The Graduate Certificate in Culture, Health, and Human Development ensures students have a basic familiarity with the three core perspectives, provides them the opportunity to carry out and publish an integrative research project, and documents their accomplishment on their academic transcript.

Affiliated faculty and their colleagues teach a variety of courses that include aspects of culture, health, and human development. Listed here are graduate courses at UConn that are particularly relevant for students working toward the Graduate Certificate.

The CHHD Graduate Certificate, which is open only to graduate students already enrolled at the university, is built on the following courses:

• HDFS 5020, Culture, Health, and Human Development (seminar, required)
• HDFS 5031, Culture, Health, and Human Development Project (seminar, required)

In addition, students are required to take two other courses – chosen in consultation with the program director – that will round out their understanding of the three core areas.

Here are examples of courses recognized as fulfilling the requirement for culture:

• AH 5360, Cross-cultural Health Care
• ANTH 5335, Psychological Anthropology
• ANTH 5352, Medical Anthropology
• HDFS 5155, Cultural Issues in Child Development 
• HDFS 5312, Diverse Families: Adaptations across the Lifespan
• PSYC 5441 Language Modality, Neural Plasticity and Development
• SOCI 5275, Topics in Culture

Here are examples of courses recognized as fulfilling the requirement for health:

• AH 5309, Health and Aging
• AH 5501, International Health
• ANTH 5352, Medical Anthropology
• HDFS 5277, Human Sexuality
• HDFS 5340, Prevention, Intervention, and Public Policy
• PSYC 5303, Developmental Psychopathology
• PSYC 5425, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
• PSYC 5441, Language Modality, Neural Plasticity and Development
• PSYC 5445, Neurobiology of Language: Typical and Atypical Cognition and Language Development
• SOCI 5757, Seminar in Fertility, Mortality, and Migrationan>
• PUBH 5405, Social and Behavioral Foundations of Public Health
• PUBH 5462, International Health

Here are examples of courses recognized as fulfilling the requirement for human development:

• AH 5309, Health and Aging
• HDFS 5103, Adolescent Development
• HDFS 5150, Human Attachment Across the Lifespan
• PSYC 5440, Language Development and Related Processes
• PSYC 5420, Cognitive Development
• PSYC 5450, Infancy and the Effects of Early Experience
• PSYC 5460, Social and Personality Development