Graduate Certificate Health Communication

The Graduate Certificate in Health Communication (CHC) offers learners the opportunity to acquire and demonstrate expertise in health communication. The certificate program will provide students with a theoretically rich and practically relevant education in how health messages are generated, negotiated, assessed, and understood across a wide range of communication contexts, spanning intrapersonal communication to digital and mass media.

The Graduate Certificate in Health Communication seeks to impart the knowledge and skills necessary for creating, analyzing, and assessing health communication in a diverse and global world, where health occupies an increasingly prominent portion of our public life. Specifically, students in our program will be able to:

1. Utilize health communication concepts and theories to solve problems in professional, personal, and community/civic life.
2. Select and use appropriate methods to collect, analyze, and interpret data to answer health communication research questions.
3. Develop ethical and effective health communication messages and campaigns; orally, in writing, and across digital platforms.
4. Identify, critique, and evaluate research from across major areas of health communication research.

Application Procedures and Additional Information

• Students should declare interest in completing the Graduate Certificate in Health Communication by emailing Dr. Tamara Powell at tamara.powell@ucdenver.edu.
• Students who are not already enrolled at CU Denver must also complete an online Application for Non-Degree Admission prior to registering for courses. Access the Graduate Non-Degree application here.
• Before the end of their final semester, students must send a completed certificate application to Dr. Tamara Powell at tamara.powell@ucdenver.edu.
• The approved certificate will be mailed to the student, and recorded on their transcript, after final grades are posted for the semester.
• Additional information about the graduate certificate in Health Communication may be obtained from Dr. Tamara Powell, Student Commons Building 3311, 303-315-0310, or tamara.powell@ucdenver.edu.

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 regularly with their Health Communication advisor to confirm the best plans of study before finalizing them.

Graduate Education Policies and Procedures apply to this program.