The Sustainable Energy Systems undergraduate certificate is a 15 credit hour multidisciplinary program.
Open to all undergraduate majors at OU.
2 core SES courses (6 credit hours)
3 SES electives (9 credit hours)
The core SES courses provide a common core of fundamental knowledge and framework of understanding for:
The SES electives, with over 50 options, provide flexibility to specialize in topics of interest in more in-depth ways.
Courses can double-count toward student's major and the SES certificate!
Course Number |
Course Title |
Core Domains |
| SES 2113 |
Carbon Cycle, Climate Change, and Environmental Sustainability; Fundamentals of Energy |
|
SES 2123 |
Energy in Society: A Systems Perspective on Energy Transitions [III-SS] |
Historical, Societal, and Economic Impacts of Energy; Systems Modeling, Analysis, and Tradeoffs |
The required 6 hour core of the SES undergraduate certificate curriculum is designed to provide all students with a systems perspective relative to both technical and societal aspects of energy systems. Core technical areas include energy fundamentals, carbon cycle, climate change, and environmental sustainability (SES 2113). The core societal aspect areas are covered based on the concept that energy production and consumption can be viewed as a complex system, influenced by histories of the environmental, economic, political, and even cultural structures of which we are a part (SES 2123). The course SES 2123 is approved for general education credit Type III-Social Science.
With the strong common core serving as the foundation, students in the SES program select 9 hours of elective courses from various tracks and content areas including subsurface energy and storage, life cycle analysis, carbon management, engineering and technology, strategic communications, historical and social aspects, legal, economic, and policy aspects, and energy markets and business.
The next two sections provide detailed information about the required core courses and elective courses for the SES certificate.
Students must complete three elective courses from the list of courses provided. Depending on the student’s degree major and interests, one or more of the SES elective courses may also count for credit toward the degree requirements of the student’s major.
Approximately 25% of the SES elective courses also satisfy OU’s General Education requirements.
Elective Course Areas:
