Degree Completion Requirements

Professional Seminars (10 credits)

Required for both Concentrations; each course is 5 credits.

B EDUC 501: Inquiry in Education
B EDUC 502: Identity and Reflective Practice

These courses focus on the examination of research methodologies and the generation of research questions.

Core Area Courses (20 credits)

Each course is 5 credits.

Critical Educational Change and Leadership

B EDUC 512: Social Justice Education: Oppression, Resistance, and Liberation
B EDUC 550: Critical Pedagogy
B EDUC 580: Critical Policy
B EDUC 504: Enacting Agency for Social Justice

English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) Endorsement

B EDUC 541: Second Language Acquisition, Bilingual Education, and Structure of English
B EDUC 542: Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment in ESOL
B EDUC 543: Practicum in ESOL
B EDUC 544: Leadership, Advocacy, and Program Assessment

A detailed outline of the ESOL coursework, including sequencing, and practicum placement information, can be found here.

Elective Course (5 credits)

One 5-credit elective or two 3-credit electives (400 or 500 level) from other core areas in the M.Ed. program, classes offered by the School of Educational Studies or other UWB schools, or from the UW Seattle or UW Tacoma campuses.

Completion Dossier (2 credits)

B EDUC 594: M.Ed. Completion Dossier

This final course provides an opportunity for candidates to demonstrate comprehensive knowledge, skills and dispositions associated with the program’s overall goals for academic learning and improvement of professional practice in education. The Completion Dossier ensures breadth of academic work and application of knowledge in each candidate’s work toward the M.Ed. degree.

“They give you confidence, they work with you, and really just the camaraderie that was on that campus was phenomenal.”

Katie Peffer, Northshore School District, UW Bothell M.Ed., NBCT