Overview
The Graduate Certificate in College Teaching is a 12-credit (4-course) sequence designed to help graduate students in a variety of professional settings and disciplines who seek to enhance their understanding of teaching and learning issues for adult learners, particularly at institutions of higher education. Students who participate in the certificate program will have exposure to theory, research, and practice related to the professoriate and to teaching and learning in higher education. The intent of the Graduate Certificate is to assist professionals in responding to the increasingly complex and diversifying social and cultural contexts for adult learners. Students who complete the Certificate will have it listed on their transcripts.
The Graduate Certificate in College Teaching is designed to help you:
- Clarify your goals related to student learning
- Develop knowledge of and skills for using effective instructional methods
- Improve your capacity for assessing student learning
- Understand the characteristics of the United States professoriate and what it means to be a member of it.
- NOTE: This certificate is not a credential for teacher certification/licensure.
Admission Requirements
- A bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited college or university and 18 graduate semester hours in a teaching discipline or professional field (the latter may be earned concurrently with the Certificate)
- Acceptance to the certificate program by the Graduate School and department faculty
- Minimum Required Hours: 12
Application Process
- Apply to the Graduate School. Select the Graduate Certificate in College Teaching when applying.
- Include your Statement of Purpose focusing on the student’s goals in pursuing a Graduate Certificate in College Teaching.
- Time Limit: 4 Years.
Program Requirements
The Graduate Certificate in College Teaching involves coursework in The United States Professoriate and in College and University Teaching. Moreover, students take an elective related to a specific area of interest. Finally, students participate in a mentored teaching experience. The coursework is as follows:
- AHE 603 College and University Teaching
- AHE 602 Problems in Higher Education: The United States Professoriate
- AHE 688 Mentored Teaching in Higher Education
- Choose one elective from the following:
- AHE 503 Learning w/ Tech in Higher Ed
- AHE 507 Student Development Theory I
- AHE 610 Academic Culture & Learn
- AHE 644 Sem Acad Progrm Dev Eval
- AIL 602 Electrnc Instruct Design
- AIL 604 Distance Technologies
- BEP 672 Teaching Ed Psych Coll
- BSC 695 Spec Topics Biolog Sci
- COM 501 Intro Tchng Public Speaking (may repeat 3 times)
- COM 505 Intro to Teaching Comm Studies (may repeat 3 times)
- COM 524 Forensics Pedagogy
- COM 551 Instructional Communication
- FR 512 Practicum Appl Linguist
- GN 514 Teaching Methodology
- HY 600 Teaching History (1 credit hour)
- JCM 536 Teaching Multimedia News
- MATH 591 Teaching College Math
- NUR 531 Nsg Fac Roles and Resp
- NUR 532 Instructional Media for Nursing Education (prerequisite: NUR 531)
- NUR 620 Curriculum Theory & Practice
- PY 695 Teaching Of Psychology
- SP 502 Pract Appl Linguistics
- WS 503 Teaching Gender & Race
- or another advisor-approved elective