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Programs are contained within our three Areas of Study; our four Credentials programs include an MA degree. (This is the "text" version of the main programs page; that page presents a more comprehensive view if you have javascript enabled.)
The Cognition and Development (CD) area focuses on the interplay among cognitive, social and developmental processes in diverse areas of human knowledge and experience. Faculty concentrate on learning in mathematics, science and technology, as well as a wide range of issues involving cognitive, social and moral development. Faculty and student research typically occurs in field settings (classrooms, museums, informal social groups), providing fertile sites for conceptual advances as well as the improvement of educational practices. This area of study supports both professional and academic programs, each enriching the other in courses and research opportunities.
Development in Mathematics and Science
Degrees: M.A., M.A./Ph.D., Ph.D.
Features: Supports inquiry into the development of children´s mathematical and scientific understanding of practices in and out of school; engages core faculty and those in Education, Math, Science and Technology who have developmental interests in younger children and faculty in Human Development and Education who have interests in mathematical and scientific cognition.
Career Goals: University or college teaching in education or cognitive science programs, professional research and development of instructional materials
Contact: 4511 Tolman Hall, 510-642-4202
E-mail: dms_info@lists.berkeley.eduDevelopmental Teacher Education (DTE)
Degree and Credential: M.A. and Multiple Subject Credential
Features: Nationally recognized as innovative and exemplary; focuses on the study of children´s cognitive, social and linguistic development as a foundation for teaching for conceptual understanding and social justice; four semesters of concurrent coursework and student teaching, together with an original research project.
Career Goal: Teaching at the elementary school level
Contact: 4511 Tolman Hall, 510-642-4201
E-mail: dte_information @berkeley.edu.Education in Math, Science & Technology (EMST)
Degrees: M.A., M.A./Ph.D., Ph.D.
Features: International reputation for its distinctive model of learning—cognitive apprenticeship—based on research in the field of cognitive science. From the outset of their graduate work, students participate fully in faculty research groups as they solve real problems and acquire expertise.
Career Goals: University or college teaching in education or cognitive science programs, professional research and development of instructional materials
Contact: 4533 Tolman Hall, 510-642-4206,
E-mail: kate@berkeley.eduHuman Development and Education
Degrees: M.A., M.A./Ph.D., Ph.D.
Features: Prepares students to investigate, understand, analyze and foster processes of development across the life span. Applies psychological theory and methodology to the study of cognitive and social development.
Career Goals: University teaching and research
Contact: 4511 Tolman Hall, 510-642-4202,
E-mail: hde_info@lists.berkeley.eduJoint Doctoral Program in Special Education
Degree: Ph.D.
Features: Students design an individualized plan of study, working in a research specialization that focuses on human development and special education; courses are taken at both UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University, and faculty are drawn from both institutions.
Career Goals: University teaching and research, administration and policy
Contact: 4533 Tolman Hall, 510-643-6871,
E-mail: melinda@berkeley.eduMasters and Credential in Science and Mathematics Education (MACSME)
Degree and Credential: M.A. and Single Subject Credential for teaching science or mathematics
Features: An exemplary two-year program that combines extensive study of theories of thinking and learning, a solid grounding in practice, and in-depth educational research with world-class research faculty to prepare future teachers for educational leadership; working with diverse populations in urban settings.
Career Goal: Teaching at the secondary school level in areas of life science, physical science or mathematics
Contact: 4533 Tolman Hall, 510-642-4206,
E-mail: macsme_info
@berkeley.eduSchool Psychology
Degree and Credential: M.A./ Ph.D., Ph.D. and School Psychology Credential
Features: Accredited by the American Psychological Association. Prepares graduates to assume leadership roles as school psychologists, researchers, university educators and program directors. Students engage in research under the direction of faculty in Education or Psychology to integrate theories of human development to enlighten professional practice with children, teachers and parents.
Career Goals: School psychologist, university teaching and research, and program director
Contact: 4511 Tolman Hall, 510-642-7963,
E-mail: schoolpsychinfo@berkeley.edu
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Faculty and students in the Language and Literacy, Society and Culture (LLSC) area are interested in studying, designing and participating in transformative approaches to individual and social development, approaches within schools and classrooms, but also across diverse sites and contexts in communities, workplaces and social movements. We combine sharply focused examinations of talk and activity, language and literacy, with a wide lens to assess the social, cultural, political and economic contexts of education and schooling. Of special concern are students, groups, families and communities that traditionally have been poorly served by educational institutions and society, including many nonnative speakers of English.
Language, Literacy and Culture
Degrees: M.A./Ph.D., Ph.D.
Features: Using the lens of the most fundamental human tool and resource, language students explore such issues as promoting equity and honoring socio-cultural and linguistic diversity; transforming schools and other educational spaces; supporting teachers as learners across their careers; and fostering promising social futures for all youth. Students also consider other pivotal ways that humans learn, communicate, and create through a variety of symbolic systems — from visual images to digital media.
