Academics

Learn about group dynamics and collaboration, creating a culture of continuous improvement, how organizational policies shape behavior, and how schools and districts can change in order to adapt to new social, economic, and political environments.

Learn how to effectively and ethically use educational data to inform research and practice. Gain an understanding of the fundamentals of learning analytics and effectively apply your skills in practice.

Study how people think and learn. Research how people learn with technology and design research-based technologies to improve learning.

Study learning theories, methodologies, designs, and evidence-based practices central to teaching and conducting research that supports the learning process. Our program will shape your knowledge through a better understanding of how people learn.

Prepares you to conduct research and engage in technology-related practices in higher education, K-12, and business. Focus areas include learning analytics, K-12 technology integration, online distance learning, and multimedia design and development.

Learn how to design and facilitate interactive and engaging learning experiences in higher education, K-12, non-profit, government, and business contexts through this flexible, completely online program.

Become a digital-savvy leader in your career field. Gain a deeper understanding of the way new online and mobile technologies transform they way we communicate, collaborate, create, and learn.

Gain a politically committed educational experience with an emphasis on literacy and teaching practices that promote racial and climate justice.

This graduate-level program is designed for experienced literacy teachers who want to advance their careers and leadership capacity.

Assist professionals who work with and on behalf of youth in traditional and non-traditional settings. Gain a better understanding of the youth development process and demonstrate leadership in working with youth.

An entirely online and asynchronous graduate degree that prepares you to lead training and development in organizations, assess when various development strategies are needed, and implement and evaluate solutions for organizational change.

Prepare for leadership in advanced social work practice through concentrations in Clinical Mental Health; Community Practice; Families and Children; or Health, Disability, and Aging

Receive your state and national school psychologist credential to work with students in schools.

This research degree is designed for experienced educators who wish to explore and improve math teaching and learning.

This graduate-level program is designed for experienced mathematics teachers who want to acquire advanced knowledge and leadership skills in the field of mathematics education.

Our accelerated program will prepare you to start teaching with solid classroom experience in only 12 months. Our unique co-teaching practicum model and required coursework allows you to earn your MEd while teaching in your own classroom.

Designed for ESL or world/classical language teachers seeking a Minnesota teaching license or non-licensed district staff with bachelor’s degrees. This program is part-time and allows you to continue employment while enrolled in your courses.

Gain the opportunity to study language use, teaching, learning, and policy in our advanced MA program.

This graduate-level program is designed for language teachers with a wide range of backgrounds and experience.

Earn your master’s of education and a license to teach English as a second language and/or world languages in Minnesota K-12 classrooms through our accelerated program in just 12 months.

This PhD program offers students the opportunity to research language use, teaching, learning, and policy.

Gain insights from developmental science to support children and adolescents in advocacy, community, and healthcare. Acquire practical skills and field experience to apply theory effectively where it matters most for young people.

Receive specialized training in assessment, intervention, and treatment evaluation. Learn about ethical issues related to treatment delivery, the need for supervision by qualified professionals, and the limits of candidates’ individual skills.

Help young people with ASD and their families after recieving specialized training in assessment, intervention, and treatment evaluation. This program will prepare you to work with individuals with ASD from infancy to age 21.

This online program will develop your skills to design, deliver, and evaluate family-focused programs for adult learners. This program track leads directly to Minnesota teacher licensure in parent and family education.

Teaches students how to plan, coordinate, and teach parent education programs and services that address the intellectual, emotional, cultural, social, and physical needs of parents and children. This program does not lead to a MN teaching license.

 

This PhD minor will equip you to identify how best to promote the well-being of diverse families and communities through a multi-disciplinary comprehensive approach. You will be able to choose a specifc area of concentration within this minor.

The physical activity and health master of education (MEd) provides advanced study in the broad areas of the promotion and implementation of physical activity and the resulting effect it has on health.

Explores how individuals can increase physical activity and improve healthy lifestyles to help prevent disease. Prepares you for careers in health promotion like health coaching, worksite wellness, physical activity adherence, and corporate fitness.

This minor allows students to explore areas within physical activity, personal health, and wellness promotion and provides students with a stronger understanding of physical activity, recreation, personal wellness, and nutrition.

Encourages a lifetime involvement in physical activity. Courses use many of the University’s premiere athletic facilities to create fun and challenging educational opportunities. Open to all skill levels and students.

This certificate prepares you to lead program evaluation efforts. You will learn applied methods, techniques, and processes, and how evaluation fits into larger economic, social, and political contexts.