Graduate Certificate in Religious Education
A graduate certificate program is a focused group of courses with a coherent knowledge base in one field of specialization. Courses in the program are regular graduate courses that are fully transferable into Religious Education graduate degree programs and other graduate programs where these courses are applicable to the curriculum.
Religious Education currently offers one 12-credit graduate certificate program: Campus Spiritual Leadership. The successful completion of a graduate certificate program is noted on the student’s transcript.
Admission and Time Limit
The same admission processes and standards are used in graduate certificate programs as are used for master’s degree programs, except that the Graduate Record Exam (GRE) and the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire are not required. The time for completion of a certificate program should not exceed five years from first enrollment.
Delivery System
Courses in the graduate certificate programs are offered during the academic year and as summer intensives on a two- to threeyear rotation. Intensives require post-campus work.
The courses are normally offered back-to-back in the summers, allowing a student to complete the sequence over two to three summers.