Ph.D.: Focus on theory and basic research in language and literacy, informed by a sociocultural as well as a critical and transformative vision of oral and written language.
Career Goals: Ph.D.: Teaching and research on language, literacy and culture in a university setting or in a private or public research organization; teacher education positions in universities.
Contact: 5647 Tolman Hall, 510-642-0746,
E-mail: llscinfo @lists.berkeley.eduLanguage, Literacy and Culture
Degree: Ed.D.
Features: Using the lens of the most fundamental human tool and resource, language students explore such issues as promoting equity and honoring socio-cultural and linguistic diversity; transforming schools and other educational spaces; supporting teachers as learners across their careers; and fostering promising social futures for all youth. Students also consider other pivotal ways that humans learnlearn, communicate, and create through a variety of symbolic systems — from visual images to digital media.
Ed.D.: Focus on applied research and the relationship between theory and practice.
Career Goals: Leadership roles in school districts, government agencies or private organizations.
Contact: 5647 Tolman Hall, 510-642-0746,
E-mail: llscinfo @lists.berkeley.eduLanguage, Literacy and Culture
Degree: M.A.
Features: Using the lens of the most fundamental human tool and resource, language students explore such issues as promoting equity and honoring socio-cultural and linguistic diversity; transforming schools and other educational spaces; supporting teachers as learners across their careers; and fostering promising social futures for all youth. Students also consider other pivotal ways that humans learn, communicate, and create through a variety of symbolic systems — from visual images to digital media.
M.A.: Focus on the nature of language, literacy, and culture in a diverse society.
Career Goals: Leadership roles, including in-service education, in school districts and other educational settings in language, literacy and educational reform.
Concentrations: Literacy studies (with specialties in reading, writing, multi-modality); educational linguistics (with specialties in bilingualism and second-language learning, acquisition of academic language and language socialization); and athletics and academic achievement (with a focus on athletics and academics).
Contact: 5647 Tolman Hall, 510-642-0746,
E-mail: llscinfo @lists.berkeley.eduLanguage, Literacy and Culture:
Athletes and Academic Achievement
Degree: M.A.
This emphasis is designed for students interested in examining the intersection of athletics and academics within the U.S. educational system. The M.A. investigates the ways in which institutionalized sport both conflicts with and complements the educational mission of American secondary and post-secondary schools. The course of study includes educational and sport theory, literacy theory and instruction, urban education, sociology of sport and research on intercollegiate athletes. Particular emphasis is placed on the motivation of academic and athletic identification in relation to social categories of gender, race, ethnicity and class.
Contact: Derek Van Rheenen, 510-642-0605
E-mail:aaama_info@lists.berkeley.eduMulticultural Urban Secondary English (MUSE)
Degree and Credential: M.A. and Single Subject Teaching Credential in English with an urban emphasis
Features: Longtime, close affiliation with Bay Area Writing Project; urban emphasis, focus on teaching in multilingual, multicultural settings; master´s project completed during initial teaching year (second of two-year program)
Career Goals: English and/or ESL teacher and leader in multicultural, multilingual secondary school settings
Contact: 5647 Tolman Hall, 510-642-1807,
E-mail: billiejo@berkeley. eduSocial and Cultural Studies
Degrees: M.A., M.A./Ph.D., Ph.D.
Features: Combines emphasis on social theory, ethnographic research and strong interdisciplinary scholarship. Encourages research on learning in unusual places, from unusual angles. Focuses on new configurations in contemporary workplaces and practices; growing up in conditions of poverty and structural racism; transformations of urban educational settings; changing race, class, ethnic and gender identities in global perspective; and corresponding questions about the sociopolitical dimensions of learning.
Career Goals: University teaching and research in the social sciences or education
Contact: 5527 Tolman Hall, 510-643-2496,
Email: rosa@berkeley.edu
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Programs in the Policy, Organization, Measurement, and Evaluation (POME) area emphasize the study of schools as institutions; the history and process of educational change and reform; the formulation and effects of educational policy; and the methodology of research, measurement and evaluation in education. POME faculty have strengths and interests that combine: a focus on the institutions of schooling analyzed from various disciplinary perspectives including sociology, economics, history and philosophy; experience in linking research, policy and practice at the national, state and local levels; a breadth and depth of methodological, measurement and evaluation expertise both to mount policy oriented research and to inform sound institutional leadership and decision-making.
Educational Leadership
Degree: Ph.D.
Features: Students create individual programs of study with adviser, drawing on doctoral courses in the POME area of study. (Also see schoolwide program Leadership for Educational Equity.)
