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
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
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