Henry Predolin School of Nursing, Business, Education, and Health Sciences

The Henry Predolin School of Nursing, Business, and Health Sciences’ Nursing programs are accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) and approved by the Wisconsin Board of Nursing. Edgewood College offers a variety of nursing programs ranging from a Bachelor of Science degree that prepares individuals for entrance into the nursing profession, to a terminal degree (DNP) designed for current nursing leaders.

Mission

The Henry Predolin School of Nursing, Business, and Health Sciences’ Nursing programs reflect the Mission of Edgewood College by locating professional nursing education within the context of a Catholic, liberal arts setting in the Dominican tradition. Nursing is a profession built on knowledge from nursing theory, research and practice, the humanities, and the natural and behavioral sciences. Students are educated in a dynamic interactive environment to be knowledgeable, accountable, responsible, ethical and culturally sensitive graduates who will become leaders in a changing and diverse healthcare environment.

SON Admission, Progression, and Academic Policies

Nondiscrimination Policy (Admission)

Nondiscriminatory practice is the practice of treating all individuals, including applicants, without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, religion, age or disability, consistent with law. Although an applicant should not be required to provide information regarding any protected characteristics, he or she can provide such information on a voluntary basis. 

Bachelor of Science

• Nursing, BS
• Nursing, Post-Baccalaureate, ABSN (On-Campus)
• Nursing, Post-Baccalaureate, ABSN (Online)

Accelerated Master’s Pathway

We offer a program for students with an Associate’s Degree in Nursing (ADN) looking to complete their Bachelor of Science (BS) in Nursing or Master of Science (MS) in Nursing

• Nursing ADN to MS in Nursing

Master of Science

• Nursing, Comprehensive, MS
• Nursing, Adult Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner (AGPCNP) Concentration, MS
• Nursing, Clinical Nurse Specialist in Adult Gerontology (CNS-AG) Concentration, MS
• Nursing, Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) Concentration, MS
• Nursing, Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) Concentration, MS
• Nursing, Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) Concentration, MS

Master of Science Graduate Certificate

• Nursing, Clinical Nurse Specialist in Adult Gerontology (CNS-AG) Post Graduate Certificate
• Nursing, Adult Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner (AGPCNP) Post-Graduate Certificate
• Nursing, Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) Post-Graduate Certificate
• Nursing, Perioperative Leadership Graduate Certificate

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)

• Nursing Practice in Executive Leadership, DNP

In Business, Communication, and Innovation (BCI), students gain the tools, knowledge and experience needed to become leaders and to make a positive impact on the business world and beyond. Our approach to professional education enhances students’ abilities to be critical, creative thinkers who communicate effectively and excel in a diverse and ever-changing global economy.

BCI’s curricular design ensures that our content and teaching methods meet the changing needs of our graduates, their employers and the community. Full-time and executive/ professional adjunct faculty teach a broad array of courses relevant to future business and societal demands, with ethical leadership, entrepreneurship, sustainability, and global perspectives integrated throughout our curriculum.

BCI educates an average of 300 undergraduate and 200 graduate students each academic year. With a value-based and student-centered approach, we prepare students to be successful, ethical, and entrepreneurial community leaders.

The programs in Accounting, Business, and MBA are nationally accredited by ACBSP.

Accounting, Business, and Organizational Behavior and Leadership Studies

Edgewood College’s Business, Communication, and Innovation offers innovative undergraduate degree programs in Business. Courses employ active learning approaches to foster student development.  Our integrated approach helps students develop a holistic view of how organizations work, how different business disciplines interface, and how to effectively impact organizations.

Bachelor of Science Degrees

• Accounting, BS
  • Finance Concentration
  • Management Concentration
  • Marketing Concentration
  • Post-Baccalaureate
• Business, Accelerated Program, BS
  • General Business Concentration
  • Accounting Concentration
• Business, BS
  • Accounting Concentration
  • Finance Concentration
  • General Business Concentration
  • Health Care Management Concentration
  • Management Concentration
  • Marketing Concentration
  • Sports Management Concentration
• Organizational Behavior and Leadership, BS

Communications Studies

The Communication Studies programs prepare students for fulfilling personal and professional lives enriched by community engagement and based on a theoretical and practical understanding of communication.

As a Communication Studies major, students learn how to listen, how to persuade, and how to engage in civic life. Students study communication in personal relationships, businesses and other organizations, media, and across genders and cultures. In addition, students gain valuable hands-on experience through internships, community-based projects, and research classes.

