• On-Campus Component
    Yes
  • Cost
    $10,632/semester
  • Total Credits
    49.5 credits
  • Credential
    Graduate Degree
  • Admission GPA
    2.8
  • Application Deadlines
    Priority: March 1; Final: April 15 for summer start
  • Campus
    Twin Cities
  • College
    College of Education and Human Development
  • Department
    Department of Educational Psychology

In the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) MEd and teaching licensure program, you'll receive the training you need to teach students, birth to age 22, with diverse backgrounds and hearing levels. Classes are offered in the evenings, in real-time, primarily online with some in-person components. You'll graduate with the qualifications needed to apply for a DHH licensure in Minnesota and the skills you need to teach DHH students through culturally responsive and multilingual, multimodal best practices for instruction connecting ASL, English and additional languages through an anti-bias lens. 

Students in the program often have undergraduate degrees in special education, Deaf education, elementary education, bilingual/ESL education, Deaf studies and interpreting.

In order to be recommended for your Minnesota B-12 Deaf or Hard of Hearing License, you must successfully complete additional licensure requirements as mandated by the state of Minnesota.

Tuition and Funding

Visit the College of Education and Human Development's Tuition and Financial Aid page for information on tuition.

Careers

Graduates of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing licensure preparation program:

  • Teach in classrooms at residential or day Schools for the Deaf
  • Teach in classrooms, resource rooms with DHH programming
  • Provide instruction directly with students and their families as itinerant teachers or early interventionists
  • Serve as a DHH consultant to general classroom teachers
  • Serve DHH students from birth through young adults, who come from a variety of backgrounds: cultures, linguistic, race, socio-economic, hearing levels, and abilities