Intended for professionals in the field of public sector labor relations, for those in public sector human resources management who wish to upgrade their skills in labor relations, or for those who are beginning their careers and wish to prepare for a career working in or with public sector labor relations, this certificate provides essential knowledge held in high esteem by employers seeking to take advantage of that most valuable resource, the human resource.
Note: To qualify for the Public Sector Labor Relations Certificate, students must earn a grade of B or better—a B- does not qualify—in each of the classes in order to qualify for the certificate.
The Graduate Certificate is geared to provide an introduction to legal processes and legal rights issues to professionals involved with providing services to the health care, medical communities and government agency clientele. It is structured to provide sufficient substantive familiarity with law and legal concepts in the particular areas to allow certificate holders to hold themselves out as having a basic educational background in these areas. It also would help those who regularly are called upon to testify or take judicially ordered or sanctioned actions as part of their jobs.
Graduate certificates provide students with the opportunity to gain substantial graduate-level expertise in specified areas without having to pursue a full master's degree. Students, who are pursuing a master's degree, may also enroll in course work that leads to a certificate.
Students must hold a baccalaureate degree from an accredited institution and meet campus requirements for admission to graduate study. Candidates for the certificates will be expected to complete course requirements with a grade of B or better, a level of competency required for satisfactory certificate completion. Students may retake a course one time to have the better grade substitute for a lesser grade if necessary. The fact of the retake but not the lower grade will appear on any subsequent transcript obtained from UIS.
If after completing the certificate or while you are taking certificate courses, you decide you would like to use these classes towards a full Master of Arts degree in Legal Studies, contact the LES department to explore the possibilities.
You must first submit an application to the University (UIS) to be a non-degree seeking student. You must specify that you want the Graduate Certificate in Law for Human Services and Social Work. The application form is available online. It must be accompanied by an application fee. After you are accepted, in order for you to enroll in classes, you will need to get an Enterprise ID number —click on Net ID and Enterprise Information for Continuing Students (if you are one) or for New Students (if you are one of those!).
The certificate requires 16 semester hours of graduate level Legal Studies courses as follows:
Please Remember: Not all classes are offered each semester or even each year. Legal Studies will endeavor to offer at least one or two classes for certificate pursuing students each semester during the regular academic year (excluding summer) but they may not be the same classes each year. Check the schedule and when a class you really want is offered, take it!
