2020-21 Graduate & Non-Traditional Catalog | School of Education and Social Work | Teacher Education

Literacy, M.Ed.

[Literacy, M.Ed.-0830]

Build on your existing certification as you take advantage of the growing demand for literacy specialists and coaches. Roberts students thrive in a supportive, personalized environment of carefully designed courses and supervised clinical experiences.

SPECIFICS OF THE LITERACY, M.Ed. DEGREE

Minimum Total Hours: 30

Minimum Requirements: Overall and major GPA of 3.0 with no grade less than B-.

Transfer Policy:

 Master of Education program applicants may request that the college accept graduate courses from other institutions for transfer credit. The following conditions apply to such requests:

  • Courses must have been taken within five years of the date of application to the Roberts M.Ed. degree program.
  • A formal course description (for example, from a course catalog or course syllabus) must be provided for each course that the applicant wishes Roberts to consider. The Program Advisor and the Director will compare the course description with that of similar courses in the Roberts M.Ed. program to determine equivalence. The course description will also be presented to the Registrar’s office as evidence of equivalence, just as an official transcript is presented as evidence of success course completion.
  • More than 12-hour limit may be granted in unusual cases after review of the Program Advisor, the Program Director, and the Department Chair. Examples of possible exceptions are students transferring into a program from another Roberts program (such as an Initial Adolescence or Transition B Adolescence graduate seeking further study and certification in Special Education). The percentage of courses accepted for credit will be limited to 50% (NOTE: this is consistent with practice at the undergraduate level when a 2-year student is accepted as a junior, representing a 50% transfer of credit).

Major Requirements: 30

  • EDUC 5900 (3) Nature and Acquisition of Literacy
  • EDUC 5901 (3) Literacy in the Content Areas
  • EDUC 5902 (3) Assessing Literacy
  • EDUC 5903 (3) Assessment Driven Literacy Instruction
  • EDUC 5905 (3) The Literacy Specialist as an Instructional Coach
  • EDUC 6914 (3) Literacy Theory, Childhood, and Adolescence
  • EDUC 6915 (3) Literature, Media, Childhood, and Adolescence
  • EDUC 6900 (3) Teaching Writing
  • EDUC 6919 (3) Reserach and Theory into Practice
  • SPED 5665 (3) Language and Learning Disabilities