Master of Science in Curriculum and Instruction
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The MS in Curriculum and Instruction degree program consists of a Research Course Requirement (3 credits), Foundation Course Requirements (12 credits), and Curriculum and Instruction Requirements (21 credits).
Research Course Requirement
EFND 506 Educational Research and Statistics
A course designed to introduce students to specific research. Includes basic statistical techniques, such as correlation, t-test and Chi-square; quantitative research designs; ethnographic research; and meta-analysis. Emphasis will be placed on hypothesis testing. Students will be required to complete a scientific research project.
Foundation Course Requirements
EFND 516 Advanced Educational Psychology
This course is designed to take the educator beyond familiarity with basic psychological theories and principles to a level in which they can apply and use these theories to inform and improve their classroom performance.
EFND 521 Advanced Foundations of Education
This course is intended to present the foundations of education in an integrated, multidisciplinary approach. It will trace the development of education as an institution and in terms of the ideas that have shaped that institution. The goal is a thorough perspective on education as it is today.
ECUI 506 Curriculum Theory and Development
Principles and curriculum construction that underlie the reorganization of the program of studies for elementary and secondary schools, sources of the curriculum, methods of organization, structure of the knowledge and curriculum planning and development.
ECUI 542 Literacy and Diversity
Students will examine trends affecting the environment of basic education and their impact on the classroom. Special emphasis will be placed on strategies, methods and models of instruction that address the trends studied.
Curriculum and Instruction Course Requirements
ECUI 501 Improving Instruction
Students will study a wide spectrum of techniques and strategies to improve classroom instruction and enhance learning. Emphasis will be on practical classroom applications.
ECUI 511 Computer Literacy for Educators
This course for educators is designed to meet the following goals: 1. to know how computers operate; 2. to develop the ability to use the computer; 3. to become aware of some computer applications; 4. to understand the social implications of computers and computing; 5. to understand the rudiments of the LOGO computing language, a language commonly available for microcomputers, which promotes structured programming characterized by top-down design with stepwise refinement through modularization.
ECUI 516 Group Processes in Classrooms
A study of group processes as they impact the management and instruction of classrooms. It will be presented in its theoretical and practical dimensions.
ECUI 536 Teaching the Gifted Child
Teachers will have an opportunity to study the broad range of giftedness in children. Emphasis will be on how to foster the development of gifted youngsters in our schools. Programming for the gifted also will be studied.
EFND 511 Educational Tests and Measurements
Fundamental concepts applicable to educational testing, including validity, reliability and types of scores. Uses of standardized tests, especially achievement tests, in school settings. Methods of developing classroom tests.
ERDG 516 Reading/Language Arts in the Content Area
A course designed for acquainting students with strategies for teaching functional reading in the elementary and secondary schools. Includes reading, writing and discussing strategies that facilitate elementary and secondary students’ ability to reconstruct meaning from content-area materials.
ESPC 501 Inclusionary Classroom Practices
Students will receive guidance in supporting the disabled student in a general education classroom and in supporting the special education teacher and ancillary staff in providing instruction for the disabled child. We will explore methods for facilitating the acceptance and learning of the disabled student in the context of a general education environment.
Successful completion of the comprehensive examination is required for graduation.
