The primary mission of the Department of Educational Studies in Psychology, Research Methodology, and Counseling is to offer quality graduate programs to an interdisciplinary grouping of students. The department offers MA, EdS, and PhD degrees in counselor education, a PhD in educational research, a PhD in school psychology, a MA in educational psychology (without a concentration or with concentration options in Learning and Assessment or School Psychometry), an EdS in educational psychology (with an emphasis in school psychology), and a PhD in educational psychology. Beyond these formal degrees, the department offers graduate certificate programs in qualitative research and quantitative research.
Programs
- Majors
- Counselor Education: Clinical Mental Health Counseling, MA
- Counselor Education: Rehabilitation Counseling, MA
- Counselor Education: School Counseling, MA
- Counselor Education, EdS
- Counselor Education, PhD
- Educational Psychology, MA
- Educational Psychology, EdS
- Educational Psychology, PhD
- Educational Research, PhD
- School Psychology, PhD
- Graduate Certificates
Faculty
Department Head
- Michael Lawson
Program Coordinators
- Ryan Cook, Counselor Education
- Hyemin Han, Educational Psychology
- Stacy Hughey-Surman, Educational Research
- Michael Sulkowski, School Psychology
- Stephanie Shelton, Qualitative Research Certificate
- Stefanie Wind, Quantitative Research Certificate
Professors
- Joy J. Burnham
- Joni Lakin
- Randall Schumacker
- David Ian Walker
Associate Professors
- Ryan Cook
- Kelly Guyotte
- Hyemin Han
- Michael Lawson
- Junfei Lu
- Emily Lund
- Wenchao Ma
- George Mugoya
- Stephanie Shelton
- Firat Soylu
- Michael Lee Sulkowski
- Stefanie Wind
Assistant Professors
- Chunhua Cao
- Heather Fye
- Teresa Granger
- Joon-Ho Lee
- Kaiwen Man
- Sarah McKellar
- Macarena Suarez Pellicioni
- June Preast
- Miguel Casar Rodriguez
- Shena Sanchez
- Laurel Snider
Clinical Professor
- Karl Hamner
Clinical Associate Professor
- Stacy Hughey-Surman
Clinical Assistant Professors
- Heather Britnell
- Dominic Combs
- Millie Dawson-Hardy
- Anthony Derriso
- Rana Eloubeidi
- Wenjing Guo
- Sylvia Hollins
- Yurou Wang
Courses
Counselor Education
A survey course featuring a comprehensive examination of the history, functions, and related issues for the practice of counseling in school, agency, and rehabilitation settings.
Explores the rationale for guidance by examining human development and sociological, psychological, and philosophical bases for guidance. Provides awareness of services by surveying components of guidance programs. Offered fall semester.
Educational Psychology
Principles of educational psychology for teaching and for educational services in schools and colleges.
This course presents an introduction to doctoral studies in Educational Psychology at The University of Alabama.
Educational Research
An overview of research methodology, primarily for master's students.
This course covers basic descriptive and inferential statistics, including measures of central tendency and dispersion. Hypothesis testing related to one-sample z-and t-tests; independent and dependent sample t-tests; correlations; and chi-square and simple regressions are included.
School Psychology
The history, role, and ethical and legal issues of school psychology are studied. The school psychologist's role in team decision making is emphasized.
This course deals with pertinent issues in school psychology, such as ethics, theory, history and foundations of school psychology, legal issues, professional issues and standards, alternative models for delivery of school psychological services, as well as, roles and foundations of the school psychologist.