Master of Arts or Master of Education with Report

Total hours: 33 hours (30 + Master Report)

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 – 3 hours

• EDC 384P Educational Research and Design

Specialization

Major Area: Bilingual Education - Total of 24 hours

Required Courses - 18 hours to include:

• 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 adviser

• EDC 371 - Applied Linguistics

Elective Courses - 6 hours from the following or their equivalent:

• EDC 385G - Seminar: Language Acquisition, or Psycholinguistics
• EDC 385G - Critical Pedagogy and Bilingual Education
• EDC 385G - Language and Politics
• EDC 385G - Language Acquisition and Assessment for Multicultural Special Education (crosslisted with Special Education)

OR other courses can be chosen with the approval of your advisor.

Supporting Work - 6 hours

Two courses ouside C&I SUCH AS:

• SED 380 Language Acquisition and Assessment for Multicultural Special Education
• ANT 388K Anthropology of Education
• 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
• 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.

Report - Total of 3 hours

• EDC 398R - Report

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