ASTL Degree Options

The ASTL program provides practicing teachers with robust and meaningful academic and professional course work that sharpens their content knowledge and research skills as educators.

Education Core (12 credits)

• EDUC 606: Education and Culture (3 credits)
• EDUC 612: Inquiry into Practice (2 credits)
• EDUC 613: How Students Learn (3 credits)
• EDUC 614: Designing and Assessing Teaching and Learning (2 credits)
• EDUC 615: Educational Change (2 credits)

MEd — Curriculum and Instruction Concentration Options (18-21 credits)

• Advanced International Baccalaureate Research (30 credit hours)
• Designing Digital Learning in Schools (30 credit hours)
• Diversity and Exceptionality in PK-12 Schools (30 credit hours)
• Early Childhood Education (30-33 credit hours)
• Gifted Education (30 credit hours)
• French (30 credit hours)
• History/Social Science (30-33 credit hours)
• Individualized
• Literacy: K-12 Reading Specialist (33 credit hours)
• Literacy: PK-12 Classrooms (30 credit hours)
• Mathematics K-8 (30 credit hours)
• Physical Education (30-33 credit hours)
• Science K-12 (30 credit hours)
• Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) (30 credit hours)
• Spanish (30 credit hours)
• Special Education (30-33 credit hours)
• Teacher Leadership (30 credit hours)

Graduate Certificate Option

• Gifted Education (12 credit hours)