Graduate certificate requirements
Admission requirements
- completion
of a bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited university
- apply
and be admitted to the Graduate College if not already a current Northern
Arizona University graduate student
- apply
and be accepted into the certificate program
Certificate completion requirements
- complete
15 credit hours with a minimum GPA of 3.0 from the designated courses
- complete
PSY 636 and POS 671
- complete
three credit hours from the Interdisciplinary Foundations courses
- complete
three credit hours from the Interdisciplinary Policy Process courses
- complete
HPI 698
Required courses
PSY 636 Social & Behavioral Epidemiology
POS 671 Policy Process
HPI 698 Interdisciplinary Health Policy Graduate Seminar. This is the
certificate capstone course. Prerequisites: admission to the Certificate,
completion of PSY 636 and POS 671 and at least three credits from the elective
courses listed below.
Elective courses
Interdisciplinary Foundations
ANT 581 Language, Power & Medicine
ES 600 Critical approaches to Ethnic Studies
HIS 567 Readings in Power, Culture, and Ideology
HS 520 Health Disparities*
WGS 601 Topics in Feminist Studies
Interdisciplinary Policy Processes
CCJ 619 Issues in Law, Policy, and Social Change
FOR 605 Natural Resources Policy Analysis
HS 643 Comparative Healthcare Systems *
POS 659 Environmental Policy
*Online courses