Beginning fall 2012, Fayetteville State University (FSU) will offer five graduate certificate programs. ?These programs have been strategically selected to meet workforce demands and enhance career opportunities in business, health care, education, and professional writing. ?The five certificate programs are:
Graduate Certificate in Project Management: This certificate allows students to learn project management concepts and principles using lectures, small group case studies and discussions. ?Teams will build an individual project idea from design to completion, emulating the project management life cycle.? The curriculum is based on the requirements of the Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification program and consists of four courses (12 credit hours): Introduction to Project Management, Communication and Procurement in Project Management, Tools and Techniques of Project Management, and Project Risk Management.? The program is available online, and is designed for working professionals and military personnel who organize, secure, and manage resources to achieve organizational goals.? Admission to the certificate program requires a bachelor?s degree and two years of work experience.
Graduate Certificate in Health Care Management: This certificate allows students to learn health care management concepts and principles using lectures, small group case studies and discussion.? Upon completion of the program, students will have a broad knowledge of health care business concepts that will provide them with a solid foundation operating in the health care management field.? The curriculum consists of four courses (12 credit hours): Managed Care and the American Health Care System, Health Care Finance and Control, Ethical and Legal Issues in Health Care, and Human Resources for Health Care.? The program is available online and is designed for health care managers, practitioners and physicians who want to obtain expertise in health care business topics. ?Admission to the certificate program requires a bachelor?s degree or better and two years of work experience.
Graduate Certificate in Military Behavioral Health: This certificate allows students to enhance their professional knowledge, skills and abilities to provide quality care for active-duty military service members, veterans, citizen soldiers and their families.? The curriculum includes courses in areas of military culture, programs and services, post-traumatic stress disorder, substance abuse, traumatic brain injuries, and suicide assessment and treatment.? Specifically, the six courses (18 credit hours) offered are: Social Work Practice with Military Families I; Social Work Practice with Military Families II; Substance Abuse; Assessment and Evidence-Based Treatment of PTSD; Assessment and Treatment of Suicidal Behaviors; and Social Work Practice and Traumatic Brain Injuries. ?Students must have either a master?s or higher degree and be a mental health professional who serves or plans to provide services to military service members, veterans, citizen soldiers and/or their families; be a graduate student pursuing a degree in social work, psychology or sociology; or have a bachelor?s degree in social work, psychology, counseling or sociology and obtain special permission.
Graduate Certificate in Teaching of Writing: This certificate allows students to upgrade their writing pedagogy at the primary and secondary levels of education, to meet continuing education requirements to retain their teaching licenses, and to qualify to teach writing at the community college level.? The courses emphasize global literacy?reading, writing, critical thinking, speaking, research, and technological proficiency?required skill sets of the 21st century teacher of writing.? The 18-hour curriculum includes four required courses and two electives. ?The required courses are: Bibliography and Research, Issues in Composition Instruction, Issues in Teaching Literature, and Technology and the Language Arts.? Students must have at least a bachelor?s degree.
Graduate Certificate in Professional Writing: This certificate allows students to develop and improve communication skills vital to career advancement in the private, public and nonprofit sectors, and in the military. ?The program will prepare students for careers in technical writing, digital and traditional media, public relations and advertising. ?For convenience, courses are offered either online, as web-enhanced hybrid courses, or in the evening. ?The curriculum includes four courses (12 credit hours): Bibliography and Research, Technology and the Language Arts Classroom, Advanced Business Writing, and Advanced Technical Writing. Students must have at least a bachelor?s degree.
These five new graduate certificate programs are in addition to existing programs Fayetteville State University offers in Criminal Justice (online and face-to-face) and Applied Sociology.? Both of these certificates require completion of 18-credit hours, which can be applied to the Master of Science degrees in each discipline available at FSU.
For more information, contact the FSU Graduate School at (910) 672-1374.
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