Master of Education Degree Requirements (M.Ed.)
Reading Education Concentration
(a minimum of 36 credits)
Prerequisites
- ED 580 Introduction to Inclusive Education
- ED 601 Literacy Foundations
1. Foundation Courses (6 credits) chosen in consultation with the adviser from the following:
- ED 509 Psychological Foundations of Education
- ED 505 Cultural Foundations of Education
OR ED 625 Language, Diversity & Schooling
2. Concentration (21 credits)
- ED 563 Reading Specialist Professional Seminar
- ED 606 Strategic Instruction for Emergent & Content Literacy (k-6)
- ED 607 Strategic Instruction for Adolescent Readers and Writers (7-12)
- ED 608 Literature for Children and Youth
- ED 622 Multilingual and Multicultural Literacies
- ED 623 Multilingual and Multicultural Assessments
- ED 699 Assessment, Analysis and Instruction in Reading & Writing
- ED 605 Writing to Improve Literacy
- ED 609 Literacy Acquisition
- ED 610 Seminar in Children's Literature
- ED 616 Young Adult Literature
3. Electives (3 credits) chosen with the adviser
4. Culminating Activity: ED 595 Literacy Seminar/Language and Literacy Project (6 credits). Permission to enroll in ED 595 must be obtained from the program Coordinator one semester prior to the student’s registration for the course.
