How to Apply
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Transcripts and/or Entrance examinations
- Official BA or Master’s degree transcript. Request that all colleges and universities you have attended send transcripts electronically to: gradadm@umsl.edu.
- International applicants are required to document English proficiency by providing scores from an internationally accepted standardized examination before a decision is made on admission.
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Grade Point Average
Minimum of 2.75 on 4.0 scale in undergraduate categories and 3.00 in graduate work.
Application Fee: $50 for domestic applicants; $40 for international applicants
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New Social Justice Graduate Certificate
An 12-hour, online/campus-based program in which participants learn to turn advocacy into action
The College of Education Certificate in Social Justice is organized to support the understanding, knowledge and skills needed to create a just and equitable society. The curriculum focuses on both institutional and personal processes, values, attitudes and behaviors that sustain injustice while encouraging the development of positive educational, familial, community-centric, and social group advocacy and action. Coursework for the certificate responds to these issues across our college offerings, from educational psychology to educator and counselor preparation to educational leadership. Indeed, this social justice focus can, in many circumstances, become the core of your graduate degree program.
The Graduate Certificate in Social Justice is an 12 credit hour program. To earn a certificate, one must a) take 3 hours in the Foundations course, b) complete 9 hours in the Elective Choice sequence, and as a capstone c) submit during the final semester of the program, for review by a faculty panel, an artifact/assignment from a Certificate course together with a written reflection that articulates in what ways it represents learning to become more culturally competent and socially just.
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UMSL’s Crooked Room Conference provides platform for scholarship, art, activism, healingThe Graduate Certificate in Social Justice is a 12 credit hour program. The following courses are required:
| EDUC 6408 | Graduate Seminar 1 | 3 |
| EDUC 6408 | Graduate Seminar 2 | 3 |
| ED FND 6200 | Demographic Contexts of Education | 3 |
| ED FND 6431 | History of African American Education | 3 |
| Total Hours | 12 | |
| 1 | Topic must be Race, Trauma, and Education |
| 2 | Topic must be Intersectional Justice in Education |
