Certificate Programs
Dive into a focused area of study with our undergraduate and graduate certificate programs. Earning a certificate can help you expand into interdisciplinary areas beyond your degree program, gain new professional skills, and stand out to future employers. Some certificates are also available to non-degree seeking students.
Undergraduate Certificates
Geographic Information Systems
Learn GIS skills and advance your career in as little as one year
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Research Methodology & Quantitative Methods
Gain research and analytical skills needed in today's job market.
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Professional & Technical Writing
Learn to write effectively and communicate complex information in digital environments, workplaces, and community organizations
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Games and Simulation
Development skills necessary to create virtual interactive environments that span across devices and platforms
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Data Science and Visualization
Develop the skills and confidence for tackling messy, real-world data problems using modern programming languages
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Cultural Competency in Mexican/Mexican American and Border Communities
Students develop transcultural competency grounded in the Mexican American/borderlands experience.
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Graduate Certificates
Archival Studies
Learn more about archival practices as they affect the composition and meaning of cultural artifacts and the historical records
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Collaborative Governance
Learn management concepts, skills, and tools to enhance collaborative competence, performance, and advancement
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Computational Social Science
Learn to use computational techniques to analyze social science data or create social simulations
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Connecting Environmental Science and Decision Making
Gain skills to effectively work at the interface between environmental science and decision making
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Digital Information
Gain the technical knowledge and skills needed to create, curate, preserve, and manage digital collections in a fast-changing environment
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Gender and Women's Studies
Enhance your understanding of feminist theory, feminist social movements, and other aspects of gender and women’s studies
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Gender-Based Violence
Understand the root causes of gender-based violence and apply this knowledge to advance the well-being, equality, and human rights of those most impacted
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Human Rights Practice
Gain the foundational knowledge, critical perspectives, and practical skills to advance human rights around the globe
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Human Rights and Documentary Media
Study documentary media production with focus on outreach and impact with legal, historical, journalistic and other perspectives
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Human Rights and Technology
Learn to critically analyze the intersections between information and communication technologies and human rights
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Instruction & Teaching for Librarians & Information Professionals
Build the skills needed to create and deliver innovative, culturally competent instruction for information literacy
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International Security Studies
Advance your career in government, intelligence, international affairs, foreign policy analysis, and foreign service
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Judaic Studies
Explore the history and culture of Ancient Israel and modern Judaism
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Law Librarianship
Gain the necessary skills to hit the ground running in an academic library, law firm, or government law library
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Legal Information & Scholarly Communication
Get the background necessary to serve in libraries, archives, government agencies, and businesses that involve legal information
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Medical Anthropology
Designed for health science professionals, scholars from the developing world, and social scientists needing specialized training in medical anthropology
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Medical and Community Health Information
Gain knowledge and skills in the practice of health informatics and how it applies to the health care and public health settings
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Middle Eastern Culture and Pedagogy
Focus on Middle Eastern language pedagogy, culture, literature, linguistics, and history—designed for FTLA students
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Natural Language Processing
Learn a variety of techniques for the computational modeling of natural language, completed online, in-person, or a mix of both
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Professional Geographic Information Systems Technology
Learn cutting-edge geospatial technology alongside management skills for government, corporate, non-profit, and academic settings
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Water Policy
Learn about the social and political aspects of how people use and manage water from our world-renowned faculty
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