Master of Arts or Master of Education with Thesis

Total hours: 30 hours (24 + thesis)

Prerequisites

1. Admission to Graduate School.
2. 12 hours of upper-division education courses.
3. Evidence of spoken and written proficiency in a language other than English

C&I Departmental Requirement – 6 hours

•  EDC 384P     Educational Research and Design
• One Additional Research Methods class, preferably chosen to support thesis project.
  

Specialization 

Major Area: Bilingual Education - Total of 12 hours

Required Courses - Choose 12 hours from following list (with approval from advisor):

• EDC 384P - Foundations of Bilingual Education

• EDC 385G - Seminar on Program Development and Research: Bilingual Education
• EDC 382E - Teaching Elementary School Subjects: Bilingual Education
• A course in teaching English as a second language: EDC 382E, 382S, 384P
• A course in Biliteracy

Choose ONE of the following:

• EDC 385G - Seminar: Language Acquisition , or Psycholinguistics
• EDC 385G - Second Language Acquisition, or ALD 325 Second Language Acquisition with consent of advisor
• EDC 371 - Applied Linguistics

Supporting Work - 6 hours:

Two courses from outside of C&I, such as:

• SED 380 - Language Acquisition and Assessment for Multicultural Special Education
• ANT 388K - Anthropology of Education
• ANT 393 - Topics in Anthropology, as appropriate
• EDP 362T - Tests and Measurement
• EDP 380P - Educational Assessment of Minority Students
• HIS 377L - Mexico and Spanish North America since 1810
• LIN 3805 - Sociolinguistics
• LIN 373 - Child Language
• LIN 350 - Bilingualism
• LIN 350 - Linguistics and Education
• MAS 374 - Selected Topics in Mexican American Studies
• SPN 383N - Topics in Spanish Linguistics, as appropriate
• SPN 367K - Rhetoric and Composition for Native Speakers
• SPN 367K - Spanish Grammar

OR other courses with the approval of your advisor.  

Thesis - Total of 6 hours

• EDC 698A - Thesis
• EDC 698B - Thesis

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