Certificate Requirements

Admission Requirements:
Completion of a bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited university.
Apply and be admitted to the Graduate College if not a current NAU graduate student.
Apply and be accepted into the certificate.

Certificate Completion Requirements
Complete 15 credit hours with a minimum GPA of 3.0 from the designated courses.
Complete PSY 636 and POS 671
Complete three credit hours from the Interdisciplinary Foundations courses
Complete three credit hours from the Interdisciplinary Policy Process courses.
Complete HPI 698.

Required Courses

PSY 636 Social & Behavioral Epidemiology
POS 671 Policy Process
HPI 698 Interdisciplinary Health Policy Graduate Seminar. This is the certificate capstone course. Prerequisites: Admission to the Certificate, completion of PSY 636 and POS 671 and at least three credits from the elective courses listed below.

Elective Courses

Interdisciplinary Foundations
ANT 581 Language, Power & Medicine
ES 600 Critical approaches to Ethnic Studies
HIS 567 Readings in Power, Culture & Ideology
HS 520 Health Disparities*
WGS 601 Topics in Feminist Studies

Interdisciplinary Policy Processes
CCJ 619 Issues in Law, Policy & Social Change
FOR 605 Natural Resources Policy Analysis
HS 643 Comparative Healthcare Systems *
POS 659 Environmental Policy

* Web-based online courses

Printable version of requirements
Program of Study (MS Word file)
On-line Application