UIS
Graduate and Undergraduate Catalog
Academic
Year 2006 - 2007
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN SERVICES
Larry D. Stonecipher, Dean
Faculty of the college take full advantage of UIS’ location in
the state capital by maintaining close ties with the Illinois State
Board of Education and the Illinois Department of Human Services.
Faculty serve on a variety of professional advisory boards and on
the boards of local social service delivery agencies. Due to the
large number of state government employees, educators, and human
service professionals in Springfield, the college’s academic
programs are vital to the city’s economic and employment base.
Students enrolled in the college’s programs prepare for
professional careers as social workers, teachers, counselors, school
administrators, gerontologists, public professionals, and
researchers. Programs in the college are closely involved with the
Applied Study and Experiential Learning Term and the Career Services
Office to ensure that students receive field experience in their
chosen professional areas and have realistic career objectives.
The social work program is nationally accredited and works
closely with a variety of human social service agencies. The human
development counseling program is also nationally accredited and
provides teaching emphasis in community counseling, marriage and
family therapy, and school counseling.
The human services program prepares graduate students for
employment in the fastest growing segment of society, including
providing direct services to senior centers and nursing homes,
administering and evaluating service-delivery systems for the
elderly, and assisting in legislative bodies that serve older
persons. The human services program's five areas of concentration
are designed to provide advanced professional training for graduate
students in human services such as child development and welfare,
alcoholism and substance abuse, family studies, gerontology, and
social services administration.
The teacher education minors provide students majoring in other
disciplines the opportunity to complete their required study to
become certified and enter the teaching profession. A major goal of
the minors is to prepare certified elementary and secondary teachers
who are competent in subject matter and who understand the
psychological and sociocultural characteristics of learners. Within
the educational leadership graduate degrees, students may choose
between the administrative leadership concentration or the master
teaching and leadership online concentration. Students completing
the educational leadership graduate degrees are prepared to become
educational instructional leaders, supervisors, curriculum
directors, or administrators in school systems.
Faculty use a variety of innovative teaching strategies and
technologies in the classroom and apply their research and
scholarship to the course work that they teach. Many of the faculty
have national and international reputations in their areas of
expertise.
Degrees and certificates
Bachelor’s Degree: Social Work (B.S.W.)
Master of Arts: Human Services, Educational Leadership,
Human Development Counseling, Teacher Leadership
Certification Preparation:
Educational Leadership
a) Administrative Leadership
Teacher Education Minors
a) Elementary Education
b) Secondary Education (English, Mathematics, Science, Social
Science)
Human Development Counseling
a) School Counselor
b) Marriage and Family Counseling
Human Services
a) Alcohol and Substance Abuse
Professional Development Sequence in Gerontology
Online Degrees
Master of Arts:
Teacher Leadership
Teaching Certificate and B.A. in Mathematics - blended online
program
www.uis.edu/cehs
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