Behavioral Health Undergraduate Certificate
Introduction
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Upon successful completion of the certificate, students will:
- Understand mental and substance use disorders as distinct health problems
- Recognize how social and community factors contribute to mental and substance use disorders
- Plan, implement, and administer social service and/or behavioral health programs
- Evaluate and assess the quality and effectiveness of behavioral health programs
- Work with individuals experiencing mental and substance abuse disorders in community or social services settings
- Help individuals experiencing mental and substance abuse disorders navigate behavioral health services to locate
treatment resources
Program Delivery
- This is an on-campus or online program.
Declaring This Certificate
Students interested in earning this certificate should complete this form: CLAS Undergraduate Certificate Intent to Declare Form, which requests that the certificate be added to your student record. Once added, you will be able to run a certificate degree audit. The certificate degree audit should be used in collaboration with the Certificate Advisor to ensure successful completion of the requirements.
Students should then work with Maren Scull (maren.scull@ucdenver.edu)—the certificate advisor—to ensure completion of all certificate requirements.
Eligibility: While housed in Sociology, the study of health and medical issues is a multidisciplinary field that draws from diverse liberal arts disciplines, including Anthropology, Communications, Psychology, and History. So, CU Denver undergraduate students in any discipline can enroll in the certificate program. This certificate is also available to non-degree-seeking students who already have earned a BA or BS degree, either at CU Denver or elsewhere.
Completing This Certificate
Students must also complete the CLAS Undergraduate Certificate Completion Verification Form before graduation in order to confirm completion of their certificate. The certificate advisor will confirm that your certificate has been successfully completed and will work with campus partners to apply the certificate to your transcript.
Students must fill out the Certificate Completion Form before the deadlines below to ensure the certificate is applied to their transcript correctly. Non-degree seeking students should fill out this form in the term in which they intend to finish the certificate.
Spring semester – April 1
Summer semester – July 1
Fall semester – November 1
These program requirements are subject to periodic revision by the academic department, and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences reserves the right to make exceptions and substitutions as judged necessary in individual cases. Therefore, the College strongly urges students to consult their advisor to confirm the best plans of study before finalizing them.
General Requirements
Students must satisfy all requirements as outlined below and by the department offering the certificate.
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Program Requirements
- Students must complete a minimum of 21 credit hours from the approved courses below.
- Students must complete a minimum of 12 upper-division (3000-level and above) credit hours chosen from the approved courses below.
- Students must earn a minimum grade of C- (1.7) in all courses that apply to the certificate and must achieve a minimum cumulative certificate GPA of 2.0. Courses taken using P+/P/F or S/U grading cannot apply to certificate requirements.
Program Restrictions, Allowances, and Recommendations
- Students should complete all credits applied to the certificate at CU Denver. If students have
completed a course required for the certificate elsewhere, they must be evaluated for acceptability
to CU Denver prior to being applied to any of the certificate requirements.
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Complete the following required courses: | 9-11 | |
| Foundations of Behavioral Health | ||
| Quantitative Methods & Analysis 1 | ||
| Qualitative Methods 2 | ||
| Complete the following Experiential Requirement: | 3 | |
| Applied Community Care for Social and Community Service | ||
or SOCY 3939 | Internship | |
| Complete one of the following health, medicine, and addiction electives: | 3 | |
| Interpersonal Communication | ||
| Introduction to Health Communication | ||
| Health Communication | ||
| Health Communication and Community | ||
| Rhetorics of Medicine & Health | ||
| Digital Health Narratives | ||
| Race, Gender, Class, & Health | ||
| Fundamentals of Health Promotion | ||
| Health, Human Biology and Behavior | ||
| Decision Making | ||
| Mental Illness and Society | ||
| AAPI Communities and Health | ||
| Health in the City: Urban Health | ||
| Social Determinants of Health | ||
| Health Disparities | ||
| Psychedelic Anthropology | ||
| Public Health Perspectives On Family Violence | ||
| Health Risk Communication | ||
| Health Psychology | ||
| Drugs, Brain and Behavior | ||
| Complete one of the following social systems electives: | 3 | |
| Psychedelic Anthropology | ||
| Offenders With Mental Health Disorders | ||
| Economics of Crime and Punishment | ||
| Economics of Sex and Drugs | ||
| Family Policy & Law | ||
| Corruption in the U.S. and Abroad | ||
| Law, Politics and Justice | ||
| Political Violence | ||
| Military Clinical Psychology | ||
| Psychology of Women | ||
| Deviance and Social Control | ||
| Drugs, Alcohol & Society | ||
| Medical Sociology | ||
| Death & Dying: Social & Medical Perspectives | ||
| Sociology of Health Care | ||
| Violence in Relationships | ||
| Women and the Law | ||
| Complete one of the following ethics & diversity electives: | 3 | |
| Power, Poverty, Culture | ||
| Culture, Racism and Alienation | ||
| Right, Wrong, and Seeing the Difference: Introduction to Ethics | ||
| Ideology and Culture: Racism and Sexism | ||
| Medicine, Health Care, and Justice: Bioethics | ||
| Total Hours | 21-23 | |
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A statistics course in a student’s major discipline (e.g. PSYC 2090, PSYC 3090,PSCI 3011, PHIL 2441, PHIL 3440, ECON 3801, ECON 3811, GEOG 2080, GEOG 4080) may be substituted for SOCY 3115.
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A qualitative methods course from the student’s major discipline (e.g. COMM 4221, PBHL 4031) may be substituted for SOCY 3119. Course substitutions must be approved by the certificate advisor.
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