Master of Art (M.A.) and Master of Education (M.Ed.)

(Total Minimum Hours: 36)

Basic Course Requirements (9 hours)  

Curriculum Studies (3 hours)  

• EDC 383F Curriculum Theory

• EDC 385G Historical Perspectives on Curriculum

Research Methods (3 hours)  

• EDC 380R Educational Research and Design

Foundations  (3 hours) 

• EDC 384P  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:

Basic course requirements

Specialization

Additional Requirements:

(based on type of degree sought)

Master of Education with Coursework only (36 hours total minimum)

• Elective (Minimum 12 hours)

Master of Arts with Report (33 hours total minimum)

• EDC 398R Report and
• Elective (minimum  6 hours)

Master of Arts with Thesis (30 hours total minimum)

• EDC 698A & 698B:  Thesis

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.A.

Download the Social Studies MA degree plan (pdf)