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Undergraduate to Graduate (U2G) MA Learning Sciences and Educational Psychology
Would you like to earn a BA and an MA in five years? The undergraduate to graduate (U2G) program in Learning Sciences and Educational Psychology is open to any undergraduate major at the University of Iowa.
The U2G program is an efficient way for undergraduate students to earn a graduate degree with just one additional year of study. Please consult with your undergraduate advisor to see if this opportunity could work for you.
The Learning Sciences and Educational Psychology program helps students better understand learners, learning, and the varied environments in which learning can (or should) take place by providing opportunities to design, study, and collaborate.
Program Overview
Upon admission to the program and during their final year of undergraduate studies students complete combined coursework of undergraduate and graduate courses. Then, students complete one additional year of graduate courses (i.e., semesters 9 and 10). Your academic advisor will help guide you through the requirements for degree completion.
Questions?
Our LSEP program empowers students to:
- develop principled understandings of how people think and learn.
- use that knowledge for designing, implementing, and evaluating instruction, technology, and the social and material components of learning environments within and beyond the traditional classroom.
- work in public and private sector organizations that include instructional, educational, and training arms—especially those that employ technology to support learning.
Our MA and PhD graduates are employed in instructional design, information technology, teaching, assessment, toy design, and both academic and non-academic research.
Our faculty study thinking and learning in formal (classrooms) and informal (maker spaces, outdoors, online) spaces. They have expertise in cognitive processes like conceptual change, spatial reasoning, interest development, and meaning making, and learning that is experiential, multi-modal, collaborative, technology-supported, and spans several disciplines.
Admissions and Application
Submit your application materials during the spring semester of your junior year.
- Minimum 3.25 cumulative GPA and minimum 3.25 University of Iowa GPA upon application.
- Minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA upon completion of undergraduate degree.
- Completion of 80 sh of undergraduate work and declaration of a major by the end of the semester of application. A student who did not start their academic career at the University of Iowa must take 30 credits at the U of I prior to applying to the U2G program.
- For ESHR students: Completion of Gen Eds, core ESHR courses, your MC class, one ESHR elective, and a minimum of 80 credits by the end of your junior year.
- For students in other majors, completion of Gen Eds and PSQF:1075 Educational Psychology and Measurement by the end of your junior year, the ability complete all undergraduate requirements for your major by the end of your senior year, which will include 12 sh of U2G classes. These classes may count towards your undergraduate major depending on your program of study or may count as undergraduate electives. Please visit with your advisor in your undergraduate major about these requirements.
- Statement of purpose
- Three letters of recommendation from instructors, supervisors, or similar individuals. You will be asked to give the contact information of your recommenders, including their email, on your Admissions Profile. The recommender will then get an email with instructions on how to upload the recommendation letter and/or form.
- Professional writing sample
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Please review the required supplemental documents above before starting the general graduate application. There is a $60 application fee for students residing in the United States. There is a $100 application fee for international applicants.
Contact Us
Program coordinator: kathy-schuh@uiowa.edu
Application questions: anne-sparks@uiowa.edu