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Human Services
Undergraduate Certificate Program

Undergraduate Program

If you are involved or interested in community-service work and want specialized training to enhance your career opportunities, this certificate is designed for you. You will find the certificate useful for professional development and competencies-certification needs in human services and community development.

The program includes both background and individually tailored, career-related studies. You complete core requirements that focus on subjects common to all human-services fields, as well as elective course work in a social science concentration area. You and a CE counselor design your curriculum to satisfy your interests and professional needs.

Total Credits - 34

Required Credits - 20:

Current TUITION & FEE RATES - This certificate is not eligible for financial aid.

Concentration requirement - 12 credits from one of the following fields.

child and family development
criminology
health education
psychology
recreation
sociology
women's studies


Electives 2 credits, minimum: course(s) from any study field approved by a CE counselor.

To apply for admission to undergraduate certificate programs, you must be a high school graduate or have completed a General Equivalency Diploma (GED). Admission to certificate programs is based on your previous college performance. Admission is generally approved if you have completed at least eight college-level semester credits with an overall GPA of 2.00. In addition, you must have satisfactorily completed at least two-thirds of all attempted credits. If you have completed more than 30 semester credits, only the most recent 30 credits are calculated.

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Contact Us

For more information on certificate programs:

Suzan Gonia
218-726-8149 or sgonia1@d.umn.edu