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Master of Education: Liberal Studies
This option is available for individuals who wish to build an almost totally elective program in courses associated with the liberal arts. Students selecting this option take a wide range of courses offered through the Northwest Writing Institute, the Core Program, and content courses with limited focus on pedagogy. Individuals seeking this degree should meet with an advisor early in their program.
Degree Requirements
A minimum of 36 semester hours, distributed as follows:
Required Courses
ED 500 Educational Research, 2 semester hours
ED 509 M.A.T. Project Seminar, 2 semester hours
Electives
28 semester hours of coursework chosen jointly by the advisor and student. These courses have liberal arts prefixes and may apply to added endorsements.
Graduate Core Requirement
A minimum of 2 semester hours and one Core convocation
Summer Studies - M.Ed. in Liberal Studies Program
Lewis & Clark's M.Ed.: Liberal Studies Program is offered in a full-time summer studies format. This program is designed for individuals who seek advanced study in the liberal arts and/or in education.
With the assistance of a Lewis & Clark faculty advisor, program participants craft a course of study that meets their individual needs and professional goals. Course offerings are diverse and plentiful. Participants may explore subject-area specializations or endorsement programs as well as topics including writing, science and environmental studies, and education reform; or participants may choose a more generalized course of study.
Participants may stay in the Lewis & Clark residence halls and eat at campus facilities. For more information please visit www.lclark.edu/dept/reslife/summerhousing.html.
A full list of education courses is available at graduate.lclark.edu/cgi-bin/gradcatalog2009.cgi?edcurr.dat
ED 500 - Educational Research
How professional educators can gather and interpret the information they need for effective decision making. Topics include the major uses and components of classroom or school-based research processes, quantitative and qualitative methods, the scholarly critique of research studies, and what it means to be a reflective teacher-researcher.
Prerequisite: None.
Credit: 2 semester hours.
ED 509 - Master's Project Seminar
Culmination of the master's inservice program. Students have the opportunity to integrate what they have learned. In consultation with the instructor, students design a project that defines and answers a question about creating engaging, responsive, democratic learning communities for diverse learners related to their teaching or intellectual and professional development. Class time is reduced to accommodate individual conferences with the instructor and students' research time. The class meets as a group to support students' synthesis of each other's work and for problem-solving as research and writing proceed.
Prerequisite: To be taken at end of master's program.
Credit: 2 semester hours.