About the Program
The coursework will allow students to critically reflect on major issues facing the world today and to plan new approaches to curriculum and instruction, from the early childhood through secondary levels. Courses will focus on such issues as:
- How does globalization affect different nations, groups, and individuals?
- How do we debate issues of multicultural education, social inclusion and exclusion, and conceptions of universal or culturally specific rights and obligations?
- How does the spread of schooling, world languages and cultures affect indigenous knowledge systems, languages, national and cultural identities?
- How does new knowledge in science and technology affect the way we live and work in relation to global and regional environmental changes, global and regional communication systems?
The 24-credit sequence is designed especially to accommodate teachers' work schedules, with classes in the late afternoon, evenings or weekends. The coursework involves three credits per semester over two academic years and the remaining 12 credits completed over two summers. A final research or curriculum-based project will be completed during the second summer.
The 12-credit Advanced Program of Studies for university special students will require a subset of the variety of courses offered in the Masters.
Courses will be taught by faculty from Curriculum and Instruction, Educational Policy Studies, and other departments across campus. A study-abroad experience will be available as part of elective coursework.
