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Requirements:

• Three credits required in Natural Sciences
• Three credits required in Hawaiian Studies
• Three credits required from other disciplines (e.g. Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences, Language Arts, Math & Business, Career & Technical Education programs)
• Three credits ¨C additional class from any of these three areas (this can also include an SF course from another UH Community College campus)
• One credit ¨C Capstone Experience 

Some SF courses can be used to meet more than one of the categories (e.g. Humanities or Hawaiian Studies), but no course can be applied to two categories; in other words, a course counts only once in fulfilling certificate requirements.

The capstone component is one credit. There are three options:

• Research Projects: Students identify a research project and a faculty member who has experience teaching courses with any sustainability designation to oversee the work. These can be research projects related to an academic research topic, campus programs or campus operations.
• Service Learning Projects: Students create a service learning plan related to sustainability efforts on campus or in the community, and identify a faculty member to oversee the work.
• Internship: Students identify an internship commitment related to sustainability in Hawai¡¯i, and a faculty member to oversee the work.

All options require students to identify a faculty member to oversee their completion of the capstone experience. All three options must be approved either by the Sustainability Designation Review Committee or a Sustainability Coordinator.

The one credit option will be pass/no pass; it will not be graded.

Students must complete the capstone requirement after completing all other certificate requirements or during the semester when the last course requirement is taken.Courses fulfilling S-Focus requirements can come from across the curriculum. Any course in the AA or AS degree curriculum can receive a Sustainability Focus designation, except for Foundations (FW, FQ, and FG) courses. Specific course sections are approved to receive an S-Focus designation by the Sustainability Designation Review Committee and are identified on the HonCC website Class Availability link. S-Focus courses are designated with an S- before the course titles (e.g., GEO 101 S-The Natural Environment). View the list of S-Focus classes that can be applied to the ASC .