Academics

Gain skills to address adult learners' challenges and opportunities in education, professional growth, and personal enrichment. Learn strategies in teaching adults and grow in conveying facts and theories in a persuasive and motivational way.

Study the psychological processes critical to education. Apply your research in local schools and diverse communities to support academic and professional success for our neighbors.

Are you interested in the financial field and helping families and individuals achieve financial security and freedom? FSoS is the only Association of Financial Counseling and Planning Education (AFCPE®) approved program in the state of Minnesota.

As we age, we actively learn new information and adapt our behavior to enhance connections with others. This program involves studying and practicing how adult learners acquire new knowledge, skills, and abilities to engage with the world.

This certificate will help you understand the difference between ambiguous loss and other kinds of loss. This understanding will help you serve students, clients, and patients more effectively.
 

Familiarize yourself with the field of educational psychology, acquire knowledge and skills conducting research, serve in educational and community contexts, and get hands-on practicum experience.

Offers the opportunity to conduct interdisciplinary research while specializing in your own focus area in art education.

Designed for experienced art teachers who want to acquire advanced knowledge and leadership skills in the field of art education.

Earn your MN K-12 teaching license to teach visual arts, dance, or theatre arts in just over a year. Our accelerated program will prepare you to step into your classroom with confidence and solid classroom experience.

This degree equips you for various careers, including Fortune 500 companies, startups, international organizations, and nonprofit management. You'll take courses in sales and marketing to build essential business skills.

Develop the necessary skills for coaching youth, club, high school, or college sports. Our program provides a general theoretical basis for the many areas of knowledge needed for coaching.

Become a leader in international and intercultural education. Gain a mastery of skills and knowledge in how cultural, economic, and political forces affect international and intercultural education.

This program prepares you to research and consult on how schools and educational systems globally reflect cultural, economic, and political contexts. Explore the impact of globalization, internationalization, and educational exchanges on learning.

Learn how to help others grow academically, personally/socially, and professionally. Our masters program prepares individuals to work with students and in community settings.

Prepare the next generation of leaders and agents of social change to work systemically with diverse families and communities locally and internationally. Outcomes include knowledge and research, practice and ethics competencies, and diversity.

Engage in a variety of perspectives and methods in the study of education and schooling across broad social, cultural, and political contexts. This program is dedicated to critical issues related to equity, democracy, and social justice.

Become eligible to obtain a DHH teaching license to teach students from infancy through age 21 who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing. This licensure program may be combined with the MEd degree.

Study human development across the lifespan. Complete coursework in topics including social and emotional development, cognitive development, language development, emotional and behavioral disorders, biological development, and research methods.

Supplement your doctoral studies with foundational courses in cognitive, social, and emotional development. You’ll also gain experience conducting research in the developmental psychology field.

In our world, community is everything. Join us as we push boundaries and transform lives together, delving deep into human growth and behavior. Uncover mysteries, challenge norms, and shape futures with a profound understanding of how we evolve.

This minor is often paired with majors like psychology, neuroscience, sociology, family social science, early childhood education, or business. Our program is offered through the College of Liberal Arts (CLA).

Gain early exposure to the culture of teaching and schools through in-school experiences. Our accelerated program will prepare you to enter our MEd and teaching license programs.

Study the infrastructure, policies, and services that affect the lives of individuals with disabilities, aiming to reduce secondary conditions, enhance service access, and eliminate disparities in health, social, and economic spheres.

This program prepares you to work as a leader in the field of early childhood education and combines coursework in cutting-edge child development research with opportunities to engage in supervised applied work with young children.

For those with a Minnesota elementary education license seeking to add early childhood licensure, this program entails completing coursework and supervised student teaching. 

Earn a license to teach in early childhood (birth-3rd grade) classrooms in Minnesota. Build a strong foundation in child development theory, research, and developmentally appropriate methods that you can apply in the classroom.

Explore educational systems, covering cultural and historical contexts and stakeholder consensus strategies. This leadership-focused program is designed for mid-career educators, offering insights into research's role in educational advancement.
 

This program is about gaining a mastery of skills and knowledge in how politics, policies, and organizational cultures affect pre-K-12 education and development.

This program establishes foundational understandings of educational systems, leadership dynamics, and the realities of power and politics in schools, as well as the role of research in educational innovation and improvement.

Study the psychological processes critical to education. Apply your research in local schools and diverse communities to support academic and professional success for individuals within our community.

Designed to prepare you to become an elementary teacher. You will also gain valuable and transferable skills for many career paths, including boards of education, consulting firms, test preparation, adoption agencies, and educational publishers.

The MA/PhD track in elementary education empowers you to contribute to the advancement of knowledge necessary to address the dynamic challenges of contemporary education at the elementary level.