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About the Program

Under current Massachusetts Department of Education regulations, after five years of teaching with an initial license, teachers must meet the requirements for professional licensure. For teachers who do not hold a master's degree, these requirements include a master's in a content area or an approved master's. For those teachers who do hold a master's degree, they can take 12 credits of graduate level coursework, nine of which must be in the appropriate subject area.

For all education programs, Simmons has been successful in meeting a wide range of educational goals by providing each student with the advising necessary to develop a successful, individualized program of study. This personalized support is further enhanced by the small classes and the close mentoring relationships that students develop with faculty in the program.

Degree Options

Simmons offers two options that lead to eligibility for professional licensure. The 32 credit master's degree program, for those who do not have a previous master's degree, consists of four approved courses in an appropriate content area and four approved courses in advanced pedagogy. The 12 credit certificate program consists of three approved courses in an appropriate content area and is designed for teachers with master's degrees.

Coursework

Sample Advanced Pedagogy Coursework

• GEDUC 415 Fair and Effective Classrooms
• GEDUC 418 Understanding Curriculum
• GEDUC 423 Facing History and Ourselves
• GEDUC 424 Integrating Educational Technology in the Classroom
• GEDUC 426 Integrating the Arts in the Elementary , Middle, and High School Curriculum
• GEDUC 444 Research and Evaluation in Schools
• GEDUC 462 Curriculum for the Early Childhood Classroom
• ML 408 Second Language Acquisition
• ML 410 Introduction to Linguistic and English Grammar
• TESL 451 Bilingualism and Language Variation
• TESL 452 Advanced Seminar in TESL Curriculum

Sample History and Political Science/Philosophy Content Coursework

• HIST 402 Asia to the 18th Century
• HIST 406 Rise of Modern China
• HIST 413 Race and Ethnicity in U.S. History
• HIST 435 The French Revolutionary Era
• HIST 440 The Atlantic World
• HIST 449 U.S. Foreign Policy: 1945-1989
• HIST 571 Seminar in Early American History
• HIST 573 Seminar in 19th Century U.S. History
• HIST 574 Modern U.S. History
• HIST 577 Topics in Modern European History
• GCS 410 Issues in International Studies
• ECON 595 Feminism and Economic Differences
• POLS 502 Special Topics in Political Science

Sample English Content Coursework

• CHL 401 Criticism of Literature for Children
• CHL 411 Victorian Children's Literature
• CHL 413 Realistic Fiction for Young Adults
• CHL 414 Fantasy and Science Fiction
• CHL 425 Folk and Fairy Tales
• CHL 436 Nonfiction: The New Frontier in Children's Literature
• ENGL 405 Contemporary Critical Theory
• ENGL 406 Feminist Literature and Culture
• ENGL 505 Advanced Creative Writing: Non-Fiction
• ENGL 507 Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf
• ENGL 508 The Postcolonial Novel
• ENGL 514 The Invented Self in Modern American Fiction
• ENGL 521 Studies in Shakespeare
• ENGL 522 The Postmodern Novel
• ENGL 524 James Joyce
• ENGL 525 Modern Irish Literature

Sample Spanish Content Coursework

• SPAN 445 Conversation and Composition
• SPAN 464 Pushing the Limits: The Quest for Freedom in Comtemporary Hispanic Theater
• SPAN 466 Imagination, Freedom, and Repression in Latin American Literature
• SPAN 468 Insiders and Outsiders: Love, Honor, and Social Unrest in the 16th and 17th Centuries
• SPAN 469 The Image of the Bourgeoisie in the 19th and 20th Century Spanish Novel
• SPAN 510 Spanish Civilization
• SPAN 512 Society and Politics in Latin America: The Collision of Two Worlds and the Search for Identity
• SPAN 514 Hispanic Culture as Seen Through Films
• SPAN 520 The World of Don Quijote
• SPAN 522 Love, War, and Parody in the Medieval and Contemporary Spanish Fiction
• SPAN 532 Contemporary Latin American Novel
• SPAN 536 Latin American Women Writers
• SPAN 580 Migrants in the City: Fieldwork Seminar on Puerto Rican Culture

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