Coordinator:
Dr. Mary Curran (848-932-0790; email: mary.curran@gse.rutgers.edu)
Please visit the
website.
Pre-Admission Core
Courses (6.5 credits)
05:300:200
Introduction to Education (3)
05:300:201
Introduction to Education Field Based Lab - Clinical Experience (1)
05:300:306 Introduction to Educational Psychology: Principles of Classroom Learning (3)
Foreign Language Education (18 credits)
05:300:438 Methods for Teaching and Assessing World Language Learners (3)
15:253:520 Principles of Language Learning: Second and World Language Acquisition (3)
15:253:523 Language and Culture (3)
05:300:434 Foundations of Language (3)
15:253:537 Language in Society (3)
Graduate-level elective in foreign language education (3)
Common Professional
Education Core (15 credits)
05:300:450 Urban Education I (1.5)
05:300:451 Urban Education II (1.5)
05:300:452 Teaching
Emerging Bilinguals in the K-12 Classroom I (1.5)
05:300:453 Teaching
Emerging Bilinguals in the K-12
Classroom II (1.5)
15:255:534 Classroom
Organization for the Inclusive and Special Classroom (3)
15:293:523 Inclusive
Teaching in Education (3)
Choose one from the
following:
15:255:539 Communities, Schools, and Social Justice (3)
15:253:540 Teaching
English Language Learners (3)
05:300:406 Community-Based
Language Learning (3)
Clinical Experience
(19.5 credits)
05:300:498 Clinical Experience Phase 1 (.5)
05:300:499 Clinical Practice Phase 2 (4)
15:255:535 Clinical Practice Phase 3 (9)
15:255:536 Clinical Practice Seminar (6)
Major Requirements
Every candidate for certification in foreign language education must complete a full major in an approved target language.
Language and Cultural Proficiency Requirements
Proficiency
in the target language is to be demonstrated through an Oral
Proficiency Interview (OPI). To schedule the OPI, contact
t
he American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
(ACTFL) at http://www.languagetesting.com. OPI results must be on file with the Office of Student and Academic Services prior to student teaching.
There is no OPI for Latin; however, there is a Latin test requirement: http://www.nj.gov/education/aps/cccs/wl/latin_test.htm.
