Graduate Certificate Programs

Designed for licensed teachers who want to move into an elementary classroom. This flexible program ensures you have the skills necessary to design, plan, and implement effective, engaging, culturally sustaining instruction. Learn how to support each student’s progress and growth in an equitable setting.

Learn how to support all of your students by adding an endorsement in special education to your teaching license. Whether you stay in a general education classroom or move into a special education role, you will be prepared to meet the needs of your students by blending evidence-based research with creative classroom practices.

This fully online program provides a concentration of coursework in behavior analysis for those interested in careers as behavior specialists in schools or day-treatment centers, or in applied behavior analysis provider agencies, community-based organizations, in homes and in communities.

Learn how to best serve students with visual impairments. We prepare you to work with ​​students from birth to age 21 to fully access the general education curriculum and gain practical experience through field placements in local educational agencies or at residential schools for the blind.

This program is for licensed teachers who want to add an endorsement. Learn to provide crucial support to children with developmental delays and disabilities from birth to starting school. Gain the skills to create and implement skill-building strategies, help children develop relationships with family, and support their transitions

PSU’s fully online, interdisciplinary program will prepare you to hone skills in addressing the strengths and risk factors of children 0-3 and their families. We will help you understand the dynamics of infant and toddler development, protective factors in family environments, home and community-based intervention, and more.

PSU’s innovative program will prepare you to exceptionally serve students with visual impairments, including those with deafblindness. Through this program you will gain the knowledge and skills to support student goals in a diverse range of schools, universities, rehabilitation settings, and community organizations.

If you already hold a clinical master’s degree, complete this streamlined program to move into the school system. This program prepares post-master’s students with their preliminary school counseling license and is designed to meet the requirements for the preliminary school counselor license.

Develop your skills in service learning through the power of community engagement and equity-centered practice. We focus on high-impact and equity-centered strategies for how to teach, coordinate, lead, research, and assess service-learning for leveraging educational, economic, environmental, and social justice.

PSU’s Student Affairs in Higher Education Graduate Certificate is designed for professionals from any work background. If you want to advocate for students and support them through personal, academic, and professional growth, this certificate program will provide you with the knowledge, skills, and experiences for career success.

Our interdisciplinary program prepares you to understand the complex issues and relationships between food, people, and society. We focus on the social, environmental, and economic impacts of the food sector. Graduates work in farm-to-school programs, urban agriculture nonprofits, development and advocacy, state agencies, and more.

Learn how to create vibrant learning opportunities in your workplace or educational setting. Our focus on educational theory prepares you to meet the needs of your organization. Learn to understand how motivation, learning, and prior lived experience impact adults. Lead the way to an equitable and learner-centered environment.

Learn how to teach, train, manage, and/or consult in the area of workforce development. We align with the American Talent Development Competency Model preparing you to design, monitor, and assess effective training programs in your workplace. Our students are trainers, managers, workplace learning professionals, and HR managers.