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Advanced Certificate in Educational Facility Planning

By preparing school leaders and educational facility professionals, we improve teaching and learning and promote safe and healthy educational environments. This high quality program positively impacts students, teachers, and communities worldwide as educators and educational facilities professionals prepare themselves to design and construct school facilities that are learner-centered, healthy, sustainable, and high-performing. Course content is based on the most widely referenced industry resource, Creating Connections: The CEFPI Guide for Educational Facility Planning (2004), and supplemented with relevant resources and real-life experiences.

Instructors are internationally recognized experts from across the spectrum of disciplines that comprise the entire educational facility planning process. This 12-unit certificate program is comprised of six two-unit courses that earn graduate credit that can be applied to a Master’s degree.

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has approved the program for recertification credit, and all participants who require continuing education credit may request 30 hours of credit per course. The courses also fulfill the CEFPI mark of distinction, Recognized Educational Facility Practitioner (REFP). Students may apply for the status upon receiving the certificate or apply the courses to the renewal certification requirements.

For more information about this program, you may also contact: Cynthia L. Uline, Ph.D., professor and director, National Center for the Twenty-First Century Schoolhouse, Educational Leadership by calling (619) 594-3949 or send an email to culine@mail.sdsu.edu. For more information or to download an application, please visit: http://edweb.sdsu.edu/schoolhouse/Cert/promo.htm.

In order to earn an Advanced Certificate or Master’s Degree, you must apply and be admitted to SDSU. You may not take more than nine units prior to being officially admitted into the Advanced Certificate or Master’s Degree program if you wish to earn an official SDSU Advanced Certificate or Degree. For more information, please contact the Division of Graduate Affairs at gra@mail.sdsu.edu or call (619) 594-5213.

Required Courses

EDL 620: Educational Facility Community Engagement and Master Planning
This course explores various methods of community participation and engagement including ongoing partnerships. The course examines how effective master planning contributes to the success of school facility projects.

EDL 621: Designing Schools to Support Diverse Learning Needs
Research documents strong relationships between learning-style-responsive environments and increases in student learning and achievement. This course explores links between school design and differentiated instruction, expanding students' knowledge of quality facilities, quality education, and increased student performance.

EDL 622: Educational Facility Pre-Design Planning
This course explores pre-design planning, including processes for deriving essential information and strategies for documenting appropriate detail. The course explores strategies for creating connections in planning and designing school facilities.

EDL 623: The Educational Facility Architectural Design Process
This course is designed to introduce certificate candidates to the architectural/engineering design process, including who is involved; how, when, and why they are involved; and the intended outcomes of the process.

EDL 624: Educational Facility Implementation: Project Management, Project Delivery
Candidates learn the basics of capital project management from initial conception through planning, design, construction, and post-occupancy phases. The course considers various project delivery models, including the pros and cons of each.

EDL 625: Assessment of the School Facility
This course explores the purpose and methods of facility life cycle assessments, indicators of building quality, assessment instruments, building maintenance programs as assessment tools, and procedures and policies for institutionalizing assessment practices.

Last update November 17, 2009

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