Education Degrees, Certificates, and Teaching and Educational Specialist Credentials

The primary mission of the Graduate College of Education is to prepare reflective, transformative educators, clinicians, leaders, and scholars who advance the broad profession of education across the lifespan through excellence in the art and science of teaching and learning, research on critical issues in education and communicative disorders, integration of new technologies, and commitment to equity and social justice. Our programs are designed to meet global challenges through authentic learning experiences in academic and clinical environments that are grounded in our commitment to inclusiveness, integrity, community, social action, and evidence-based practice.

Core values of the GCOE are adapted from the SF State Strategic Plan, including Courage, Life of the Mind, Equity, Community, and Resilience. These values resonate with the GCOE and our commitment to social justice. We embrace these five values and have adapted them to align with the mission of the GCOE. 

• Courage: Courage enables us to develop a sense of agency that engages students, staff, and faculty in speaking their voices and having their voices heard in forums that honor the contributions of all. 
• Life of the Mind: Our programs are informed by research, our research is informed by evidence-based practice, and our practice is grounded in our professional commitments as educators, activists, practitioners, and clinicians. Collaboration with communities is an integral component of our scholarship, with a focus on uncovering funds of knowledge and community cultural wealth.
• Equity: Our focus on equity addresses a broad range of persistent, structural social justice issues, including race, class, gender, sexual orientation, disability, and other forms of marginalization in the 21^st century, globalized California.
• Community: Our programs promote a climate of inspiration and inclusivity, and are characterized by strong linkages to local and global communities at all levels, birth through adult, in formal and non-formal educational contexts.  
• Resilience: Our work in collaboration with diverse school, community and clinical settings implies that resilience takes many forms, ranging from promoting transformative resistance to fostering global sustainability, creating an environment that is marked by the generosity of spirit, supporting a thriving environment of mutually supportive human relations.

To carry out the mission and vision of the college as reflected in these core values, the Graduate College of Education offers certificates, credentials, masters' degrees in education (in specific disciplines), doctorates in education and philosophy degrees (jointly with UC Berkeley). The chart below lists the programs and degree offerings in the Graduate College of Education.