Students who successfully complete a program at BSL will be able to demonstrate:

Legal and Law-Related Knowledge

Knowledge of specific areas or aspects of substantive law, legal theory, or legal procedure

Example: Acquiring knowledge of domestic / comparative / international / transnational legal doctrine and processes, jurisprudence, knowledge of legal theory, and statutory / regulatory law and processes.

Analysis and Decision-Making

Understand and develop solutions to legal problems

Example: Analyzing, being creative or innovative, exercising practical judgment, problem solving, and reasoning.

Policy Evaluation

Draw connections between specific legal issues and policy contexts or values

Example: Understanding or evaluating specific situations in light of fundamental principles and values such as equality, fairness, liberty, justice, or analytical orientations such as economics, public safety, or public policy.

Professional Identity

Responsibilities of lawyers to their profession and society

Example: Demonstrating awareness of professional commitments to continued learning, community involvement and service, diligence, engagement, ethics, honesty, integrity, and dedication.

Writing

Written professional communication for a variety of professional purposes

Example: Creating written texts for different audiences and purposes, advocating, negotiating, analyzing, memorializing transactions, or disseminating knowledge.

Oral Communication

Using oral communication for a variety of professional purposes

Example: Advising, advocating, counseling clients, influencing, listening, presenting information, speaking for professional purposes.

Information Gathering and Processing

Obtaining and assessing information about facts, law, procedure, and people

Example: Fact finding, interviewing, researching, and sorting known information so as to identify what is important for particular purposes.

Interpersonal Perspectives

Emotionally intelligent engagement, team building, collaboration, cooperation, and leadership

Example: Seeing the world through the eyes of others, resolving conflicts, empathizing, evaluating, mentoring, organizing and managing others.

Client and Practice Management

Skills required to ethically and effectively manage ethical, professional and business aspects of the legal profession

Example: Building relationships with clients, members of the legal profession, and others, handling stress, identifying client or community needs, organizing one's own work, using technology and electronic media.

Ph.D. Program in Educational Psychology

Learning Theory

Understand and be able to analyze key theories related to learning, cognition, and development.

Literature Critique

Be able to critically evaluate research studies based on each study’s (a) methodology, (b) literature support, & (c) significance.

Research Design & Methods: Quantitative

(a) Understand and use advanced statistical research methods (including computertechnology for the analysis of data); (b) understand the role of causation in science and the threats to causal inference posed by invalid research design and methodology.

Research Design & Methods: Qualitative

Understand (a) qualitative approaches to exploring phenomena related to educational and other social contexts, (b) the theoretical and practical considerations of conducting and interpreting case studies, ethnographies, participant observations, narrative reports, and design-based research, and (c) criteria for establishing goodness of qualitative studies.

Psychometrics

Be able to develop plans for assessment, item and test specification, item writing and selection, assessment preparation and administration, test and item analysis, item and test revision to enhance reliability and validity, and various methods for validating assessments and surveys, such as factor analysis, item response theory, and current issues in psychometrics.

Professional Research Skills

Be able to serve as independent scholars who (a) can design, (b) implement, (c) and prepare reports of research studies, and (b) make significant contributions to the discipline of educational psychology.

Professional Identity and Community

(a) Develop a professional identity consistent with the specialization strand, (b) actively contribute to the profession, and (c) understand aspects of ethical and professional functioning in the chosen domain.

Specialization Strand Theory

Understand and be able to analyze key theories related to the selected specialization strand.

Specialization Strand Application

Understand how to implement evidence-based intervention strategies and/or design and modify learning environments to promote more effective learning.