UTeach Urban Teachers

Master of Education
with Secondary Social Studies Certification

For students with a bachelor’s degree in a Social Studies discipline who seek secondary social studies certification, a Master of Education degree in Social Studies Education is offered through the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at this time. The degree merges the M.Ed. described above and Texas teacher certification requirements. The program is designed to help social studies teaching candidates develop an understanding of the importance of teaching and learning in linguistically and culturally diverse learning communities in constructing ideals of participatory citizenship education. For more information, visit the UTeach Urban Teachers website.

Scholarships are available in the amount of $2000.

Basic Course Requirements (9 hours)

Curriculum Studies (3 hours)

  • EDC 385G  Historical Perspectives on Curriculum

Research Methods (3 hours)

  • EDC 380R  Educational Research and Design

Foundations (3 hours)

  • EDC 390T  Multicultural Education, or
  • EDC 385G  Advanced Multicultural Education, or
  • EDC 385G  Foundations of Curriculum
  • EDC 385G  Cultural Knowledge of Teachers and Teaching

Social Studies Specialization (minimum: 9 hours)

Students with an emphasis on Social Studies will take additional related courses (minimum 9 hours), selected with the assistance and approval of the assigned advisor. Among the courses that might be selected to fulfill this requirement are the following:

  • EDC 382S  Teaching Secondary School Subjects: Social Studies
  • EDC 385G  History of the Social Studies
  • EDC 382E  Teaching Elementary School Subject-Social Studies
  • EDC 385G  Current Issues Teaching the Social Studies
  • EDC 390T  Improving Social Studies Education
  • EDC 390T  Institutes in Instruction: Critical Issues in Social Education
  • EDC 390T  Humanities and Literacy in Social Education
  • EDC 396  Seminar: Social Studies Education

Courses outside the Department(minimum: 6 hours)

Coursework from the following sections may fulfill this requirement:

Special Education graduate course

  • SED 380  Cross Cultural Interactions in Multicultural Special Education
  • SED 380  Cultural & Linguistic Diversity in Special Education

Educational Psychology graduate course

  • EDP 382L  Psychology of Learning
  • EDP 382L  Instructional Psychology
  • EDP 385  Child & Adolescent Social & Cognitive Development

Additional Requirements

Minimum 12 hours including:

  • EDC 370  Advanced Methods in Social Studies
  • EDC 385G  Second Language Acquisition
  • EDC 382  Methods of Teaching ESL
  • EDC 350  Secondary School Teaching Practicum: Social Studies

Additional Certification Coursework not included within the Master of Education (7 hours)

  • EDC 196  Seminar
  • EDC 650S  Secondary School Teaching Practicum: Social Studies

All programs must include at least six semester hours outside the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. Up to nine hours of upper-division undergraduate coursework may be counted toward the M.Ed. (distributed as follows: six hours in Curriculum and Instruction and three hours outside C&I, or three hours in C&I and six hours outside C&I). Up to six hours of upper division undergraduate coursework may be counted toward the M.Ed.

Total Minimum Hours: 43. Master of Education with Coursework only (36 hours) with Certification (+7 hours)

Additional Information is available in the Graduate School Catolog.

Degree Plan

Download the UTUT Master of Education with Secondary Social Studies Certification degree plan (pdf)

Last updated on April 11, 2013