• MA Degree Requirements
• PhD Degree Requirements
• Curriculum

The interdisciplinary Learning Sciences graduate programs are dedicated to the preparation of researchers, developers, and practitioners who are qualified to advance the scientific understanding and practice of teaching and learning. Learning Sciences faculty consider learning and teaching from a diversity of theoretical and methodological perspectives including, but not limited to, artificial intelligence, cognitive and developmental psychology, computer science, and educational research. Students in the program become engaged in three facets of research and theory in the learning sciences through their coursework and research apprenticeships. Cognition: scientific models of the structures and processes of learning and teaching by which organized knowledge, skills, and understanding are acquired Social Context: social, organizational, and cultural dynamics of learning and teaching in situations including classrooms, schools, school districts, museums, corporations, and homes. Design: building environments for learning and teaching, including innovative curricula, multimedia, artificial intelligence, computer networks, and telecommunications technologies, as well as classroom activity structures Students participate in frontier investigations of learning and teaching in schools, workplaces, and other settings through their participation in ongoing faculty research programs. The design and use of technologies as a component of innovation and educational reform play a special role in learning sciences inquiries.

Applicants should contact the program or see Web site www.sesp.northwestern.edu/ls/ to learn about program-specific requirements for admission.

Faculty

The primary appointment for those faculty with joint or affiliate status in another program is noted in parentheses.