Graduate Certificate in College, Career, and Civic Life Teaching and Learning

Who is this program for?

The Graduate Certificate in College, Career, & Civic Life Teaching and Learning is designed for educators, curriculum developers, and education policymakers who want to deepen their ability to teach civic engagement, critical thinking, and career readiness. This program is especially well-suited for individuals passionate about preparing students for active citizenship, workforce success, and lifelong learning through interdisciplinary and experiential education strategies.

Program Overview

The graduate certificate in College, Career, and Civic Life Teaching and Learning provides a coherent, integrated approach to helping graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, current faculty, and others develop and document the skills needed as part of conscientious preparation for the full range of faculty responsibilities at a range of institutions of higher education.

Coursework is designed around content standards, leadership, and innovative technologies. In this way, the focus of the C3 Certificate coursework should allow for tangible demonstrations of knowledge and practice validated through rigorous research methods.

Offered by the College of Education
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Credit Hours
9
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Credential
Graduate Certificate
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Tuition / Credit Hour
Resident $825.50
Non-Resident $2,060.50

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What You'll Learn

Coursework is designed around content standards, leadership, and innovative technologies. In this way, the focus of the C3 Certificate coursework should allow for tangible demonstrations of knowledge and practice validated through rigorous research methods.

Coursework, assignments, and program outcomes will be designed to have real-life implications and should occur in authentic settings (e.g., classroom projects should not be constructed for hypothetical settings but for the schools and districts with which the teachers are associated).


Degree requirements, course descriptions and academic policies for all programs are detailed in the University Catalog.

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Things to do on this form:
Take away "Term" for Transfers - "Unknown Term"? As well as "Not in High School"
And the same for "Online"

Possibly remove the "Readmit" option.
Feel like it would be pretty easy to see if the person already exists in our system and has a program enrollment record associated with them, which would shift them from "Freshman" or "Transfer" to "Readmit"
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