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Edgewood College offers a number of degrees for undergraduate and graduate students.
Bachelor’s Degree Programs
Edgewood College’s undergraduate degree programs are taught by high-quality faculty with a commitment to the College’s mission, identity and Liberal Arts foundation. Courses build disciplinary knowledge, skills, and habits of mind rooted in the Dominican tradition. The College offers degrees in the liberal arts disciplines, Ethnic Studies, Education, Business, and Nursing. There are opportunities for students to create an Individualized Major or Minor plan as well. The undergraduate curriculum focuses on deep learning in both methods and content of disciplines, integration of knowledge and personal and professional development.
Accelerated Bachelor’s Degree Completion Programs
Edgewood College offers degree programs designed to meet the needs of today’s adult student. These programs have been expressly designed for those individuals whose responsibilities make attendance at traditional weekday classes difficult. Our faculty and staff understand that school needs to be balanced with family, career, and community priorities. Taking this into consideration, the primary aim of our adult programs is to capitalize on the motivation, professional experience, life experience, and capacities that adult learners bring to the classroom. Our courses are taught by the same high caliber full- and part-time faculty who teach in our traditional undergraduate programs.
Graduate Degree Programs
Philosophy Supporting Edgewood College Graduate Programs
Inspired by the Sinsinawa Dominican Catholic values of truth, justices, community, partnership, and compassion and guided by a commitment to intellectual excellence and reflective judgment, graduate education at Edgewood College recognizes that:
- Professional development requires intellectual excellence through mastery of theory and practice.
- Personal development of ethically responsible individuals is facilitated by opportunities for advanced reflective study, dialogue, and mentoring in a collaborative education context.
- The vitality of just and peace-loving communities requires the contributions of a diversity of well-educated professionals.
Vision of the Edgewood College Graduate Programs
To be recognized regionally as graduate programs that anticipate and serve the professional development needs of the community, providing individuals with opportunities to develop the knowledge and skills necessary for successful leadership in a rapidly changing, multicultural world.
Graduates of Edgewood College’s graduate programs will be known by their peers, colleagues, employers and employees as:
- Leaders who promote ethical and humane work relationships.
- Persons whose actions and decisions integrate theoretical knowledge and best practices.
- Innovators who command global perspectives and an appreciation for cultural diversity.
- Decision makers who critically integrate multiple perspectives in their work activities.
Institutional Certificates
Edgewood College offers a variety of Institutional Certificates (Certificates). A Certificate is similar to a degree granted by an institution, but is not as comprehensive as a degree. Courses leading to a Certificate are of the same academic quality and integrity as courses leading to a degree. The only difference is the number of areas covered by a Certificate is fewer and the focus is much more limited than a degree.
Graduate Certificates
Graduate Certificates follow institutional policy pertaining to graduate programs unless indicated otherwise (including, but not limited to: seven-year rule, academic standing, academic honesty, student conduct, credit load, repeating a course, withdrawal, grading system, incompletes, pass/fail, appeals).
Students who are currently enrolled in a graduate program and who wish to also pursue approved graduate Certificate programs must apply for admission to such Certificate programs before one-half the required credits for their Certificate program are completed. Certificate programs do not qualify for Federal Financial Aid.
Students applying to a graduate Certificate program use the non-degree admit criteria, which requires a transcript showing a baccalaureate or more advanced degree in addition to the graduation application and feel. Substitutions and waivers are determined by the dean of the appropriate school or their designee.
Students must earn a cumulative 3.00 GPA in the Certificate courses to receive the Certificate. Graduate certificate students will not participate in the Edgewood College commencement ceremony.
Undergraduate or Post-baccalaureate students cannot earn a graduate Certificate, regardless of whether the requisite coursework has been completed. Only students in the graduate student classification are eligible to be granted a graduate Certificate.
Students applying to a graduate Certificate program use the non-degree admit criteria, which requires a transcript showing a baccalaureate or more advanced degree in addition to the graduation application and fee. Substitutions and waivers are determined by the Dean of the appropriate School or their designee. Students who take graduate-level courses as an undergraduate cannot later use those courses to receive a graduate Certificate. Students cannot receive more than one C in the program or they will be placed on probation. A student will be dismissed if he/she does not achieve a 3.0 in the next term following probation status.
Students must earn a cumulative 3.00 GPA in the Certificate courses to receive the Certificate. Graduate certificate students will not participate in the Edgewood College commencement ceremony.
Professional Development
The ongoing professional development needs of educators, business persons and other professionals are long recognized by Edgewood College. We are devoted to supporting collaborative efforts that aim to meet lifelong learning requirements and personal goals.
Over the years, local school districts and other educational entities, organizations and community associations have established partnerships with Edgewood College to provide graduate-level credit opportunities for professional development courses. The College’s professional development specialists work in coordination with educators to develop quality PD courses that are offered for Edgewood College graduate-level credits.
Contact Jennie Allen, Coordinator of Professional Development, at 608.663.4253 for additional information about this unique opportunity.
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