Master of Science in Education (M.S. Ed.)
Literacy Education
(Birth-Grade 6, Grades 5-12)

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Division of Education
Department of Elementary Education and Reading

Department phone number: (607) 436-3176
Website: http://www.oneonta.edu/academics/ed/eled2

Faculty: Constance C. Feldt-Golden, Chair, Leanne Avery, Barry H. Berman, Alison Black, Carolyn Chryst, Cynthia Lassonde, Zanna McKay, Hanfu Mi, Literacy Coordinator, Suzanne S. Miller

Program purposes and outcomes: Graduates of these programs have met the educational requirements to receive permanent teaching certification in New York State. The Graduate Literacy Education Programs build upon initial skills and knowledge and further develop educational professional leaders who are committed to academic and professional excellence, the best research-based teaching practices, and empowerment, respecting diversity and social justice. The faculty are firmly committed to the philosophy that reading is comprehension, and that reading comprehension is a dynamic transactive process of constructing meaning as the reader brings prior knowledge to the text within the context of the reading situation. The five IRA (2003) Standards are:

Three literacy programs are offered, leading to literacy certification in (Birth - Grade 6) or (Grades 5-12). To ensure quality, students must be admitted to programs before registering for courses, unless they have permission from the graduate director or department chair.

No more than 9 s.h. may be transferred into this program. Courses with grades of “B-” through “F” are not transferable.

Admission Requirements Master of Science in Education (M.S. Ed.)
 Literacy Education

1. Submit a completed application and the non-refundable fee. 

2. Submit a copy of New York State initial teaching certification in a functionally relevant area.*  

3. Submit an official transcript of an earned Bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited college. 

4. Have achieved an undergraduate GPA of 2.8 overall and 3.0 in the major field during the last two years of undergraduate work. 

5. Submit official scores from the GRE General Test with a minimum verbal score of 450 and from the Analytical Writing Test a minimum score of 4.5. 

6. Have earned at least 3 credits of developmental psychology, child or adolescent development. 

7. Have earned at least 6 credits in reading or the teaching of reading.

Admission materials are accepted for summer, fall or spring semesters. At the present time, students can only be full time during the first academic year if admitted during the fall semester.

*Teaching certificates from other states are considered.