Admission Requirements

• Students must hold a master’s degree from a regionally accredited institution.
• 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 College courses. Those five courses will be selected from the graduate disciplines within or across these disciplines:

• Education
• Health Administration
• Business Administration
• Nursing
• Pastoral Theology

Students will work with a Program Director to select relevant coursework or independent study options.  The Saint Joseph’s College of Maine Certificate of Advanced Graduate Independent Study will utilize selected courses from the graduate disciplines within or across Healthcare Administration, Nursing, Education, Theology, and Business Administration.

After the five courses have been successfully completed, the final required course is the capstone:

• CAG 600 - Interdisciplinary Capstone Credits: 3

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.