Curriculum and Instruction (M.Ed.)

This option is designed for professional educators who seek to enhance their competence in curriculum design and implementation, both on a classroom and a systemic level. The requirements are sufficiently flexible to permit elementary teachers and teachers with subject-area concentrations (e.g., mathematics, science, history, English), or to enable those with supervisory interests, to improve their skills in curriculum development and instruction. The *Individualized Area option is also available for non-certified applicants outside the K-12 system.


Prerequisites: Teacher certification as well as a minimum of 18 months of verified satisfactory full-time experience in education prior to awarding of degree.

Curriculum and Instruction

Basic Courses

EDUC 501Statistics in Writing

4

EDUC 561Introduction to Educational Research

4

RELT 566Issues in Religion and Culture

3

SPED 510Introduction to Special Education and Inclusive Classrooms

4

Curriculum and Instruction Core

EDAD 539Supervision of Instruction, K-12

4

EDAD 547Effective Schools

3

EDUC 505Elementary Classroom Organization and Management

3

EDUC 556Curriculum Planning

3

EDCI 54021st Century Teaching and Learning

3

Approved Electives*

12

Professional Project

EDUC 581Professional Project

5

Total Credit Hours:48
*Electives must be chosen in consultation with the student's advisor.

Professional Education Electives (3-12)
Courses from any department will satisfy the intent of the term "professional education" if the emphasis is on instructional learning principles, pupil characteristics, teaching methodology, curriculum materials or the roles of various school personnel.

Academic Content Electives (0-3)
Academic content courses are found in departments other than Education and Psychology and must be in approved subjects clearly related to the teaching areas chosen by then student.