The Florida State University College of Social Sciences and Public Policy is dedicated to excellence in creating and communicating social science and public policy knowledge through leading edge research, interdisciplinary programs, and teaching. We inspire and create opportunities for our diverse student body to become the next generation of leaders, citizens, and innovators to advance scholarship, engage communities, and serve society.

The college offers an inclusive and collaborative culture, welcoming all into a robust and free exchange of ideas. The college recruits and retains exceptional and diverse faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, and staff to advance our mission and undertake core disciplinary and interdisciplinary research, teaching, and service activities. Students are supported in the classroom and on campus to become critical thinkers and are prepared through teaching, mentoring, advising, and service to successfully contribute and serve as leaders, citizens, and innovators. The college’s reputation for excellence in creating and applying knowledge is reflected in units and programs that are the best in Florida and highly ranked among all public universities.

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The Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner certificate program focuses on the specialty of advanced practice, adult acute care nursing. Using a multi-theoretical model to examine issues relevant to acute care delivery and complex illness, the program prepares you to provide expert critical care to patients. You’ll experience online lectures, laboratory work, and clinical rotations involving care for acutely ill hospital patients.

On-Campus

Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, Post-Master's Graduate Certificate

Today’s aerospace industry has highly interdisciplinary technological needs. Its engineers represent a variety of disciplines, and those who hold aerospace degrees make up a relatively small fraction of the industry.

Aerospace Engineering - Aerodynamics, Graduate Certificate

FSU's online graduate certificate in Athletic Coaching provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to be an effective coach regardless of sport and level. Coaches have a significant role in the lives of their athletes, and this program teaches current and future coaches how to meet the athletic, academic, and personal needs of their athletes. The only one of its kind in Florida, the certificate program is offered 100% online and allows students to work through the course material on their own time. It is available to both degree-seeking and non-degree seeking students anywhere in the world.

Distance Learning

Athletic Coaching, Graduate Certificate

As one of the fastest growing disability categories, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has received more and more attention in recent years, and the need for professionals trained to work with individuals with ASD has also increased. FSU's online Autism Spectrum Disorder graduate certificate program offers you a unique opportunity to become better prepared to work with individuals on the autism spectrum. As a participant in the program, you will gain invaluable skills and learn best practices for working with learners with ASD.

Autism Spectrum Disorder, Graduate Certificate

Undergraduate Certificate

The certificate in beverage management is designed to meet the needs of individuals interested in pursuing a career involving beverage management, with an emphasis on sales and service within the hospitality and tourism industries. The demand for qualified employees who have an understanding of beverage management is ongoing, and knowledge of the field is a valuable skill for those in a variety of majors. Career paths include beverage sales and distribution, supply chain management, beverage program management, food and beverage, tasting/taproom management, marketing (with a beverage distributor or producer), and special events.

Beverage Management, Undergraduate Certificate

Combining biomedical innovation with entrepreneurial excellence, the graduate certificate in Biomedical Entrepreneurship prepares you to improve patient health worldwide. Offered jointly by the College of Medicine and the Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship, the certificate is designed for scientists, clinicians, and engineers who champion health innovation.

Biomedical Entrepreneurship, Graduate Certificate

The online graduate certificate in Child Welfare Practice provides you with the knowledge and skills to practice in the fields of child welfare and children’s mental health. You'll receive instruction in multidimensional assessment and interviewing techniques, intervention and referral planning processes, historical and current child welfare practice and policy, the psychological impact of childhood trauma, and resilience-based interventions for children and families.

Child Welfare Practice, Graduate Certificate

The online graduate certificate in College Teaching will give you the knowledge and skills needed to be an effective teacher at the college and university level. The certificate courses will prepare you in essential areas of postsecondary teaching, including educational frameworks, instructional strategies, assessment approaches, learning theories, and classroom management. By the end of the program, you’ll be able to design college courses, develop assessments, and use theory and research to address educational issues. This certificate can also be counted toward a graduate degree in Educational Psychology: Learning and Cognition.

College Teaching, Graduate Certificate

The online graduate certificate in Communication Science and Disorders, also known as the Speech-Language Pathology Prerequisites (BRIDGE) program, is designed for students to obtain the prerequisite courses necessary to work as a Speech-Language Pathology Assistant (SLPA) or who want to pursue a graduate degree in speech-language pathology.

Communication Science & Disorders, Graduate Certificate

The online graduate certificate in Early Childhood Special Education prepares you to work with young children with developmental delays or disabilities to help optimize their growth and development. You'll gain expertise in identifying typical and atypical child development, partnering with families, and assessing children. The certificate is particularly suited to help early childhood teachers, behavior therapists, speech language pathologists, childcare providers, and special educators better understand how to meet the unique needs of children within the context of their families and caregivers. If you're a certified teacher completing the certificate, you'll be able to earn the Florida Department of Education’s Pre-Kindergarten Disabilities Endorsement.

Early Childhood Special Education, Graduate Certificate

Emergency Management (EM) is a growing field in the United States and around the world. This certificate gives students in just about any program of study a way to stand out from the crowd and learn real-world approaches to solving complicated problems. The certificate program includes courses on emergency management, both domestic and international, EM policy development and planning, homeland security policy, terrorism, including international policy analysis, public health, public information, and technology and disaster management.

