Explore Certificates
Add a certificate to build your carer toolbox and enrich your educational experience!
You can choose certificate programs inside or outside of your field of study to round out your education or simply for your own personal fulfillment and interests. Whether it's for professional advancement or personal interest, certificate programs provide lots of benefits!
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Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems
Explores the natural and social systems that guide sustainable agriculture. It provides interdisciplinary training and hands-on field research to teach the principles and practices of agroecological production within the context of environmental, social, and economic challenges. It prepares students for graduate programs or professions utilizing systems-thinking skills.
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Beekeeping
Prepares students with a foundational knowledge of honeybee biology and the craft of beekeeping. Additionally, this certificate provides theoretical and practical learning opportunities, based on current research that encompasses the many elements of beekeeping worldwide.
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Biosecurity and Biological Invasions
Biosecurity and Biological Invasions
Provides the skill set necessary for the detection, surveillance, and management of agricultural and medical threats. Acquire critical thinking skills for the assessment, management, and communication of the biosecurity risks and challenges facing the 21st century. -
Environmental Horticulture Management
Offered via distance learning, enables the working professional or adult learner who is place-bound and cannot attend classes in Gainesville to gain a background in the sustainable ornamental horticulture practices used in the greenhouse, nursery, or landscape industries. The program emphasizes the conservation of resources through proper plant management.
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Horticultural Therapy
Offered via distance learning, provides students a background in people/plant relationships and trains you to develop activities, treatment plans, and programs using plants to achieve therapeutic outcomes. It aligns with the certification requirements of the American Horticultural Therapy Association for professional recognition as Horticultural Therapist-Registered (HTR).
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Landscape Pest Management
Offered via distance learning, it trains employees of the landscape management and pest control industries who desire advanced training in managing landscape (turf, shrub, and tree) pests, nematodes and plant diseases.