Academics
The School of Education prepares students from across Alaska, as well as from other states and nations, to work effectively with all students including multicultural and minority students. To fulfill our commitment to enhancing educational opportunities for the state's rural and Native populations, faculty actively and knowledgeably utilize educational technology to deliver all School of Education programs to remote places.
Undergraduate programs and departments
Mission Statement
The UAF Counseling Program is committed to providing future counselors with transformative
educational experiences grounded in active adult learning theory. We are invested
in deconstructing colonialism to engage students from diverse backgrounds to claim
space in the educational setting and the counseling profession. The faculty strives
to develop culturally attuned counselors serving diverse populations across Alaska,
nationally, and internationally.
We subscribe to the scientist-practitioner-advocate model, teaching student responsiveness
to the changing requirements of a dynamic, pluralistic society with new and emerging
evidenced-based practices that accommodate culturally diverse worldviews. A key aim
is to facilitate bi-directional learning opportunities to enhance student self-awareness,
insight, empathy, compassion, curiosity, understanding, and commitment. We provide
high quality counselor preparation grounded in current research, program evaluation,
and improvement.
Counseling Program Objectives:
- The UAF counseling program will admit high quality, diverse candidates from rural
and urban areas of Alaska.
- Students will acquire foundational knowledge of the field of counseling, human development, counseling theories, professional ethics, career development, assessment and testing, multicultural counseling, research and program evaluation, counseling interventions, and group counseling.
- Students will develop counseling skills and refine professional characteristics through coursework and practical experience in the field of counseling.
- Students will acquire knowledge, develop skills, and refine professional characteristics,
through coursework and practical experience related to their selected degree concentration:
School Counseling
Clinical Mental Health Counseling - Students will be consumers of research to support their learning and future professional practice.
- Program graduates will be well prepared to begin work as professional Clinical Mental
Health or School Counselors.
- Employers will hire program graduates and recognize their high-quality preparation
for the work environment.
Graduate Degrees
- M.Ed. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling
- M.Ed. in School Counseling
- M.Ed in Elementary Education
- M.Ed in Secondary Education
- M.Ed.in Special Education
- Secondary Postbaccalaureate Licensure Program toward M.Ed., Secondary Education
- Art K-12 Postbaccalaureate Licensure Program toward M.Ed., Secondary Education
All programs are also available as distance education option.
