This certificate prepares information technology workers who want to enhance their skills in the area of Computer Systems Security or prepare for industry certification in UNIX Operating System. Credit from this certificate can be used toward a degree in Computer Information Systems, Computer Networking, or Computer Science.

Requirements: 12 Credit Hours

• CS 430  Operating Systems (3 Credit Hours)
• CS 433  Computer Systems Security (3 Credit Hours)
• CS 465  UNIX Operating System (3 Credit Hours)
• CS 468  Advanced UNIX (3 Credit Hours)

Any given day news stories flash with headlines of another electronic data breach. In times where the protection of information is becoming more and more critical, the Regis e-Security certification can help distinguish you from others in the field. As one of only a handful of universities in the region selected as a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance as certified by the National Security Agency, Regis will enhance your career and position you to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data and their delivery systems.

Requirements: 12 Credit Hours

• CN 460  Fundamentals of E-Security (3 Credit Hours)
• CN 461  Security Breaches (3 Credit Hours)
• CN 462  Countermeasures (3 Credit Hours)
• CN 463  Web and E-Commerce Security (3 Credit Hours)

Classes include teaching reading and writing; children's and adolescent literature; and reading and writing in the content area.

Requirements: 12 Credit Hours

• EDFD 441  Children's and Adolescents' Literature (3 Credit Hours)
• EDFD 402  The Craft of Writing (3 Credit Hours)
• EDFD 442  Reading and Writing in the Content Area (3 Credit Hours)
• EDFD 444  Teaching Reading & Writing (3 Credit Hours)

This certificate offers a forum for adults who wish to learn about and pursue issues of spirituality to enhance both their personal lives and the communities in which they live.

Requirements: 12 Credit Hours

• RC 470E  Adult Spirituality: Adult Spiritual Life & Growth (3 Credit Hours)
• RC 405  Dimensions in Spirituality (3 Credit Hours)
• RC 416/CAS 416  Ignatian Spirituality (3 Credit Hours)
• RC 404   Women Transforming the World (3 Credit Hours)

This certificate offers essential historical knowledge and understanding of the contemporary Catholic Church in the United States for students seeking to strengthen personal insight or to work in a lay capacity within the Catholic community.

Requirements: 12 Credit Hours

• RC 415/CAS 460S  Peace & Justice in Catholic Thought (3 Credit Hours)
• RS 408/CAS 420H  Dimensions of Contemporary Catholicism (3 Credit Hours)
• RC 470F/CAS 440S  Adult Spirituality: Jesuit Traditions (3 Credit Hours)
• EN 435F/CAS 410S  Faith Traditions in Literature (3 Credit Hours)

The skill to constructively manage the inevitable conflicts that arise in the workplace is in high demand. This certificate benefits people who wish to become more proficient in negotiating, mediating disputes, and developing solutions to difficult problems.

In this certificate program, managers in any industry as well as people employed in human resource and customer service departments, nonprofit organizations, community and church groups, or industries undergoing changes will develop a basic set of conflict–management skills. Those who wish to become conflict management practitioners can use this certificate as a base from which to take further coursework.

Requirements: 15 Credit Hours

• COM 310  Interpersonal Communication (3 Credit Hours)
• COM 408/BA 411  Conflict Management (3 Credit Hours)
• COM 466/BA 466  Negotiation (3 Credit Hours)
• COM 420  Mediation (3 Credit Hours)
• COM 426  Group Dynamics (3 Credit Hours)

Opportunities for careers in criminal justice have expanded due to media focus on violent crimes; federal grants to state and local jurisdictions for safer streets, campuses and homes; and growing societal concerns about the nature, extent and effectiveness of redress and sanctions for criminal activity.

This certificate benefits individuals employed in or seeking employment or promotion in law enforcement, corrections, social services, parole, diversion, and prevention; policy makers; media professionals; and advocates for both victims and perpetrators of crime.

Requirements: 15 Credit Hours

Prerequisite:

• SO 200  Introduction to Sociology or equivalent, or permission of the instructor. (3 Credit Hours)

The preferred sequence is to complete the courses in the order listed below.

