Graduate Certificates
Students may double count up to one-half of the credits needed for a certificate from their degree credits. Admission to a certificate program requires a separate application. Students may apply for admission to a certificate after their first semester in their graduate program. A decision on admission will be made after a student’s first semester grades become available.
The Graduate Certificate in Real Estate Development offers graduate students in many fields the opportunity to supplement their major areas of study with broad knowledge about making substantially better metropolitan developments. The program is also a stand-alone certificate for those full-time and part-time students who want to focus only on real estate development. The program aims to guide students in integrating disciplines that shape the built environment and enhance the quality of life for all people while conserving the natural environment. Upon graduation, students are professionals equipped to become the place-makers of the next generation.
Cities are places of tremendous economic, political, and cultural opportunity, yet they are also important sites of public health concern. Built environments, human interactions, and public policies influence health outcomes in cities. At their best, these elements promote health and wellness. At their worst, they exacerbate chronic illness, infectious disease, substandard housing, toxic exposure, inadequate nutrition, and natural disaster. The emerging proliferation of healthy city initiatives worldwide is creating new opportunities to rethink urban processes from a public health perspective.
The Graduate Certificate in Healthy Cities introduces students to basic skills and competencies needed to help develop health research, policy, and designs to build healthier communities. Coursework highlights the social, environmental, economic, and political determinants of public health and health equity in urban contexts. It also provides a foundation for understanding the interconnections between healthy urban populations, urban economic growth, and vibrant urban neighborhoods.
Today, a growing number of people live in cities, and these cities are better connected by digital technologies than ever before. These two trends are resulting in the emerging field of urban informatics, an interdisciplinary field of research and practice that uses information technology for the analysis, management, planning, inhabitation, and usability in cities.
The Graduate Certificate in Urban Informatics introduces students to this field, including not only technical skills for technology development and data analysis, but also the exploration of the ethical, legal, and policy questions created by new urban technologies. The certificate program is centered on several interrelated areas of professional innovation: urban analysis, civic technology, smart cities, and the use of technologies by urban professionals.
Additional Certificates
Taubman College faculty also participate in these certificates: Graduate Certificate Program in Sustainability and Graduate Certificate Program in Spatial Analysis offered through the School for Environment and Sustainability.
