Master of Education (60 points)

The TESOL Program offers a Master of Education (Ed.M.), requiring a minimum of 60 points of graduate study. The Ed.M. involves in-depth study in one or more areas of TESOL. The Ed.M. is designed to complement former professional training at the M.A. level, and it sometimes serves as initial preparation for entering the doctoral program. Students who did not receive an M.A. in TESOL from Teachers College will be expected to complete specified required courses (see program sheets), from the TESOL M.A. in addition to their program of study. Exemptions based on prior coursework or their equivalent from another program must be approved by the professor teaching the course and the faculty advisor.

 

Required courses (12 points):

 

• A&HL 4001              Sociolinguistics and education

 

• A&HL 4104              Discourse analysis (or A&HL  4105, Conversation analysis, or A&HL 4106, Text and  Textuality)

 

• A&HL 5575              Research literacy in applied linguistics and TESOL

 

Breadth requirement (6-9 points):

 

Those students who do not already have a degree from Teachers College must take three courses of at least 2 points each from outside the department with an advisor’s approved.

 

At least one out-of-program course must be:

 

• C&T 5502                 Introduction to qualitative research in curriculum and teaching (2-3)

 

• HUDM 4050             Introduction to measurement (2-3)

 

• HUDM 4122             Probability and statistical inference (3)

 

• ITSF 4092                 Qualitative research and evaluation in international education (3)

 

• ITSF 5000                 Methods of inquiry: Ethnography and participant observation (or ITSF 5001 or 5002) (3)

 

• ORLJ 4009               Understanding behavioral research (3)

 

• HUDM 5122             Applied Regression Analysis (3)

 

• HUDM 5123             Linear models and experimental design (3)

 

• HUDM 6051-2         Psychometric theory I and 2 (3)

 

• HUDM 6055             Latent structure anaysis (3)

 

• HUDM 6122             Multivariate anaysis I (3)

 

• One of the qualitative research methods courses offered at the college (To be chosen with faculty advisor’s approval).

 

Electives in TESOL or Applied Linguistics (9): To be chosen with an advisor’s approval.

 

All Ed.M. students must complete an Ed.M. project, written on a research topic arising from their course-related interests and subject to approval by their faculty advisor.