Graduate Course Catalog 2007-2009



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ELEMENTARY EDUCATION/MASTER OF ARTS

This is an accelerated program leading to elementary certification and a Master of Arts degree. Candidates spend the entire school year in a partnership school working with a mentor teacher.

See page 87-88 for complete admission requirements.

PREREQUISITES

• Minimum GPA of 2.75

• Meet all general education requirements

• Eighteen hours in an endorsement area (See Program Director for list of acceptable areas of endorsement)

• Substitute Certificate


Summer
    55-510 Foundations of Elementary Education (6)

Fall (entire semester)

55-504               Technology for Teaching and Learning (2)
    55-571 Methods of Teaching Reading and Integrated Language Arts, K-9 (4)
    55-554 Methods of Teaching Social Studies and Multi-Cultural Studies, K-9 (3)
    55-500 Clinical Experience in the Classroom (2)

Fall (1st eight weeks)
    55-552 Methods of Teaching Mathematics, K-9 (2)

Fall (2nd eight weeks)
    55-540 Methods of Teaching Science and Health, K-9 (2)

Spring
    55-521 Curriculum and Instruction in the Middle School (3)
    51-546 Historical Foundations of American Education (3)
    55-581 Internship in the Elementary and Middle School Classroom (10)

Fall
    55-576 First Year Teaching Experience (1)

5X-575               Practical Research for Learning Communities (3)

* See course descriptions for prerequisites