Courses

Credit

Semester Taken

ADVANCED STUDY CORE (15 Credits)

Select ONE of the following 3-credit courses:

EECE 702     Social Foundations of Education

EECE 704     Major Contemporary Issues in Education

EECE 705     School and Community

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Select ONE of the following 3-credit courses:

EECE 710     Ecological Perspectives on Development: The Early Years

EECE 711     Ecological Perspectives on Development: The Childhood Years

EECE 717     Ecological Perspectives on Development: The Adolescent Years

Take ALL of the following courses:

EECE 703     Classroom Realities in Diverse Settings

EECE 780     Introduction to Educational Research

(Take this course as part of your first 12 credits)

EECE 782     Teacher as a Researcher

(Take this as your final course in the program)

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INTERDISCIPLINARY CORE (12 credits)

Take ALL of the following 3-credit courses:

EECE 796     Exploring Problems in History through Literature

EECE 797     Queens County as a Learning Lab

EECE 798     Reading and Writing for Learning in Science

EECE 799     Exploring Mathematical Ideas through Literature

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SPECIALTY PROGRAM (12 credits)

Take BOTH of the following 3-credit courses:

EECE 722     Language Learning in Cross-cultural Perspectives

EECE 787     Research in Language and Literacy

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Take TWO of the following 3-credit electives:

EECE 731     Teaching Beginning Reading and Writing

EECE 740     The Improvement of Reading in the Elementary School

EECE 741     Language Arts in the Elementary School

EECE 744     The Art and Technique of Story Telling

EECE 745     The Reading-Writing Connection

EECE 761     Educating the Non-native Speaker of English Theory and Research

EECE 763     Teaching of Reading and Language Arts in Bilingual Education

EECE 764     Learning the Content Areas in Multilingual Settings: Teaching and                         Assessment

EECE 765     Internship in a Bilingual Classroom

EECE 773     Families, Stories and Literacy

EECE 791     Independent Study in Bilingual Education

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