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Department Chair

Rosario Ordoñez-Jasis

Department Office/Website

College Park 570
657-278-3497
ed.fullerton.edu/reading

Faculty

Erica Bowers, Soomin Chao, Amanda Diaz, Joyce Gomez-Najarro, Julian Jefferies, Laura Keisler, Madeleine Mejia, Rosario Ordoñez-Jasis

Introduction

The Literacy and Reading Education Department offers state and nationally accredited graduate programs in literacy education. Programs include the Master of Science in Education with a concentration in Literacy and Reading, the Reading and Literacy Leadership Specialist Credential, and the Reading and Literacy Added Authorization. Coursework, clinical practicums and fieldwork experiences equip candidates to make informed decisions in a variety of leadership roles. Based on the professional dispositions targeted by the College of Education, the graduate programs are designed to prepare specialized literacy professionals who promote equity, diversity and inclusion.The department also offers a minor in Literacy Education that focuses on education through a literacy, community and social justice lens.

Degree Description

The Master of Science in Education in Literacy and Reading develops specialized equity-minded literacy professionals who can recognize, understand and value the forms of literacy that exists in society and their importance in learning across the disciplines at all levels pre-K through adult. Coursework focuses on foundations of literacy development, disciplinary literacy, multi-literacies, curriculum theory and design, assessment and intervention, and theory-to-practice fieldwork experiences. Graduates of the program become informed decision-makers, with knowledge and skill in the use of a variety of pedagogical approaches, methods and practices. The program emphasizes issues of social justice, diversity and inclusiveness, and critical stances in literacy instruction and assessment that empowers all learners to read to their full potential.

Learning Goals and Student Learning Outcomes

• Master of Science in Literacy and Reading Education

Programs and Courses Offered

Programs

• Literacy and Reading Education, M.S.

• Literacy for Social Change Minor
• Reading and Literacy Added Authorization
• Reading and Literacy Leadership Specialist Credential

• Postsecondary Literacy and Learning Certificate

Courses

Courses are designated as READ in the class schedule.

• READ 131 - Explore Core: Migrant Lives (3)
• READ 201 - New Literacies for Academic Success (3)
• READ 201A - New Literacies for Academic Success (1)
• READ 290 - Critical Reading, Thinking and Literacy (3)
• READ 295 - Critical Literacies for Advocacy and Community Engagement (3)
• READ 326 - Undocumented Youth in Education (3)
• READ 340 - Promoting Early Language and Literacy Development in Diverse Children (3)
• READ 360 - Literacy Education for Social Change (3)
• READ 440A - Global Literacies (3)
• READ 440B - Global Literacies (3)
• READ 507 - Literacy in the Academic Disciplines (3)
• READ 508 - Foundations of Literacy: Teaching and Learning (3)
• READ 511 - Research in Reading and Literacy Education (3)
• READ 514 - Linguistics and Literacy Education (3)
• READ 516 - Literacy Assessment and Analysis for Instruction (3)
• READ 536 - Literacy Curriculum: Design, Implementation and Evaluation (3)
• READ 560 - The Sociocultural Context of Language and Literacy for English Learners (3)
• READ 581 - Strategic Interventions for Literacy Specialists: Practicum (5)
• READ 585 - Roles of the Literacy Leader/Specialist (3)
• READ 587 - Program Management in Postsecondary Literacy and Learning (3)
• READ 595 - Advanced Studies (1)
• READ 597 - Project (1-3)
• READ 598 - Thesis (1-3)
• READ 599 - Independent Graduate Research (1-3)

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