There is a persistent and growing demand among employers for workplace professionals who possess strong communication, research, and critical thinking skills beyond those attained as undergraduates. These skills can be difficult for people to continue developing after completion of the initial Bachelor’s degree.
Drawing on the Liberal Arts disciplines, the Online Graduate Certificate in Liberal Studies offers students the possibility to develop proficiencies from among a cluster of significant employmentrelated skills, such as critical and complex thinking, clear writing and communication, effective collaboration, research, cultural literacy, and awareness and sensitivity to the context and historical attributes of key issues in today’s society.
The certificate’s flexible curriculum allows students to easily tailor highly individualized programs of study to their own pace. The certificate will augment students’ career and professional opportunities by helping them to become better decision makers; more effective strategists and thinkers; better leaders and team members; more socially and historically aware citizens; and more adept writers and communicators.
The Graduate Certificate requires 12 credit hours of coursework including one core course (PHI 522 Advanced Critical Thinking) and three additional courses from the list of approved courses (students must take courses from at least two of the five fields of inquiry).
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