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Dec 03, 2024
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2024-2025 Graduate Catalog
Economics and Entrepreneurship for Educators (MA)
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Program Educational Goals:
- Solidify educators' understanding of the economic principles and policies needed to teach economics at the elementary and secondary school levels.
- Gain and demonstrate a basic understanding of personal finance and entrepreneurship principles.
- Enhance educators’ ability to design effective economics, personal finance, and entrepreneurship education curricula.
- Communicate effectively about economics, personal finance, and entrepreneurship ideas, issues, and analyses with other educators, school administrators, and government officials.
- Explore methods to incorporate economics in other courses such as math and social studies.
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Requirements
The MA degree requires 30 credit hours of graduate work, 18 of which are in five required areas: microeconomics, macroeconomics, monetary and international trade theories, contemporary economic issues, and curriculum strategies. In addition, candidates must design and implement an economic education program. Required Courses:
Complete all of the following. Elective Courses:
Additional graduate level elective (6 credits) is required for the completion of the degree. Elective Courses can be any pre-approved graduate-level ECON, ENTR, or EDUC course. With the approval of the program director, other graduate courses can be used to satisfy elective requirements. Credits to Total a Minimum of 30
Last Revised 2024-2025 Academic Year
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