Interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate
in Women's Health*
*Certificate programs are not available to students enrolled in the MSW UOnline Program.
Certificate Information
The 15-credit certificate is designed to equip the student with an interdisciplinary perspective on women’s health and well-being. Our intent is to create an academy of practitioners well-versed in evidence-based approaches to the care of women as individuals as well as practitioners who understand primary care access, community interventions, and health policies on local, national, and global levels pertaining to women.
This certificate is offered in connection with the Center of Excellence in Women’s Health through the University of Utah Health, an interdisciplinary group focused on enhancing overall health and wellness for women*.
Courses:
The Issues in Women’s Health course is the key required course for the certificate.
Students then take at least one course from each of the certificate’s three domains plus one elective course from any domain. Since this is an interdisciplinary certificate, students are required to take at least one course outside of their discipline:
- Domain I: Individual Experiences of Disease, Wellness, Maturation, and Growth
- Domain II: Women’s Roles, Responsibilities, Behaviors, and Beliefs; and Economics
- Domain III: Politics, and Women’s Health
Each domain has several pre-approved courses from departments across the university, thus allowing students to tailor their coursework to their specific women’s health issue interests.
Course options for each domain can be found in the IGCWH Planning Guide and course descriptions are available in the University General Catalog. Please note that course offerings vary by semester and not all non-SW courses are offered on a regular basis. Please check the current Main Campus Class Schedules.
Eligibility:
Students outside of the College of Social Work as well as non-matriculated students are welcome to complete this certificate. Non-matriculated students must apply to the University for non-degree seeking admission for each individual semester they intend to enroll in certificate graduate level courses.
To declare this graduate certificate, an applicant must meet the following minimum requirements:
- A bachelor’s degree from a fully accredited college or university
- An undergraduate GPA of at least 3.0 or current enrollment in a fully accredited university graduate program with a GPA of at least 3.0
Review the IGCWWH Planning Guide and Declaration of Intent for further details on delcaring this graduate certificate and completion planning.