Offered by Department of Modern Languages

Spanish Education
Master of Arts in Education Degree

This program is offered on campus only.

MAE in Spanish Education = 36 hours

  1. Pedagogy (6-9 hours required)
    • Take the following:
      • FORL 810, Second Language Acquisition - 3 hours
      • FORL 872P, Foreign Language Pedagogy - 0-3 hours
      • (If not taken as FORL 472.)
      • Approved Elective in Pedagogy (FORL, PTE, etc.) - 0-3 hours
    • Take 1 course from:
      • CSP 800, Advanced Educational Psychology - 3 hours
      • CSP 805, Child and Adolescent Development and Interventions - 3 hours
  2. Research (3 hours required)
    • Take 1 course from:
      • FORL 800, Curriculum Development & Research - 3 hours
      • TE 802, Techniques of Research - 3 hours
  3. Spanish Specialization Requirements (24-27 hours required)
    1. Content Area Requirement (18-21 hours required)
      • Take the following:
        • SPAN 808P, Comparative Grammar - 0-3 hours
        • (If not taken as SPAN 408.)
        • SPAN 814, Oral, Written & Cultural Fluency - 3 hours
        • SPAN 830P, Latin American Literature - 0-3 hours
        • (If not taken as SPAN 430.)
        • Spanish Electives - 3-12 hours
      • Choose one six hour block:
        • SPAN 875, Graduate Study Abroad - 3 hours
        • SPAN 876, Graduate Study Abroad - 3 hours
        • OR
        • SPAN 896, Thesis (with permission) - 6 hours
    2. Supporting Emphases (6 hours required)
      • Choose from one of the following:
        1. College Teaching Emphasis
          • Graduate Elective - 3 hours
          • Take 1 course from:
            • ENG 806, Principles of Literary Criticism - 3 hours
            • ENG 807, History of Literary Criticism - 3 hours
        2. Secondary Teaching Emphasis
          • Graduate Elective - 3 hours
          • Take 1 course from:
            • EDAD 831, Social Foundations of Education - 3 hours
            • TE 803, Philosophy of Education - 3 hours

See Modern Languages Program Information and Admission Requirements for more information about the program.

14 Jun 2011

gradcat@unk.edu