts and scales, and propose more equitable and adaptive urban futures.
The certificate is part of Tulane’s Sustainable Urbanism Program, which approaches the city through the lens of territory, bringing together design, urban studies, and planning to address contemporary social, environmental, and spatial challenges within the broader framework of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
New Orleans as a Laboratory
New Orleans offers an exceptional setting in which to study urbanism: a delta city shaped by water, infrastructure, climate risk, cultural histories, and questions of equity and adaptation. Students have the opportunity to engage these issues in a city where many of the central challenges of contemporary urbanization are visible in everyday life.
What Students Learn
Students in the certificate develop the ability to:
- Analyze urban territories through geography, mapping, and spatial representation.
- Understand urbanization across different histories, geographies, and scales.
- Engage communities through urban design and research.
- Communicate urban analysis and proposals to diverse audiences.
Plan of Study
The Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Urbanism consists of 12 credits:
- SURB 6100 — Introduction to Urban Geography: New Orleans Urbanism
- SURB 6311 — Introduction to Urban Mapping and Graphics
- SURB 6110 — Global Urbanism: Theory & Practice
- SURB 6245 — Engaged Urban Design
Degree Information
Suggested Plan of Study (PDF, TXT)
MEET THE DIRECTOR
Rubén García Rubio
Program Director for Sustainable Urbanism
Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urbanism