Emergency Management, Graduate Certificate

Emergency Management, Undergraduate Certificate

A graduate certificate in Entrepreneurship develops your ability to analyze industry-specific issues from a global perspective, fosters critical thinking, and enhances the skills needed for today’s competitive field of entrepreneurship. Faculty from the Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship have partnered with approximately 30 entrepreneurs-in-residence across campus to create an interdisciplinary entrepreneurship curriculum. Your studies will include introductory graduate courses in entrepreneurship and leadership, as well as specialized courses within the current graduate program. During your studies, you will have opportunities for case-study learning and innovative, hands-on application. Students from all academic disciplines are encouraged to pursue the certificate to expand knowledge in their chosen field by linking it to an entrepreneurial career.

Entrepreneurship, Graduate Certificate

The Gerontology certificate program provides foundational knowledge of gerontological theories and practices as well as a gerontological internship and service-learning experiences. These educational objectives give you the skills needed for frontline practice and administrative positions in social service organizations that focus on serving older adults.

Gerontology, Graduate Certificate

This certificate program prepares information and technology professionals to be managers and leaders in health information technology by educating students in health information, health technologies, and management of information and technology systems and services. The program offers training in areas such as electronic health records systems and eHealth approaches for health promotion and patient self-management.

Health Informatics, Graduate Certificate

Human Performance Technology (HPT) is an emerging field that brings dramatic improvements to an organization's processes for developing and supporting a workforce that is in alignment with the organization's mission and goals. HPT professionals work within an organization to coordinate the various functions that pertain to human performance improvement and to build coordinated and harmonious programs that become systemically integrated into the organization's operations.

Human Performance Technology, Graduate Certificate

The FSU School of Information certificate in Information Architecture prepares information professionals to design, build, and manage a website as an information resource. You'll have opportunities to enhance skills in areas of web design, web applications, administration, and usability, building on your existing knowledge of web technologies.

Information Architecture, Graduate Certificate

The certificate in Institutional Research is designed to provide academic and professional development opportunities for institutional researchers, administrators, graduate students, and faculty from all areas of higher education. You'll have the opportunity to enhance your knowledge and understanding of institutional research, explore institutional, state, and national databases, and apply knowledge to practical situations.

Institutional Research, Graduate Certificate

In today's world, businesses, government agencies, universities, schools and many other types of organizations are interested in hiring individuals who can create innovative approaches to online instructional design. The certificate in Instructional Design and Technology is a non-degree program offered online that prepares you to design online instruction in a variety of settings. Twelve credit hours earned (with a grade of "B" or higher) as a non-degree seeking student for the certificate may be applied toward your degree upon admission to the master's program in Instructional Systems and Learning Technologies.

Instructional Design & Technology, Graduate Certificate

The Leadership in Executive and Administrative Development (LEAD) certificate program offers students an education in leadership theories and practices while providing leadership experience. In the program, you'll develop the skills you need for middle- and executive-level positions in social service organizations. An in-depth curriculum that emphasizes leadership, decision-making, client-centered management, team building, negotiating, budget and finance, and the successful management of grants will help prepare you for successful management of social service agencies.

LEAD in Social Work, Graduate Certificate

The certificate in Law Enforcement Intelligence (LEI) is designed to meet the needs of current FSU students and those working in the intelligence community. It has been designed to prepare you for career advancement and more technical and supervisory positions. This is a professional program with emphasis on law enforcement intelligence. Our purpose is to produce professional practitioners that can 1) prepare for more responsible positions, 2) encourage professionals to seek graduate education when a full degree isn't feasible, 3) prepare students for the growing field of LEI, and 4) address the lack of qualified intelligence analysts by offering those students with different undergraduate degrees a specialized graduate opportunity to explore LEI as a career.

Law Enforcement Intelligence, Graduate Certificate

The 2010 U.S. Census documents that the three main minorities in the United States — Hispanic, African-American, and Asian — account for about 37% of the total U.S. population and that in many major metropolitan areas, they are now the majority. Estimates vary but at some point between 2030 and 2050, these minorities together will constitute the majority of the total U.S. population. Further, they account for almost three trillion dollars of buying power. However, there is a current vacuum of professionals that understand how to address culturally diverse markets in the U.S. This certificate is designed to bridge that void. In the program, you'll gain a better understanding of these markets and learn how to work effectively with all of them.

Multicultural Marketing Communication, Graduate Certificate

The certificate in Program Evaluation will provide you with graduate-level training in the concepts and skills necessary to conduct evaluations of programs and program improvement efforts in domestic and international settings. You can also enhance your evaluation skills in your work as an evaluator, policy analyst, health and social service administrator, or program manager for non-profit advocacy and community-based organizations. You can complete the program either on a full-time or part-time basis within a five year time period as a non-degree seeking student or in conjunction with a graduate program at FSU.

Program Evaluation, Graduate Certificate

The importance of project management has grown substantially in the past decade as the size and complexity of projects have increased. Projects are often delivered late (or not at all), and budgets are exceeded, which affects profitability. These difficulties underscore the need for well-trained, certified project managers.

Project Management, Graduate Certificate

The FSU School of Information's School Librarian Leadership certificate prepares school librarians to be leaders by strengthening your skills in technology integration, instructional collaboration, and information leadership. This certificate is specifically designed to develop leadership, analytical, and reflective skills that will facilitate your success in professional practice. The courses are constructed to help you positively impact learning; collaborate with educators to effectively use library resources tailored to the learning needs of learners, and effectively select and integrate various technologies into the instructional program of the school. Note: This academic certificate is not the Florida Educational Media Specialist certification.

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