Graduate Programs

Transform your organization through a learning perspective. Lead your school, agency, department, or nonprofit through justice, service, and participation.

Hone your language. Develop your design. Acquire the knowledge and techniques you need to be a communication specialist in a range of fields.

Argue in moot court, find an externship, work in a law clinic, clerk for a judge. Learn from legal scholars who consider your success a victory.

Think and act beyond the classroom. Engage your whole self. Advocate for health equity and social justice. Prepare to be a public health leader in local and global communities.

Learn to succeed in public office, congress, campaigns, advocacy, and civic leadership. A hybrid curriculum combines online learning with weekend seminars.

Prepare for public leadership. Transform learning into actions that serve our communities. Bring social innovation to the halls of government as well as to corporate boardrooms.

Prepare for a career in special education. Train as a paid intern teacher in a Bay Area school.

The program is conveniently located at USF’s Downtown Campus, in the heart of San Francisco’s financial district, so that working professionals can easily participate in the program. Both full- and part-time options are offered. 

Earn a degree built on equity, social justice, and human rights. 

Understand formal and informal education within its sociocultural, linguistic, and political contexts around the world.

Teachers learn to design curriculum that embodies their educational values and provides all students access to powerful learning opportunities.

The Master of Arts in Teaching Reading/Reading and Literacy Added Authorization (RLAA; formerly CA Reading Certificate)

Join the Bay Area's dynamic culture of grassroots organizing and advocacy. Develop community-driven public policy for more equitable cities and regions. Prepare for leadership roles in community organizing, public service, and political advocacy.

Join our community. Raise your voice. Write with your heart. Write for justice.