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Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Management and Community Development
Students may earn the Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Management and Community Development after
completing 15 graduate semester credit hours as specified below:
Foundation course:
POLS 5215: Management of Nonprofit Organizations -- FALL
(Those students who have taken POLS 4215 (management of nonprofit organizations) with a grade of c or higher at
UWG can substitute POLS 5215 with other elective courses in the program)
One course in resource development and management:
POLS 5217: Grant Writing for Nonprofit Organizations -- SPRING
ACCT 6264: Nonprofit Accounting and Auditing -- FALL
POLS 6200: Public Budgeting and Financial Management -- SPRING
One course in research methods:
SOCI 6613: Qualitative Research
SOCI 6660: Institutional Ethnography
SOCI 6013: Social Research
POLS 6202: Research Methods for Public Administration -- FALL
CRIM 6015: Managing Data
SOCI 6003: Advanced Statistics for Sociology
One of the following electives in your area of interest or expertise (or any of the above):
SOCI 5734: Social Work Skills
SOCI 5803: Environmental Sociology
SOCI 5300: Housing and Homelessness
SOCI 6255: Delinquency, Family, and the Community
POLS 5721: Housing and Community Development
POLS 6209: Theories of Public Organization
SOCI 6700: Social Movements, Protest and Change
SOCI 6280: Seminar in Social Justice
POLS 5210: Modern Public Management
POLS 5211: State and Local Politics and Administration
POLS 6203: Public Personnel Administration
POLS 6204: Public Policy Analysis and Evaluation SPRING
CRIM or SOCI 6275: Planning and Evaluation
PSYC 7030: Intro to Organizational Development
PSYC 6400: Psychology, Culture and Society
Internship
POLS 6286: Internship ANY SEMESTER
SOCI 6286: Internship -- ANY SEMESTER
(In lieu of an internship, students can take an elective graduate course in any area of interest)
Overlap with Existing Degree Programs and Additional Course Needs
Students enrolled in the Nonprofit Management and Community Development may use certificate courses toward
the completion of MA degrees in Criminology, Psychology, and Sociology. Students seeking the certificate in
conjunction with any of the above listed MA degree programs in the college of Social Sciences must consult their
graduate advisors to ensure that they are on track to meet degree requirements.
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Revised: 10/20/2016
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