Complete either five semester hours or six quarter hours of academic courses in your certification specialty. If you double this category, then submit 10 semester hours or 12 quarter hours subject to the conditions below:
- Course content must be applicable to your area of certification.Courses taken toward degree completion and advanced degrees may be used if they are applicable to your area of certification.
- However, academic hours awarded for the dissertation or thesis that are used in Category 2 may not be used for Category 4.
- Academic Independent study courses are acceptable.
- Audited courses may not be used.
- Degree "core" courses or general education credits such as English, literature, math,music,and physical education may not be used.
- You may convert academic credit to category 1--see equivalencies below.
You can convert academic hours to contact hours by using this formula:
- 1 academic semester hour = 15 contact hours
- 1 academic quarter hour = 12.5 contact hours