The Graduate Certificate in Islamic Chaplaincy is designed to provide Muslim religious leaders and chaplains with basic skills in pastoral care, arts of ministry, theology and ethics, dialogue and interfaith relations needed to serve as chaplains in a variety of settings. The areas of knowledge and skill acquisition provided by the 24-credit graduate certificate are:

• the responsibilities of Muslim chaplains/religious leaders surrounding life events such as birth, death, marriage, and loss
• the rituals surroundings these same life events
• examination of Islamic law, which undergirds all Islamic rituals and includes ethics and morality
• the application of Islamic law to daily life
• exposure to and understanding of chaplaincy skills in multi-faith settings
• understanding of faith traditions other than one’s own