UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA

Program Requirements Research - 15 Hours

1. • Breadth (nine hours)

   • One Statistics Course - EDRM 710

   • One Measurement/Assessment Course - EDRM 720

   • One Qualitative Course - EDRM 740

2. Depth (six hours in either area)

   1. Quantitative

   • EDRM 711 - Educational Statistics

   • EDRM 718 - Research and Statistical Packages

   • EDRM 721 - Constructing Cognitive Instruments

   • EDRM 722 - Constructing Non-cognitive Instruments

   • EDRM 724 - Design and Analysis of Educational Surveys

   • EDRM 728 - Technical Aspects of Tests and Measurements

   • EDRM 736 - Program Evaluation

   • EDRM 738 - Quantitative Techniques in Curriculum Study and Instrument Design

   2. Qualitative

   • EDLP 829 - Curriculum Inquiry

   • EDRM 840 - Methods of Ethnographic Description

   • EDRM 842 - Educational Biography

   Plus courses from other departments/colleges which could include:

   • ANTH 519 - Field Problems in Ethnology

   • LING 780 - Discourse Analysis

   • HIST 788 - Historical Research Methods

   COURSES IN MAJOR - 21 HOURS

3. Required (12 hours)

   • EDRD 800* - Literacy Education K-12

   • EDRD 801* - Critical Perspectives on English Language Arts

   • EDRD 803* - Seminar in Pedagogical Applications of Reader Response Theory

   • EDRD 811* - Sociocultural Perspectives on Literacy Learning

4. Additional 9 Hours - Which Could Include:

   • EDEC 744 - Language Acquisition in Learning Environments

   • EDEC 745 - Emergent Literacy

   • EDRD 746 - Literacy Seminar in Second language Acquisition

   • EDRD 840 - Semiotics and Reading

   • EDRD 844 - Advanced Study of Language Acquisition

   • EDRD 845 - Advanced Study of Emergent Literacy

   • EDRD 848 - Feminist Investigations in Literacy Education

   • EDEL 870 - Advanced Study of Language Arts