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Health and Society Graduate Certificate

  • Get Started

    No Application Required

  • Format

    Online for 2022–23

  • Tuition Cost Per Course

    $3,100

  • Number of required courses

    4

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Learn to address systemic health inequities and understand how these impact public policy and business practices.

You’ll gain knowledge on the foundations of public health systems, human health, and health care.

What You'll Learn

In this professional graduate certificate, you will take a biosocial approach to understanding human health, healthcare, and public health systems. You will examine biological, social, psychological, and philosophical aspects of disease, pandemics, and medical care. Additionally, you will explore ways to address systemic inequities and improve policy and business practices.

  • Explore how structural social inequalities influence health practices, outcomes, and decision making, and gain tools and strategies for advancing health justice
  • Understand the multifaceted effects of disease on an organism through the lens of epidemiology, immunology, physiology, or neurology
  • Analyze historical and current public health policies, particularly during times of crisis
  • Understand the impact of epidemics on society, research, business, and economies

Certificate Courses

The liberal arts graduate certificate Health and Society requires four courses. You may choose from the following course groups, using the certificate course search:

  • Human Health (choose one course from select group)
  • Society (choose one course from select group)
  • Electives (choose two courses from select group)

Courses taken before the 2020-2021 academic year do not apply toward this certificate.

Search for Courses

You can browse courses by term — fall, spring, or summer — in the DCE Course Search & Registration platform.

Earning Your Certificate

To meet the requirements for the certificate, you must:

  • Complete 16 certificate credits at the graduate level.
    • This can be accomplished by completing three 4-credit certificate courses and two 2-credit certificate courses, or four 4-credit certificate courses for graduate credit.
  • Earn at least a B grade in each course.
  • Complete the courses within three years.

Learn more about pursuing a certificate and the process of requesting your certificate.

Prerequisite Experience

Students should have a background in basic biology at the level of BIOS 1A, or equivalent.

Cost

Affordability is core to our mission. When compared to our continuing education peers, it’s a fraction of the cost.

Our Tuition (2022–23 rate) $3,100 per 4-credit course ($775 per credit)
Average Tuition of Peer Institutions $5,476 per course
Average Total Cost $12,400