Master of Education (M.Ed.) with Secondary Education Teacher Certification (emphasis on teaching and learning in urban schools)

(Total Minimum Hours: 43)

Master of Education with Coursework only (36 hours) with Certification (+7 hours)

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 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:

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.

Additional Information is available in the Graduate School Catolog.

Download the Social Studies M.Ed. + Certification degree plan (pdf)