Certificates
The university offers a variety of programs leading to a certificate of competency in special areas. Certificates may be earned by regularly matriculated or extended learning students and denote successful completion of a prescribed program of study designed to impart specified professional/vocational/career competencies, or produce mastery of the content of a sub-field of an academic major (discipline), or provide exposure to the range of materials in a traditional or emerging interdisciplinary field.
Courses offered for the certificate may be the same ones used to satisfy major, minor, credential or general education requirements. In order to qualify for a certificate, undergraduate candidates must earn a grade point average of 2.0 ("C") or better in applicable course work. Post-baccalaureate candidates must earn a grade point average of 2.5. Standards for individual programs may exceed this minimum. Candidates must also receive two-thirds of their certificate-applicable credit from the university. The transferring of credit or the substitution of courses may occur only after application to the appropriate campus authority.
The certificate is awarded upon confirmation that the requirements for that program have been satisfied. The candidate is responsible for filing an application with the Office of the Registrar for granting of the certificate, no later than the last term of certificate-applicable study, and for notifying the coordinator of the certificate program of completion of required course work. The awarding of a certificate will be noted on the student's transcript.
Further information regarding the certificates offered by the university can be found under the appropriate department. Jump to the post-baccalaureate certificates at the bottom
College of Arts & Letters
- Certificate in Arts and Entrepreneurship
- Certificate in Asian Studies
- Certificate in Immersive Storytelling, Design, & Innovative Marketing Communication
Department of Art & Design
Department of Communication & Media
Department of English
- Certificate in Creative Writing
- Certificate in Public and Professional Writing
- Graduate Certificate in Speech-Language Pathology Master's Preparatory
- Graduate Certificate in Teaching English as a Second Language
- Graduate Certificate in Teaching Writing
Department of World Languages & Literatures
- Certificate in Arabic
- Certificate in California Indian Languages and Cultures
- Certificate in Criminal Justice Spanish
- Certificate in Healthcare Spanish
- Certificate in Japanese Language and Culture
College of Natural Science
Department of Biology
Department of Health Science & Human Ecology
Department of Mathematics
Department of Nursing
- Graduate Certificate in Advanced Community/Public Health Nursing
- Graduate Certificate in Nurse Educator
School of Computer Science and Engineering
- Computer Science for K-12 Educators
- Certificate in Computer Systems and Programming
- Certificate in Mobile Application Development
College of Social & Behavioral Sciences
Department of Anthropology
Department of Geography & Environmental Studies
Department of History
Department of Political Science
Department of Sociology
School of Criminology & Criminal Justice
Jack H. Brown College of Business & Public Administration
Department of Accounting & Finance
Department of Information & Decision Sciences
- Certificate in Applied ERP
- Certificate in Cyber Security
- Certificate in Cyber Security Professional
- Certificate in Data Science
- Certificate in Information Systems Management
- Certificate in Supply Chain Management
- Graduate Certificate in Applied ERP