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    Certificate in Life Stages and Transitions (12 Credit Hours)

    Whether you are needing to complete degree requirements for the B.A. in Sociology, enhance your skills as an human/social services employee, or simply wanting to explore topics that impact you personally, the Certificate in Life Stages and Transitions can provide you deeper insight into some of life's greatest challenges. Take courses that deal with major life passages such as marriage, remarriage, childrearing, aging, and death and dying.

    Once you have taken all the required classes, you will be issued a certificate that recognizes your successful completion of the Certificate in Life Stages and Transitions.

    Choose Any Four of the Following Courses: 

    SOC 343 Sociology of Sex Roles        3 credit hours 
    SOC 350  Family Communication 3 credit hours
    SOC 352 Stepfamilies 3 credit hours      
    SOC 355     Sociology of Death and Dying 3 credit hours
    SOC 388 Sociology of the Family in America 3 credit hours 
    SOC 644 Sociology of Aging 3 credit hours 
                                          TOTAL CREDIT HOURS 12 credit hours

    The Certificate in Life Stages and Transitions is available on campus as well as online.  For more information, contact Rose Arnhold (rarnhold@fhsu.edu), who coordinates this certificate program.

    Please Note: It is the responsibility of the student to inform the coordinator of the certificate program that he or she has completed the certificate requirements. Your certificate will not be awarded until you have completed the requirements and informed your coordinator of same. To ensure there is enough time to process your certificate, please inform your coordinator by the 21st day of the semester in which the certificate is to be awarded.

    In order to verify certificate completion, the student must go into his/her TigerTracks account, where the unofficial transcript can be found.  Simply highlight and copy the whole unofficial transcript or at least the portion that lists the courses necessary to meet the certificate requirements.  The student may then paste that copied text that is his/her unofficial transcript into an e-mail message to the certificate coordinator.  The student's e-mail note to the certificate coordinator should begin with an expression of the certificate(s) earned, followed by the unofficial transcript.