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Overview

With Alaska as your learning lab, there is no better place to study the issues and challenges of sustainability than at Alaska Pacific University.

Program flexibility allows you to design an interdisciplinary, personalized degree plan around your unique interests and career goals.

Graduate with applied learning experiences and the research and creative problem-solving skills to help lead the way toward of a more sustainable future.

Degree Fit

Sustainability Studies at APU is the right program for you if you are interested in approaches to sustainability and the environment from interdisciplinary perspectives in the humanities and social sciences. SUS is a good choice for rural Alaskan students preparing to work for sustainable development in their home communities. The flexibility of the degree program makes SUS an efficient option for transfer students seeking to maximize credits earned at another institution.

Career Outcomes

Sustainability Studies graduates are pursuing careers in:

  • Alaska Native Corporations
  • Legislative offices
  • National parks
  • Community outreach

Degree Roadmap

Green Global Politics integrates perspectives from environmental and political science with emphasis on our unique ability to control, direct and manipulate energy sources from food to the hydrogen atom and on the environmental consequences of this ability.
Human Impacts in Marine Systems introduces the physical processes that drive marine productivity and the major human impacts on these systems at local, regional, national and international levels. Students learn about the current state of impacts through scientific literature and public policy documents and are updated on current mitigation, management, conservation and policy actions from local experts in the field.
Community Psychology and Sustainability examines the research and processes of building relationships, developing sustainable systems of living, understanding the interrelatedness of people and natural environment within a local community system and individual expression within diverse communities.

Student Profiles

I was able to build my degree around the issues I was really interested in – tribal environmental health, non-profit management and community sustainability within Alaska, with a rural focus. -Desiree Roehl, BA, Sustainability Studies, 2015
I loved the interdisciplinary focus of the program and the diversity of projects and the people who were doing them. –Monica Marshall, BA, Sustainability Studies, 2015
Sustainability Studies lined up perfectly with my interests. I liked the active learning from real world experience. More traditional classroom learning doesn’t necessarily translate into real world skills. –James Diemer, Sustainability Studies, 2015

Scholarships

Yukon Delta Fisheries Development Association

Full-time undergraduate and graduate students from Alakanuk, Emmonak, Grayling, Kotlik, Mountain Village and Nunam Iqua, GPA of 2.5 or higher

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Ruth E. Sutton Scholarship

Full-time students under 24 years old, Alaska resident at least 5 years

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Ramona F. Sines Endowed Scholarship

Full-time female undergraduate under 26 years old, HS GPA 3.5 or greater, APU GPA 2.75 or greater.

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Mary Ellen Segelhorst Scholarship

Full-time Alaska resident or Alaska graduate, financial need

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Program Area

Moving ideas! When you want to combine creative thinking with practical skills, choose any of the Liberal Studies programs and put your talent to work. Whether your outlet is in music, poetry or media and communications– whether you aim to improve the planet or enhance well-being one person at a time – our programs provide meaningful pathways to meet your goals.

Liberal Studies

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