Teaching English to Speakers of Others Languages Education M.A.
Requirements
Requirements for Graduation
1. A minimum of 48 quarter units of acceptable graduate-level work, with a minimum of 34 units completed in residence at this university;
2. A grade point average of 3.0 ("B") in all course work taken to satisfy the Master of Arts degree requirements, and grades of "C" (2.0) or better in all courses in the program;
3. Successful completion of one of the following:
A. EDUC 600. Master's Degree Project.
A successful project is one which can be reported in the form of a paper and/or other media. The project proposal and the project must be approved by the student's advisor and one other professor in the College of Education and submitted in the approved format. Further information is available from the College of Education regarding an approved format for the project proposal and project.
OR
B. Written comprehensive exam.
The written comprehensive examination is designed to test the student's knowledge of the field of ESL/EFL instruction. The examination is offered once each quarter and during the summer session. The student may enroll in the examination no earlier than the last quarter in which course work is taken. The student may take the examination (or any part of it) three times. Approval to retake the examination may be, at any time, contingent upon completion of additional designated courses.
4. The graduation writing requirement is met upon successful completion of 4A or 4B above;
5. Completion of the Candidate Assessment Portfolio. Details of the Candidate Assessment Portfolio approval process are outlined in the program information materials. the Portfolio must be completed prior to enrollment in EDUC 600 or EESL 999.
The program may not include more than 14 quarter units in approved extension and transfer courses from other colleges. California State University, San Bernardino will not consider for transfer credit course work from an institution which will not accept that work in its own advanced degree program.
Degree Requirements (48 units)
1. EDUC 603. Effective Communication in Education (4)
2. EDUC 605. Foundations of Education (4)
3. EDUC 607. Introduction to Educational Research (4)
4. EESL 536. Crosscultural Teaching (4)
5 EESL 544. Reading Methods in TESOL (4)
6. EESL 545. Writing Methods in TESOL (4)
7. EESL 614. Curriculum Design in TESOL (4)
8. EESL 615. Research in TESOL (4)
9. EESL 670. Principles and Practice in TESOL (4)
10. Four units chosen from:
EESL 678. Studies in K-12 Classroom Discourse (4)
EESL 679. Fieldwork: Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (4)
11. Eight units from A or B which will also satisfy the graduation writing requirement:
A. EDUC 600. Master's Degree Project (4)
EESL 664. Advanced Research Methods in TESOL (4)
B. EESL 665. Creative Teaching in TESOL (4)
EESL 999. Comprehensive Examination (0) plus four units of electives listed below.
Electives:
EDCI 624. Advanced Teaching Methodology (4)
EELB 606. Theory and Practice in Teaching Bilingual Students I (4)
EELB 630. Children's Literature in the Classroom (4)
ENG 621. Approaches to Imaginative Writing (4)
ERDG 620. Foundations of Reading and Writing (4)
ERDG 642. Images of Culture through Children's Literature (4)
ERDG 658. Literacy and Language Processes (4)
ESEC 511. Theory and Practice for English Language Development (ELD) (4)
ETEC 500. Foundations in Instructional Technology (4)
ETEC 544. Design and Development of Instructional Materials I (4)
ETEC 634. Information Systems in Education (4)
ETEC 674. Telecommunications in Education (4)
EVOC 504. Principles of Adult Education (4)
HIST 566. Ethnic Minorities in the American Southwest: Past and Present (4)
HIST 567. The Asian-American Experience (4)
or other upper-division graduate courses appropriate to this concentration, subject to advance approval by the Education Graduate Committee and TESOL coordinator.
Please refer to the University catalog at http://catalog.csusb.edu for official information.