Health and Well-being for Designed Environments, CERT
for the Graduate Certificate in Health and Well-being for Designed Environments (online)
The Health and Well-being for Designed Environments Graduate Certificate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is designed to provide environmental design professionals with an in-depth understanding of the relationship between conditions in the built environment and individual performance and population health, well-being, and quality of life. This Graduate Certificate not only provides strong foundational knowledge of built environment and health and new tools for design in this area, but also offers students multiple opportunities to apply this knowledge and skill in on-going projects.
Graduate Certificate coursework enables students to develop expertise in research and strategies for environmental design to improve human health and wellbeing outcomes through design solutions and interventions in diverse environment types and contexts, at a range of scales. Responding to an unmet need in the profession, students completing the certificate will be prepared to work on interdisciplinary teams addressing complex societal problems involving the built environment’s critical role in human health and wellbeing in the US and internationally.
for the Graduate Certificate in Health and Well-being for Designed Environments (online)
The Health and Well-being for Designed Environments Certificate requires 12 credit hours (three courses) to complete upon admission. Students should follow the program of study below to meet the certificate coursework requirement. Students should complete ARCH 521 and ARCH 563, offered in fall semester, before enrolling in ARCH 525, offered in spring semester.
Graduation Requirements
Minimum Cumulative GPA: 2.75
Minimum hours required for certificate completion: 12 hours
Students who have successfully completed this certificate may use the certificate courses to satisfy the following degree requirements, provided they apply and are admitted to the degree program:
-12 hours of Health and Well-being Concentration Courses in the MARCH degree in the School of Architecture.
-12 hours of elective coursework in the MS in Architectural Studies degree in the School of Architecture.
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Certificate Requirements | ||
| ARCH 521 | Applications in the Built Environment, Architecture and Global Health and Well-Being | 4 |
| ARCH 563 | Human-centric Research for Designed Environments | 4 |
| ARCH 525 | Project-scale Health Impact Assessment | 4 |
| Total Hours | 12 | |
for the Graduate Certificate in Health and Well-being for Designed Environments (online)
At the completion of the Health and Well-being for Designed Environments Certificate Program, you should demonstrate the following at a level useful and applicable in professional environmental design practice:
- Knowledge – awareness of foundational theories and studies linking built environment qualities and characteristics to the mental and physical health of occupants and members of surrounding communities.
- Organization – ability to identify appropriate target projects, plan and implement a design and health focused strategy throughout the arc of these environmental design projects, organize resources, and effectively manage an interdisciplinary project team.
- Research – ability to locate, select, and apply appropriate research literature; identify suitable sources of health data or devise methods to collect relevant data; analyze data to understand the relationship between a design project and occupant and community health; develop strategies for post-occupancy collection of applicable human-centric data.
- Application – demonstrate skill in applying findings of environment-and-health-related analysis to a variety of architectural project types through the pre-, schematic-, design-development, construction, and post-occupancy phases of a project with the aim of improving occupant and public health outcomes.
- Communication– ability to use various and appropriate forms of communication during and on completion of the design process, to elicit information, explain, dialogue and persuade, adapting to multiple professional, client, and community audiences and situations.
for the Graduate Certificate in Health and Well-being for Designed Environments (online)
School of Architecture
Director of the School: Francisco Javier Rodríguez-Suárez
Associate Director of Curricular and Academic Programs: Emelie Mies
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