Doctoral Degrees
College of Education
Doctor of Education in Professional Counseling and Supervision
Unique Features of the Professional Counseling and Superivison Program
Supportive Learning Community
- Cohort Members
- Program Director
- Advisor
- Advisory Committee
- Faculty and Supervisors
- Local Professional Community
Flexible to meet the learning needs of advanced counseling practitioners who
- Work in school, community or other service settings;
- Hold a license or certificate to practice counseling
- Earned a 48 semester hour master's in counseling from a CACREP accredited (or equivalent) program; and,
- Earned an Ed.S. degree in counseling
Doctor of Education with a Major in School Improvement
3 years| Credit Hours: 60
The online Ed.D. program in School Improvement offers a unique opportunity for educators looking for an interdisciplinary, inquiry-based doctoral program that prepares graduates to become the next generation of change agents. Our mission is to develop educators who initiate sustainable and systemic improvements in P-12 education. Graduates will strategically and collaboratively plan, design, implement, and document the impact of educational improvements that promote and increase the academic achievement and social development of all students.
Two things make the Ed.D. in School Improvement unique (1) the program provides for students to develop a specialized "Area of Concentration" and (2) students work on their dissertations simultaneously with their coursework. Students can complete their dissertation by the end of their coursework.
College of Social Sciences
PhD in Psychology: Conciousness and Society
The Ph.D. program in Psychology is focused on the study of Consciousness and Society. It is grounded in the Department's approach to psychology as a distinctively human science. It will educate future scholars and practitioners at the highest level of the discipline to make original contributions to theory and knowledge. Our graduates will serve as researchers, consultants, leaders, and teachers who can creatively facilitate transformations in a global society. The program reflects three theoretical approaches to analyze the intersection of consciousness and society: Humanistic, Critical, & Transpersonal. These approaches serve as reflexive and reflective anchors to the scholarly trajectory of our students in developing their own research interests. All of the theoretic perspectives that inform the curriculum indicate a fundamental value of the program, to privilege the question of one’s subjective accounting of an event, either in experiential or discursive terms. Whether in terms of reflexivity or awareness, this value links each of these traditions to more qualitative approaches to which the Departmental teaching is also committed. In all of our classes and projects, the Psychology Department offers a more integrative and nuanced approach toward consciousness and society, including an awareness of the less explored spiritual dimensions that inform individual and community life. This promise is made good in our foundation in transpersonal psychologies with their articulation of the wisdom traditions. Our broad based sense of the place of community life for the individual translates into our support of social justice and ecological and integrative thinking. It dovetails with our effort to continually creatively address the relationship between theory and praxis through more ethically informed and engaged modalities of research.
For more information, see: http://www.westga.edu/psydept/index_7688.php
School of Nursing
Doctor of Education with a Major in Nursing Education
University of West Georgia School of Nursing ranked 34th in the nation for "Best Online Graduate Nursing Programs" (U.S. News & World Report, 2013).
36 months / 9 semesters | 60 hours (includes 12 dissertation hours)
UWG's online EdD in Nursing Education is designed to prepare nurse educators for the 21st century. The School of Nursing and the College of Education have collaborated to develop the joint curriculum. The 100% online program will enable students to earn a doctorate degree that will prepare them to train future nurses, helping address a critical shortage in the state, region and nation. This is one of only four such programs in the nation!