Professional Ethics

CERT Professional Ethics

The graduate certificate in professional ethics will help you engage more fully with ethical issues in your professional life.
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Program Overview

This certificate program will enhance your abilities to analyze arguments, your capacities to reason and express yourself clearly, your leadership skills, and your awareness of the ethical dimensions of work and public life. The certificate is available online or face-to-face and is open to all interested persons who hold a bachelor’s degree with a 3.0 minimum GPA.

This certificate program requires 12 hours to complete.

Course Work

The graduate certificate in professional ethics requires 12 semester credit hours: six hours of required course work (two courses), three hours of a directed PHIL elective, and three hours of elective course work.

Required courses:

  • PHIL 5301 Applied Philosophy
  • PHIL 5322 Professional Ethics

The directed elective must be chosen from:

  • PHIL 5303 Philosophy of Technology
  • PHIL 5320 History of Ethics
  • PHIL 5323 Environmental Ethics
  • PHIL 5327 Medical Ethics and Bioethics
  • PHIL 5329 Food Ethics
  • PHIL 5360A Ethics and Dementia
  • PHIL 5360B Moral Psychology
  • PHIL 5360C Philosophy, Nonviolence, Sustainability, and Social Change
  • PHIL 5395 Internship in Applied Philosophy

Online Availability

The majority of this program may be offered online. If you are not a Texas resident and will not relocate, please visit the Office of Distance and Extended Learning. International students, please visit the International Student and Scholar Services (ISSS) regarding additional considerations in taking online courses.

Program Details

Contact us for general questions about your application, funding opportunities, and more. If you have specific questions after reviewing the program details, contact the program's graduate advisor.

Graduate Advisor
Dr. Anthony Cross
anthony.cross@txstate.edu
512.245.1532
Nueces (NUEC), Room 208

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Application Process

Application Deadlines

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Fall
U.S. Citizen
June 15 (*Flexible)
International
June 1
Deadlines
Spring
U.S. Citizen
October 15 (*Flexible)
International
October 1
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Summer I
U.S. Citizen
April 15 (*Flexible)
International
March 15
Deadlines
Summer II
U.S. Citizen
June 1 (*Flexible)
International
No Admission

*This program’s deadline is flexible for those not requiring an F/J visa. A flexible deadline means applications received after the standard deadline may be reviewed on a first-come, first-served basis with no guarantees for admission consideration.

 Decision Timeline
This program reviews applications on a rolling basis.

Admission Requirements

The items required for admission consideration are listed below. Additional information for applicants with international credentials can be found on our international web pages.

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  • Review important information about the online application.

    • $20 nonrefundable application fee
      OR
    • $60 nonrefundable application fee for applications with international credentials

    Review important information about application fees.

    • baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited university (Non-U.S. degrees must be equivalent to a four-year U.S. Bachelor’s degree. In most cases, three-year degrees are not considered. Visit our International FAQs for more information.)
    • a copy of an official transcript from each institution where course credit was granted
    • a 2.5 overall GPA or a 2.5 GPA in your last 60 hours of undergraduate course work
    • minimum 3.0 GPA in all completed graduate course work (if applicable)

    Review important information about transcripts. Official transcripts, sent directly from your institution, will be required if admission is granted.

  • GRE

    • GRE not required

    Approved English Proficiency Exam Scores

    Applicants are required to submit an approved English proficiency exam score that meets the minimum program requirements below unless they have earned a bachelor’s degree or higher from a regionally accredited U.S. institution or the equivalent from a country on our exempt countries list.

    • official TOEFL iBT scores required with a 78 overall
    • official PTE scores required with a 52 overall
    • official IELTS (academic) scores required with a 6.5 overall and
      • minimum individual module scores of 6.0
    • official Duolingo Scores required with a 110 overall
    • official TOEFL Essentials scores required with an 8.5 overall

    Review important information about official test scores.

    • additional documents not required

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