Program Description

Full Description

The Bachelor of Integrative Studies degree provides a path to degree completion utilizing an integrative approach while maintaining a focus on career and professional goals. Students consult with an advisor to research and develop a plan of study.

The Integrative Studies major comprises the following concentrations:

• The Integrative Studies-General concentration allows students to choose a minimum of 30 credit hours from a minimum of two interrelated programs that support their career aspirations.
• The Integrative Studies-Two Minors concentration allows students to complete two university-recognized minors and/or certificates. Students select courses from a minimum of two academic departments and develop a rationale for the ways in which these courses support their career goals.

Students may apply early to the M.S. degree in Emerging Media and Technology and double count 9 credit hours of graduate courses toward both degree programs. See the Combined Bachelor's/Master's Degree Program policy in the University Catalog for more information.

Admissions

Admission Requirements

The university affirmatively strives to provide educational opportunities and access to students with varied backgrounds, those with special talents and adult students who graduated from high school three or more years ago.

Students who have completed 30 credit hours (excluding credit earned while in high school, e.g. College Credit Plus) may declare the Bachelor of Integrative Studies degree. Students should schedule an appointment with a B.I.S. advisor to evaluate completed coursework, discuss future academic and career goals and determine which concentration will be reflected on the degree audit.

This degree program may not be earned as a double major or dual degree with another major and cannot be earned as an additional degree after another degree at the same or higher level has been earned previously.

International Students: All international students must provide proof of proficiency of the English language (unless they meet specific exceptions) through the submission of an English language proficiency test score or by completing English language classes at Kent State’s English as a Second Language Center before entering their program. For more information, visit the admissions website for international students.

Learning Outcomes

Program Learning Outcomes

Graduates of this program will be able to:

1. Integrate theoretical and empirical material from across traditional disciplines.
2. Design, research and execute a scholarly project of high quality.
3. Articulate connections between their chosen coursework at Kent State and their plans to make a contribution to their community after graduation.

Program Delivery

• Delivery:
  • Fully online
  • In person
• Location:
  • Ashtabula Campus
  • East Liverpool Campus
  • Geauga Campus
  • Kent Campus
  • Salem Campus
  • Stark Campus
  • Trumbull Campus
  • Tuscarawas Campus

Program Description

Full Description

The Bachelor of Arts degree in Gender and Sexuality Studies takes a multidisciplinary and intersectional approach to examining ideas and processes that shape people's understanding about gender, sexualities and bodies throughout space and time. Scholarly investigation and production in this discipline emerged from sociological inquiry on human sexuality as well as feminist, LGBTQ and anti-racist histories and activism to combat social inequality. This program skillfully provides both the theoretical and praxis of the field while integrating these different and contributing perspectives regarding gender and sexuality.

Admissions

Admission Requirements

The university affirmatively strives to provide educational opportunities and access to students with varied backgrounds, those with special talents and adult students.

First-Year Students on the Kent Campus: First-year admission policy on the Kent Campus is selective. Admission decisions are based upon cumulative grade point average, strength of high school college preparatory curriculum and grade trends. Students not admissible to the Kent Campus may be administratively referred to one of the seven regional campuses to begin their college coursework. For more information, visit the admissions website for first-year students.

First-Year Students on the Regional Campuses: First-year admission to Kent State’s campuses at Ashtabula, East Liverpool, Geauga, Salem, Stark, Trumbull and Tuscarawas, as well as the Twinsburg Academic Center, is open to anyone with a high school diploma or its equivalent. For more information on admissions, contact the Regional Campuses admissions offices.

International Students: All international students must provide proof of proficiency of the English language (unless they meet specific exceptions) through the submission of an English language proficiency test score or by completing English language classes at Kent State’s English as a Second Language Center before entering their program. For more information, visit the admissions website for international students.

Former Students: Former Kent State students who have not attended another institution since Kent State and were not academically dismissed will complete the re-enrollment process through the Financial, Billing and Enrollment Center. Former students who attended another college or university since leaving Kent State must apply for admissions as a transfer or post-undergraduate student.

Transfer Students: Students who attended an educational institution after graduating from high school or earning their GED must apply as transfer students. For more information, visit the admissions website for transfer students.

Admission policies for undergraduate students may be found in the University Catalog's Academic Policies.

Students may be required to meet certain criteria to progress in their program. Any progression requirements will be listed on the program's Coursework tab

Learning Outcomes

Program Learning Outcomes

Graduates of this program will be able to:

1. Identify key terms, theories and conceptual frameworks in the analysis of gender and sexuality.
2. Examine the multiple and complex ways gender and sexuality are constructed through, and across, different identities, discourses and systems of power.
3. Think critically about contemporary debates and issues related to gender and sexuality and devise policy interventions to address them.
4. Apply multiple thematic areas in analyzing questions, dynamics and issues surrounding gender and sexuality and contribute with agency in social discourse.

