Literacy Specialist, Graduate Certificate
View ChecksheetMinimum Total Hours: 18
Program Code: G078
The courses included in the certificate are all required courses in the master's degree that leads to a recommendation for state certification as a Reading Specialist and have assignments that are used to assess mastery of the standards.
Certificate Requirements
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| EDRG 5573 | Culture, Language and Literacy | 3 |
| EDRG 5723 | Emergent and Beginning Literacy | 3 |
| EDRG 5814 | Applications of Literacy Assessment and Evaluation | 4 |
| EDRG 5903 | Literacy Leadership | 3 |
| EDRG 5934 | Applications of Literacy Instructional Strategies | 4 |
| EDRG 5641 | Topics in Literacy | 1 |
| Total Credit Hours | 18 | |
A graduate certificate is not a graduate degree. A graduate degree represents a program of independent inquiry beyond the depth of coursework alone, while a graduate certificate represents a set of courses only.
- All courses must be taken at OU. No transfer credit will apply.
- No course substitutions are permitted for graduate certificates.
- Coursework applied to a graduate certificate cannot be more than five years old as of the semester the graduate certificate is awarded.
- Students must earn a grade point average of 3.00 or higher on all coursework applied to the graduate certificate.