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Master or Arts in Teaching & Master of Education in Higher Education
Dual Degree Program
Carolyn Spain, Ed.D., M.A. in Teaching Director
Mark Hale , 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
In order to pursue a Dual Master's Degree program, the applicant must apply to, meet the existing admission requirements for, and be accepted into each of the master's degrees which comprise the dual degree program.
PREREQUISITES
Prerequisite course work must be satisfied for both degree programs.
PROGRAM CONTINUANCE:
Continuance in each program past the first six (6) hours is pending submission of a satisfactory score on the Miller Analogies Test (MAT) or Graduate Record Examination® (GRE®).
CURRICULUM OVERVIEW
M.A. in Teaching:
12 hours M.A. in Teaching Required Curriculum
15 hours M.A. in Teaching Professional Area
9 hours M.A. in Teaching Instructional Discipline (transferred from HIED
Instructional Field)
9 hours M.Ed. in Higher Education Required Curriculum
9 hours M.Ed. in Higher Education Instructional Field
54 hours TOTAL Dual Degree
M.Ed. in Higher Education:
9 hours M.Ed. in Higher Education Required Curriculum
9 hours M.Ed. in Higher Education Professional Area (transferred from M.A. in
Teaching Professional Area)
18 hours M.Ed. in Higher Education Instructional Field
12 hours M.A. in Teaching Required Curriculum
6 hours M.A. in Teaching Professional Area
54 hours TOTAL Dual Degree
STUDY PLAN
M.A. in Teaching Required Curriculum (12 hours)
M.Ed. in Higher Education Required 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 |
M.A. in Teaching 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.
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