Education, M.A. Curriculum and Instruction Degree Requirements

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Education, M.A. Curriculum and Instruction ~ Degree Requirements

Credits Required

Total credits: 32

Credits at CSUMB: 26

Credits in the program: 32

Outcomes, Courses, and Assessment

You officially begin the program by enrolling in the MAE 600 ProSeminar where you work with the instructor to create your Individual Learning Plan. That ILP maps out how you will achieve each of the Learning Outcomes designated below by successfully completing the listed courses or alternative assessment options. You conclude the program by completing your Action Thesis, a publicly presented project that displays your cumulative learning. [Learn more at CSUMB.EDU/academic/graduate/education]

MAE LO 1 ~ Students express a critical, questioning perspective (i.e. identify, describe, and analyze) with regard to diverse theoretical paradigms about teaching, learning, and school reform, including those generated by marginalized groups, which situate schooling in a larger historic and political context.

  • Complete one of the following: MAE 600 ProSeminar ; MAE 641Paradigms of Assessment; MAE 644 Critical Social Foundations of Education.

MAE LO 2 ~ Students search, navigate, and critically consume (read, analyze, and use) educational research.

  • Complete one of the following: MAE 600 ProSeminar; MAE 625 Professional Literature Review

MAE LO 3 ~ Students use, apply, design, and implement research to bring about change and make improvements in their own professional environment.

  • Complete: MAE 622 Qualitative Research Methods

MAE LO 4 ~ Students demonstrate their knowledge of and ability to use the most appropriate culturally responsive practices that support complex and challenging learning.

  • Complete one of the following: MAE 636 Culture, Cognition, and Development; MAE 632 Arts as Culturally Responsive Curriculum; MAE 633Literature for a Partnership World; MAE 637 Multicultural Curriculum Design

MAE LO 5 ~ Students communicate with native speakers of a language other than English.

  • Demonstrate language proficiency at the fourth-semester college level by the end of the program. You can do this with transcripts showing four years of one language in high school; transcripts showing four semesters of one language in college; native language proficiency; completion certificates from HILT classes taken at Salinas Adult School or another site; a letter from a knowledgeable expert validating the fluent use of language in a work or educational setting; or an assessment from a college or university showing that you would be placed at the fifth-semester level or advanced level if you were to enroll in a language class.

MAE LO 6 ~ Students use technology critically to access information, to communicate, and as a means of curricular and pedagogical support for higher-level thinking.

  • Complete one of the following: MAE 638 Technology as a Tool for Creativity in the Multicultural Classroom; MAE 625 Professional Literature Review

MAE LO 7 ~ Students communicate clearly and effectively, both orally and in writing, particularly acting as effective advocates for children.

  • Complete one of the following: MAE 637 Multicultural Curriculum Design; MAE 634 Literacy for Linguistically Diverse Children; MAE 642 Multicultural Community Partnerships

MAE LO 8 ~ Students work with communities of practice on behalf of social justice.

  • Complete both of the following: MAE 670 Capstone; Action Thesis
 

Revised 5/26/05