Community College Teaching (Certificate)

Dr. Pooneh Lari
Assistant Professor
Department of Adult and Higher Education
Email:  pooneh_lari@ncsu.edu
Phone:  919.515.6290

The department of Adult and Higher Education (AHE) within the College of Education at North Carolina State University offers a graduate certificate program in Community College Teaching.

The program focuses on developing the knowledge and skills necessary to design and deliver course-related content through technology-enhanced learning environments for faculty who teach in community colleges and other post secondary settings or plan on teaching in the near future. The courses developed for the graduate certificate will enhance faculty abilities in both online and classroom environments. The key goal for the online Graduate Certificate Program in Community College Teaching is to provide high quality content and instruction for the systematic development of instructional expertise for community college and other post-secondary faculty.

Curriculum.  The Graduate Certificate Program in Community College Teaching consists of 15 credit hours of coursework (five courses, three credits each). The sequence of the program is displayed at http://ced.ncsu.edu/ccteachonline/curriculum.htm. The courses are listed below.

Required:
EAC 559 The Adult Learner
EAC 538 Instructional Strategies in Adult and Community College Education
EAC 580 Designing Instructional Systems in Training and Development
EAC 560 Assessment and Evaluation in Adult and Higher Education
EAC 539 Teaching in an Online Environment

Elective:
EAC 700 Community College and Two-year Postsecondary Education

For more information about the program and for application procedures, please see the CCTeach Online website.