Career Goals: Leadership positions applying research in educational organizations and agencies, reform groups and advocacy organizations
Contact: 3659 Tolman Hall, 510-642-0709,
E-mail: afoley@berkeley.eduPolicy and Organizations Research
Degrees: M.A., M.A./Ph.D., Ph.D.
Features: Applies disciplines of social science and history to educational policy and institutions. Coursework includes organizational theory, microeconomics, sociology and historical foundations of American educational system.
Career Goals: Educational research and policy analysis in academia or other research organizations
Contact: 3659 Tolman Hall, 510-642-0709,
E-mail: afoley@berkeley.eduPrincipal Leadership Institute (PLI)
Degree and Credential: M.A. and Preliminary Administrative Services Credential
Features: 14-month program (two summers plus the intervening academic year). Cohort-based program for teachers with at least three years experience intending to work as school-level leaders. All students receive scholarships that cover some UC fees, and graduates are then required to work four years as administrators in public schools.
Career Goals: Principals and school-site leaders, particularly for urban schools
Contact: 3533 Tolman Hall, 510-643-7458,
E-mail: bengrandy @berkeley.eduProgram Evaluation and Assessment
Degree: Ed.D.
Features: Three-year program taking advantage of faculty research and evaluation projects to provide apprenticeship opportunities. For students with backgrounds in education or in quantitative methods who wish to develop the skills necessary to apply quantitative and qualitative methods to the problems of program evaluation in education.
Career Goals: University teaching and research in evaluation and research methods in education; directing evaluation projects at national, state and local levels; consulting on program evaluation; and applying advanced methods in evaluation and assessment to educational projects.
Contact: 3659 Tolman Hall, 510-642-0709,
E-mail: afoley@berkeley.eduQuantitative Methods and Evaluation
Degrees: M.A., M.A./Ph.D., Ph.D.
Features: Students learn advanced techniques in statistical, measurement and evaluation methods, and develop substantive knowledge for use of these methods through courses in areas such as learning theory and policy. Coursework also includes education and statistics, and other areas such as psychology, economics and sociology.
Career Goals: University teaching; work in research and development organizations specializing in psychometrics, program evaluation, education research and data analysis
Contact: 3659 Tolman Hall, 510-642-0709,
E-mail: afoley@berkeley.edu
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Leadership for Educational Equity
Degree: Ed.D. in Educational Leadership
Features: This program offers a three-year course of study with evening/ weekend/summer schedule to accommodate needs of working professionals; uses a cohort model that builds professional relationships among peers. Students participate in school and district-based residencies to undertake job-related, problem-based research in relevant educational settings; emphasis on equity and diversity in education.
Career Goals: Leadership positions in districts, county offices of education and other school consortia
Contact: 3659 Tolman Hall, 510-643-4733,
E-mail: leep_info@berkeley.edu.
The Graduate Group in Science and Mathematics Education (SESAME) is an interdisciplinary academic unit dedicated to advancing the understanding and practice of learning and teaching in science, engineering, and mathematics. It acts in most respects like a regular department, carrying out research, teaching courses, and offering a graduate program leading to a Ph.D. degree in science or mathematics education. The faculty of the group consists of professors from several of the Berkeley science and engineering departments and the School of Education, and instructors associated with other units on campus such as the Lawrence Hall of Science. The group operates under the auspices of the Graduate Division.
Contact: Program Assistant, 4533 Tolman Hall, 510-642-4207,
E-mail: smeinfo@berkeley.edu.The Undergraduate Minor in Education (UME) provides students with an opportunity to examine systematically an institution that occupies a unique position in society and profoundly influences the lives of virtually every member of society. This program, housed in the Graduate School of Education (GSE), enables undergraduate students to gain a critical understanding of the correlations between education and the development of societies and individuals. The primary focus of the UME is on potential as well as existing models of education in our diverse society.
Contact: 1600 Tolman Hall, 510-643-9303,
E-mail: edminor@berkeley.edu.The Undergraduate Minor in Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Childhood (ISEC) at the University of California, Berkeley, provides students interested in young children with an opportunity to become well versed in the varied contributions of such disciplines as education, public health, mental health, social welfare and public policy. The program, a joint effort of the School of Education, the School of Social Welfare, and the Department of Psychology, is housed in the School of Education. The ISEC Minor includes two options: the Generalist track, or the Child Development Teacher Permit track, which prepares students to teach in a licensed early care and education setting.
Contact: 1609 Tolman Hall, 510-543-9303,
Email: isec@berkeley.edu.University of California Summer Session
Advance your academic progress this summer while enjoying the San Francisco Bay Area. Choose from over 500 courses, five different sessions, evening courses, international travel study programs, and internships.Summer is also the only time of the year when UC Berkeley opens enrollment in courses to visitors from all around the USA and the world. We invite you to take a course and enjoy the Berkeley experience.
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