Reading and Language Arts

Attention! Beginning Spring 2013, applications for admissions into this graduate degree have been consolidated under the Curriculum and Instruction (C&I) degree program. You will be able to choose this degree as your major under the C&I degree program. If you wish to apply for this major, chose Curriculum and Instruction and then this major in the on-line application (Apply On-Line). The C&I web page is under construction. Attention!

Apply On-Line web link http://admissions.fsu.edu/graduate/

Program Overview

The Program in Reading and Language Arts educates professionals who work in a variety of areas — early reading and writing instruction, language acquisition and development, K-12 school literacy, post-secondary reading programs, literacy teacher education, research, and adult literacy.

Our faculty are committed to personnel preparation in literacy, and engages in nationally recognized research that improves the educational outcomes of all children in the state of Florida and the nation. In addition to our on-campus coursework and activities, we have a rural outreach program with cohorts of practicing teachers in Calhoun, Taylor, Jefferson, and Madison counties.

The Reading and Language Arts program at Florida State University offers the following degrees:

• Master of Science
• Doctor of Philosophy

Related programs at Florida State University

• Predoctoral Interdisciplinary Training Program (PIRT), Florida Center for Reading Research
• Master’s in Reading and Language Arts, Panama City Campus Program.

Program Contact

Joe Lyons
Academic Support Assistant
G107 Stone Building
1114 West Call Street
Tallahassee, FL 32306-4459
850.644.2122 (v)
850.644.8715 (fax)
jglyons@admin.fsu.edu