Language Arts/Reading: English/Language Arts 501, 502; Education 503, 505; English 520, 525; one course from English 545, 555, or 570; one course from English 575, 580, or 585; and English 600. One hour of action research (Education 509) must be added to an education course of the student’s choosing in consultation with the academic advisor and the Program Director.

Reading Specialist: English/Language Arts 501, 502; Education 503, either English 510 or 516; English 512, 518, 520, 525, and 600. One hour of action research (Education 509) must be added to an education course of the student’s choosing in consultation with the academic advisor and the Program Director.

Students should select courses in their desired track in consultation with the Program Director or their advisor.

Students can reasonably expect to complete the degree within a three-year period by taking one course each semester and three courses each summer until finished. Thirty-one total semester hours are required for completion of the Master’s degree. All students are expected to complete the degree within a six-year period. Students who go beyond this time limit may have to take additional courses, as determined by the Program Director.

When students have completed 24 semester hours of course work, they will be required to take a written comprehensive examination of three to four hours, followed by an oral interview with members of the Departments of English and Education.

Although the M.A.Ed. is a teaching degree rather than a research degree, a culminating writing project will be required. Students will write a comprehensive paper in which they will analyze what they have learned, how they have learned these things, and the implications of their discoveries for what they expect to happen in their classrooms. This paper will be completed during the culminating course, which will ordinarily be Education 505 or 600.

Students dismissed from the graduate program may apply for readmission after a semester to a graduate admissions committee made up of faculty members from the English and Education departments and a representative from the Admissions Office. Students seeking readmission after having been dismissed must provide evidence of an attempt to improve academic performance during their time away from the graduate program. A non-refundable fee equal to the initial admission fee must accompany the application for readmission. Students who are readmitted to the program two semesters or more after academic dismissal must meet the requirements of the graduate catalog in force when they are readmitted. Students who have been academically dismissed twice from the graduate program will not be readmitted to the program.