{"id":6815,"date":"2010-08-04T15:38:18","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T19:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/?page_id=6815"},"modified":"2024-04-30T15:32:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T19:32:05","slug":"declaring-or-changing-a-major-certificate","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/sph\/policies\/declaring-or-changing-a-major-certificate\/","title":{"rendered":"Declaring or Changing a Major\/Certificate"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"\/academics\/policies\/declaring-or-changing-major\/\">University Policy<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2>School of Public Health Policy<\/h2>\n<p>MPH students may update their functional or context certificate choice by completing a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/forms\">Certificate Change Request Form<\/a>. Best practices for students contemplating a change include using the \u201cwhat-if\u201d function on Degree Progress Report to ascertain if the change will result in additional coursework beyond the 48-unit minimum required for the MPH degree and meeting with Career Services regarding the impact on their career aspirations. The Program Manager in the certificate program, a faculty mentor, and the staff in the SPH Registrar&#8217;s office are also excellent sources of information and guidance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University Policy School of Public Health Policy MPH students may update their functional or context certificate choice by completing a Certificate Change Request Form. Best practices for students contemplating a change include using the \u201cwhat-if\u201d function on Degree Progress Report to ascertain if the change will result in additional coursework beyond the 48-unit minimum required [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2129,"featured_media":0,"parent":272,"menu_order":12,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6815"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95677,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6815\/revisions\/95677"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}