Concentrations

As young children develop oral and literacy skills, they benefit most from an early childhood program that integrates their native language into the curriculum. Goddard College’s Dual Language Early Childhood Education Concentration offers educators the vital tools and training required

Goddard College’s Community Education Concentration emphasizes service learning in the whole community. It shifts your focus out of the classroom and into urban and suburban neighborhoods and the rural countryside. It teaches educators how to connect and interact with children,

The Spiritual Care & Counseling Concentration within the Psychology and Counseling program at Goddard College provides a rigorous and inclusive program, allowing students to explore strategies for inquiring into the psychological issues related to spiritual life. Students in this concentration

The relational power between humans and animals is incredibly strong, and, in many cases, healing. From a clinical vantage, Animal-Assisted Therapy (AAT) and Animal-Assisted Activities (AAA) have grown exponentially in popularity in recent years. Animal-assisted therapists work as professionals and

Sexuality Studies provides a foundation for understanding how humans form relationships, experience pleasure and the erotic, express the aesthetics of desire, love, and passion, and interact with the sexual resources of their environment. Scholars, activists, and artists in this field

Embodiment Studies is an emerging, transdisciplinary field drawing on and influencing work across a range of inquiries and practices, all seeking 1) to understand human life as the life of the body in a physical universe and 2) to restore

The Performance Creation Concentration, offered in Goddard’s MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts (MFAIA) program, is designed to provide a learning context that blurs lines between authored, collaborative, and interpretive models of performance. Goddard’s approach to performance creation is unique. By assembling

The MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts (MFAIA) Indigenous and Decolonial Art (IDA) concentration emerged in response to the most recent resurgence in North America of Indigenous sovereignty and anti-colonial resistance movements that can be traced back to activism led by Indigenous

An exciting and emerging area of study, Consciousness Studies focus on the transformative experiences, practices, and beliefs of many cultural, religious, spiritual, and psychotherapeutic traditions. The Consciousness Studies Concentration, available to students enrolled in any of the degree options within

The Transformative Language Arts Concentration is the intentional use of the written, spoken and sung word for individual and community growth, development, celebration and transformation. In the tradition of Tikkum Olam, the Hebrew phrase that means putting back together the

Students pursuing the Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling or Master of Arts in Psychology may choose to also do a Sexual Orientation Concentration as a part of their studies. The Sexual Orientation Concentration was developed in 2000 in response to

“The Expressive Arts combine the visual arts, movement, drama, music, writing, and other creative processes to foster deep personal growth and community development. IEATA encourages an evolving multimodal approach within psychology, organizational development, community arts, and education. By integrating the