这项15学分的课程结合了研究生水平的培训和校外实习，为您提供扎实的基础和技能，以获取复杂的科学成果并将其传达给专业和非科学的受众。潜在的雇主寻求这种知识能力，以各种书面形式向包括非科学家在内的受众传达科学知识。该证书将使您有资格担任以下职务，例如环境非营利组织的科学作家，生物技术公司的通信协调员，卫生机构的通信专家，地理空间分析研究所的科学通信员，联邦资源机构的公共信息官员。 ，大学或州海洋补助金计划的推广专家，或者仅仅是具有很高的交流技巧的科学家。
This 15-credit program combines graduate-level training and an off-campus internship to give you a solid foundation and skills for taking complex scientific results and communicating them to both specialist and non-scientific audiences. Potential employers look for this knowledge ability to convey science in a range of written forms to an array of audiences, including non-scientists. The certificate will qualify you for positions such as science writer for an environmental non-profit organization, communications coordinator for a biotechnology company, communications specialist for a health agency, science communicator at an institute for geospatial analytics, public information officer for a federal resources agency, extension specialist for a university or a state Sea Grant program, or simply as a scientist with highly sought after communication skills.