Regulatory Ethics Certificate

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The Certificate in Regulatory Ethics is open to anyone.

Addressing a need for regulatory expertise in an increasingly complex world of intersecting rules and requirements, this certificate presents an interdisciplinary approach to understanding regulation, an enterprise that cuts across a wide array of domains ranging from health and social services, to education, business, energy, environment, and more. The certificate provides an overview of the sociocultural bases of the need to regulate and the relationship between regulation and ethics, as well as the psychological processes that impact policy-making and drive reactions to regulation. Students will gain a basic understanding of the structure of regulation, where to find relevant information and how to navigate through it, as well as when to call in legal expertise.

Important: This page describes the Regulatory Ethics Certificate. Regulatory Ethics is also available as a Minor, which is open to students in any degree program at USM.

**Students should complete the necessary online application so that the Regulatory Ethics Certificate appears on their MaineStreet academic plan. See Admission Information for Certificate Programs below.**

Program Requirements

The certificate consists of three required courses and one elective.

Required Courses:

SBS 362 - Understanding Regulation: Applying Scissors to Red Tape Credits: 3
SBS 363 - Human Factors in Regulation Credits: 3
SBS 370 - Toward a Global Ethics Credits: 3 (EISRC & INT, WRI3)

In addition, one of the following elective courses must be completed:

* Please note: Courses numbered 600 through 699 are restricted to graduate students or undergraduate students who have been formally accepted into an accelerated graduate pathway OR need permission of instructor.

Permissible Substitutions

Alternative courses may be accepted by individual approval. Any graduate course in a relevant content domain will be accepted with instructor and advisor approval.
Students whose career will focus on educational contexts may substitute EDU 310 - Education, Schooling, and Democracy for SBS 370 - Toward a Global Ethics .

A minimum grade of C- in each SBS course is required to earn the certificate.

Regulatory Ethics Certificate

Program Requirements

Required Courses:

In addition, one of the following elective courses must be completed:

Business, Finances, and Labor

Environment, Energy, and Technology

Food, Drugs, and Devices

Health and Human Services

Policy and planning

Permissible Substitutions