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.

Specialization

Major Area: Bilingual Education - Total of 15 hours

Required Courses - 12 hours to include:

• EDC 385G - Seminar on Program Development and Research: Bilingual Education (Major and explicit emphasis is placed on the logic and/or methodology of scholarly research.)
• EDC 382E - Teaching Elementary School Subjects: Bilingual Education

and two of the following:

• EDC 385G - Seminar: Language Acquisition or Second Language Acquisition
• (A course in teaching English as a Second Language: EDC 382E, 382S, 384P)

Elective Courses - 3 hours from such classes as the following:

• EDC 371 - Applied Linguistics
• EDC 371 - Spanish Language and Methods for Bilingual Education Teachers
• EDC 385G - Language Acquisition, or Second Language Acquisition
• EDC 384P - Foundations of Bilingual Education
• EDC 385G - Language and Politics in Language Planning
• EDC 384P - Bilingual Child in Special Education
• EDC 385G - Biliteracy
• EDC385G2 - Biliteracy in Literacy and Culture

or other appropriate courses approved by the C & I Graduate Adviser and the Bilingual Education Adviser. Or, for those who have not had Student Teaching:

• EDC 697P - Graduate Internship (Graduate Internship is required of Master's Degree Students who have not had bilingual education teaching experience.)
• EDC385G - Race and Ethnic Relation in Schools
• EDC385G - Social/Cultural/Political Contrasts of Language Learning

Supporting Work - 9 hours

• Required: EDC 384P - Educational Research and Design
• 6 hours from courses such as the following or their equivalent (All must be outside C & I):
  • 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

Thesis - Total of 6 hours

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

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