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Graduate Programs of Study
M.A. or M.Ed, Teaching & Learning Certification, World Language Education
World Language (6-12) Content Areas:
Arabic
Chinese
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Spanish
Degree Requirements
In addition to the coursework outlined below, requirements include
Content Area Prerequisites,
State Certification Tests,
Field Experiences and
Student Teaching.
Master of Education: 12 courses and Student Teaching (56 quarter hours)
Master of Arts: 13 courses (including a thesis) and Student Teaching (60 quarter hours)
Content Area Prerequisites
DePaul requires a minimum of 32 semester hours in the subject area that the student plans to teach. Students who did not take these classes in their bachelor's degree program will need to take them while pursuing their teaching certificate. Completion of content area courses is NOT a prerequisite to admission but all must be fulfilled before student teaching. Specific prerequisites for each content area are:
- Advanced Language Study I
- Advanced Language Study II
- Advanced Language Study III
- Language elective
- Language elective
- Language elective
- Language elective
- Language elective
- Language elective
- Language elective
- Language elective
- Language elective
Content Area Advising
Students in World Language Education area assigned a content area advisor in their discipline as well as a professional advisor in the School of Education. Students should contact their content area advisor early in the program to obtain a content evaluation of their transcripts.
Courses
Pre-Teacher Candidate Courses (16 hours):
- T&L 424 Introduction to Secondary Education
- T&L 425 Professional Practice in Secondary Schools
- SCG 406 Human Development and Learning: Secondary
- SCG 025 Basic Technology Assessment (non-credit)
Choose one:
SCG 408 Education and the Social Order
SCG 409 Sociology of Education
SCG 411 Philosophy of Education
Advanced Teacher Candidate Courses (28 hours):
- SCG 410 Intro to Research: Purposes, Issues and Methodologies
- LSI 446 Psychology and Education of the Exceptional Child
- T&L 525 Reading , Writing and Communicating Across the Curriculum
- T&L 449 Teaching Modern Languages
Content Area Courses (12 hours)
Students take 1-3 graduate level courses in the content area to refresh or extend knowledge and skills.
Evaluation of the content area must be completed by a faculty content area advisor. Evaluation will determine if deficiencies exist in the content area prerequisites and to recommend appropriate courses for content area requirements. Both deficiencies and all required graduate level content area courses must be completed before student teaching.
Middle School (optional; 4 hours)
SCG 439 Philosophy and Psychology of Middle Level Education
(Students interested in teaching in departmentalized middle level settings, grades 6-8, must take SCG 439. Unless you take SCG 439, you are qualified to teach in grades K-5 only. This is an additional course.)
Field Experiences (0 hours)
- SCU 095 Field Experiences with Children and Youth (minimum of 100-110 hours of daytime field experience) (non-credit)
Student Teaching (8 hours):
- T&L 590 Secondary Student Teaching (6 hours)
- T&L 591 Secondary Seminar (2 hours)
Induction Course (4 hours)
Induction year courses are designed to assist students to negotiate the first year of teaching and aid in professional development. As a requirement of the degree, students must take an induction course during the first year of teaching.
Choose one of the following:
- T&L 611 Induction into the Teaching Profession: Secondary
- T&L 612 Critical Reflection, Teaching, and Classroom Practice (pre-requisite: teaching job)
- T&L 613 Negotiating Curriculum in the Classroom (pre-requisite: teaching job)
- T&L 616 Classroom Assessment (pre-requisite: teaching job)
To Earn a Master of Arts:
If you choose to earn a Master of Arts degree, you must take this course, write a thesis, and complete an oral examination regarding the thesis (4 hours).
T&L 589 Thesis Research in Teaching and Learning: Secondary
Grade Requirements for All Concentrations
To receive graduate credit for an upper-level undergraduate course a grade of B- or better must be attained.
A grade of D+, or D is unacceptable for graduate credit in this program, and if earned in a required course must be repeated or substituted as directed by the department or program. Such grades remain on the academic record and are calculated into the cumulative GPA.
Course Descriptions
To view a complete listing of available courses or to see course descriptions, visit the online course catalog. Choose "guest" access if you don't have a User ID and password.
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