School of Education Departments
Our four departments blend top-tier, accredited programs in a variety of key educational areas to create a unique and interdisciplinary academic environment for students and faculty alike.
Along the way, you’ll be working alongside our nationally-recognized faculty, who provide guidance and support, allowing you to fully explore your areas of interest.
Counseling and Special Education
The School of Education’s Department of Counseling and Special Education blends top-tier, accredited programs in counselor education as well as special education and disability policy to create a unique and interdisciplinary academic environment for students and faculty alike.
Educational Leadership
Our department's mission is to prepare visionary scholars and leaders who promote equity, inclusiveness, and justice across a variety of spheres. Intensive study of general, PreK-12, and higher education leadership policy and practice offers students opportunities to examine complex issues across a variety of contexts.
Foundations of Education
The Department of Foundations of Education provides multi-disciplinary, liberal education perspectives that undergird all programs in the School of Education. Our contribution is based on the premise that the preparation of effective educational practitioners requires fundamental, deep understanding of the broader perspectives that are represented by research and theory in psychological, cultural, philosophical, historical and ethical areas of inquiry.
Our goal is to prepare educators for intelligent, responsible leadership in a variety of educational careers and settings for teaching, research, administration and policy-making.
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Teaching and Learning
The Department of Teaching and Learning is committed to excelling in the initial and continuing preparation of educators for schools, government agencies, for-profit and non-profit organizations in the Commonwealth; to working with diverse groups; to modeling and encouraging critical reflection on practice; to collaborating and forming educational partnerships; to applying research and conducting scholarly endeavors that examine educational processes, issues and concerns and to providing assistance and service to local, state, regional, national and international communities.