Education, M.A. - Curriculum and Instruction Subplan/Option, Design-Based Learning Emphasis

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Offered by: College of Education and Integrative Studies, Education Department

The Design-Based Learning emphasis provides candidates with a cohesive set of experiences in learning how to design curriculum based on a set of challenges or project-related questions that promote critical and creative thinking. Candidates learn how to challenge students to create physical objects that reflect themes, concepts, and standards. Using simplified techniques from the design professions, master’s candidates learn how to teach students to plan, experiment, discover, interpret, discriminate, revise and provide evidence of their analytical thinking.

http://www.cpp.edu/~dnelson/intro.html

Core Specialization Courses: 20 units

Complementary Elective Courses: 4 units

By approval of an advisor, students may take courses in technology, policies and issues, or in content areas by advisement, such as:

Research Methods (up to 16 units)

Culminating Experience (up to 6 units)

GED 695 - Master’s Degree Project (6) or
GED 696 - Master’s Degree Thesis (6) or
GED 697 - Comprehensive Examination (3) (available for Special Education Subplan/Option only)