General Education
For permanent certification only
This is a 33-credit-hour master of science in education program, which is restricted to those students who already possess NY provisional certification or to those who merely want to complete a master’s degree without certification, such as business people, health-service workers or corporate trainers. This program does not lead to provisional teacher certification. It will expire in the year 2011. Students who come under the new regulations discussed earlier in this publication may not enroll in this program.
In the spirit of the new teacher certification regulations, students enrolled in General Education are encouraged to take up to 12 credit hours in an academic discipline to strengthen their content knowledge or to secure an extension to expand their grade levels upward or downward.
Students are encouraged to use their three electives, and under guidance of their program director or advisor, substitute other course(s), to meet the spirit of the new regulations.
General Education curriculum
OR OR OR OR TOTAL
EDU 501
Reading and Writing in the Content Area
3
EDU 504
Multicultural Education
3
EDU 541
Students with Special Needs
EDU 500
Computers in Education
3
EDU 509
Instructional Program Design
EDU 514
Contemporary Issues in Education
3
EDU 505
Foundations of Education
EDU 517
Teaching Strategies
EDU 563
Psychology of Learning
EDU 569
Guidance and Counseling in the Classroom
3
EDU 570
Foundations of Counseling and Development
EDU 615
Research Techniques
3
Electives: Three courses chosen under
advisement from appropriate offerings in
graduate education and/or from
appropriate upper-level undergraduate
course in the subject areas in which
the student is certified or intends
to become certified.
9
33