The MEd-CS Social Studies Education track is a minimum 30-credit program track that focuses on the study of the teaching, learning, curriculum, evaluation and policy in social studies education, including all or any grade level/s K-12.
12-core credits plus at least 18-credits chosen from the following list, or other courses selected in consultation with the program advisor.
Required Core Courses:
- EDCS 622G: Curriculum Leadership (3)
- EDCS 606: Introduction to Research (3)
- EDCS 632: Qualitative Research Methods (3)
- EDCS 667G: Seminar in Curriculum Issues (3)
Recommended Courses:
- EDCS 625: Social Studies Curriculum (3)
- EDCS/EDEF 453: Gender Issues in Education (3)
- EDCS/EDEF 630: Cultural Diversity in Education (3)
- EDCS 640K: Seminar in Teaching Field, Social Studies (3)
- EDCS 670: Indigenous & Postcolonial Perspectives in Education (3)
- EDCS 671 Contemporary Native Hawaiian Education (3)
- EDCS 685: Museums and Communities (3)
- EDCS 441: Hawaiian Studies, Methods (3)
- SOC 498: Social Studies for Teachers (3)
- EDEF 408: Community and Culture (3)
- EDEF 470: Ethnic Groups and Education in Hawaii (3)
- EDEF 671: Topics in Comparative Education (3)
- EDEF 683: Social and Cultural Contexts of Education (3)
- EDEF 684: Education and the World Order (3)
- EDEF 686: Environmental Education (3)
- EDEF 762: Seminar on the Social and Cultural Contexts of Education (3)