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

Research Methodology & Quantitative Methods

Gain research and analytical skills needed in today's job market.

Professional & Technical Writing

Learn to write effectively and communicate complex information in digital environments, workplaces, and community organizations

Cultural Competency in Mexican/Mexican American and Border Communities

Students develop transcultural competency grounded in the Mexican American/borderlands experience. 

Graduate Certificates

Collaborative Governance

Learn management concepts, skills, and tools to enhance collaborative competence, performance, and advancement

Community Based Participatory and Action Research

Acquire a theoretical foundation to evaluate research along the continuum of community based participatory research and community based action research. 

Computational Social Science

Learn to use computational techniques to analyze social science data or create social simulations

Evaluation Research

Acquire a theoretical foundation and appreciation of evaluation research approaches used to create evidence about the effectiveness and implementation of social justice programs or interventions. 

Gender and Women's Studies

Enhance your understanding of feminist theory, feminist social movements, and other aspects of gender and women’s studies 

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.

Human Rights Practice

Gain the foundational knowledge, critical perspectives, and practical skills to advance human rights around the globe 

Human Rights and Documentary Media

Study documentary media production with focus on outreach and impact with legal, historical, journalistic and other perspectives 

Human Rights and Technology

Learn to critically analyze the intersections between information and communication technologies and human rights 

International Security Studies

Advance your career in government, intelligence, international affairs, foreign policy analysis, and foreign service 

Judaic Studies

Explore the history and culture of Ancient Israel and modern Judaism 

Medical Anthropology

Designed for health science professionals, scholars from the developing world, and social scientists needing specialized training in medical anthropology 

Middle Eastern Culture and Pedagogy

Focus on Middle Eastern language pedagogy, culture, literature, linguistics, and history—designed for FTLA students 

Natural Language Processing

Learn a variety of techniques for the computational modeling of natural language, completed online, in-person, or a mix of both 

Professional Geographic Information Systems Technology

Learn cutting-edge geospatial technology alongside management skills for government, corporate, non-profit, and academic settings 

Program Design and Evaluation

Acquire an analytic foundation to identify and create solutions to complex social challenges, create and evaluate evidence-based approaches, and develop tools to disseminate and translate evaluation evidence for program, policy, and funding consideration. 

Water Policy

Learn about the social and political aspects of how people use and manage water from our world-renowned faculty