• CR 350  Introduction to Criminology (3 Credit Hours)
• CR 426  Decision Making and Problem Solving in Criminology (3 Credit Hours)
• CR 435  Poverty, Gender, Race and Crime (3 Credit Hours)

Choose from two of the following:

• CR 413  Crime Analysis (3 Credit Hours)
• CR 429  Family Violence (3 Credit Hours)
• CR 433  Violence in the Workplace (3 Credit Hours)
• CR 446  Perspectives on Terrorism (3 Credit Hours)
• CR 451  Juvenile Delinquency (3 Credit Hours)
• CR 496H  Addictive Behaviors (3 Credit Hours)

Today's managers need sharp leadership skills to accomplish goals through others. In this certificate program, managers and supervisors with technical backgrounds, team and group leaders, leaders in nonprofit organizations, and those aspiring to management positions will learn the components that make managers effective in accomplishing organizational objective and enhancing unit performance.

Requirements: 18 Credit Hours

• BA418/COM418  Organizational Communication (3 Credit Hours)
• BA495E  Decision Making in Business (3 Credit Hours)
• BA407/COM407  Leadership Principles (3 Credit Hours)
• BA437/COM437  Persuasion, Influence and Motivation (3 Credit Hours)
• BA441/COM441  Team Leadership (3 Credit Hours)
• BA426  Managing Cultural Diversity (3 Credit Hours)

Professionals working or desiring to work in the arena of Homeland Security and/or disaster response must be knowledgeable about basic vocabulary and its usage, and principles, theories, and problems associated with Homeland Security and Disaster Response. This certificate is a means to study, in depth, theories and practices which support ongoing efforts while wrestling with the problems in this growing field of international and national interest.

Requirements: 18 Credit Hours

• COM400  Intercultural Communication (3 Credit Hours)
• SO446  Perspectives on Terrorism (3 Credit Hours)
• SO445  Homeland Security (3 Credit Hours)
• SO447  Interorganizational Communication (3 Credit Hours)
• SO448  Homeland Security–Legal and Ethical Issues (3 Credit Hours)
• SO449  Security and Vulnerability (3 Credit Hours)

Regis University, in partnership with the National University of Ireland, Galway, is proud to offer the first Irish Studies certificate program in the world. In this program, four undergraduate courses guide students through 1500 years of Irish study including history, language, literature, sociology, religion, and archaeology. To find out more about the certificate in Irish studies visit irishstudiesonline.org.

Requirements: 12 Credit Hours

Choose four courses from the following:

• IRSH410E  Early Christian Ireland (3 Credit Hours)
• IRSH410F  Medieval Ireland, Literature & Society 1169–1603(3 Credit Hours)
• IRSH410G  Early Modern Ireland, 1603–1845 (3 Credit Hours)
• IRSH410H  Modern Ireland: Culture & Society, 1845–1998 (3 Credit Hours)
• IRSH410I  Social and Political Change in Contemporary Ireland (3 Credit Hours)

This certificate is ideal for entrepreneurs, group and team leaders, managers, and those who wish to be more effective in turning visions into reality. Students will gain powerful persuasion skills and learn to create a collaborative environment that enhances decision making and performance.

Requirements: 15 Credit Hours

• COM 407/BA 407  Leadership Principles (3 Credit Hours)
• COM 437/BA 437  Persuasion, Influence and Motivation (3 Credit Hours)
• COM 410/BA 410  Strategic Leadership (3 Credit Hours)
• COM 441/BA 441  Team Leadership (3 Credit Hours)
• COM 450  Service Leadership (3 Credit Hours)

This certificate program offers essential groundwork and introductory practical tools participants involved in activities focusing on peace and social justice in local, national and world communities.

Requirements: 18 Credit Hours

Choose three courses from the following:

• SO 472  Wealth & Power (3 Credit Hours)
• CR 435  Poverty, Gender, Race, and Crime (3 Credit Hours)
• SO 446  Perspectives on Terrorism (3 Credit Hours)
• HU 435F  Voices of Wealth & Poverty (3 Credit Hours)

Choose three courses from the following:

• EN 385/PL 385  Elements of Successful Argument (3 Credit Hours)
• COM 437/BA 437  Persuasion, Influence & Motivation (3 Credit Hours)
• COM 408/BA 411  Conflict Management (3 Credit Hours)
• COM 420  Mediation (3 Credit Hours)
• COM 466  Negotiation (3 Credit Hours)

Individuals who are well–schooled in the day–to–day application of practical psychology are more sophisticated and effective in their approaches to both personal and working relationships, problem solving, and personal development. This certificate benefits those who are interested in the pragmatic use of psychology rather than the quantitative, scientific aspects.