Bachelor of Arts Degree

• Communication Studies, BS
  • Social Influence Concentration
  • Individually Planned Concentration
  • Media and Message Concentration
  • Organizational/Interpersonal Concentration

MBA Degree

Our Masters of Business Administration (MBA) program has been carefully designed to give you a solid background in business mechanics and business ethics. Topics related to change and innovation, international business, quality, information technology, and social responsibility are integrated throughout the courses. You will graduate from the program with a competitive advantage in today’s challenging business environment. MBA concentrations include:

• General Business Concentration
• Accounting Concentration
• Data Analytics Concentration
• Healthcare Management Concentration
• Organizational Leadership and Change Concentration

Master of Science Degrees

• Accountancy, MS
• Human Resource Management and Development, MS

Master of Arts in Business Communications and Leadership

• Executive Influence Concentration
• Global Executive Leadership Concentration
• Public Relations and Media Campaigns Concentration
• Social Media Marketing Concentration

Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)

• General Concentration
• Financial Concentration
• Leadership Excellence Concentration
• MBA to DBA

Thank you for your interest in either beginning or continuing a career in the education profession. It truly is an incredible responsibility to be involved in the process of teaching and learning. There is no other work that has such a profound possibility to impact society.

The Division of Education is guided by Edgewood’s founding Dominican values of truth, compassion, justice, community and partnership. Our courses are offered within the context of a liberal arts education framework. All of our programs seek to enhance the education profession and help individuals imagine a profession fully engaged in constructing a just future.

Please take your time to familiarize yourself with our website and always feel free to contact members of the faculty and the staff with any questions concerning your future in the Division of Education at Edgewood College.

*per WDPI requirements, you can find more information about Approved Educator Preparation Programs on the DPI website. 

Bachelor’s Degrees

• Art and Design Teaching, BA
• Degree Completion Cross-Categorical Special Education, BA
• Degree Completion Elementary and Middle Education, BA
• Degree Completion Secondary Education, BA
• Elementary Education, BA
• Studies in Education, BS
• Theatre Arts, Teaching Concentration, BA

The Graduate programs in Education are offered within the context of a traditional liberal arts education framework. Our Dominican values of truth, compassion, justice, partnership and community are more important than ever in preparing the educators of our children and youth, and are woven throughout our course and program offerings.We offer a variety of programs that are designed to meet the needs of the working professional with convenient scheduling or online format. Courses in License Certification programs can be applied toward completion of a Master of Arts in Education.

Master of Arts in Education Degree with Licensing

Concentrations:

• Bilingual Education
• Educational Leadership
• Elementary Education
• ESL Education
• Reading Administration
• Secondary Education
• Special Education

Master of Arts in Education, Professional Educator, Non-Licensing

• Bilingual Education Concentration, MA/Non-Licensing
• Educational Leadership Concentration, MA/Non-Licensing
• English as a Second Language (ESL) Concentration, MA/Non-Licensing
• Generalist Concentration, MA/Non-Licensing
• Special Education Concentration, MA/Non-Licensing

Licensing

• Advanced Certification Elementary (initial license)
• Bilingual Education Licensing
• Educational Leadership Licensing
  • Director of Instruction, Licensing
  • Director of Special Education and Pupil Services Licensing
  • Principal, Licensing
  • School Business Administrator Licensing
• English as a Second Language (ESL) Licensing
• Reading Specialist Licensing
• Reading Teacher Licensing

Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership

Edgewood College embraces learning that welcomes aspiring leaders from various disciplines and workplaces. Whether you are a higher education professional, non-profit leader, business executive, or K12 educator, our cohort model will support and challenge you through your coursework. A Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) allows for a practical approach to research that encourages you to apply what you are learning to challenges within your field.

The Doctoral Completion Program offers support, expert guidance, and a trusting community of learners to produce scholarly researchers, academic writers, and Edgewood College leaders.

Our program allows you to choose your topic and your Edgewood faculty dissertation chair. Your chair will help you to form the remainder of your dissertation committee.

Our graduates advance to become college presidents and administrators, K12 superintendents and leaders, and non-profit champions. Each student leaves with strong research skills as both a consumer and practitioner, values-based leadership skills, and the knowledge to lead strategically.

Education Leadership Doctorate Programs

• Educational Leadership, Doctoral Completion Program, Ed.D.
• Educational Leadership, Accelerated Online Program, Ed.D.

Licensing Information

• Education, Superintendent/District Leadership, Licensing

Information for our Cooperating Teachers who are interested in mentoring student teachers from Edgewood College can be found here.

The Health Science major includes up to three years of undergraduate academic study and completing the General Education degree requirements. Transfer students must take at least 8 biology credits at Edgewood College for a Health Science major.

This major requires a full two-year internship (including summer) at the University of Wisconsin Health (UW Health). Students can select either the sonography (1 summer internship) or radiography (2 summer internships) concentration. The number of credits earned during the internship depends on the concentration selected.

