The Department of Educational Policy Studies offers master's in the following specialized areas of study: Adult, Community and Higher Education; Educational Administration and Leadership; Indigenous Peoples Education; and Theoretical, Cultural, and International Studies in Education as well as a post-baccalaureate certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.
The Department of Educational Policy Studies strives to develop critical and creative scholars who have a substantive understanding of the important systemic and contextual factors that bear upon Canadian and international education.
All MEd students must declare a specialization and complete department core courses, specialization and elective courses, outlined below according to Specialization.
The MEd degree has two routes. The course-based route normally requires a minimum of 33 in graduate courses and a 3 capping exercise.
The thesis-based route normally requires a minimum of 24 in graduate courses and a thesis.
All students are admitted into the course-based route. There are limited spaces available in the thesis-based route to which students may make application following admission. MEd students may apply for a transfer from the course-based program to a thesis-based program after completing a minimum of 9 in the course-based program.
Specialization
- Adult, Community and Higher Education
- Educational Administration and Leadership
- Indigenous Peoples Education
- Social Justice and International Studies in Education