Requirements: 15 Credit Hours

The preferred sequence is to complete the courses in the order listed below.

• PY 250  General Psychology (3 Credit Hours)
• PY 469  Life Span Development (3 Credit Hours)
• PY 441  Social Psychology (3 Credit Hours)
• PY 463  Psychology of Intimate Relationships (3 Credit Hours)
• PY 462  Behavioral and Stress Management (3 Credit Hours)

Violence in the home, school, workplace, and streets is of immediate concern at all levels of society. This certificate benefits individuals interested in or associated with violence prevention, the apprehension and treatment of perpetrators, and the care of victims. Courses offered supplement the training required to be adequately prepared for employment and promotion in agencies such as law enforcement, corrections, social services, parole, diversion, and prevention.

Requirements: 18 Credit Hours

Prerequisite:

• PY 250  General Psychology or equivalent (3 Credit Hours)

The preferred sequence is to take the courses in the order listed below.

• PY 426  Psychology of the Criminal Mind (3 Credit Hours)
• PY 427/SO 427  Criminal Profiling (3 Credit Hours)
• PY 428/SO 428  Children and Violence (3 Credit Hours)
• PY 429/SO 429  Family Violence (3 Credit Hours)
• PY 430/SO 430  Sexual Homicide (3 Credit Hours)
• PY 431/SO 431  Personal Violence, Grieving and Survival (3 Credit Hours)

Today’s managers need sharp leadership skills to accomplish goals through others. In this certificate program, managers and supervisors with technical backgrounds, team and group leaders, leaders in nonprofit organizations, and those aspiring to management positions will learn the components that make managers effective in accomplishing organizational objective and enhancing unit performance.

Requirements: 18 Credit Hours

• BA 418/COM 418  Organizational Communication (3 Credit Hours)
• BA 495E  Ethical Decision Making in Business (3 Credit Hours)
• BA 407/COM 407  Leadership Principles (3 Credit Hours)
• BA 437/COM 437  Persuasion, Influence and Motivation (3 Credit Hours)
• BA 441/COM 441  Team Leadership (3 Credit Hours)
• BA 426  Managing Cultural Diversity (3 Credit Hours)

This certificate is ideal for entrepreneurs, group and team leaders, managers, and those who wish to be more effective in turning visions into reality. Students will gain powerful persuasion skills and learn to create a collaborative environment that enhances decision making and performance.

Requirements: 15 Credit Hours

• COM 407/BA 407  Leadership Principles (3 Credit Hours)
• COM 437/BA 437  Persuasion, Influence and Motivation (3 Credit Hours)
• COM 410/BA 410  Strategic Leadership (3 Credit Hours)
• COM 441/BA 441  Team Leadership (3 Credit Hours)
• COM 450  Service Leadership (3 Credit Hours)

Created in response to student and employer input, the Project Management certificate includes courses in structuring projects, as well as how to solve problems and lead teams. Students will also gain skills in how to analyze and improve processes.

Requirements: 15 Credit Hours

• BA 458  Project Management (3 Credit Hours)
• BA 457  Project Mapping and Process Improvement (3 Credit Hours)
• COM/BA 441  Team Leadership (3 Credit Hours)
• COM 470  Decision Making and Problem Solving (3 Credit Hours)

Choose one of the following two courses:

• BA 454/PY 456  Organizational Behavior (3 Credit Hours)
• BA/COM 418  Organizational Communication (3 Credit Hours)

Created for public employees, elected officials, those seeking to run for office, school administrators, and those who perform work on behalf of the government. This six-course certificate is eligible for financial aid. It is also available online or in the classroom.

Students will learn how their work fits within the government structure, how to finance and budget projects, how to evoke change in whatever level of the government they are in (e.g. federal, state, county or city). They will also examine the role of community influences and how public policy is made and implemented.

Requirements: 18 Credit Hours

• PA 300  Government Role in Society (3 Credit Hours)
• PA 400  Public Policy (3 Credit Hours)
• PA 410  Public Finance (3 Credit Hours)
• PA 430  Community Influences on Governments (3 Credit Hours)
• PA 450E  Public Management: Entrepreneurship in Government (3 Credit Hours)
• EC 320  Macro Economics (3 Credit Hours)