The Specialist in Education (Ed. S.) Program is designed as a post-master’s work to provide advanced preparation in the major field of administration and supervision. A minimum of 30 semester hours of post-master’s courses are required. The program of study is spread over courses in educational administration, professional education outside the area of educational administration, and research methods and educational statistics.
School of Teaching and Learning (STL) in the College of Education and Human Development. Our School has nearly 40 full time faculty and nearly fifty full time graduate assistants. We have four (4) undergraduate programs (Early Childhood Education, Middle Childhood Education, Adolescent/Young Adult and Foreign Language Education, and Business and Marketing Education) and four (4) graduate programs (Business and Marketing Education, Curriculum and Teaching, Classroom Technology and Reading). We have approximately 2600 undergraduate students and over 550 graduate students enrolled in our programs. While we are the largest teacher education program in Ohio, we are also proud of our reputation for preparing outstanding early, middle and secondary level teachers as well as providing high quality graduate programs both on campus and at approximately 20 different sites across northwest Ohio. Our standards-based, best practices-oriented programs have established BGSU as the premier teacher education program in the state and one of the best in the U.S.
Through this strand of the Master of Education in Curriculum and Teaching, individuals with a teaching certificate engage in course work and experiences designed to refine their abilities as early childhood through secondary school classroom teachers and to develop and expand their leadership abilities to improve teaching and learning at classroom, building and district levels.
For the purposes of this program, the term cross-cultural and international education is defined as the examination of education from diverse perspectives in an international context. The issues that students address in this program transcend national boundaries. This differs from multicultural education which specifically examines issues within a single nation. The program connects issues of cultural and international understanding with educational theory and practice through a unique combination of courses from several disciplines on the BGSU campus. Students gain the academic basis for their program from select courses in the College of Education and Human Development and the College of Arts and Sciences. The students then apply this academic foundation to a practical cross-cultural/ international internship experience, followed by a research-based cap-stone experience.
Bowling Green State University offers business education and marketing education programs, including teacher licensure, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Students pursue a teaching license in conjunction with their pursuit of a baccalaureate or masters degree.
The integrated Business Education Program prepares students for both teaching and business careers. Business Education graduates will be licensed to teach accounting/bookkeeping, personal finance, keyboarding, technology applications, word/information processing, business law, general business, business economics, records management, and business English from grades four and beyond. Graduates are also licensed to teach career/technical business courses, including the following areas of information technology: information services and support, network systems, programming and software development, and interactive media.
The interdisciplinary studies degree option is a response to increasing interest by students and faculty in an interdisciplinary approach to graduate study and scholarship. It is available to students who have been admitted to a either a master’s or doctoral degree program, but who have unique educational needs that cannot be met within a single degree program. It is limited to those areas in which sufficient faculty and adequate material resources exist to support the proposed course of study.
Any student who has been admitted to a degree program and who is interested in pursuing the interdisciplinary studies degree option may develop a proposal under the direction of a faculty advisory committee representing each program or major area of scholarship identified in the proposed interdisciplinary course of study. The course of study must be one that is not available through an existing program, must be at the level (i.e., master’s, specialist, or doctoral) of the program to which the student has been admitted, and must combine at least two different graduate degree areas which offer the graduate degree at the level (i.e., master’s, specialist, or doctoral) sought by the student. The faculty advisory committee must include a minimum of three members of the graduate faculty for a master’s student and a minimum of four members of the graduate faculty for a doctoral student.
This nationally recognized Ph.D. program emphasizes informed, ethical decision making in the administration of higher education. It is intended to launch its graduates into new areas and/or higher levels of leadership in colleges and universities. Students take core coursework in higher education foundations, administration, governance and organization, law, and the college student. Each student, in collaboration with her/his advisor, fashions a four course cognate that leads to specialization in an area of personal and professional interest. The sequence of four research courses culminates in a dissertation of original contribution to the knowledge of higher education. Based on a full-time cohort model, the program is designed to be completed in three years.