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Advanced Degrees
Educational Specialist:
The Ed.S. degree in special education provides an advanced,
postmaster's program in specialized areas of educational
programming for children and youth with exceptionalities.
This degree also provides programming for administration and
supervision in special education.
The Ed.S. degree program is flexible to accommodate the needs of
post-master's degree students who wish to assume leadership
roles in schools and agencies that provide special education and
related services to children, youth, and adults who have
disabilities or who are gifted.
Individuals interested in pursuing a Ph.D. degree in special
education should not enroll in this program.
Doctor of Philosophy:
The Ph.D. program in special education is designed to
prepare highly qualified, experienced persons for leadership
roles and for roles as teacher educators and researchers.
The individualized nature of the program enables students to
master a comprehensive field of emphasis in special education,
employ intellectual and innovative methods for addressing the
needs of exceptional children, youth, and adults, and acquire a
breadth of understanding of related disciplines that focus on
the professional roles of college teaching, research,
administration and clinical/educational/agency-based services
for individuals with exceptionalities.
The Ph.D. program includes common advanced and non-categorical
course and seminar requirements. The substantive
specialization and emphasis is defined by the individual
student's total program prospectus, including a minor or cognate
area; specialized internships; advanced coursework; individually
directed research; and the dissertation. In addition to
conceptualizing, designing, implementing and interpreting
research, all doctoral students are expected to demonstrate
competence in teaching at the college level in the course of
their doctoral training.
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