Introduction
To help meet the need for faculty at two-year and community colleges to become “qualified” in mathematics, Western New Mexico University (WNMU) offers a Graduate Certificate in Mathematics (GCM) program. The GCM program was developed in collaboration with colleagues at Central New Mexico College and the Taos branch of the University of New Mexico.
The Graduate Certificate
The GCM program is designed to:
- Offer courses that give a fresh exposure to mathematics content that would be engaging to participants;
- Offer courses that illustrate pedagogical approaches that, if enacted in the classroom, would increase student engagement and would help students learn more effectively;
- Offer courses in a format that is attractive and accessible to faculty and that allows faculty to make connections between the mathematics taught in their courses with mathematics taught at an advanced level; and
- Offer sufficient graduate-level credit in mathematics for faculty needing to meet the criteria for being “qualified” by the Higher Learning Commission.
The program includes a sequence of six graduate level mathematics courses (one course offered each semester and one course offered during the summer session) totaling 18 credit hours.
Each course is delivered via WNMU’s Canvas Learning Management System and each course includes discussions of pedagogical aspects of teaching mathematics.
Program Summary
Dr. Nancy Livingston
Chair, Department of Mathematics & Computer Science
Professor of Mathematics
Phone: (575) 538 6788
Email: Dr. Nancy Livingston
Office: Global Resource Center Rm. 217