Admissions: Master of Arts in Education (MAEd)

MAEd Course Descriptions

M.A.Ed. Course Descriptions

EDU 5000 Current Issues in Education Seminar

This is the entry course for the Master’s of Arts in Education program. It provides an orientation to graduate studies and the program. The course will identify, explore and research the current issues in education that impact classroom practice.

EDU 5010 Multicultural Education
This course examines the demographic revolution in American society and its implications for education. The focus for this course is based on the discussion of education as a cultural process and the role multicultural education can play in restructuring schools to meet the challenges of the future.

EDU 5015 Historical and Sociological Foundations of Education

This course is designed to give education professionals an overview of the historical, sociological, and philosophical underpinnings of the American teaching profession.

EDU 5020 Advanced Reading and Language Arts Methods

This is an advanced course focusing on teaching the skills and strategies of decoding/encoding and the construction of meaning in reading and writing. Differentiating instruction based on assessment with purposes of prevention, identification, and remediation of reading/writing difficulties will be an emphasis. Students will learn how to infuse appropriate literature and content reading materials within language arts instruction. Pre-requisites: An undergraduate reading methods course.

EDU 5025 Integrative Instructional Technology

The effective application of a wide variety of instructional technology is explored in this course. The student explores and relates communication theory as it relates to instructional technology. Students develop communication skills including the ability to design communication strategies based on research and theory. The teaching and learning processes are applied and studied from the perspective of evaluating, selecting, and using instructional and administrative technological procedures.

EDU 5030 Advanced Curriculum and Instructional Design

This course provides an examination of the theories of curriculum development and the prominent curricular designs utilized in contemporary education. An emphasis on appropriate and proven effective instructional strategies is also an emphasis. Student teams will design, produce, implement, and evaluate an instructional system developed for a field site.

EDU 5035 Service Learning Theory and Practice
This course is composed of three critical components: an introduction to service learning theory, the creation and delivery of a service learning project, and a seminar to review and to reflect on the challenges and success of the projects. The learners must be action-oriented practitioners who wish to become change agents within their schools or communities.

EDU 5040 Research Design and Professional Writing

This course provides an introduction to the theory and practice of descriptive and qualitative research in the field of education. Both design and analysis issues are discussed. The student is involved in both research review and design relevant to their field of professional practice. Action research is a focus for research design. Pre-requisite: An undergraduate statistics course is highly recommended.

EDU 6010 Educational Psychology

This course examines selected topics and issues related to the application of psychology to problems in a variety of educational settings. This course examines the theoretical and practical aspects of learning, motivation, human development, assessment, intelligence, personality, diversity, and measurement and evaluation.

EDU 6020 Advanced Educational Assessment and Evaluation

This course is designed to provide in-depth study into the many areas of educational assessment and evaluation. Students will gain insights and knowledge related to topics such as high-stakes testing, norm and criterion referenced tests, higher order test writing, performance-based assessment, portfolio assessment, descriptive statistics, and the types of standardized tests. Authentic assessment is practiced. Pre-requisites: EDU 5000, 5030 and 5040.

EDU 6040 Thesis or Action Research Project

This course is a culminating and comprehensive project that will enable the learner to engage in a selected inquiry process related to their profession. The research project will be selected with the approval of a faculty mentor/advisor and will be successfully presented at the Teacher Education Department graduate seminar. Pre-requisites: EDU 5000, 5030 and 5040.