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EDPY 310 – Human Relationships in the Workplace and Personal Contexts

Spring Registration Begins November 1!

For anyone seeking to stand out among job applicants, the Department of Educational Psychology & Counseling is delighted to offer a new undergraduate course, beginning Spring 2022: EDPY 310 – Human Relationships in the Workplace and Personal Contexts.

Make sure you include this relevant experience on your resume!

The course will also count toward the new minor in Interpersonal Development. For more information on the minor, click here.

Students can expect to explore key interpersonal and communication skills for career success in EDPY 310, with the opportunity to apply those concepts further to personal relationships and life skills. Critical topics such as mental health and diversity will also be discussed.

This course, and the minor, are designed to positively empower students to gain invaluable and lifelong skills as human supports in the workplace, and beyond.

Click here to view the course description in the undergraduate catalog.

To reserve a seat for Spring 2022, contact: kbeltran@vols.utk.edu.

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Prospective students: Application deadlines are approaching for programs within the Department of Educational Psychology & Counseling. Apply today, and share with your friends who would benefit from this information!

Here is a breakdown of upcoming deadlines:

PhD Program Deadlines:

School Psychology : Dec. 1 for fall admissions.

Learning, Design & Technology: Oct. 15th for spring, Dec. 1 priority deadline for fall.

Evaluation, Statistics & Methodology: Jan. 1 priority deadline for fall.

Counselor Education: Nov. 1 for fall.

Adult Learning: Jan. 1 priority deadline for fall.

EdS Program Deadline:

School Psychology: Feb. 1 for fall admissions.

MS Program Deadlines:

School Counseling: Feb. 1 deadline for summer or fall semester start.

Instructional Technology (IT): October 15 for spring admission, April 15 for summer admission. June 15 for fall admission.

Clinical Mental Health Counseling: Feb. 1 for summer or fall semester start.

Educational Psychology (Ed Psych Online): rolling admissions with a general guideline of mid November for spring admissions, end of March for summer, and mid July for fall.

Graduate Certificate Deadlines:

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Many students have asked for resources on crisis and trauma response. Two of our faculty, Casey Bario Minton and Melinda Gibbons in Counselor Education, created this list of counselor and mental health resources that provide information about mental health, crisis, and trauma for our counseling students. The sites provide a range of information on psychological first aid, daily coping, social distancing, and career search information, all related to our current crisis.

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The Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling wants to congratulate the graduates from seven of our programs who earned their degrees and recipients from two of our graduate certificate programs who completed necessary requirements during the spring 2019 semester.

To see photos of our recent graduates, please go to the “EPC Graduates” album on our EPC Facebook page.

Madeline Birch Auge
MS in Educational Psychology – Applied Educational Psychology

Jillian Mei-Li Blueford
PhD in Counselor Education

Rita Bourbon Gray
MS in Education – Instructional Technology
Graduate Certificate in Online Teaching & Learning

Brenda Katz Murphy
PhD in Education – Learning Environments & Educational Studies

Christine Kay Patti
PhD in Education – Learning, Design & Technology

Ashley Kennedy Scheyder
MS in Counseling – School Counseling

Amanda Carol Sexton
MS in Educational Psychology – Adult Education

Nancy Elaine Thacker
PhD in Counselor Education
Graduate Certificate in Qualitative Research Methods in Education

*If you are one of the graduates listed above and would like to have your photo added to our EPC Graduates Facebook album, then please email your picture to Synthia Clark sclark41@utk.edu.

**If you were an Educational Psychology and Counseling student who graduated during this time frame, yet have unintentionally been omitted from this list, please send your name, degree, and major/concentration to Synthia Clark sclark41@utk.edu. We will add you to the list after receiving this information from you and confirming your graduation status.

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Louis RocconiLouis Rocconi, assistant professor, won an AccessLex Institute/Association for Institutional Research (AIR) grant in the amount of $50,000.

“I am honored to receive this grant and grateful to AccessLex and the Association for Institutional Research for supporting my research.”

The project being funded by this grant is titled “Measuring quality in legal education: Examining the relationship between law school rank and student engagement.”

The purpose of Rocconi’s study is to examine how law school rankings, such as US News and World Report, relate with other indicators of law school quality, especially student engagement. Student engagement more accurately describes what students experience while enrolled and has been linked to desirable outcomes such as high academic performance, diverse interactions, and satisfaction. Rankings play an integral role in students deciding which school to attend and what job placements they receive after graduating. So, it’s important to understand if, and how, rankings measure this experience.

​The AccessLex Institute/AIR Research and Dissertation Fellows Program is a grant competition promoting scholarship on issues related to access, affordability and value of legal education specifically, and graduate and professional education more broadly.

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