Educational Studies, M.Ed.

Thesis Option

Course List

Code	Title	Credit Hours
Required Courses
EDS 6793	History of U.S. Education	3
or EDS 5943	History of Race and Education in Oklahoma
EDS 5783	Classics in Educational Thought	3
or EDS 5753
EDS 5703	Sociology of Education	3
or EDS 5913	Latinas/os and Education
Core Courses
Choose two or more of the following:		6
EDS 5823	Contemporary Critical Thought and Education Studies
EDS 5833	Topics in Gender, Values, and Education
EDS 5933	Girls, Women, and Educational Studies
EDS 6933	Naturalistic and Qualitative Research in Education
EDS 6973	Historical Research Methods in Education
Thesis Research
EDS 5980	Research for Master's Thesis	2-5
Electives
Choose 13-16 hours from education, research, anthropology, history, history of science, literature, foreign language, philosophy, sociology, human relations, English, or psychology		13-16
Total Credit Hours		33

Non-Thesis Option

Course List

Code	Title	Credit Hours
Required Courses
EDS 6793	History of U.S. Education	3
or EDS 5943	History of Race and Education in Oklahoma
EDS 5783	Classics in Educational Thought	3
or EDS 5753
EDS 5703	Sociology of Education	3
or EDS 5913	Latinas/os and Education
Core Courses
Choose two or more of the following:		6
EDS 5823	Contemporary Critical Thought and Education Studies
EDS 5833	Topics in Gender, Values, and Education
EDS 5933	Girls, Women, and Educational Studies
EDS 6933	Naturalistic and Qualitative Research in Education
EDS 6973	Historical Research Methods in Education
Electives
Choose 18 hours from education, research, anthropology, history, history of science, literature, foreign language, philosophy, sociology, human relations, English, or psychology		18
Total Credit Hours		33

General Requirements for all Master's Degrees

The master’s degree requires the equivalent of at least two semesters of satisfactory graduate work and additional work as may be prescribed for the degree.

All coursework applied to the master’s degree must carry graduate credit.

Master’s degree programs which require a thesis consist of at least 30 credit hours. All non-thesis master’s degree programs require at least 30 credit hours.

Credit transferred from other institutions must meet specific criteria and is subject to certain limitations.

Courses completed through correspondence study may not be applied to the master’s degree.

To qualify for a graduate degree, students must achieve an overall grade point average of 3.0 or higher in the degree program coursework and in all resident graduate coursework attempted. A student must also have at least a 3.0 in all coursework (including undergraduate coursework if any).

Additional information for master's degree students may be found in the Graduate College Bulletin.