The Graduate Certificate in Instructional Technology is part of the graduate programs offered by the Natural Sciences department in the College of Arts and Sciences. This 12-credit program will provide opportunity for educators and other professionals (i.e. instructional system designers, multimedia specialists in industry, e-learning designers and other non-educational fields) to improve their knowledge of the technologies and their application in instruction through a practice-oriented program of graduate study that will prepare candidates for careers in leadership and mentoring roles in the field of educational technology or instructional media. There is no teaching endorsement associated with this certificate. If the Michigan Department of Education endorsement (NP) is your goal, then teachers will need to complete 18 required credit hours and they need to have a provisional/professional certificate prior to admission to the program.