Certificate Overview
According to the Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2023, an estimated 406.6 million people worldwide were in need of humanitarian assistance in 2022, and this need continues to grow. The undergraduate Humanitarian Action Certificate equips students like you to serve the world's most vulnerable people and the global church. HACT offers a multidisciplinary approach aimed to help you engage in humanitarian response, poverty alleviation, anti-trafficking work, refugee care, disaster response, and other related fields.
Through faith integration, research, exploration of best practices, and practical approaches to these topics, you can gain a deeper understanding of humanitarian issues while integrating your faith and fostering humility in your leadership approach.
Who Is It For?
Practitioners in the humanitarian field come from various backgrounds and use their degrees from social sciences, communications, business, health science, international relations, law, and more. This certificate can serve as a pathway to help with vocational discernment. For example, if you are interested in coming alongside refugees, you can focus on your major and study for this certificate as a way to both discern and develop knowledge and skills that would prepare you for this work.
This certificate will prepare you for a wide range of careers in humanitarian and disaster assistance-related work, both domestically and internationally:
- International humanitarian aid
- Anti-human trafficking
- Refugee care
- Poverty interventions
- Justice and advocacy
- Nonprofit leadership
- Missional work
- Emergency management
- Homeland security-related fields
- Future graduate studies
How Will It Prepare You?
This certificate will prepare you for a wide range of careers in humanitarian and disaster assistance-related work, both domestically and internationally:
- International humanitarian aid
- Anti-human trafficking
- Refugee care
- Poverty interventions
- Justice and advocacy
- Nonprofit leadership
- Missional work
- Emergency management
- Homeland security-related fields
- Future graduate studies
What do you need to do to declare HACT?
Complete the certificate declaration form and sign a statement of understanding.
Questions?
Contact us at hdi@wheaton.edu