Bachelor of Health Science Degree Concentrations

• Health Science, Radiography Concentration, BS
• Health Science, Sonography Concentration, BS

Certified Child Life Specialists (CCLS) develop strategies and techniques that assist children and families in coping, reducing worry, and provide emotional support throughout stressful experiences. This is achieved by explaining procedures, enacting therapeutic play and self-expression activities, and serving as a compassionate advocate for the child and their family. You will have a profound impact as you take challenging healthcare situations and transform them into opportunities for healing, resilience, and smiles.

Bachelor of Science Degrees

• Child and Family Studies, BS
• Child Life, BS

Accelerated Master’s Pathway

• Child Life, 5-Year BS to MS

Master of Science Degrees

• Child Life, MS
• Child Life, Clinical Concentration, MS

Art Therapy is a mental health profession that combines psychotherapeutic theories with an understanding of art materials and their affective properties. Art therapy uses art media and the creative process to help foster self-expression and coping skills.

As an Art Therapy major at Edgewood College, you will work alongside award-winning faculty who are actively engaged in field research. With active guidance in addition to state-of-the-art LEED-certified facilities, you can expect to gain knowledge in creative expression, team skills, effective communication, and commitment to using art as a form of healing. The curriculum emphasizes both theoretical and practical aspects of art therapy, encompassing supervised field experience across diverse settings, psychology fundamentals, and studio art training.

Bachelor of Arts in Art Therapy

Master of Arts in Art Therapy and Counseling

As a Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT), you are specifically trained to treat mental and emotional concerns individually, relationally, and systemically. Whether a concern is related to work or home, parent-child, immediate/extended family, partner/couple or other contemporary relationship, an MFT focuses on providing holistic care from a systemic perspective that is inclusive of a client’s relationships and environment.

MFTs are mental health professionals who receive training in both psychotherapy and family systems. They are trained and equipped to recognize how relational dynamics impact mental health as well as how mental health impacts relationships. While treatment focuses primarily on the individual(s) in the room, awareness of the broader perspective of the systems surrounding those individuals is important to successful therapy outcomes.

Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy 

The Edgewood College Doctor of Occupational Therapy (OTD) program helps you achieve your goals faster. You’ll earn your doctorate degree in just two years, preparing you to pursue advanced opportunities in the dynamic and impactful field of occupational therapy. The hybrid program offers you the opportunity to stay in your own community while you pursue your degree.

Doctor of Occupational Therapy (OTD)

Thanatology is the cross-disciplinary study of dying, death, loss, and grief and is both an academic and applied discipline. Thanatologists, defined broadly, are individuals who have been specifically trained about the dying and grieving process, including evidence-based practices for individual and family care, interprofessional healthcare team competencies, and current research. The MS in Thanatology prepares graduates for employment or volunteer work in a variety of settings where care for the dying and/or grieving are important including hospices; hospitals; faith communities; non-profit organizations; family, children and teen grief centers; funeral homes; and academic settings. The program expects students to bring and further develop excellent critical thinking and writing skills, resulting in graduates who are competent practitioner-scholars.

Masters and Post-Master’s Certificates

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• Thanatology, Children, Adolescents, and Family Grief Support Graduate Certificate
• Thanatology, Death Education Graduate Certificate
• Thanatology, Diversity, Equity, and Social Justice in Thanatology Graduate Certificate
• Thanatology, Faith Communities, End of Life, and Grief Support Graduate Certificate
• Thanatology, Funeral Service and Aftercare for Funeral Professionals Graduate Certificate
• Thanatology, General Thanatology Studies Graduate Certificate
• Thanatology, Grief and Bereavement Counseling and Support Graduate Certificate
• Thanatology, Hospice, Palliative Care, and Family Support Graduate Certificate
• Thanatology, Suicidology and Postvention Graduate Certificate
• Thanatology, Children, Adolescents, and Family Grief Support Post-Master’s Certificate
• Thanatology, Death Education Post-Master’s Certificate
• Thanatology, Diversity, Equity, and Social Justice in Thanatology Post-Master’s Certificate
• Thanatology, Faith Communities, End of Life, and Grief Support Post-Master’s Certificate
• Thanatology, Funeral Service and Aftercare for Funeral Professionals Post-Master’s Certificate
• Thanatology, Grief and Bereavement Counseling and Support Post-Master’s Certificate
• Thanatology, Hospice, Palliative Care, and Family Support Post-Master’s Certificate
• Thanatology, Suicidology and Postvention Post-Graduate Certificate

Master of Science Degree and Concentrations

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• Thanatology, MS
• Thanatology, Children, Adolescents, and the Family in Thanatology Concentration, MS
• Thanatology, Death Education Concentration, MS Thanatology, Diversity, Equity, and Social Justice in Thanatology Concentration, MS
• Thanatology, Faith Communities, End of Life, and Grief Support Concentration, MS
• Thanatology, Funeral Service and Aftercare for Funeral Professionals Concentration, MS
• Thanatology, Grief and Bereavement Support Concentration, MS
• Thanatology, Suicidology and Postvention Concentration, MS