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
| EDR 502 | Foundations of Literacy Instructio | 3 |
| EDU 540 | Childhood Learning and Development | 3 |
| OR | ||
| EDU 560 | Cognition, Learning & Assessment Adolescence |
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| EDU 500 | Computers in Education | 3 |
| OR | ||
| EDU 509 | Instructional Program Design | |
| EDU 514 | Contemporary Issues in Education | 3 |
| OR | ||
| EDU 505 | Foundations of Education | |
| EDU 517 | Teaching Strategies | 3 |
| EDU 563 | Psychology of Learning | 3 |
| EDU 543/545/546 | Elementary Instruction Math/Science/Social Studies | 3 |
| OR | ||
| 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 |
| TOTAL 33 |