Undergraduate Program

Certificate Offered

  • Certificate in Community Safety and Human Security (CERT)

Introduction

The undergraduate certificate in Community Safety and Human Security (CS/HS) may be earned by successful completion of a prescribed program of study as described below for students enrolled at UNM. Graduate students may get approval to substitute graduate level courses for the elective courses below. The certificate is designed to provide specific knowledge and competencies to enhance the student's degree program, and to provide exposure to a range of topics in the interdisciplinary fields of community safety, human security, crisis management and disaster preparedness and response. The requirement and course electives have been chosen to enhance students’ skills in critical thinking; quantitative and qualitative research; social, political and policy analysis; effective oral and written communication; and intercultural awareness. The experiential learning and capstone requirements will give students actual experience working in the community through a supervised practicum or internship or volunteer program with an approved public agency or civic organization.


Requirements

To earn the certificate, students must complete or have completed a baccalaureate degree and earn at least 23 total credits as described below, including at least 12 upper-division hours from at least three different departments. Students’ programs of studies must satisfy the following requirements and be approved by designated University College advisors. Students can dually count courses in the certificate and their major per UNM and department rules.

 

 

 

Credit Hours

 

I.          Core Required Courses

 

LAIS 345

Survey of Community Safety/Human Security

3

CELR 430

Advanced Research Service-Learning Field School (Fall only)

3

CJ 314

Intercultural Communication

3

MATH 1350

Introduction to Statistics STAT 279 or higher

3

 

Subtotal

12

 

II.        Elective Approved Courses

One elective chosen from each of the following three groups. Courses must be from at least three different subject areas (departments) across the groups.

 

 

Group A: Race, Ethnicity and Prejudice:

AMST 1140 Introduction to Race, Class and Ethnicity
AMST 353 Race Relations in America
POLS 307 The Politics of Ethnic Groups
SOC 430 Intersectionality: Race, Gender, Class for Social Policy
SOC 420 Race and Inequality
SOCI 2315 The Dynamics of Prejudice

Group B: Law, Justice and Crime:

AMST 303 Law in the Political Community (Also offered as POLS 303)
POLS 303 Law in the Political Community (Also offered as AMST 303)
POLS 313 Women and the Law (Also offered as WMST 313)
PSY 332 Abnormal Behavior
SOC 312 Causes of Crime and Delinquency
SOC 416 Sociology of Law
SOC 424 Race, Class and Crime
SOCI 2120 Introduction to Criminal Justice Systems
SOCI 2210 Sociology of Deviance
WMST 313 Women and the Law (Also offered as POLS 313)

Group C: Public Policy, Health, and Communities:

AMST 1150 Introduction to Southwest Studies
CJ 320 Conflict Management and Mediation
CRP 403 Community-Based Practice
HED 451 / 551 Prevention Strategies in Community Health
HED 371 Introduction to Public and Community Health
HMHV 1110 Social Contours of Health
PCST 307 Nonviolent Alternatives (Also offered as SOC 307)
POLS 324 The Politics of Poverty and Inequality
PSY 374 Cross-cultural Psychology
PSYC 2110 Social Psychology

 


 

SOC 307 Nonviolent Alternatives (Also offered as PCST 307)
SOC 346 Health and Social Inequalities I
SOC 415 Inequality and Power
SOCI 2310 Contemporary Social Problems
WMST 339. Women and Cultural Violence

 

 

Subtotal

9

 

III.       Approved Experiential Learning

Students must complete a practicum, internship or volunteer program with a government agency or community organization approved in advance by the certificate program advisor in University College. This experience should include approved paid or volunteer work in the community of at least 90-hours during one or two semesters. (Students who want to earn additional academic credits for the work experience can do so by taking a UNM course such as:

·         CELR 498 Independent Study in Research Service-Learning

·         PSY 405 Practicum

·         SOC 347 Health and Social Inequalities II

·         SOC 488 Field Observation and Experience

·         SUST 344 Environmental Justice Practicum

·         UNM Career Service Cooperative Education (Co-op) program. For more information see: https://career.unm.edu/assets/pdfs/coophandout.pdf

 

 

Subtotal

0-3

 

IV.       Capstone Project

Students must earn at least 2 credits of LAIS 409 or approved independent study course from another academic department, in which they write and submit either an analytic or policy research paper or a reflective essay describing their experiential learning project, written under the supervision of a faculty member.

 

 

Subtotal

2

 

Total

23-26

 

 


Certificate Offered

  • Certificate in National Security and Strategic Analysis (CERT)

Introduction

The undergraduate certificate in National Security and Strategic Analysis (NSSA) may be earned by successful completion of a prescribed program of study as described below for students earning an undergraduate degree. The certificate is designed to provide specific knowledge and competencies to enhance the student's undergraduate degree, and to provide exposure to a range of topics in the interdisciplinary field of national security and strategic analysis. The capstone is a demonstration of competency by the student through a coherent and critical analysis activity and an academic paper based on their individual educational path and diverse range of classes. A student’s program of studies must satisfy the following requirements and be pre-approved by the NSSA Faculty Coordinating Committee one year prior to graduation. An approval form is available at the NSSA certificate program Web site, or at the National Security Studies program office.


Requirements

To earn the undergraduate certificate in National Security and Strategic Analysis, the student must:

  1. Complete or have completed a baccalaureate degree.

  2. Complete a 3 credit hour course, Introduction to National Security and Strategic Analysis. This course describes federal agencies offering strategic and national security analysis to the government, and studies their analytic methods and resulting products. A discussion of multifaceted strategic analysis and the attending influences of a variety of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) involved in national security is a key component of the course. This includes, but is not limited to, think tanks, business analysis groups, and NGOs created specifically to further policies advantageous to selected nations. Included is a study of representative analytic products and methods, including trend projections and forecasting employed by the organizations.

  3. Take 9 credit hours of classes in Group A (Political/Social Analysis), and Group B (Quantitative Analysis), with at least 3 credit hours from each group. See additional discussion below under Courses in Group A and B.

  4. Complete a field analysis or research analysis project related to national security, strategic analysis or intelligence analysis as at least a 2 credit hour independent study course. Complete either an analysis paper-based on work in an approved internship, or an analysis paper-based on an independent and faculty-directed research project as part of this requirement.

  5. Take at least 3 semesters of a foreign language or demonstrate equivalent competency in a foreign language; or three additional courses in group B.

Courses in Group A and B

Courses are not offered each year and some courses are topics or seminar courses. For topics and seminar courses, approval of specific topic is required by the NSSA Faculty Committee. Other courses can substitute for these courses upon approval of the student's program by the NSSA Faculty Committee. To encourage a multidisciplinary approach, at most 3 credit hours per department are allowed in each of Group A and B. Only one course can be taken at the 100- or 200-level. Many courses require one or more prerequisites which may or may not count towards the certificate, thus effectively increasing the credit hours needed to earn the certificate.

A list is available at the NSSA certificate program Web site of currently offered courses in various departments that satisfy the requirements in Groups A and B. Students are encouraged to suggest additional courses to substitute for those in Groups A and B. The decision to approve a substitution is made within two weeks by the NSSA Faculty Committee.

Shared Credit Hours between Undergraduate Certificates and Degrees

As long as courses taken for an undergraduate certificate fall within the prescribed time limits for an undergraduate degree, the University allows shared course work between undergraduate certificates and a baccalaureate degree. If the student completes the certificate in conjunction with an undergraduate degree program, the student may use 100% of the certificate course work toward an undergraduate degree as long as it is approved as part of the degree.


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