Advanced Certificate
Admission Information
Displaying requirements for the Spring 2025, Summer 2025, and Fall 2025 terms.
Advanced Certificate
- Points/Credits: 15
- Entry Terms: Spring, Summer, Fall
- Enrollment Formats: Full-Time Campus-Based, Part-Time Campus-Based
Application Deadlines
| Entry Term Available | Priority Deadlines | Final Deadlines | Extended Deadlines |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spring | November 15, 2024 | November 15, 2024 | N/A |
| Summer | June 1, 2025 | June 1, 2025 | N/A |
| Fall | July 1, 2025 | July 1, 2025 | N/A |
Select programs remain open beyond our standard application deadlines, such as those with an extended deadline or those that are rolling (open until June or July). If your program is rolling or has an extended deadline indicated above, applications are reviewed as they are received and on a space-available basis. We recommend you complete your application as soon as possible as these programs can close earlier if full capacity has been met.
Application Requirements
| Requirement | |
|---|---|
| Online Degree Application, including Statement of Purpose and Resume | |
| Transcripts and/or Course-by-Course Evaluations for all Undergraduate/Graduate Coursework Completed | |
| Results from an accepted English Proficiency Exam (if applicable) | |
| $75 Application Fee | |
| Two (2) Letters of Recommendation |
For admission-related inquiries, please contact AHadmission@tc.columbia.edu.
Requirements from the TC Catalog (AY 2024-2025)
Displaying catalog information for the Fall 2024, Spring 2025 and Summer 2025 terms.
This Program has shaped the historical course of philosophy of education in America. From the groundbreaking work of John Dewey and William Heard Kilpatrick to the achievements of their most recent successors, Jonas Soltis and Maxine Greene, the program’s philosopher-scholars have been leaders in the field. The Philosophy and Education Program offers students a unique opportunity to develop their humanistic and critical thinking about education.
Faculty and students in the program devote this thinking to a wide variety of questions, including:
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What visions of the human being animate contemporary schooling?
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How can education be a force for social reform?
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What is the role of aesthetic experience and the imagination in education?
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What type of education befits a diverse society?
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What is the nature of the teacher-student relationship?
Other areas of interest include:
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The education of democratic citizens
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Moral education
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Critical thinking
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Education and technology
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The ethics of teaching
The Philosophy and Education Program provides an opportunity for educators to broaden and deepen their understanding of the processes and aims of education through inquiry into the fields of aesthetics, ethics and moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, and epistemology and the philosophy of science. Study of a variety of historical and conceptual frameworks enables students to develop theoretical perspectives on education and to effectively analyze and critique arguments in contemporary educational debates.
Advances Certificate in Philosophy and Education (15 credits. This advanced certificate does not lead to teacher certification)
Required courses include:
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A&HF 4090 Philosophies of Education (3)
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A&HF 5600 Colloquium in Philosophy and Education (3)
Program electives provide students the opportunity to explore particular philosophical interests as they design their own programs in consultation with an academic faculty advisor. Students can select three courses from the following:
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A&HF 4092 Education and the Aesthetic Experience (3)
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A&HF 4192 Ethics and Education (2-3)A&HF4094: School and Society (3)
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A&HF 4190: Philosophies of Education: North America (3)
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A&HF 4193: African Philosophies of Education (3)
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A&HF 4198: Philosophies of Education in the Americas: Latin America