Child Life Specialist Preparation Certificate

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This certificate is ideal for you if you are seeking a career as Child Life Specialists and helps you meet the first, academic, steps towards certification. It is also beneficial if you are seeking skills and understanding that can be employed in a variety of settings such as hospitals, child advocacy centers, schools, camp and bereavement programs, women’s shelters, hospice, trauma centers and more. Students from any major may complete the certificate which is particularly well suitedif you are pursuing a major in Family & Consumer Sciences Child Life and Family Studies.

This certificate is administered by the School of Health Promotion and Human Development .

Consists of 31 credits.

Take all the following required courses:

BIOL 287 - Essentials of Human Anatomy 4 cr. (Prerequisites for this course include: BIOL 101 or BIOL 110 or BIOL 160 )
HD 350 - Child Life Principles and Perspectives 3 cr. or
HD 550 - Child Life Principles and Perspectives 3 cr.
HD 363 - Development of the Preschool Child 1-3 cr. or
HD 563 - Development of the Preschool Child 1-3 cr.
HD 364 - Infant Development and Programming 1-3 cr. or
HD 564 - Infant Development and Programming 1-3 cr.
HD 365 - Guidance of Young Children 1-3 cr. or
HD 565 - Guidance of Young Children 1-3 cr.
HD 367 - Intentional Intimacy and Family Systems 3 cr. or
HD 567 - Intentional Intimacy and Family Formation 3 cr.
HD 455 - Child Life and Therapeutic Play 3 cr. or
HD 655 - Child Life and Therapeutic Play 3 cr.
HD 466 - Development and Guidance of Adolescents 3 cr. or
HD 666 - Development and Guidance of Children and Adolescents 3 cr.
HPW 465 - Grief and Loss 3 cr. or
HPW 665 - Grief and Loss 3 cr.
HS 295 - Medical Terminology 3 cr.
HS 360 - Research Design and Methods for the Health Sciences 3 cr. (prerequisites for this course include: HS 301 or MATH 255 or concurrent registration)
PHIL 302 - Ethics and Medicine 3 cr.