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  Admission Requirements

  Applicants must qualify for graduate study, have a 3.0 GPA, a state teaching certificate or a background in education and experience satisfactory to the department. Program applicants must give evidence of their ability to pursue this program of study as well as to apply learning principles in their chosen specialty area and submit three letters of recommendation as verification of your educational achievements.

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  Degree Requirements

  Eighteen of the 30 credit hours develop core competencies for ethical and skilled decision-making toward effective teaching and learning. The core courses are:

  • EDU 5000 Methods of Educational Research (3 credits)
  • EDU 5160 Elementary Curriculum Construction (3 credits) or EDU 5170 Secondary Curriculum Construction (3 credits)
  • EDU 5250 Educational Policy Studies (3 credits)
  • EDU 5960 Program Planning, Evaluation, Development and Implementation (3 credits)
  • EDU 6090 Advanced Seminar in Curriculum Planning and Administration (3 credits)
  • EDU 6200 Supervision of Instruction (3 credits)
  • Special interest electives are chosen in consultation with an advisor. (9 credits)
  • Master's-Degree Level Research* (3-6 credits)

  *Master's-degree-level research, in consultation with your advisor, is conducted and written as a culminating project in EDU 5510 Seminar in Curriculum and Instruction, 3 credits. Students may elect to take EDU 6980 Field Research Project, 3 to 6 credits, or EDU 5990 Master's Thesis, 6 credits, to fulfill this requirement with the permission of the program director. Research requirements must be successfully demonstrated with a graduate passing grade.

  Core competency courses are continuously adjusted to meet the rapidly changing demands of effective education. You need to work closely with your program advisor to determine current requirements and possible course offerings which fulfill this degree program.