Desert Studies Cert.

What Can You Do With a Desert Studies Certificate?

Bring greater insight whenever your work touches desert ecosystems and cultures. California is 25% desert, and we’re in the heart of it, so that might be very often. Deserts and humans meet in biology, eco-tourism, history, art, geology, education, and more. Understanding and protecting these delicate and challenging places is important work.

Continue Your Education

Earn your Desert Studies Certificate as part of an associate degree program that matches your long-term goals. At Copper Mountain, you can fold desert studies into a wide range of programs, including:

Environmental Science
Anthropology
Art
History
Liberal Arts
Political Science

Choose an AS or AA with a “T” attached to it for guaranteed transfer to a CSU. Any CMC associate degree will transfer to any four-year—the “-T” degrees transfer very efficiently to a university in the Cal State system. If you’re headed to a different system or university, work with your CMC counselor and an advisor from that school to build a program that transfers well.

Find Your Dream Career

Earning a Desert Studies Certificate brings an environmental focus to many careers, and a specific environmental focus to careers in natural resources and conservation. With this certificate alone, you would qualify for entry level roles in:

Desert-based businesses
Eco-tourism
Environmental disaster response
Conservation

Add this certificate to more education and experience to build or strengthen a career as:

Anthropologist
Desert-based artist
Botanist
Conservation scientist
Ecosystem and natural resource manager
Environmental disaster specialist
Forester
Geologist
Environmental policy expert

Your Desert Studies Cert. Program Map

Sample electives are shown; you may choose others within this program.