纽约州立大学水牛城分校

Our master's program in education studies can be taken as is or designed and tailored to meet your interests, as well as your professional and academic needs. This program of study is targeted for those whose goals are broad, interdisciplinary and flexible. You can pursue a focus area that allows you to take maximum advantage of courses and resources in the Graduate School of Education. You have the option to create your own multidisciplinary focus area from within our school and across our departments.

Learning and Instruction Focus Areas

Education Informatics Focus Area

The education informatics focus area is for you if you are interested in studying how information can be used to inform our knowledge of learning and education. You will develop the understanding and skills necessary to become leaders in applying information to address the needs of formal and informal learners. Our program prepares you to organize, analyze and disseminate information to facilitate educational and organizational objectives, as well as how to improve people's use of information.

Why the Education Informatics Focus Area?

This focus area is unique because it integrates expertise from our Learning and Instruction department, as well as our Library and Information Studies department.

As a student in this focus area, you will:

• Learn how to organize, analyze, and disseminate information to facilitate educational and organizational objectives
• Study the pedagogy of information use
• Discover how to improve the ways that people use information

In addition, you can work with your academic advisors to create an individualized program of study within this focus area, based on your specific interests and needs.

Career Opportunities

Optional focus areas include:

• Faculty and researchers of Education, Library and Information Sciences, and other fields related to the Learning Sciences
• District Coaches and Administrators in K-12 schools
• Informal Education Designers and Instructors
• Policy Makers and Analysts in Government and Non-Governmental Agencies
• Educational Technology Developers
• Institutional Assessment Specialists

Why Education Studies at UB?

The features of our program include:

• program of study that is broad, interdisciplinary and flexible
• choose from six optional multidisciplinary focus areas
• creating your own focus area to meets your interests and needs

Focus areas

• Adult education
• Comparative and global education
• Early childhood-foreign language education
• Educational culture, policy and society
• Education informatics
• Literacy education

Program Coursework

The specific coursework for each focus area varies. The following general requirements apply to all focus areas.

• You are required to complete a minimum of 32 credit hours of graduate study (16 of those 32 credit hours are required to be taken within GSE).
• A maximum of 6 hours of transfer credit of graduate courses, completed with grades of “B” or above from an accredited institution, may be included in your program if approved by your advisor and the department.
• You are required to pass a comprehension exam or complete a master’s project or thesis.