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Mar 17, 2026
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2026-2027 General Catalog
Education with a Concentration in Teaching, MA
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Sonoma State University’s School of Education offers a Master of Arts in Education degree with four distinct concentrations. Each of these concentrations reflects the philosophy, purpose, and goals of the School of Teacher Education and Leadership. In our MA program, students critically examine educational theories and research through a variety of empirical and theoretical lenses with a focus on social justice to develop an informed educational vision and innovative pedagogy in a variety of educational settings. Students have the opportunity to collaborate with faculty and colleagues to examine and influence current educational practice through research, project development, and advocacy. We expect graduates to emerge from their work at Sonoma State University as leaders in their field and agents of change.
The four MA in Education areas of concentration offered at Sonoma State University are:
- Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning (see Department of Curriculum Studies and Secondary Education);
- Reading and Language (see Department of Literacy Studies and Elementary Education);
- Special Education (see Department of Educational Leadership and Special Education)
- Teaching (see School of Teacher and Leader Education)
Students must maintain a 3.00 grade point average in all coursework in the MA program.
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Program Learning Outcomes
- Students can articulate how the MA coursework has contributed to their personal, intellectual, and professional growth in relationship to the social justice framework of the School of Education.
- Students demonstrate how their breadth and depth of knowledge about advancing social justice in schools and communities has changed in regard to reading and applying educational research.
- Students demonstrate their ability to critically analyze multiple historical, philosophical and theoretical perspectives in relationship to issues of educational and social inequities.
- Students can explain how the MA program has contributed to their understanding of equity and access for all learners.
- Students can explain how the MA program has contributed to their ability to be an advocate for social justice in education.
- Students demonstrate the ability to write at a graduate level.
- Students complete a culminating activity in which they cogently demonstrate:
- their ability to draw from appropriate and adequate peer-reviewed research
- connections between their project and their work as an educator
- the significance of the project to the local educational context
MA Core Courses (18 units)
Concentration in Teaching Requirements (15 units)
15 units of coursework from any preliminary teaching credential may be used to fulfill the concentration requirements, provided these units were not completed as part of an undergraduate degree. The following courses are recommended for use in the concentration: |
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