Transition - Online Graduate Certificate
Prepare to meet the needs of exceptional people.
The Online Transition Graduate Certificate prepares educators, independent living professionals, and Transition specialists to work effectively with gifted adolescents and young adults.
The Transition Certificate program is designed to provide professional development and continuing education for persons working in fields related to education, independent living, and employment for adolescents and young adults with disabilities.
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Transition - Online Graduate Certificate
Certificate Overview
This program offers a high quality, practitioner-oriented approach that is committed to developing highly-qualified and effective professionals. Learn more about the fully online Transition Graduate Certificate.
The 15-credit graduate specialist certificate is:
- Designed to prepare professionals with bachelor's degrees in education or related fields to facilitate successful school-to-work transition planning for individuals with disabilities.
- Coursework is completely online.
- All credits in the transition specialist certificate can also count toward the professional development MSE.
- UW-Whitewater's special education program has the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) and the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) Specialty Program approval.
Admission Requirements:
- A bachelor's degree
- Minimum 2.75 undergraduate GPA
Courses for the Transition Certificate may include;
- SPECED 702 Reflective Practice and Action Research
- SPECED 703 Promoting Reform Through Collaborative Leadership
- SPECED 704 Applied Field Action Research in Special Education
- SPECED 706 Vocational Assessment of Students with Special Needs
- SPECED 781 School-to-Work Transitional Programming
Admission Requirements
To ensure a high-quality graduate student group, all graduate students must have an undergraduate degree from a recognized institution and meet the criteria provided below.
To qualify for admission to a degree program in good standing, you must have:
- a bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited institution with an overall undergraduate grade point average of at least 2.75 on a 4.00 scale, or
- at least a 2.90-grade point average in the last half of the undergraduate degree program, or
- at least 12 credits of graduate work completed on a regular grade basis at UW-Whitewater, or
- a master's or higher degree at a regionally accredited institution at the corresponding graduate level
In addition, the Online MSE in Special Education program requires that once admitted, students must apply to professional education in order to take advanced teaching methods courses.
Please fill out the request information form if you have questions prior to applying.
