Educational Leadership & Workforce Development offers degree programs at the undergraduate level to help you meet your career goals. Learn more below!
Occupational & Technical Studies
The Training Specialist program is designed to prepare job-ready graduates to design, implement, and deliver organizational development and training programs that result in talent development and organizational performance improvement.
Students learn to research target markets, analyze business results, and develop strategies that effectively meet the needs of consumers. During the summer between their junior and senior year, students must complete a fashion internship that gives them significant practical experience.
The Industrial Technology Program produces a technical generalist who is competent in assessing problems and proposing solutions to improve productivity related to product specifications, materials, and processes, industrial control and information systems and manufacturing production.
Career & Technical Education
The technology education program includes the study of technological systems, processes, and artifacts, and most major courses contain laboratory activities.
This program includes a three-pronged approach to education and includes classroom instruction, work-based learning, and DECA, the career and technical student organization.
Minors & Certificates
Offered to students majoring in disciplines (other than occupational and technical studies) who wish to enhance their content area of expertise and develop the knowledge and skills required to be an effective trainer in their respective disciplines and related fields.
Designed especially for military and civilian instructors and trainers. It is directed to those individuals who possess technical skills in the military, industry, career and technical centers, or community colleges and would like to become a trainer in their respective fields of interest.
Fashion merchandising involves wearing many hats within the fashion industry, sometimes juggling them and sometimes focusing on one area exclusively.
The minor equips students with skills to make better personal decisions about technology and more appropriate choices for their futures.