COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
The College of Education offers an undergraduate degree in the following:
(The numbers following the degrees are used by this university to identify the programs
indicated. These numbers must be used on the application for admission, registration
forms, application for graduation, etc.
Bachelor of Arts
Communicative Disorders 12201
The College of Education offers the following graduate degrees:
(The numbers following the degrees are used by this university to identify the programs
indicated. These numbers must be used on the application for admission, registration
forms, application for graduation, etc.)
Master of Arts
- Education
- Concentrations in:
Adult Education 08071
Early Childhood Education 08231
Educational Administration 08271
Educational Technology 08992
Elementary Education 08021
Secondary Education 08031
Special Interest Area (Interdepartmental) 08993
Special Education 08081
Master of Science
Communicative Disorders 12201
Doctor of Education (Special Education) 08081
Doctor of Philosophy in Education (Special Education) 08081
Graduate Certificate Programs
Early Childhood Special Education (Special Education Department)
Educational Therapy (Special Education Department)
Integrated Services Specialist (Special Education Department)
Middle/Junior High School Studies (Elementary Education and Secondary Education
Departments)
Rehabilitation Teaching for the Blind (Special Education Department)
Serious Emotional Disturbance (Special Education Department)
Training Systems Development (Instructional Technologies Department)
Vocational Special Education (Special Education Department)
Mission Statement
The College of Education is organized into five departments: Administration and
Interdisciplinary Studies; Elementary Education; Instructional Technologies; Secondary
Education; and Special Education.
The primary mission of the College of Education is to develop and maintain rigororus
professional preparation in pedagogical and clinical skills required for effective services
to individuals of all ages and their families, especially those residing in ethnically and
racially diverse communities. All programs are based on excellence in teaching and
clinical services, and a commitment to research and scholarship focused on the
integration of services to schools and comunity agencies.
There are six themes reflected in the programs and activities of the College of Education.
They are:
- Preparing professional educators and service providers who are sensitive to and effective
in working with individuals of all ages who are diverse in culture, language, learning
styles, abilities, sensory and physical challenges, ethnicity, and sexual orientation in
schools and other community settings.
- Providing an integration of education and community services.
- Utilizing technology effectively to improve education and community services.
- Preparing socially committed educational leaders and advocates.
- Contributing to the knowledge base in the profession and particularly in the area of
urban education.
- Supporting faculty in pursuit of individual discipline-focused activities as well as
interdisciplinary programmatic planning, teaching, and research.
Financial assistance from the Crumpton, Baxter, Bonham Memorial Scholarship
Endowment is available to students enrolled in programs in the College of Education
which lead to teaching, specialist, or service credentials.
Joint Doctoral Program
This program is designed to prepare persons for positions of leadership in Special
Education. By combining the complementary resources of San Francisco State University
and the University of California, Berkeley, this program is designed to provide a greater
breadth and depth of preparation in the education of exceptional children. Students
completing this degree program are prepared to serve in a variety of roles, including
college and university teaching, research, and administration.
Master's Programs
Graduate programs are designed to develop specialized teaching competence
beyond the basic teaching credential requirements:
- Early Childhood Education, for greater competence in teaching nursery school,
kindergarten, and primary grades.
- Elementary Education, for greater competence in teaching grades kindergarten through
nine.
- Secondary Education, for greater competence in teaching in junior or senior high school.
- Special Education, for special competence in teaching the blind, partially seeing, pre-
school blind, deaf, hard-of-hearing, mentally retarded, orthopedically handicapped
including cerebral palsied, emotionally disturbed, and neurologically handicapped.
Programs in this area also may emphasize supervision or administration of programs for
handicapped.
- Education: Special Interest, an interdepartmental program for developing competence
in designated specialized aspects of teaching such as research; evaluation; human
relations in education; adult education; the foundations of education; human
development and learning; and bilingual-cross cultural education.
Programs designed to develop competence in non-teaching roles:
- Adult Education, to prepare for working in leadership roles with adults in a wide variety of
educational settings.
- Communicative Disorders, to prepare for employment as certified or licensed Speech
Pathologists or Audiologists in a wide variety of language settings including public
schools, university clinics, hospitals, community agencies, private practice, Veterans
Administration, and other federal agencies.
- Educational Administration, for positions as consultant, curriculum coordinator, supervisor
of designated subjects, supervisor of designated services, and principal.
- Educational Technology, for personnel in schools, instructional materials centers, and
industry.
- Education: Special Interest, for supervisory and leadership positions with specialized
responsibility; for example, positions in social agencies, professional schools, training
programs in the armed services and religious education. A program primarily for serving
noncredentialed personnel.
Graduate degree programs serve students of maturity, professional commitment, and
some professional experience. Advising and instruction are planned to take account of
the job requirements of a chosen major and, at the same time, to deal with each
student as an individual. Programs vary in degree of specialization, some being
concentrated almost entirely in a single department and others drawing on several
areas of study.
Course Work
Courses vary widely. The most common class is the lecture-discussion type;
there also are many seminars, workshops, clinical courses with individual attention,
supervised internship and field experiences, and individually planned field studies and
theses. For those students in teacher education, courses emphasize the relationship
between school practice and findings from educational research and the psychological
and social foundations of education. For those students with human service and/or
professional development goals, courses emphasize the interrelationship between the
concepts and research underlying the discipline or field of endeavor and the acquisition
of professional roles through directed practice experiences. Some majors include a large
number of required courses. Requirements of most programs, except for internships, can
be met through late afternoon, evening, and summer session study.
Advising
The student should inquire at the Education Graduate Office, BH 217, for referral
to the proper adviser in the major department and for information about procedures.
Students applying for admission to the Special Interest Program must consult the Chair of
the Department of Administration and Interdisciplinary Studies. The student should confer
with the adviser frequently to develop and maintain a working relationship based on
direct acquaintance. These conferences along with formal records help to provide a
basis for individual planning and assessment of student programs.