{"id":8115,"date":"2021-10-05T12:45:17","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T16:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/?page_id=8115"},"modified":"2025-10-20T11:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T15:32:08","slug":"m-a-tcp-health-and-physical-education","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/academics\/m-a\/m-a-with-teacher-certification\/m-a-tcp-health-and-physical-education\/","title":{"rendered":"M.A.\/TCP Health and Physical Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>M.A. with Teacher Certification<\/h1>\n<h2>Health and Physical Education Specialization<\/h2>\n<div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-boxout-wrapper\"><div class=\"cl-boxout right  \"><h1>Program Advisors<\/h1><p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/meet\/emily-clapham\/\">Emily Clapham<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/meet\/furong-xu\/\">Furong Xu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Master of Arts with Teacher Certification Program in Health and Physical Education is designed for individuals who are seeking initial Rhode Island Teacher Certification while working toward a master\u2019s degree in Education.<\/p>\n<p>Admission to this program requires that you submit an online<br \/>\napplication through the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/graduate-school\/apply\/\">URI Graduate School<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are three subject areas for certification: physical education, health and adapted physical education. Certification requires a minimum of 55 credits within these three subject areas (see <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1572\/2025_METC-HealthAndPhysicalEd_FORM_03.pdf\">MATCP curriculum sheet<\/a>). To determine how many courses are required for your completion of the program, you can match course requirements<br \/>\nwith undergraduate transcripts, then discuss this with your academic advisors.<\/p>\n<p>As a master\u2019s degree candidate, you are required to take 30 graduate level credits. You should confer with your advisor regarding the selection of these graduate level courses.<\/p>\n<p>* MA\/TCP candidates are required to meet with their academic advisor to determine required certification courses requirement and graduate level content major courses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M.A. with Teacher Certification Health and Physical Education Specialization &nbsp; The Master of Arts with Teacher Certification Program in Health and Physical Education is designed for individuals who are seeking initial Rhode Island Teacher Certification while working toward a master\u2019s degree in Education. Admission to this program requires that you submit an online application through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4688,"featured_media":0,"parent":993,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-8115","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4688"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8115"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16658,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8115\/revisions\/16658"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}