Are you currently or do you aspire to be a family counselor, teacher, or human relations professional who specializes in parenting education? With Plymouth State’s graduate certificate in Parenting Education you’ll gain the knowledge you need to enhance your understanding of parenting education, develop the skills necessary to work with parents, and learn how to plan or refine parent education programs.
Did you know that you can combine your Parenting Education certificate with additional graduate courses to earn your Master of Education degree from Plymouth State? Learn more. Already have your master’s degree? Incorporate this certificate into a Certificate of Advance Graduate Studies.
- Required Courses – 15 credits
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3Focuses on developing competency in a variety of areas surrounding parenting education, including the following: understanding of parental issues and concerns within diverse family systems; understanding the dimensions of parenting children from birth to adolescence; and knowledge of multicultural perspectives in parenting.
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3This course involves the planning of a parenting education program. Students will develop a parenting education proposal that will include the curriculum, delivery approaches, site, population and outcomes assessment. The curriculum will be based on research on a variety of parenting education models, incorporating features of these models into their own particular situations (e.g., schools, agencies or hospitals) and their respective populations (e.g., expectant parents or parents of preschoolers, school age children, adolescents or children with learning challenges). This course will be taught as an individual enrollment except when there is sufficient enrollment to offer it as a regular course.
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3ED 5210 Graduate Practicum*A supervised practicum experience in one of several cooperating institutions or agencies in New Hampshire. The purpose is to gain meaningful work experience through applying knowledge learned in previous course work to the on-the-job situation. Commitment includes a negotiated number of hours per week and participation in seminars. Supervision is by the institution or agency concerned, and by Plymouth faculty. Students anticipating more than three hours of credit should confer early in their program with the department chair to free up sufficient blocks of time. Permission of advisor, department chair and Associate Vice President is required.
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6Human Development or Special Education Courses
- Total for Parenting Education Certificate – 15 credits
*Replaces CO 5800 for students in the self-designed concentration with the Parenting Certificate.
Getting started is easy!
Apply today or request more info.To begin planning your program, contact:
- Leo Sandy, (603) 535-3119 or e-mail: lsandy@plymouth.edu
