For Immediate Release

Date: Sept. 7, 2007
Contact:Stephanie Shreve
USF Office of Graduate Certificates
813-974-2442

USF Offers New Graduate Certificates 

Tampa (Sept. 7, 2007) ---USF faculty have developed eleven new Graduate Certificates, which are available to students in the 2007-2008 academic year, nine of which are health related.

Health Care Risk Management and Patient Safety, Behavioral Health Counseling and Hearing Specialist: Early Intervention are offered through the College of Arts and Sciences. Biostatistics and Maternal and Child Health are offered through the College of Public Health and Health Sciences, Medicine and Gender and Medical Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology are offered through the College of Medicine.

Also new to USF's Graduate Certificate offerings this year are Mathematics Education and Foreign Language Education: Professional. Both of these certificates, offered by the College of Education, are for those who wish to teach in Florida's public schools.

Health Sciences, Health Care Risk Management and Patient Safety and Hearing Specialist: Early Intervention are all available fully online.

For more information on these and USF's other Graduate Certificates, please visit: www.outreach.usf.edu/gradcerts/certificates.asp or call  in the Office of Graduate Certificates at 813-974-2442.