The Certificate in Health Systems and Design is housed in the Center for Health Systems and Design in the Department of Architecture. The mission of the Center is to improve design by promoting teaching, research, and outreach in an interdisciplinary program that focuses on the impact of design on health. The center’s goal is to support an aggressive and comprehensive multi-disciplinary research and teaching initiative in the design for health specialty. Through this certificate, graduate students are given the opportunity to increase their depth of knowledge in the design and operation of health-related facilities, as well as facilitates that protect and develop health, in preparation for a career characterized by specialized knowledge of the ways design impacts health.

The Certificate in Health Systems and Design provides students in any graduate degree program at Texas A&M University with an opportunity to develop a body of knowledge in health design that will further their career goals.  The Certificate emphasizes a cross-disciplinary perspective, yet also ensures that students develop an in-depth understanding and ability within a specific body of knowledge.

Course List

Code	Title	Semester Credit Hours
Required Courses
ARCH 675	Health Design and Research	3
ARCH 681	Seminar 1	1
Select from the following:		6
ARCH 605	Architectural Design I 2
ARCH 606	Architectural Design II 2
ARCH 607	Architectural Design III 2
ARCH 608	Architectural Design IV 2
ARCH 660	Design Programming 2
ARCH 693	Professional Study
COSC 670	Facilities Asset Management 2
COSC 693	Professional Study
LAND 693	Professional Study
LDEV 687 & LDEV 688	Development Feasibility and Design and Development Feasibility and Design II 2
LDEV 693	Professional Study
PLAN 631	Health Systems Planning and Policy 2
PLAN 693	Professional Study
Elective Courses 3,4
Select two of the following:		6
ARCH 624	Theory of Placemaking
ARCH 674	Typologies of Contemporary Hospital Design
ARCH 676	Survey of Human Behavior and Design
ARCH 678	Foundations of Healthcare Design
ARCH 689	Special Topics in... (Facilitation for Planners and Designers)
CARC 601	Foundations of Research in Planning and Design
CARC 602	Research Methods in Planning and Design
EPSY 647	Lifespan Development
HLTH 334	Women's Health
HLTH 353	Drugs and Society
HLTH 631	Community and Public Health
HLTH 660	Health Issues in Aging, Dying and Death
LAND 640	Research Methods in Landscape Architecture
LDEV 661	Development and the Environment
LDEV 671	Sustainable Development
PBSI 607	Experimental Psychology
PBSI 610	Organizational Psychology
PBSI 615/NRSC 615	Perceptual Processes
PBSI 639	Pediatric Psychology
PHPM 601	Foundations of Population and Public Health
PHPM 605	Introduction to Health Policy and Management
PLAN 633	Planning for Healthy Communities
PLAN 634	Environmental Health Policy and Planning
Total Semester Credit Hours		16

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Course must include health focus.

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Depending on health emphasis any CAPSTONE Project from any discipline, as long as it is related to health and approved by the Center's Executive Council.

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Other electives may be counted towards the certificate if approved by the Director of the Center for Health Systems & Design.

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One course must be taken within the student's department and one outside of the student's department. The course within the student's department must be taken with a faculty member who is a faculty fellow in the Center for Health Systems & Design. A list of current faculty fellows is available on the center website.