University of Maryland - University of Michigan - Westat
This program is designed for professional staff who feel the need to learn current principles and practices of complex surveys but do not have the time to devote to graduate level courses of the certificate program. The program assumes no previous formal training in survey methodology.
Prerequisites of the Citation Program
Students must have completed a minimum of 12 semester hours or 18 quarter hours
at a regionally accredited college or university with a cumulative grade point
average of 3.0 or higher, and have taken a course in statistics and received a
grade of "B" or better. Students must apply and be accepted as either an
"Advanced Special Student" (for those with a bachelor's degree) or as a Transfer
Undergraduate at the University of Maryland.
The Curriculum
The student first completes the semester-length credit-bearing course,
Fundamentals in Survey Methodology/ (SURV 400), and obtain a minimum grade of
"C". Then the student completes eight different one or two-day short courses,
of which four must be from the core courses -- Questionnaire Design,
Introduction to Survey Sampling, Survey Management, and Introduction to Survey
Estimation. The student chooses four other short courses from the 10-12 short
courses that JPSM offers each year. After completing the Fundamentals course and
the four core short courses, the student takes a written examination that covers
the material in the courses.