School of Education, Counseling & Human Development

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Jay Trenhaile, Director
Lisbeth Leagjeld, CHRD Liaison Black Hills State University - Rapid City
School of Education, Counseling & Human Development
Wenona Hall 109, Box 507
605-688-4367

The mission of the School of Education, Counseling, and Human Development is to provide high quality educational experiences to learners across the education and human science fields, and to generate knowledge of human behavior, learning science, and interpersonal relationships.

The School of Education, Counseling, and Human Development creates a unique niche across programs in education and human science fields that emphasizes developmental sciences and the science of learning. By more fully integrating human development and education, we will be able to better ground teacher education in the context of developmental and cultural relevance, and we will further strengthen our offerings in human development by grounding them in the science of learning. Both areas underscore the importance of how learning across the lifespan develops in diverse learners. Diverse here references not only differences in cognitive and learning styles, but differences in culture, socioeconomic status, and lifestyle.

The School of Education, Counseling and Human Development is one of the few public university departments in South Dakota that delivers programs at the main campus in Brookings, Community College for Sioux Falls, BHSU - Rapid City, and online.

Graduate Faculty

Andrea Bjornestad, Associate Professor
Staci Born, Assistant Professor
Mary Bowne, Professor
Hande Briddick, Professor
William Briddick, Associate Professor
Christin Carotta, Assistant Professor
Kay Cutler, Professor
Ann Michelle Daniels, Associate Professor
Alan Davis, Professor
Anthony Durr, Assistant Professor
Aileen Garcia, Assistant Professor
Patrick Hales, Assistant Professor
Gregory Howard, Lecturer
Erin Lavender-Stott, Assistant Professor
Lisbeth Leagjeld, Lecturer
Amber Letcher, Associate Professor
Kristine Ramsay-Seaner, Assistant Professor
Katelyn Romsa, Assistant Professor
Andrew Stremmel, Professor
Jay Trenhaile, Director and Professor
Peter White, Assistant Professor
Alison Wilson, Assistant Professor

Programs

Master’s Degrees

• Agricultural Education (M.S.)  
• Counseling and Human Resource Development (M.Ed.) - Administration of Student Affairs Specialization  
• Counseling and Human Resource Development (M.S.) - Clinical Mental Health Counseling Specialization  
• Counseling and Human Resource Development (M.S.) - College Counseling Specialization  
• Counseling and Human Resource Development (M.S.) - Marriage and Family Counseling Specialization  
• Counseling and Human Resource Development (M.S.) - Rehabilitation Counseling Specialization  
• Counseling and Human Resource Development (M.S.) - School Counseling Specialization  
• Curriculum and Instruction (M.Ed.) - Early Childhood Education Specialization  
• Curriculum and Instruction (M.Ed.) - Elementary Education Specialization  
• Curriculum and Instruction (M.Ed.) - Secondary Education Specialization  
• Educational Administration (M.Ed.)   
• Human Sciences (M.S.) - Developmental Sciences Specialization  
• Human Sciences (M.S.) - Family and Community Services Specialization  
• Human Sciences (M.S.) - Family and Consumer Sciences Education Specialization   

Certificates

• Academic Advising Certificate 
• Competency-Based Learning Certificate  

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