Coordinator:
Dr. Jennifer Rowsell (732-932-7496, ext.8157; email: jrowsell@rci.rutgers.edu)
The Graduate School of Education offers a postbaccalaureate master's degree/initial teacher certification program in English Education.
The program requires that a student have a bachelor's degree with a major appropriate to the area of licensure, 90 credits in liberal arts, and satisfaction of the general education distribution. The requirements needed to satisfy the general education distribution can be found in the Office of Academic Services, Room 110, Graduate School of Education (732-932-7496, ext. 8132).
The specific program requirements are as follows:
English Education (18 credits)
05:300:421 Language and Linguistics I (3)
05:300:422 Teaching Literature: Readers, Texts, and Contexts (3)
05:300:423 Teaching Writing: Social and Cognitive Dimensions (3)
15:252:513 Differentiating Instruction in the English Language Arts (3)
15:252:521 Teachers as Writers (3)
Graduate Level Elective (3)
Common Professional Education Core (15 credits)
05:300:306 Principles of Classroom Learning (3)
05:300:401 Individual and Cultural Diversity in the Classroom (3)
15:255:533 Assessment and Measurement for Teachers (2)
15:255:534 Classroom Organization (1)
15:255:537 Education, Ethics, and Society (3)
15:255:538 Teacher as Researcher (3)
Internship in Teaching (12 credits)
15:255:535 Internship in Teaching (9)
15:255:536 Internship Seminar (3)