Mission
Special Education
Introduction
The doctoral program in Special Education is available to a limited number of students who show promise of becoming leaders of special education. It is a competency based approach to doctoral level preparation in order to assure that all candidates have sufficient skills to be employable in college instruction, research, and school and/or clinical practice. Programs are planned to develop a mastery of the comprehensive field of special education and to encourage a breadth of understanding of related disciplines. Such doctoral study is necessarily rigorous and exacting.
The planning of a student's doctoral program in special education at The University of Georgia is the cooperative responsibility of the student and his/her advisory committee. The guiding philosophy for this policy rests in the fact that a single, common program of study does not meet the needs of all students. Students, often bring different patterns of preparation, experience, interests, and needs. Because the advisory committee is not restricted by traditional course credit limitation, the committee may decide that one candidate may need certain coursework and experience not required of another candidate. Faculty members strongly believe that placing this flexibility and responsibility in the hands of the advisory committee results in a stronger doctoral program than otherwise would be the case. Such a policy is commensurate with the objectives of the program and enables the advisory committee to work closely with the candidate in building an effective program which meets his/her professional goals and objectives.
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