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Master or Arts in Teaching & Master of Education in Higher Education
Dual Degree Program
Carolyn Spain, M.A. in Teaching Director
Mamoru Ishida, M.Ed. in Higher Education Director
Prospective students for K-12 and/or college-level teaching will pursue the M.A. in Teaching and M.Ed. in Higher Education dual degree to obtain and strengthen skills needed to be effective in K-12 and college-level instructional roles. This dual degree is a fifty-four hour, non-thesis graduate program. The program consists of M.A. in Teaching core curriculum of twenty-seven hours and M.Ed. in Higher Education core curriculum (including instructional field curriculum) of twenty-seven hours. Students gain theoretical and experiential knowledge through twenty-seven hours of a M.A. in Teaching core curriculum (twelve hours academic specialization and fifteen hours professional curriculum) and twenty-seven hours of a M.Ed. in Higher Education Instructional Track curriculum (nine hours core curriculum and eighteen hours instructional field).
Students in this program who are certified teachers have the options of earning special education, reading, or ESL certificates to add to their initial certification. Students seeking additional certificates will be required to pass the appropriate state certification (TExES) tests.
ADMISSIONS
Existing admission criteria remains the same for both degree programs:
PREREQUISITES
Prerequisite course work must be satisfied for both degree programs.
STUDY PLAN
MAT Academic Specialization (12 hours)
| EDUC 5310 |
Intro. to Exceptional Learners and Mainstreaming |
| EDUC 5320 |
Teaching the Underachiever |
| EDUC 6308 |
The School and the Multicultural American Society |
| ESLS 5304 |
Methods of Teaching ESL |
M.Ed. in Higher Education Core Curriculum (9 hours)
HIED 5300
HIED 6373 |
College and University Administration or
Methods for the Higher Education Administrator |
| HIED 6310 |
Legal Aspects and Finance in Higher Ed |
| HIED 6340 |
Histroy and Philosophy of Higher Education |
MAT Professional Area (15 hours)
M.Ed. in Higher Education Instructional Field (18 hours)
Students may choose one instructional discipline for the instructional Field courses (18 hours).
NOTE: Service Learning has been designated specifically through EDUC 6302 Research in Education.
CURRICULUM OVERVIEW
M.A. in Teaching:
12 hours MAT Academic Specialization
15 hours MAT Professional Area
9 hours MAT Instructional Discipline (transferred from HIED)
9 hours HIED Core Curriculum
9 hours HIED Instructional Field
54 Total Hours
M.Ed. in Higher Education:
9 hours HIED Core Curriculum
9 hours HIED Professional Area (transferred from MAT)
18 hours HIED Instructional Field
12 hours MAT Academic Specialization
6 hours MAT Professional Area
54 Total Hours
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