M.A. in Education
Option in Creative Literacies and Literature
Division of Curriculum and Instruction
CSULA, Charter College of Education
The Creative Literacies and Literature is a new innovative MA program
to encourage visual and performing arts across the curriculum. The
coursework and final projects in this Masters program are specifically
designed to provide educators with creative strategies and skills that
they can use to motivate all children. Specific hands-on skills such as
storytelling, educational drama, children’s literature and other
performing strategies are taught along with core courses in research
and inquiry based instruction in a constructivist environment. Most
students are encouraged to choose the thesis/project option as a
culmination of their program so that they get the opportunity to apply
their skills in real classroom and community situations. Students can
choose second and third committee members of their Thesis/Projects from
content areas across the Charter College of Education and across the
University.
An MA in Education with a Creative Literacies and Literature option can support educators in their work in the following ways:
- Teachers incorporating innovative curriculum
- Provide Aesthetic Leadership across the curriculum in public and private schools
- Support Literacy activities in community institutions such as parks, libraries and neighborhood centers
Program Outcomes
- Enhance capacity to assume leadership in schools
by promoting skills and knowledge inherent in visual and performing
arts and apply those across the curriculum.
- Promote literacy activities in neighborhood and
community institutions such as libraries, parks and other groups
through visual and performing arts.
- Demonstrate educational research in the fields of
children’s literature, story and drama related to educational
development across the curriculum.
- Increase understanding and appreciation of multicultural, multilingual and diverse literatures.
- Demonstrate new or renewed understanding of the
curricular, pedagogical and research issues associated with the
teaching of creative literacies and literature as applied across the
curriculum.
- Demonstrate knowledge of educational research in
the fields of story, educational drama and children’s literature
and apply that practically to curriculum across the board.
- Increase understanding and appreciation of
multicultural, multilingual & diverse literatures and literacies
and demonstrate their uses across the curriculum.
Program Faculty:
As a part of the Creative Literacies and Literature Option,
you’ll receive instruction from faculty members with extensive
experience in classroom teaching, education research, and teacher
preparation from across the College in many content areas of curriculum
including literacy education, language arts, early childhood, social
studies, science, math and media education. Students are encouraged to
take courses that give them a base across the curriculum.
Dr. Ambika Gopalakrishnan (Primary Advisor)
(link to faculty web page)
Student Voices:
Application to the Program
Click HERE to find out how to apply to the program.
Program Description
Click on the 
Program Plan to learn what types of classes you’ll be taking as
part of the Creative Literacies and Literature Option.
Scholarship Information
http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/ccoe/scholarships.htm
Contact
If you’d like to learn more about the Creative Literacies option, you can contact:
Dr. Ambika Gopalakrishnan
agopala@calstatela.edu
323-343-6267