2024-2025 Catalog 
    
    Dec 05, 2024  
2024-2025 Catalog

Curriculum and Instruction, MA


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About the Program

The UCCS College of Education develops skilled professionals who inspire excellence and drive transformative change in the schools and communities they serve. We achieve this goal by fostering scholarship, achievement, and service through collaborative partnerships.

Our approach involves promoting and modeling innovative, ethical, and research-based practices while embracing principles of inclusion and social justice.


Focus of Study

The philosophical foundation of the Masters’s Degree in Curriculum & Instruction is designed to provide professional educators with increased knowledge of current research on teaching and learning and its contexts and to apply that research in practice.

Students within the  Curriculum & Instruction graduate degree program have the opportunity to focus on an area of interest to develop increased skills and knowledge in that area.


Program Requirements

Program Requirements

Criteria

Grade Point Averages Maintain a 3.0 GPA in all coursework throughout the program, including coursework taken outside the College of Education.
Cognate Emphasis Areas

Students may choose to emphasize coursework for their 15-credit cognate emphasis area in one of the following areas:

  • Mathematics Education
  • Science Education
  • Gifted & Talented Education
Course Delivery  Depending on the program, there are three-course delivery possibilities: in-person, online, and/or hybrid. 

Specialization Track Options


Additional Program Options

The Transition Process from Alternative Licensure Program

Students who start in the 

  but later decide not to pursue licensure may complete the general MA in Curriculum & Instruction by counting ALP core courses toward their cognate and/or electives and completing the rest of the MA core.


Program Coursework

The Master of Arts Degree in Curriculum & Instruction is a thirty-six (36) - semester-hour program designed for licensed, practicing teachers who desire to continue developing their professional expertise. Candidates complete a core of academic work requiring:

  1. Examination of educational issues from the perspective of social context and culturally responsive pedagogy;
  2. Investigation and analysis of curricular design and models of teaching;
  3. Examination and analysis of seminal and current research and application of research in instructional settings;
  4. Consideration of and for the role and uses of technology in Curriculum & Instruction and implementation in the classroom. Further, the selection of a cognate emphasis area allows students to concentrate their coursework in an area of instruction in which they wish to develop a particular expertise (Mathematics Education, Literacy Education, Science Education, or Gifted and Talented Education).
General Required Courses

The general Master of Arts degree in Curriculum & Instruction requires the following coursework:

General Required Coursework

Course Credit Hours
Core Courses 12
Emphasis Area

Focus area options (see coursework below)

15
Electives Students may choose electives from any graduate-level course from other cognate areas. 9


Focus Area Coursework
Mathematics Education
Course Credit Hours
   3
   3
   3
   3
   3
   3
   3
   3

Science Education
Course Credit Hours
   3
   3
   3
   3
   3
   3
   3
   3
   3

Gifted & Talented Education
Course Credit Hours
   3
   3
   3
   1
   3
   3
   3
   3
   3

Alternative Licensure Program Transition
Course Credit Hours
   3
   3
   3
   3
   3
   3

Course Requirements


Cognate Area Courses


Complete the requirements for one of the following cognates:

Literacy Education (27 credits):

Mathematics Education (24 credits): 

Science Education (Choose 15 credits from the following): 

Gifted and Talented Education (25 credits):

Instructional Technology (15 credits):

Elective Coursework


Students may choose from any graduate course selection in the College of Education to complete thirty-six (36) total hours for the degree. 

  • Counseling
  • Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education (CLDE)
  • Science Education
  • Leadership
  • Special Education
  • Instructional Technology

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