Certificates
You have the option to advance your specific career goals by focusing your elective courses towards a certificate.
The Arts Management and Entrepreneurship certificate is offered in collaboration with the Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts, providing a comprehensive, flexible structure of courses designed to develop the skills needed for careers in leadership positions at large and small arts organizations and multidisciplinary entrepreneurial startups. The practicum courses provide deeply immersive, hands-on experience in a variety of distinguished internships (regional and international) and an Arts Incubation Lab (a boot camp-style lab providing skills in consulting in a fast-paced program bringing creative concepts to market).
Well-designed digital technology can add tremendous value and boost performance, especially when aligned with business strategies and organizational needs. By pursuing a certificate in Digital Technologies, which is offered through our division of MIS, you position yourself as the expert who can bridge the two disciplines, information technologies and business management.
New ventures require a scaffold of talent and expertise on which to grow, whether they begin within an existing organization or independently. Learn to assess the feasibility of a new venture, chart a commercialization path for an innovation, analyze other people’s plans, and plan for successful capitalization and launch. Take this specialization into your own venture or put it into practice with a service or capital provider.
Rigorous analysis, hands-on practice, and intense discussions in this certificate give you the understanding and experience to manage portfolios, advise clients, analyze investments, or contribute to a corporate finance practice in industry or banking. Learn how to value financial securities, price and manage assets, manage risk, model finances, and present analysis.
The new MBA Healthcare Administration certificate is a collaboration between the Price College of Business and OU’s College of Public Health. Courses will be taught by Masters of Healthcare (MHA) faculty and include topics like theories and principles of healthcare administration, present and historical practices, healthcare operations, financing and governance of healthcare, effects of technology on healthcare, healthcare legislation, and challenges facing healthcare today.
The Media Management certificate is offered in collaboration with the Gaylord College Journalism & Mass Communication and is designed to equip you with industry specific insight into media entrepreneurship and management of media-focused organizations. The curriculum will give you the basics of media management and challenge you to find new ventures, outlets, communication strategies, and more to be at the forefront of the digital age of media.