The Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Nova Southeastern University will offer a Graduate Certificate Program in Family Studies. For over a decade, our Department of Family Therapy has offered Masters and Doctoral degrees in Family Therapy, which are accredited by the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. Our faculty now offers this certificate program for individuals who work with families but who do not do so in a clinical setting. Human Relations professionals, business managers or supervisors, among many others, would also benefit from the application of systemic family principles to their efforts. The curriculum includes coursework on systemic thinking in family studies, topics in human and family systems development, gender issues, sexuality issues, violence in the family, and diversity issues.
Students select from a variety of electives to tailor their experience to their professional goals.
This program takes advantage of our school's unique access to a multidisciplinary faculty, incorporating coursework in peace studies, violence prevention, consultation, school systems and business systems. Our multidisciplinary approach prepares students to apply knowledge about family systems directly to their work environment and demands. The Graduate Certificate Program in Family Studies is a 24 credit hour program. The core course sequence consists of five three-credit hour courses. The student may then select three, three-credit hour courses from eight elective courses.