Communication and Advocacy Graduate Certificate

The Communication and Advocacy graduate certificate provides communication professionals and recent graduates the skills and understanding to tackle emerging advocacy needs. Students learn to communicate with diverse allies across digital and physical platforms; engage and motivate audiences by clearly, consistently and creatively telling stories worth sharing; and approach advocacy challenges from health, organizational, intercultural, intergroup, global, mediated and persuasion contexts.Certificate graduates will have the practical skills to respond to the dynamism that defines contemporary society. Based on current employment statistics and forecasts, the Communication the Advocacy certificate will position graduates for career advancement in multiple employment sectors.Graduates of this program will be able to:Incorporate theories from the field of communication to address advocacy challenges.Identify advocacy intervention strategies for a variety of target audiences.Assess communication needs and evaluate advocacy intervention efficacy.