Master Degree Programs

Total minimum hours: 36 hours
Master of Education with Coursework only
Master of Arts with Thesis
Master of Arts with Report

Basic Course Requirements

General Course (Minimum: 3 hours)

• EDC 382E: Teaching Elementary School Subjects Reading/Language Arts
• EDC 382S: Teaching Secondary School Subjects English/Language Arts/ Reading

Composition Course (Minimum: 3 hours)

• EDC 384P: Teaching Composition
• EDC 385G: Special Topics: Reading and Writing in the Elementary School

Literature Course (Minimum: 3 hours)

• EDC 384P Children's Literature
• EDC 384P Literature for the Secondary School and Community College

Language Course (Minimum: 3 hours)

• EDC 385G Language Acquisition
• EDC 385G Psycholinguistics
• EDC 385G Literacy Acquisition

Research Course (Minimum: 3 hours)

• EDC 396T Research in Reading
• EDC 396T Research in Language Arts

Practicum Course (Minimum: 3 hours)

• EDC 384P: Diagnostic Prescriptive Reading Instruction
• EDC 384P: Diagnostic Prescriptive Language Arts Instruction
• EDC 384P: Practicum in Reading Difficulties
• EDC 384P: Practicum in Remedial Teaching
• EDC 397P: Internship in Language Arts
• EDC 671ai: Secondary Reading (when offered with practicum component)

Research Methods Course (Minimum: 3 hours)

• EDC 384P: Educational Research and Design

Specialization Courses (Minimum: 9 hours)

• EDC 385G: Reading Difficulties
• EDC 382S: Secondary, College and Adult Reading
• EDC 385G: Special Topics in Literacy
• EDC 385G: Children's Questioning
• EDC 385G: Program Development: Literacy Programs
• EDC 386: Literacy and Culture
• EDC 671b: Content Area Reading
• EDC 371: Young Adult Literature
• EDC 385G: Sociolinguistics
• EDC 385G: Biliteracy
• EDC 398T: Supervision or College Teaching

Additional Requirements
(depending on type of degree sought)

Master of Education with coursework only:

• Elective (Minimum: 6 hours)

Master of Arts with thesis:

• Thesis (Minimum: 6 hours)
  • EDC 698A
  • EDC 698B

Master of Arts with report:

• Elective (3 hours)
• Report (3 hours)
  • EDC 398R

All programs must include at least 6 semester hours outside the Department of Curriculum and Instruction (C&I). No more than 9 hours upper division undergraduate coursework may be counted (distributed as follows):

• 6 hours in C&I and 3 hours outside C&I or
• 3 hours in C&I and 6 hours outside C&I

For the Reading Specialist Certificate, students are required to have:

1. A minimum of 3 semester hours at elementary level, 3 semester hours at secondary level, and 3 semester hours of all-level work.
2. A minimum of 3 semester hours of multi-cultural coursework;
3. A minimum of 18 semester hours of reading courses

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