Roadmap

Roadmap

This roadmap is a recommended semester-by-semester plan of study for this program. Students will work with their advisor to develop a sequence based on their academic goals and history. Courses designated as critical (!) must be completed in the semester listed to ensure a timely graduation.

Program Delivery

• Delivery:
  • In person
• Location:
  • Kent Campus

Program Description

Full Description

The Alternative Licensure Professional Development Institute, Social Studies, non-degree program serve new teachers who completed the Ohio Department of Education requirements for an alternative resident educator license and now need to earn an Ohio five-year professional license. Self-paced and online, the program can be completed in under one year. The program prepares teachers in the principles and practices of teaching, student development and learning, pupil assessment procedures, curriculum development, classroom management and teaching methodology.

Kent State is one of a select number of universities approved by the Ohio Department of Higher Education to provide coursework and experiences for an alternative pathway to teaching grades 7-12. The alternative resident educator license is an accelerated pathway to classroom teaching. This pathway allows students, schools and communities to benefit from the candidates' content-related knowledge, life experience and successful career experience.

This program does not culminate in a master's degree. Students interested in a master's degree at Kent State must be fully admitted into and complete the requirements for the master's program, in addition to courses that are prescribed here for licensure.

Admissions

For more information about graduate admissions, visit the graduate admission website. For more information on international admissions, visit the international admission website.

Admission Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university
• Minimum 2.500 GPA on a 4.000-point scale
• Official transcript(s)
• Evidence of successful completion of an Intensive Pedagogical Development Institute or Alternative Resident Educator Institute approved by the Ohio Department of Education
• Evidence of passing scores for the Ohio Educator Assessment (OAE) test for licensure area
• Ohio Alternative Resident Educator License (and license number)

Application Deadlines

• Fall Semester
  • Rolling admissions
• Spring Semester
  • Rolling admissions
• Summer Term
  • Rolling admissions

Learning Outcomes

Program Learning Outcomes

Completers of this program will be able to:

1. Plan and deliver instruction that is equitable, inclusive and skillfully aligned to state and national curriculum standards.
2. Design assessments across a range of situations, both formal and informal, to provide data that leads to making valid and reliable inferences about student performance.
3. Critically reflect on instruction, assessment practices and professional engagements with colleagues and students.
4. Design learning environments, both physical and psychological, where students are safe, engaged and supported in their learning endeavors.
5. Model behaviors of learning, cognitive, social and emotional to lead learners toward self-regulation, personal growth and academic achievement.
6. Craft curriculum that aligns to school, state and national standards.
7. Gain professional practices related to content area.

Program Delivery

• Delivery:
  • Fully Online

Program Description

Full Description

The Alternative Licensure Professional Development Institute, Science, non-degree program serve new teachers who completed the Ohio Department of Education requirements for an alternative resident educator license and now need to earn an Ohio five-year professional license. Self-paced and online, the program can be completed in under one year. The program prepares teachers in the principles and practices of teaching, student development and learning, pupil assessment procedures, curriculum development, classroom management and teaching methodology.

Kent State is one of a select number of universities approved by the Ohio Department of Higher Education to provide coursework and experiences for an alternative pathway to teaching grades 7-12. The alternative resident educator license is an accelerated pathway to classroom teaching. This pathway allows students, schools and communities to benefit from the candidates' content-related knowledge, life experience and successful career experience.

This program does not culminate in a master's degree. Students interested in a master's degree at Kent State must be fully admitted into and complete the requirements for the master's program, in addition to courses that are prescribed here for licensure.

Admissions

For more information about graduate admissions, visit the graduate admission website. For more information on international admissions, visit the international admission website.

Admission Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university
• Minimum 2.500 GPA on a 4.000-point scale
• Official transcript(s)
• Evidence of successful completion of an Intensive Pedagogical Development Institute or Alternative Resident Educator Institute approved by the Ohio Department of Education
• Evidence of passing scores for the Ohio Educator Assessment (OAE) test for licensure area
• Ohio Alternative Resident Educator License (and license number)

Application Deadlines

• Fall Semester
  • Rolling admissions
• Spring Semester
  • Rolling admissions
• Summer Term
  • Rolling admissions

Learning Outcomes

Program Learning Outcomes

Completers of this non-degree program will be able to:

1. Plan and deliver instruction that is equitable, inclusive and skillfully aligned to state and national curriculum standards.
2. Design assessments that across a range of situations, both formal and informal, that provides data that leads to making valid and reliable inferences about student performance.
3. Critically reflect on instruction, assessment practices and professional engagements with colleagues and students.
4. Design learning environments, both physical and psychological, where students are safe, engaged and supported in their learning endeavors.
5. Model behaviors of learning, cognitive, social and emotional to lead learners toward self-regulation, personal growth and academic achievement.
6. 6Craft curriculum that aligns to school, state and national standards.
7. Gain professional practices related to content area.

Program Delivery

• Delivery:
  • Fully online

Program Description

Full Description

The Alternative Licensure Professional Development Institute, Mathematics, non-degree program serve new teachers who completed the Ohio Department of Education requirements for an alternative resident educator license and now need to earn an Ohio five-year professional license. Self-paced and online, the program can be completed in under one year. The program prepares teachers in the principles and practices of teaching, student development and learning, pupil assessment procedures, curriculum development, classroom management and teaching methodology.

