Certificate Options:

1. Advanced Juvenile Justice Studies Certificate
2. Social Justice Certificate

To start, you need:

• A bachelor’s degree

• Desire to further your professional career

Get the details on admission requirements, processes, and timelines.

 Finishing will take:

• 1 year

Begin your Certificate program:

• Next term

Where you will take classes:

• Online/distance fall, winter, spring, 

Tech you will need:

• Computer with internet connection
• Video conferencing capability (e.g., Skype)

What you will learn:

Advanced Juvenile Justice Studies: Provides students with advanced knowledge of research, theory, and practice that addresses challenges with youth, family, and community impacted by delinquent behavior and the juvenile justice system.

Social Justice Certificate: Provides students with in-depth knowledge of complex social challenges and tools for addressing issues in social justice through research, theory, organizing, and affecting change.

Learning outcomes:

Advanced Juvenile Justice Studies Certificate: 

• Explore the complexities of youth as a unique group of offenders with separate needs within the criminal justice system.
• Understand the immediate and long-term effects of justice system involvement on youth, families, and communities.
• Critically evaluate and analyze methods of responding to delinquent behavior and youth crime in the juvenile and criminal justice systems. 
• Dissect the causes and consequences of youth crime and evidence-based practices for addressing delinquency and offending.

Social Justice Certificate: 

• Gain knowledge of complex social justice issues and how different systems interact around and within these realms.

• Analyze interdisciplinary theories and approaches to complex social justice challenges and concerns.

• Examine strategies for addressing complex social justice issues through activism, policy, practice, and intervention.

CONTACT US:

If you haven’t found the information you need or are still not sure where to direct your question, contact Dr. Misty Weitzel, weitzelm@wou.edu or 503-838-8520.