Education, Teaching in Multicultural Education (Grades 1-6), M.S.

Program Description

This Master’s program is open to applicants who have the initial classroom teaching certificate for teaching at the Childhood level. The graduate program for Teaching in Multicultural Education (TIME) will add to students’ undergraduate knowledge of teaching and learning in grades 1-6 schools by focusing on the multicultural dimensions of education in a diverse society. The program will begin with a core component that will address the philosophical, psychological, and social dimensions of multicultural education, focusing on critical pedagogy, multicultural materials, and methods that are social constructivist, antiracist, and global in perspective. The program will include a research component, in which students will take a research course, and design and complete a project or a thesis, according to revised guidelines for projects and theses.

Please visit http://www.geneseo.edu/graduate_admissions for detailed information about the application process.

Program Requirements

A. Core of Common Learnings: 18 credits

EDUC 578 - Creating a Multicultural Classroom Credit(s): 3
EDUC 601 - Nature of Learning: Philosophical and Pyschological Foundations of Education Credit(s): 3
EDUC 603 - The School and Society Credit(s): 3
EDUC 604 - Educational Research and Methodology Credit(s): 3
CURR 632 - Science Math-Elem School Credit(s): 3
CURR 633 - Math Methods-Elementary School Credit(s): 3

B. Pedagogical Content Courses: 6 credits

CURR 630 - Language Arts Methods for the Elementary School Credit(s): 3
or
EDUC 660 - Theory/Prac Multi Educ: Credit(s): 3 (Language Arts subtitle)
CURR 631 - Multicul Soc St Meth-Elem Sch Credit(s): 3
or
EDUC 660 - Theory/Prac Multi Educ: Credit(s): 3 (Social Studies subtitle)

C. Electives: 6 credits

Two elective courses chosen from among CURR 630 (if not already taken), CURR 631 (if not already taken), the EDUC 660 series (different subtitles), EDUC 588 or other graduate course offerings chosen under advisement.

D. Culminating Experience: 4-6 credits

EDUC 699 - Directed Study Credit(s): 1-3
EDUC 620 - Thesis Research Credit(s): 3-6 (Credit(s): 3)

Total: 34-36 credits

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