Graduate Certificate Programs
Certificate in Environment, Policy, and Society
In order to develop sophisticated understandings of contemporary environmental issues, today's scholars must transcend historical academic disciplinary boundaries. Indeed, complex issues related to energy, climate change, species preservation, air and water quality, are best dealt with by valuing insights by multiple perspectives. The Graduate Certificate Program in Environment, Policy, and Society allows students the opportunity to engage in interdisciplinary exploration of these contemporary environmental problems by drawing from courses across a wide range of social science disciplines. The Certificate curriculum incorporates courses from departments across the College of Arts and Sciences, including Anthropology, Biology, Economics, Geography, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology. In addition, relevant courses are found in the College of Architecture and Planning, the College of Business, the College of Engineering, the School of Journalism as well as the School of Law. The program requires 18 hours of approved courses, including a cornerstone and a capstone course. For further details, please contact Corlin Ambler.
Certificate in Museology
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The Graduate Professional Certificate program requires 12 credit hours of graduate museum studies coursework and a 75-hour museum internship. This program provides professional training and certification for students at the University of Colorado, Boulder whose primary enrollment is in a graduate program in another museum-related discipline. The curriculum for each student is developed in consultation with the Curator of Museum and Field Studies and the student's principal advisor in Anthropology.
The application for the Professional Certificate is available by contacting Kathy Freeman at the Museum and Field Studies office.
Certificate in Women and Gender Studies
The Graduate Certificate in Women and Gender Studies is designed as a complement to a graduate disciplinary degree program. The Certificate provides graduate students with opportunities to think in an interdisciplinary fashion about women and gender, and to learn from a variety of scholarly and methodological approaches such as critical feminist, race, and legal theory, cultural studies, political economy, queer theory, as well as traditional disciplinary methodologies.
Students interested in the Graduate Certificate in Women and Gender Studies can call 303-492-8923 or visit the office at the Hazel Gates-Woodruff Cottage on Broadway.
Certificate in Science and Technology Policy
Society has a growing need for expertise in science and technology policy. The Graduate Certificate in Science and Technology Policy at the University of Colorado-Boulder is a rigorous educational program to prepare students pursuing graduate degrees for careers at the interface of science, technology, and decision making. Past recipients of the certificate have gone on to positions in US Congress, academia, NOAA, and other policy relevant positions. Students come from such graduate programs as Aerospace Engineering, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Civil Engineering, Environmental Studies, Geography, Journalism, and Mechanical Engineering. Students enrolled receive either a Masters or PhD in their department and a certificate in science and technology policy.
Upon completion of the Certificate
Program, students will have attained a measure
of understanding of
the broad societal context of science
and technology as well as an introduction to
methodologies of
policy analysis that are used in
decision settings related to science and technology.
For more information contact Ami Nacu-Schmidt.
Certificate in Culture, Language and Social Practice (CLASP)
The Graduate Certificate Program
in Culture, Language, and Social Practice (CLASP)
is an
interdisciplinary course of study
designed to complement the MA or PhD curriculum
required by a
student’s home department. The Certificate
Program provides graduate students with the opportunity
to pursue the study of language and
society from an interdisciplinary perspective,
acquiring a variety
of theoretical and methodological
approaches to the sociocultural analysis of language.
The traditions
of socially oriented language research
addressed in CLASP-approved courses reflect the
diversity of
its 23 affiliated faculty members.
These traditions include the sociology of language,
linguistic
anthropology, narrative studies,
philosophy of language, symbolic interactionism,
rhetoric,
sociolinguistics, pragmatics, language
and cognition, conversation analysis, ethnography
of speaking,
intercultural communication, second
language acquisition, language and literacy,
bilingualism and
code-switching, and varied forms
of socially oriented discourse analysis. For more information, contact program director Kira Hall.
Interdisciplinary Certificate in Development Studies
The proposed Graduate Certificate in Development Studies aims to achieve four central goals. First, it is directed at providing inter-disciplinary training in the field of development studies. Thus, the certificate begins with a required three-semester, inter-disciplinary core-course taught by a team of development studies faculty drawn from the Departments of Anthropology, Economics, Geography, Political Science, and Sociology. The core-course sequence integrates the key concepts and main perspectives from these social science disciplines in order to examine the history, theory, and policy debates that inform approaches to development problems in the contemporary period.
Second, the certificate is intended to guide students in developing specialized knowledge in one of five focused streams within development studies: i) environment and development; ii) the economics of development; iii) governance and development; iv) population and development; or v) gender and development. For each of these specializations, students are required to take the three-seminar core course sequence. Students are also expected to take 3 additional courses from the lists that are explicitly linked to their specialization, for a total of 6 3-credit graduate seminars for Certificate completion.
Third, the Graduate Certificate in Development Studies is aimed at extending the success of the already existing course sequence in Sustainable Development. While the Sustainable Development seminar series is currently housed in Geography, the sequence now includes segments taught by faculty from Economics (Charles Becker at C.U. Denver), Anthropology (Terry McCabe), Sociology (Jane Menken), and Political Science (Sam Fitch and Kimberly Niles).
Finally, the Certificate in Development Studies will provide training that will assist students in meeting the expectations of future employers in the field of development studies. For more information, email Anthropology contact Terry McCabe.
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