Kent State is one of a select number of universities approved by the Ohio Department of Higher Education to provide coursework and experiences for an alternative pathway to teaching grades 7-12. The alternative resident educator license is an accelerated pathway to classroom teaching. This pathway allows students, schools and communities to benefit from the candidates' content-related knowledge, life experience and successful career experience.

This program does not culminate in a master's degree. Students interested in a master's degree at Kent State must be fully admitted into and complete the requirements for the master's program, in addition to courses that are prescribed here for licensure.

Professional Licensure Disclosure

This program is designed to prepare students to sit for applicable licensure or certification in Ohio. If you plan to pursue licensure or certification in a state other than Ohio, please review state educational requirements for licensure or certification and contact information for state licensing boards at Kent State's website for professional licensure disclosure.

Admissions

For more information about graduate admissions, visit the graduate admission website. For more information on international admissions, visit the international admission website.

Admission Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university
• Minimum 2.500 GPA on a 4.000-point scale
• Official transcript(s)
• Evidence of successful completion of an Intensive Pedagogical Development Institute or Alternative Resident Educator Institute approved by the Ohio Department of Education
• Evidence of passing scores for the Ohio Educator Assessment (OAE) test for licensure area
• Ohio Alternative Resident Educator License (and license number)

Application Deadlines

• Fall Semester
  • Rolling admissions
• Spring Semester
  • Rolling admissions
• Summer Term
  • Rolling admissions

Learning Outcomes

Program Learning Outcomes

Completers of this non-degree program will be able to:

1. Plan and deliver instruction that is equitable, inclusive and skillfully aligned to state and national curriculum standards.
2. Design assessments that across a range of situations, both formal and informal, that provides data that leads to making valid and reliable inferences about student performance.
3. Critically reflect on instruction, assessment practices and professional engagements with colleagues and students.
4. Design learning environments, both physical and psychological, where students are safe, engaged and supported in their learning endeavors.
5. Model behaviors of learning, cognitive, social and emotional to lead learners toward self-regulation, personal growth and academic achievement.
6. Craft curriculum that aligns to school, state and national standards.
7. Gain professional practices related to content area.

Program Delivery

• Delivery:
  • Fully online

Program Description

Full Description

The Alternative Licensure Professional Development Institute, English/Language Arts, non-degree program serve new teachers who completed the Ohio Department of Education requirements for an alternative resident educator license and now need to earn an Ohio five-year professional license. Self-paced and online, the program can be completed in under one year. The program prepares teachers in the principles and practices of teaching, student development and learning, pupil assessment procedures, curriculum development, classroom management and teaching methodology.

Kent State is one of a select number of universities approved by the Ohio Department of Higher Education to provide coursework and experiences for an alternative pathway to teaching grades 7-12. The alternative resident educator license is an accelerated pathway to classroom teaching. This pathway allows students, schools and communities to benefit from the candidates' content-related knowledge, life experience and successful career experience.

This program does not culminate in a master's degree. Students interested in a master's degree at Kent State must be fully admitted into and complete the requirements for the master's program, in addition to courses that are prescribed here for licensure.

Professional Licensure Disclosure

This program is designed to prepare students to sit for applicable licensure or certification in Ohio. If you plan to pursue licensure or certification in a state other than Ohio, please review state educational requirements for licensure or certification and contact information for state licensing boards at Kent State's website for professional licensure disclosure.

Admissions

For more information about graduate admissions, visit the graduate admission website. For more information on international admissions, visit the international admission website.

Admission Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university
• Minimum 2.500 GPA on a 4.000-point scale
• Official transcript(s)
• Evidence of successful completion of an Intensive Pedagogical Development Institute or Alternative Resident Educator Institute approved by the Ohio Department of Education
• Evidence of passing scores for the Ohio Educator Assessment (OAE) test for licensure area
• Ohio Alternative Resident Educator License (and license number)

Application Deadlines

• Fall Semester
  • Rolling admissions
• Spring Semester
  • Rolling admissions
• Summer Term
  • Rolling admissions

Learning Outcomes

Program Learning Outcomes

Completers of this non-degree program will be able to:

1. Plan and deliver instruction that is equitable, inclusive and skillfully aligned to state and national curriculum standards.
2. Design assessments that across a range of situations, both formal and informal, that provides data that leads to making valid and reliable inferences about student performance.
3. Critically reflect on instruction, assessment practices and professional engagements with colleagues and students.
4. Design learning environments, both physical and psychological, where students are safe, engaged and supported in their learning endeavors.
5. Model behaviors of learning, cognitive, social and emotional to lead learners toward self-regulation, personal growth and academic achievement.
6. Craft curriculum that aligns to school, state and national standards.
7. Gain professional practices related to content area.

Program Delivery

• Delivery:
  • Fully online