Coordinator:
Dr. Mary Curran (732-932-7496, ext. 8101; email: mcurran@rci.rutgers.edu)
The Graduate School of Education offers a postbaccalaureate master's degree/initial teacher certification program in Foreign Language Education.
The program requires that a student have a bachelor's degree with a major appropriate to the area of licensure, 90 credits in liberal arts, and satisfaction of the general education distribution. The requirements needed to satisfy the general education distribution can be found in the Office of Academic Services, Room 110, Graduate School of Education (732-932-7496, ext. 8132).
The specific program requirements are as follows:
Foreign Language Education (21 credits)
05:300:431 Teaching World Language/ESL in Elementary Schools (3)
05:300:432 Teaching World Language/ESL in Secondary Schools (3)
15:253:520 Principles of Second/Foreign Language Acquisition (3)
15:253:523 Language and Culture (3)
15:253:531 Foundations of Language II (3)
16:300:535 Foundations of Language I (3)
15:253:537 Sociolinguistics (3)
Common Professional Education Core (12 credits)
05:300:306 Principles of Classroom Learning (3)
15:255:533 Assessment and Measurement for Teachers (2)
15:255:534 Classroom Organization (1)
15:255:537 Education, Ethics, and Society (3)
15:255:538 Teacher as Researcher (3)
Internship in Teaching (12 credits)
15:255:535 Internship in Teaching (9)
15:255:536 Internship Seminar (3)
Language and Cultural Proficiency Requirements
Proficiency in the target language to be demonstrated through an Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) (to schedule the OPI & WPT contact ACTFL at www.languagetesting.com).
