PROGRAM OF STUDY

MASTER OF EDUCATION
ELEMENTARY EDUCATION

Student Name: _________________________________________ Date: ______________________________

Advisor's Signature: _____________________________________ S.S.# ______________________________

APPROVED PROGRAM OF STUDIES--Courses selected with the approval of the advisor.

I. FOUNDATIONS: (3 hours)
EPS 605 Applied Educational Psychology
EPS 580 Human Development
EPS 610 Child Psychology(*EPS 580 prerequisite)
EPS 611 Adolescent Psychology (*EPS 580 prerequisite)

EPS 525 Introduction to Statistics (3 hours)
EDR 610 Introduction to Research
EDR 611 Action Research

EDF 500 Cultural Foundations of Education
EDF 630 Foundations of Education Law
SOC 612 Sociology of Education (3 hours)
EDF 670 Philosophy of Education
EDF 671 History of American Education
EDF 672 Comparative Education
EDF 673 International Education
EDF 677 Educational Sociology

II. MAJOR FIELD:
Reading (6 hours)
ECI 531 Foundations of Reading Instruction
ECI 541 Corrective and Remedial Reading (ECI 531 prerequisite)
ECI 551 Clinical Practice in Reading (ECI 531/541 prerequisites)
ECI 651 Issues in Reading
ECI 661 Administration and Supervision of Reading Programs
ECI 671 Reading in Content Areas

Methods (6 hours)
ECI 521 Questioning Strategies
ECI 602 Advanced Children's Literature
ECI 642 Modern Language Arts Instruction
ECI 643 Modern Elementary School Mathematics
ECI 644 Modern Elementary School Social Studies
ECI 645 Modern Elementary School Science
Contexts (3 hours)
ECI 524 Seminar in the Development of Language:Young Children
ECI 593 Multi-Age Education
ECI 659 Instructional Problems in Junior and Middle Schools
ECI 696 Professional Problems of Teachers

Curriculum Construction (3 hours)
ECI 620 Early Childhood Curriculum
ECI 649 Problems in Elementary School Curriculum
ECI 675 Principles of Curriculum Construction

Educational Specialties(3 hours)
ESE 510 Creativity and Giftedness in the Classroom
ETC 557 Technology Integration in the Elementary Classroom
ESE 548 Survey of Special Education
BME 530 Foundations of Bilingual and ESL Instruction

Elective(3 hours)
Course should not have the ECI prefix.
Not available for students who elect to do thesis.


Capstone Experience
ECI 698 Graduate Seminar (3 hours)
OR
ECI 699 Thesis (Generally requires one semester residency fall or spring (6 hours)
TOTAL (36 hours)

A Program of Study must accompany the application for admission to the program.

At least fifty percent of your courses must be at the 600 level or above.

In addition, you must be admitted to this degree program before taking your last 12 hours of graduate work.