Graduate certificates offered at CCI

To enroll in one of our certificate programs, ensure you follow the Graduate School’s admission instructions regardless of whether you are a current graduate student, an alumni of a UT graduate program, are new to UT, or are an international student.

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Healthcare Informatics

The online Healthcare Informatics Graduate Certificate (HIC) program from the University of Tennessee prepares students for careers in connecting people, information, and technology in the healthcare sector. The 100% online HIC program combines expertise from the College of Nursing, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, and the School of Information Sciences to examine and apply current health information management, analytics processing, security, and data mining techniques.

Health Informatics refers to the application of health science, computer science, and information sciences to the delivery, management, and planning of healthcare technology. Health informatics professionals are uniquely positioned to address the most significant issues in the rapidly changing landscape of healthcare information and technology.

Healthcare Informatics curriculum & requirements

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Research Data Management

Information professionals work with researchers in a variety of settings to provide research data management (RDM) expertise. RDM is essential as funding agencies, publishers and industry increasingly require data management plans, data deposition in trusted repositories, and data sharing. This equates to a high demand for RDM skills that may not be covered in other programs focused on domain or information sciences.

The RDM certificate program provide students interested in supplementing their courses with this specialization or to those who already have a graduate degree and want to learn more and update knowledge and skills in RDM to enhance their careers in a variety of settings, including:

Research Data Management curriculum & requirements

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School Library Information Specialist

The School Library Information Specialist certificate is for any new student, or currently or previously enrolled student at the University of Tennessee, who has a master’s in library or information sciences from a program accredited by the American Library Association.

The certificate, in combination with a master’s degree and the successful completion of the School Librarian Praxis exam or an alternative assessment, will allow students to become certified as PreK-12 school librarians in Tennessee.

NOTE: We are unable to accept transfer credits from programs that have not been accredited by the American Library Association. 

For those who hold an ALA-accredited master’s degree, the requirements for this certificate are between 12 and 23 graduate credit hours and include two co-requisite graduate courses from the College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences (six credit hours). These courses are described under Option 1.

The courses required to fulfill this option are determined on an individual basis and upon the evaluation of the student’s transcript by the Director of Graduate Studies.

Students enrolled in the School Library Information Specialist Certificate have the option to pursue licensure through student teaching or as job-embedded practitioners. 

Upon completion of the requirements, students will earn a graduate certificate and a Tennessee State Department of Education license with a 473 Library Information Specialist PreK-12 endorsement.

Please email the program coordinator at [email protected] if you would like an updated advising sheet for this certificate.

Please see the School of Information Sciences website for other ways to earn a school library endorsement.

School Library Information Specialist curriculum & requirements

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