Prepare to Be a Moral and Ethical Leader in Today’s Complex World

Learn to lead with integrity, communicate effectively, and build and maintain thriving organizations and communities with a Certificate in Leadership and Ethics from St. Edward’s.   

We live in a world in which organizational leaders constantly face ethical decision-making challenges. Designed with an interdisciplinary approach, the Certificate in Leadership and Ethics instills an understanding of why and how an ethical mindset is critical to being an effective leader.

In this certificate program, you’ll examine and evaluate theories, strategies and principles of ethical leadership that include leader-mentor relationships, motivation, teamwork, power, trust and negotiation. Coursework combines the analytical study of ethics with the communication skills required to be leaders in the modern workplace.

The Certificate in Leadership and Ethics can be earned while pursuing your undergraduate degree. This credential is a valuable, mission-driven addition to any major that enhances your appeal to employers.

Stand Out in the Tech Job Market with Skills in Coding 

Develop a valuable skill set that can be applied to numerous industries and job roles with a Certificate in Coding for Non-Coders from St. Edward’s.

Designed specifically for individuals without programming experience, the Certificate in Coding for Non-Coders provides a foundation in coding along with the technical vocabulary needed to communicate effectively with professionals in the tech fields. Through a sequence of three courses, you’ll develop logic, critical reasoning and other computer literacy skills,

This certificate will provide you with the basic knowledge of algorithms and scripting that enable you to program, giving you an edge in a wide variety of occupations, including digital product management, product marketing, sales development, research analysis, content management, corporate finance, and on digital journalism and content creation teams.

What will you learn?

After completing the coursework for certification, you’ll have this impressive credential to show future employers. You’ll graduate with:

• The ability to write your own programs, including basic computer games, using an easy-to-learn scripting language (Python).
• Experience with such topics as databases, client/server models, and using higher Python functions for data analysis, games and simple apps. 
• Experience with digital project planning, allowing you to apply your new coding skills by conceiving, developing, testing and deploying a game or mobile app.

Become a Bilingual and Bicultural Healthcare Professional

Promote health equity and boost your career with a Certificate in Advanced Spanish for the Health and Helping Professions.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), health equity is achieved “when every person has the opportunity to attain his or her full health potential and no one is disadvantaged from achieving this potential because of social position or other socially determined circumstances.”

Understanding that communication is one of the keys to advancing health equity in our society, St. Edward's created the Certificate in Advanced Spanish for the Health and Helping Professions to help meet the need in the healthcare sector for bilingual and bicultural professionals.

Program Benefits

This program allows you to earn certification while pursuing your undergraduate degree. You’ll leverage your skills as a bilingual speaker or advanced second-language learner of Spanish. And you’ll be prepared for health-related professions that require specific, technical vocabulary and cultural knowledge.

The methodology of this program will be grounded in an inquiry-based approach, employ best practices from translation studies, as well as refine your written and spoken Spanish. The certificate provides an experiential learning component (internship) in the area of your major.

The certificate is designed for students with advanced oral proficiency — Spanish/English bilinguals and second-language learners.

What will you learn?

The linguistic and cultural competencies addressed in the certificate will position you to become a leader in the health and helping professions as an advocate for the Latino/Latinx population in the United States. Learning outcomes include:

• Developing interpersonal communication skills in Spanish focused on in-person encounters and interviews in a clinical or medical setting.
• Demonstrating cultural knowledge of the Latinx sociocultural context through research and experiential learning.
• Applying the fundamentals of translation and interpretation necessary in healthcare settings.
• Refining and professionalizing oral presentational skills in Spanish in order to communicate in a caring and effective manner.

Inspire Individuals to Heed and Use Health Information

As a Health Communication minor, you’ll study audiences and their behaviors related to health practices to determine the format and frequency of messaging.

Students with an education in health communication can enter jobs in public relations, advertising, patient education, health administration, social media, healthcare policy and advocacy, community health, and other related fields.

Minor Requirements

Required Courses (6 hours required)

• Introduction to Health Communication – COMM 3308 
• COMM 4383 Applied Health Communication – COMM 3308 

Electives (12 hours required; at least 3 hours must be +3000)

• Interpersonal Communication – COMM 2312 
• Nonverbal Communication – COMM 2322  
•  Persuasion – COMM 2326
• Organizational Communication – COMM 2327 
• Active Listening – COMM 2357 
• Social Media for Public Relations – COMM 3309 
• Teams, Collaboration and Community – COMM 3339 
• Intercultural Communication – COMM 3344 
• Native American and Chican@x Communication – COMM 3345 
• Family Communication – COMM 3346 
• Sports Communication – COMM 3372 
• The Dark Side of Interpersonal Communication – COMM 3374 
• Public Relations for Nonprofit Organizations – COMM 4326 
• Internship (in Health Communication) – COMM 4350 
• Lying and Deception – COMM 4356 
• Special Topics in Health Communication – COMM 4390 
• General Psychology – PSYC 2301 
• Adolescent Psychology – PSYC 2307 
• Self and Society – SOCI 1301 
• Social Welfare: Historic Response to Need – SOCI 2318 
• Concepts of Physical Fitness and Wellness – KINE 2344 

Total Hours: 18

For more information about this minor and course descriptions, view and download the Undergraduate Bulletin (PDF).