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Graduate Certificate in Arts in Health at University of South Dakota

University of South Dakota, United States

Programme overview

An online graduate certificate exploring the role of the arts in health care settings, covering the history of the field, professional best practices, ethics and creative strategies for developing and facilitating arts programming.

Faculty: College of Fine Arts  |  Duration: 12 credit hours  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Vermillion, SD, United States

What you will study

Includes community service-learning hours and an on-site internship semester at a health care or public health organization; introductory course Arts in Health.

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Application information

Entry requirements

Open to all majors; no prerequisites for the first course.

Tuition is charged per credit, so the total depends on the modules you register for each year. Current fees are listed in the official fee schedule.

Entry terms for international applicants: Spring 2027 classes start January 11, 2027 (new student arrival deadline January 10); Fall 2027 classes start August 23 (new student arrival deadline August 20).

Graduate applications go through the USD Graduate Application or GradCAS; Audiology, Speech Language Pathology, Law, Medical, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Physician Assistant Studies and Social Work use specialty CAS applications. Application deadlines are set per programme in the Graduate Catalog and are due by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. The graduate application fee cannot be waived or deferred and is non-refundable.

Law (JD): applications open September 1 for the next year's admission; applicants apply through LSAC CAS and must submit the LSAT, GRE or JD Next. June LSAT scores are accepted for the same year if the application is submitted by July 1. Out-of-state applicants scoring 150+ on the LSAT receive in-state tuition.

Apply through the official page: https://www.usd.edu/Admissions-and-Aid/Apply

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