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.

Addiction Counseling Professionals Are in High Demand Nationally

Provide support to individuals and families experiencing the fallout of alcohol and substance abuse with a Certificate in Evidence-Based Addition Counseling.

Offered through the Department of Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience, the Certificate in Evidence-Based Addiction Counseling provides you with the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to pursue a career as a Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor (LCDC) in Texas. This program meets the 270 educational hours required of the Texas Department of State Health Services and prepares you to become a Counselor Intern if you meet the other requirements (including criminal background check) for the profession. Please review the licensure requirements and standards in the Texas Administrative Code 

What makes this certificate program unique?

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This is the only program of its kind offered in a four-year university in Texas, and it provides training in gold-standard evidence-based treatments for addiction including cognitive-behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing. You’ll learn the transdisciplinary foundations that guide evidence-based addiction treatment, including (1) Understanding Addiction, (2) Treatment Knowledge, (3) Application to Practice and (4) Professional Readiness.

Based upon scientific research and evidence-based practice, the Certificate in Evidence-Based Addiction Counseling program empowers you to give individuals the tools they need to remain in recovery and repair and strengthen relationships with family, friends and coworkers. Completing this certificate will increase your chances of getting competitively paid positions as LCDC-I upon graduation. 

Who is a candidate for this certificate?

The Certificate in Evidence-Based Addiction Counseling program is open to students majoring in Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience, Social Work or Sociology. Students with other majors who are interested in this program should consult with Program Director Kelly E. Green, PhD, at kellygr@stedwards.edu. 

If you’re drawn to a career that helps people but aren’t sure you want to attend graduate school, then this certificate provides a pathway to serve as an addiction counselor with your bachelor’s degree. 

If you are pursuing a degree in Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience, Sociology or Social Work, consider adding a Certificate in Evidence-Based Addiction Counseling. The 19-credit-hour certificate overlaps with many courses already required for Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience. 

For students who may want to attend graduate school, completing this certificate improves their applications to graduate programs, and becoming an LCDC-I gives them a way to work part-time while attending graduate school and gaining valuable experience in the field. 

What is the career outlook for addiction counselors?

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects a 23% job growth for substance abuse counselors from 2020–2030, which is much higher than the average 11% projected growth rate for other professions. The growth in this field is partially due to the Affordable Care Act which requires insurers to include substance abuse treatment coverage in all medical plans. There is also an increased focus on addiction as a public health issue. Decreasing stigma about addiction and recovery is eliminating barriers that have prevented people from seeking help when needed. Given these trends,  it’s likely that job growth will continue for addiction counselors. 

Unlock Career Opportunities in Environmental Management

Make a difference in natural resources conservation and oversight with a Certificate in Environmental Management from St. Edward’s.

This 12-credit hour certificate program allows you to acquire tools and research skills such as applying ecological principles and environmental surveying and monitoring techniques that prepare you for conservation and management fields in the private and public sectors.

What will you learn?

Required courses in the program will equip you with a working knowledge of the plant and animal species of Texas, threats to native species, wildlands, and soil and water resources, and an interdisciplinary understanding of conservation and restoration approaches. You’ll gain ecological skills in plant and animal identification, habitat monitoring and restoration.

Because much of the success of conservation activities relies on being able to work with people, there is also a large emphasis placed on stakeholder engagement and science communication. Elective courses within the program emphasize building additional skills and knowledge that help you succeed in this field, including proficiency with Geographical Information Systems (GIS), social and natural science research skills, and a good understanding of environmental laws and policies.

Who is a candidate for this certificate?

The certificate is restricted to students majoring or minoring in the Environmental Science and Policy program. The certificate curriculum goes beyond the required interdisciplinary courses for the degree by providing specific training and research experience needed to prepare students for employment and graduate study in ecology and natural resource conservation and management.  

What are job opportunities?

This certificate will equip students for a variety of jobs in environmental management, including natural resource conservation and management, ecological monitoring, and ecological restoration with public agencies such as the City of Austin’s Watershed Protection, the City of Austin’s Parks and Recreation Department, the Balcones Canyonlands Preserve, and the Hill Country Conservancy.  

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.

Strengthen Your Major and Job Prospects

More and more businesses need data scientists, data analysts, biostatisticians and quantitative analysts. Graduate prepared for these positions with the Certificate in Data Analysis. 

Graduates with this certification will have the skills to source, analyze, interpret and visualize large data sets and build predictive models using the best practices from the field of data science.

Students in any field of study at St. Edward’s University can earn the certification while pursuing their undergraduate degree. Certification requires taking a four-course sequence, followed by an internship.

Learning Outcomes

Students who complete the Data Analysis certification will have their academic transcripts annotated as having earned this certification — and be able to show future employers their expertise. They’ll graduate with the experience and ability to:

• Source, clean, prepare, analyze, visualize and make decisions using large datasets.
• Work with datasets from multiple disciplines.
• Recommend business and scientific decisions based on analysis and modeling of data.
• Present these decisions to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Understand the strengths and weaknesses of the most common machine-learning models

Certificate Requirements

Complete the following general education courses:

• Computational Skills I or Computing Science Concepts I (3–4 hours)
• Applied Statistics, Biostatistics or Business Statistics (3 hours)
• Introduction to Data Analysis (3 hours)
• Introduction to Data Science (4 hours)
• Internship or upper-division course with comparable practicum experience (1–3 hours)

Our Faculty

Please contact Paul Savala, Associate Professor of Mathematics, for more information. 

Learn to Assess Behavior Changes

The online Master of Education (MEd) in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) program will help you learn how to assess, analyze and work to develop interventions for challenging behavior that lead to prosocial behavior in individuals with autism and related disorders. 

Our MEd program will also advance your skills and support your clinical experience in preparation for the Board Certified Behavior Analyst® exam and becoming a BCBA.