Overview

The Teaching Urban Education and Social Justice with Credential degree at University of San Francisco is designed to help students develop the critical frameworks and pedagogical foundations needed to teach in urban schools while pursuing your teaching credential.

Key Facts

Our curriculum focuses on the complex learning strengths and needs of urban students from diverse cultural, educational, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Candidates will learn through a combination of coursework, fieldwork, action research, and professional development activities.

Graduates with Teaching Urban Education and Social Justice with Credential from University of San Francisco will be able to:

Develop awareness of classroom teaching as a complex endeavor that involves understanding of curricular knowledge, diverse learners, high leverage pedagogies, classroom community/leadership, multiple forms of assessment, and the contexts of schooling.

Contemplate the different purposes of education and one’s own classroom teaching, and the implications for our role as teachers that foster our students’ growth as humane, competent, and empowered learners.

Understand the connections among theories, principles, and classroom practice and critique the assumptions that underlie them.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Teaching, Learning & Technology

Learning & Teaching

Teaching for Diversity & Social Justice

Education of Exceptional Children

Critical Pedagogy and Cultural Studies in Urban Education

Action Research and Service Learning for Urban Teachers

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 18 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2025-08-19 00:00:00

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Language

English

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Credits

34 SCH

Preliminary Multiple Subject Credential with an optional Bilingual Authorization in Spanish| 36-40 credits.

Preliminary Single Subject Credential with an optional Bilingual Authorization in Spanish | 34-38 credits.

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

San Francisco, United States

Disciplines

Education Teaching Social Policy View 1487 other Masters in Teaching in United States

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Academic requirements

GPA

2.75

English requirements

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Other requirements

General requirements

Applicants must have earned their bachelor's and/or masters' degrees from a regionally accredited institution.

Minimum GPA of 2.75

Certification of Finances

Proof of English Language Proficiency

Transcript (Academic Record) from each university or college attended

Statement of Purpose

Resume or CV

Two Letters of Recommendation

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Tuition Fee

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International

22500 USD/year

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Based on the tuition of 22500 USD per year during 18 months.
National

22500 USD/year

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Based on the tuition of 22500 USD per year during 18 months.
In-State

22500 USD/year

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Based on the tuition of 22500 USD per year during 18 months.

Living costs for San Francisco

2206 - 4119 USD /month

Living costs

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