The MS Ed in Learning, Culture, and Society requires 30 hours of course work.
General professional core (12 hours)
- Analysis of Educational Issues: Philosophic-historic Perspective
- Analysis of Educational Issues: Socio-cultural Perspectives
- Qualitative Inquiry in Education
- Issues in Learning Theory
Education Focus Electives (choose 2, for a total of 6 hours)
- Gender and Education
- Special Topics in Foundations of Education
- Curriculum Models
- Methods and Materials for K-12 ESL Teaching
- Assessment and Testing in ESL
- Teaching African-American Oral and Written Literature
- Women, Language, and Pedagogy
- Topics in Teaching English
Area of Emphasis
(Choose one of the following: Cultural Diversity, English as a Second Language, Gender and Education; then choose 3 courses from the corresponding list of choices):
Cultural Diversity
- • Anthropology of Religion
- Studies in African-American Literature
- Studies in African-American Texts
- Teaching African-American Oral and Written Literature
- Language and Society
- Morrison
- Studies in Women, Language and Literature
- Women, Language, and Pedagogy
- Topics in Teaching English (when appropriate, must be approved by advisor)
- Gender and Education
- Geography of Development
- Geography of Food
- Native Americans from 1840 to the Present
- Women in American Social History
- The Black Urban Experience
- History of Mexico
- African American Politics
- Women and Politics in America
- Topics in American Politics
- Topics in Comparative Politics
- Topics in International Relations
- Multicultural Issues in Psychology
- Individual and Society
- Sociology of Popular Culture
- Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in the Workplace
- Sociology of Deviance
- Seminar in Intergroup Relations
- Seminar in Gender and Gender Inequality
- Seminar in Deviance
- Special Topics in Sociology (when appropriate, must be approved by advisor)
- Seminar in Intercultural Communication
- Special Topics in Communication Theory and Research (when appropriate, must be approved by advisor)
- Seminar in Cultural Geography
- Political Geography
- Urban Geography
- Diversity
English as a Second Language
- Principles of Linguistics
- Syntactic Analysis
- Language and Society
- Second Language Acquisition
- Methods and Materials for K-12 ESL Teaching
- Assessment and Testing in ESL
- Bilingualism and Bilingual Education
Gender and Education
- Gender and Education
- Studies in Women, Language, and Literature
- Women, Language, and Pedagogy
- Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in the Workplace
- Seminar in Gender and Gender Inequality
- Women in American Social History
- Women and Politics in America
Final Project
To complete the degree, students will complete a final project. The final project may be either an action research project or a traditional research project.
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