TCD CERTIFICATE and CONCENTRATION
Eligibility
The TCD certificate and concentration are open to Master's and Ph.D. students enrolled in TCD's affiliate departments
After they are enrolled at UF, students in affiliated academic units can enroll in the TCD certificate or concentration program by meeting with TCD's Academic Advisor, Marianne Schmink (fall 2009) or Emilio Bruna (spring 2010).
Students applying for the TCD Interdisciplinary Concentration must complete the course requirements for the TCD Certificate. They also must focus on tropical conservation and development in their thesis, dissertation, or final project (in the case of non-thesis degree programs). For the Interdisciplinary Concentration, one member of the student’s supervisory committee must be a TCD affiliate faculty member.
Affiliate Departments
Agricultural Education and Communication
Agronomy
Anthropology
Biology
Center for Latin American Studies
Comparative Law
Entomology and Nematology
Food and Resource Economics Geography
Geological Sciences School of Forest Resources and Conservation
School of Natural Resources and the Environment
Plant Medicine
Political Science
Religion
Sociology
Soil and Water Science
Tourism, Recreation and Sports Management
Urban and Regional Planning
Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
Women's Studies & Gender Research