What are the emotional, social, developmental, and structural factors that affect learning? How can we design curriculum to support teaching and learning in a particular context? How do different research methodologies affect our research claims and findings?

Students and faculty in counseling and educational psychology study issues such as identity, culture, motivation, well-being, socialization, addiction, psychological interventions, learning, social development, design of learning environments, research designs and strategies, and different methods of data analysis. Faculty and student research interests are broad and include the areas of counseling, counseling psychology, school psychology, family psychology, learning and developmental sciences, and inquiry methodology.