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2013-2014 Saint Joseph’s College Online [Archived Catalog]

Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study - Interdisciplinary

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The Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study: Interdisciplinary Studies (CAGS-Interdisciplinary) consists of 6 courses (18 credits). The CAGS-Interdisciplinary is a post-master’s degree program. This is truly an interdisciplinary program as courses must come from three or more of the graduate disciplines at Saint Joseph’s College’s Online.

A Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study: Interdisciplinary Studies will enable Saint Joseph’s Online graduate students to continue to take graduate courses after they have completed their master’s degree. This CAGS-Interdisciplinary also welcomes students from outside of the Saint Joseph’s College programs who have completed a master’s degree at another regionally accredited institution and who wish to continue their studies online at Saint Joseph’s College. The CAGS-Interdisciplinary will recognize the completion of a course of study beyond the master’s degree.

The Saint Joseph’s College Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study: Interdisciplinary Studies  will utilize selected courses from the graduate disciplines in Health Care Administration, Nursing, Education, Theology, and Business Administration. The CAGS-Interdisciplinary must combine courses in at least three of the Saint Joseph’s College graduate disciplines.

Admission Requirements

·         Students must hold a master’s degree from a regionally accredited institution.
·         Students must take at least one approved course from three different graduate disciplines offered at the Division of Graduate & Professional Studies of Saint Joseph’s College of Maine.
·         Students must maintain a GPA of 3.0 and earn a “B” or better in every course.
·         No transfer credits can be accepted into this CAGS-Interdisciplinary.
·         All 6 courses must be taken as part of this certificate program – no course previously taken prior to the issuance of a master’s degree can count for this CAGS-Interdisciplinary.

Curriculum

A student in the Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study: Interdisciplinary Studies (CAGS-Interdisciplinary) must take five courses from the list of approved Saint Joseph’s Collegecourses. Those five courses must be spread across at least three of the following graduate disciplines:
·         Education
·         Health Administration
·         Leadership MBA
·         Nursing
·         Pastoral Theology
After the five courses have been successfully completed, the final required course is the capstone:
·         CAG 600 Interdisciplinary Capstone

Approved Courses for CAGS-Interdisciplinary

Tuition

·         Tuition for the courses will be at the rate of the specific discipline, i.e. Nursing courses will be at the tuition level for Nursing, Pastoral Theology courses will be at tuition rate for Pastoral Theology, etc.
·         Tuition for the CAG 600 Interdisciplinary Capstone course will be at the Master of Science in Education rate.

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