College of Education
Tennessee State University

             
 

 

 

 

 

Degree: Master of Education (M.Ed.) Major: Curriculum and Instruction

General Description

Admission Requirements

 

Unconditional admission to the program requires the applicant to have a bachelor’s degree from a fully accredited four-year college or university, an undergraduate cumulative grade point average of 2.5 or better on a 4.0 scale, and a composite score of at least 870 on the verbal, quantitative, and subject portions of the Graduate Record Examination or a score of 25 on the Miller Analogies Test.  Conditional admission may be gained with a lower grade point average, but the GRE or MAT score must be correspondingly higher.

If the undergraduate GPA is between 2.25 and 2.49, the GRE score must be 935 or the MAT score 32. If the GPA is between 2.0 and 2.24, the GRE score must be 1,000 or the MAT score 39. Applicants with less than a 2.5 undergraduate GPA must submit test scores at the time of application; applicants with a GPA of 2.5 or above may submit test scores in the first semester of attendance, but it is preferable that they submit test scores at the time of original application. The student must remove conditional status by earning at least a B (3.0) average in the first nine hours of graduate courses; failure to achieve this average will result in withdrawal from the program.

Students who are potential candidates for the Master’s Degree in Curriculum and Instruction must be certified to teach or must meet certification before the degree is awarded. An exception is the concentration in Adult Education.

Degree Requirements

The Master's Degree program in Curriculum and Instruction offers concentrations in Secondary School Education, Adult Education, Reading, Educational Technology, Teaching Non-English Language Background Students, and History and Geography.
 

Program of Study
Required Core- 15 hours

EDCI 500

or EDCI 526

 FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATION 3
PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION 3
EDCI 511 RESEARCH AND STATISTICS IN EDUCATION 3
EDCI 610 CURRICULUM PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING 3
EDCI 530 MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION 3
PSY 543 ADVANCED EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY 3

 

 

Concentrations

CONCENTRATION: SECONDARY SCHOOL EDUCATION -  18 suggested hours (courses other than those listed below may be taken with consent of the advisor)

EDCI 534 EVALUATION OF EDUCATION PROGRAMS 3
EDCI 525 SEMINAR IN SECONDARY EDUCATION 3
EDCI 586 VALUES EDUCATION 3
EDCI 613 SEMINAR IN CURRICULUM 3
EDCI 528 MIDDLE SCHOOL CURRICULUM 3
EDCI 619 MICROCOMPUTERS AND EDUCATIONAL SERVICES 3

CONCENTRATION: ADULT EDUCATION - 18 hours- 18 suggested hours (courses other than those listed below may be taken with consent of the advisor)

EDCI 504 THE ADULT LEARNER 3
EDCI 518 PRINCIPLES AND TECHNIQUES FOR TEACHING ADULTS 3
EDAD 535 PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT EDUCATION 3
EDCI 539 COMMUNITY RESOURCES FOR THE ELDERLY 3
EDAD 549 ASPECTS OF AGING 3
EDRD 650 READING AND WRITING FOR SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS K-12 3
EDRD 609 TEACHING ADULTS TO READ AND WRITE 3

CONCENTRATION: READING -18 hours (An emphasis on middle school or secondary school reading is available.)

Middle School Emphasis

Professional Educational Core - 9 Hours

 EDCI 511  Research and Statistics  3
 EDCI 526  Philosophy of Education  3
 PSY 543  Advanced Educational Psychology  3

Concentration: Reading Education - 9-10 Hours

EDRD 561 The Teaching of Reading in Grades K-8 3
EDRD 564 Diagnosis and Treatment of Reading Disabilities 3
EDRD 569 Practicum in Reading Education 3
EDRD 580 Linguistic Applications to Teaching Language Arts 3
EDRD 603 Reading-Language Arts Curriculum in Elementary, Middle, and Secondary Schools 3
EDRD 605 Strategies for Developing Reading-Study Skills in Middle and Secondary Schools 3
EDRD 612 Current Trends and Issues in Reading-Language Arts Education 3
*EDRD 620 Directed Individual Study of Instructional Strategies in Reading 1

3

Secondary School Emphasis
Professional Educational Core - 9 Hours

 EDCI 511  Research and Statistics  3
 EDCI 526  Philosophy of Education  3
 PSY 543  Advanced Educational Psychology  3

Concentration: Reading Education - 9-10 Hours

EDRD 580 Linguistic Applications to Teaching Language Arts 3
EDRD 603 Reading-Language Arts Curriculum in Elementary, Middle, and Secondary Schools 3
EDRD 605 Strategies for Developing Reading-Study Skills In Middle and Secondary Schools 3
EDRD 609 Teaching Adults to Read and Write 3
EDRD 612 Current Trends and Issues in Reading-Language Arts Education 3
EDRD 620 Directed-Individual Study of Instructional Strategies in Reading 1

3

 Major Field Core- 15 Hours (to be selected from the Secondary School Instruction Concentration)

CONCENTRATION: EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY -18 hours

EDCI 618 Microcomputers for Primary & Elementary Schools 3
EDCI 619 Microcomputers and Educational Services 3
EDCI 573 Audio Visual Education 3
EDCI 592 Problems and Projects in Education 3

Guided Electives (6 hours)

EDAD 610 The Computer and Educational Administration 3
EDAD 606 The Administration of Instructional Programs and Materials 3
CS 505 Advanced Computer Programming 3
MATH 573 Logic I 3

CONCENTRATION: TEACHING NON-ENGLISH BACKGROUND (NELB) STUDENTS -12 hours

EDCI 501 Issues in Bilingual Education & Second Language Acquisition 3
ENG 513 Teaching English to Speakers of Another Language, I 3
ENG 514 Teaching English to Speakers of Another Language, II 3
EDCI 592 Problems & Projects in Education (Supervised Teaching in ESL) 3

NELB Guided Electives (6 hours)

EDCI 502 Teaching English Structure to Non-Native Speakers of English 3
EDCI 503 Teaching and Assessment of Non-Native Speakers of English 3
EDCI 580 Linguistics Applications to Teaching Language Arts 3
EDCI 510 History of the English Language 3
SOC 528 Cultural Anthropology 3

Other electives may be taken with consent of advisor.

(Hours other than those listed here may be taken with the consent of advisor and may include hours in the content area of certification.)

CONCENTRATION: HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY (see Arts and Sciences section of paperback catalog)