School of Arts and Science

Vision for the School of Arts & Science

The School of Arts & Science supports the mission of Iona College through its commitment to fostering academic excellence and intellectual inquiry rooted in life-long learning and professional success. Our faculty are a caring community of teacher-scholars, committed to the success of our students inside and outside the classroom. The School offers a diverse set of programs that are academically challenging with a career focus.

In furtherance of these commitments, the School strives to:

• provide an education that is current, student-centered, outcome-based, and involves an appropriate mix of classroom-based instruction, independent research, and internship or practical experience;
• equip students with the skills necessary for success in a rapidly changing environment: critical thinking, effective oral and written communication, problem solving, collaborative learning, ethical decision making, scientific, technological and aesthetic literacy;
• instill in students the habits of mind enabling them to possess our most precious human heritage: those ideas, beliefs, writings, and creative expressions that are the basis of intellectual, cultural, and moral development;
• deepen students’ self-awareness, reflectiveness, and commitment to a core of values that will illuminate both their personal relationships and their relationship to a pluralistic society with the qualities of intelligence, tolerance, decency, compassion, and appreciation of cultures others than their own;
• recruit, retain, and support the development of a faculty of exceptional teacher-scholars whose pedagogy is informed by research, experience, and scholarship.

(Revised, October 2018)

Offerings

The School of Arts and Science offers the following Master of Arts (MA) degrees: Communication Sciences and Disorders; Mental Health Counseling; Psychology - General-Experimental Specialization; Psychology - Industrial/Organizational Specialization; Public Relations; School Psychology; Sports Communication and Media

The School offers the following Master of Science (MS) degrees:  Computer Science; Computer Science with Concentration in Cyber Security; Computer Science with Concentration in Game Development; Criminal Justice; Marriage and Family Therapy

The School also offers the following Master of Science in Education (MSEd) degrees: Adolescence Education (Grades 7-12) in biology, math, English, social studies, and Spanish content areas; Literacy Education (Birth to Grade 6); Literacy Education (Birth to Grade 6) / Special Education - Childhood; Adolescence Special Education (Grades 5-12) / Literacy Specialist 

The School offers the following Master of Science in Teaching (MST) degrees: Adolescence Education (Grades 7-12) in biology, math, English, social studies, and Spanish content areas; Childhood Education (Grades 1-6); Childhood Education (Grades 1-6) / Special Education - Childhood; Dual Early Childhood Education / Childhood Education (Birth to Grade 6)

The School offers the following Advanced Certificates: Clinical Communication; Cyber-Crime and Prevention; Forensic Criminology and Criminal Justice; Human Resources; Non-profit Public Relations; Organizational Behavior;

Courses