Urban Education, Graduate Certificate

About the Certificate

The concept of urban education is critical to our understanding of teaching and learning in the United States. Urban schooling has historically played a primary role in transforming education. The Arcadia University School of Education offers a 12-credit, 48-week post-baccalaureate Urban Education Certificate designed to help teachers better understand and be prepared to handle the complexity of teaching in urban K-12 settings, and to bolster students’ marketability in a competitive education market.

The certificate features a culminating action research project to prepare students who are ready to begin their K-12 teaching career and others interested in research and scholarshipin Urban Education at the master’s or doctoral level.

Requirements (12 credits)

Transfer Credit: Transfer credit is not permitted in this program.

Note: All students completing a graduate Education certificate or other non-degree program are required to submit an AU Graduate Program (non-degree) Completion form to the Office of Graduate Studies.

• ED 501 Theory and Practice in Urban Education (3 credits)
• ED 504B Grassroots Stakeholders and Urban Education Policy: Human Relations
• ED 505 Cultural Foundations of Education (3 credits)
• ED 547 Social Justice and Curriculum Development PreK-12 (3 credits)