Certificates
You can pursue a certificate to gain credentials and skills in a specific area of study. You can enroll solely in a certificate program, or pursue a certificate along with a degree program. You can often apply credits you earn for the certificate toward a degree program.
Undergraduate Certificates
Undergraduate certificates typically involve taking 6 to 10 courses of three credits each.
Graduate Certificates
Post baccalaureate or graduate certificates require you to have a bachelor's degree.
Noncredit Certificates
Noncredit certificates also involve a series of courses, but do not earn college credits. Noncredit certificates often award continuing education units instead, which measure and officially recognize the time involved in the program.
Pre-requisites, curriculum and admission requirements vary for each certificate program. Click on a program title for details.
Accounting
(post-baccalaureate, 25 credits)
Acquire both a practical and theoretical foundation in the field of accounting. Develop a career in accounting or another business field in which substantial knowledge in accounting is an asset. A bachelor's degree (in any field) is required to pursue this certificate.
Communication
(undergraduate, 24 credits)
Refine and polish your communication skills in a variety of areas, including nonverbal communication, public speaking, organizational communication, and persuasion in political settings.
Community Health Assessment
(undergraduate, 18 credits)
Learn to communicate and interact effectively with people from diverse backgrounds, identify behaviors that promote or compromise health, and learn how to apply administrative and data skills to non-profits. This multi-disciplinary curriculum is for people currently in or desiring to enter the health services field.
Corporate/Community Relations
(undergraduate, 18 credits)
Learn how organizations large and small educate, inform, and/or persuade various internal and external publics. Explore the dynamic nature of mass media, how they affect audience response, and how to develop the strategies and messages that will effectively achieve an organization's goals.
Digital Media
(undergraduate, 18 credits)
Produce engaging interactive programs as you explore the importance and power of visual images in corporate communications. Understand the history, evolution and techniques of using images to communicate with mass audiences. Learn how to incorporate exciting new technologies to inform, persuade, and entertain.
Engineering and Technology Management
(graduate, 15 credits)
Improve your professional-level communication and management skills so that you may more effectively manage projects. This program prepares technically trained professionals to lead multidisciplinary teams that bridge the gap between operations and management. The certificate offers a choice of three tracks: Quality Management, Engineering and Project Management, and Emerging Technology Management. Credits earned may be applied to the Masters of Science in Industrial Engineering (MSIE), if desired.
Gerontology
(graduate, 15-16 credits)
Stay competitive in your field with specialized knowledge of aging and the aging process. Adapt your delivery of services, programs, or products with in-depth knowledge of the biological, psychological, and sociological aspects of an aging population as well as specialized knowledge in the discipline of your choice. Choose a specialization track in Dentistry, Law, Nursing, Occupational Therapy/Rehabilitation, Public Health, Social Work, or a multidiscplinary track.
Information System Design
(undergraduate, 18 credits)
Expand your opportunities for educational growth, career advancement, or career change in the information systems field. Pursue as a stand-alone continuing education program or as preparation for a bachelor, master or doctorate degree.
Managing Health Services Programs and Projects
(undergraduate, 18 credits)
Improve your administrative and business skills in the healthcare field with an emphasis on grant and research project management. The multi-disciplinary curriculum is for people currently in or desiring to enter the health services field, and includes courses in such subject areas as statistics, health services, communications, and public administration/public service.
Nonprofit Management
(undergraduate, 18 credits)
Make a difference in society. Get a start or gain advanced standing in the nonprofit arena with coursework that gives you insight into the field. Couple your marketing, advertising, program development, fundraising, or public relations foundation with a certificate in Nonprofit Management. Upon completion of this certificate, participants will be able to organize, manage, or supervise a nonprofit; effectively raise revenue through fundraising; and understand the structural and financial issues unique to nonprofits.
Professional Communication
(noncredit)
Advance any career by improving the essential skills of planning and delivering messages, working in groups, and proofreading. Upon completion of this certificate, the participant will be able to write polished letters, make effective oral presentations, present clear memos, and conduct persuasive meetings.
Women's Studies
(undergraduate, 18 credits)
Both women and men can fulfill a personal and practical understanding of women's roles in society. Explore a feminist philosophy of the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes.
Writing
(undergraduate, 18 credits)
Polish and refine your writing skills. Electives may be taken in any combination of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction writing.
Writing for the Professions
(undergraduate, 18 credits)
Prepare yourself to communicate with fellow specialists as well as nonexperts in your chosen discipline. Develop professional writing skills that are critical to success in many positions, including those that are primarily technical in nature. Learn how to determine a specific goal and/or purpose of a document, then organize and develop clearly written prose in support of that purpose.