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Program Requirements

Effective Fall, 2007

Required core
Research Foundations 3 hours
  EDFN 500 Research Methods
     
Professional Foundations 3 hours
     
Strategies/Methodologies of Education or Behavioral Sciences 3 hours
     
Developmental Issues 3 hours
     
*Professional Development 3 hours
     
  Practicum/Seminar Course
  Field-based, practical application, selected with prior approval by advisor.
     
*Capstone Course* 3 hours
  EDU 595 Directed Study in Education or Behavioral Sciences
     
*Note: A thesis (6 hours) may be substituted for the Professional Development and Capstone Course requirements.
     
Total for core:
18 hours
     
     
Option 1: Education Studies: 12 hours
Advisor-approved pedagogy-related strategies or methods course
May be selected from Strategies/Methodologies courses listed above, as well as from other education-related courses.
3 hours
Content courses
Courses from non-education fields; must be approved by advisor.
9 hours
 
Option 2: Behavioral Science Studies: 12 hours
Courses selected with advisor approval from Counseling, Psychology, Consumer Family Sciences, Sociology, Social Work, or other behavioral science areas.
May be selected from content courses listed above, if appropriate, as well as from other content courses.
     
Program Total:
30 hours

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