What’s New This Year?

New Programs

New graduate programs and catalog sections that appear for the first time in this Catalog include:

Doctoral with New Concentrations

• Curriculum and Instruction, Learning, Design, and Technology (LDT) Concentration, Ph.D.  

Master’s with New Concentrations

• Economics, Urban Economics and Real Estate Concentration, M.S.  
• Sociology, Applied Social Research Concentration, M.A.  

Certificates

• Advanced Literacy Instruction and Intervention, Graduate Certificate  
• Nursing: Applied Nursing Informatics, Graduate Certificate  
• Respiratory Care Clinical Concepts, Graduate Certificate  

Program Changes

Major changes to existing graduate degrees and programs include:

Doctoral

• Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction  with Concentration in Elementary Education renamed Concentration in Curriculum and Educator Development (CED)

Certificates

• Graduate Certificate in Advanced Databases and Knowledge Discovery renamed the Graduate Certificate in Applied Artificial Intelligence  
• Graduate Certificate in Anti-Racism in Urban Education renamed the Graduate Certificate in Anti-Racism  

Additional Changes

• Grade of IP changed to Grade of SP/UP Option (see Grading and Related Policies )