Family and Child Welfare, Undergraduate Certificate

This certificate helps prepare students to advocate for families and children by exploring how families are shaped by culture, inequality, and institutions like schools, healthcare, and government. Students learn to recognize the many forms families can take and how to communicate and engage respectfully across cultures. Courses in the certificate connect real-world issues such as racism, poverty, and sexism to family well-being, focusing on how policies and social systems affect everyday life. Alongside their major requirements, students will build advocacy skills by learning to support meaningful policy changes that advance equity and strengthen the voices of all families. 

While students from any major can earn this certificate, it is most appropriate for majors in Sociology, Social Work, Criminal Justice, Community Development & Justice Studies, Africana World Studies, Disability Studies, Public Health, Education, Psychology, and Women’s & Gender Studies. 

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