Graduate Certificates
Graduate Certificate in Development Studies
The department offers an interdisciplinary graduate certificate in development studies. Development Studies is a well-established, interdisciplinary field of research with institutional centers at a number of major universities and several scholarly journals dedicated to its study. The certificate provides interdisciplinary training in development studies to graduate students through a structured yet flexible program built around courses taught by CU faculty in a number of social science departments. Because development issues such as agrarian change, labor migration, new social movements, industrial growth, urban planning, and natural resource use cut across disciplinary divides, the study of development demands interdisciplinary approaches.
For more information and requirements, see Development Studies.
Graduate Certificate in Hydrological Sciences
The Graduate Certificate offers a coherent curriculum in Hydrologic Sciences that can complement and supplement a student's regular degree program. The Graduate Certificate allows students to obtain recognition for their accomplishments in hydrologic sciences and demonstrates the quantitative multi-disciplinary education desired by many prospective employers. After admission into the Hydrologic Sciences Program, one of the co-Directors and the student's advisor will approve a student's planned curriculum as meeting the requirements for the certificate. After completion of the approved curriculum, the student will request a Graduate Certificate and one of the co-directors will generate a letter to the appropriate department head and Dean. The certificate will be awarded only upon completion of a graduate degree.
For more information, see Hydrological Sciences.
Certificate in College Teaching and Professional Development Certificates
Obtained Through the Graduate Teacher Program
The Graduate Teacher Program provides certificates in teaching and professional development, as well as year-round teaching, research, and career advice and a variety of workshops and conferences.
The Graduate Teacher Program encourages graduate students to take their current teaching, research and service responsibilities seriously, to view such experience and training as preparation for either academic or nonacademic careers, and to develop a teaching or professional portfolio for use in their job search. To this end, the program offers activities that encourage participants to:
- Interact with a community of scholars made up of faculty, undergraduate students, graduate students, and staff from many departments on campus
- Learn to work with diverse populations in diverse post-secondary and other work environments
- Model and foster integrity and fairness
- Expand advising, counseling, mentoring, and management skills
- Approach teaching, research, service, and professional development from an evidence-based perspective
- Explore and learn to use effective learning technology
For more information, please visit the or contact your current GTP Lead.
Interdisciplinary Documentary Media Practices
The goal of the 12 credit hour Graduate Certificate in IDMP is to meaningfully integrate documentary practices within the student's research and creative process. For more information, please visit the College of Media, Communication and Information's Interdisciplinary Documentary Media Practices web page.
Population Studies Graduate Certificate
Offered through the Population Program of the Institute of Behavioral Science (IBS), the Graduate Certificate in Population Studies recognizes master's and doctoral degree students for interdisciplinary work in demography. The Population Program, which is international in scope and has an applied and policy-oriented focus, fosters research on population trends and patterns and provides training in population analysis. Â鶹ÒùÔº who are earning graduate degrees through the Departments of Economics, Geography or Sociology and are interested in majoring in demography are eligible to petition for admission to the program.
Questions about the certificate program in population studies should be directed to:
Institute of Behavioral Science
University of Colorado Boulder
484 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0484
303-492-7986
cupc@colorado.edu
Earth Data Analytics - Foundations Professional Certificate
In today’s world of big data, rapid technological change and natural resource scarcity, Earth scientists with data science expertise are in high demand. The Earth Data Analytics - Foundations professional graduate certificate is designed to provide students with a powerful combination of skills in earth science, data analytics, interdisciplinary collaboration and science communication.
The nine-credit professional graduate certificate consists of three courses and can be completed over a 9 month period online. The certificate can be used to start or advance a career in the rapidly expanding world of data-intensive environmental inquiry and tool development.
For more information, see The Earth Data Analytics - Foundations professional graduate certificate.