Italian Language Education 7-12

The MAT and Advanced Certificate in Italian Language Education program is designed for teacher candidates with an undergraduate degree in Italian or the equivalent, both the OPI and WPT with a score at least advanced low who wish to become certified teachers of Italian (grades 7-12) and gain their master’s degree in teaching and develop new programs for secondary Italian language programs. The first 24 credits of the 42 credit MAT program encompass all the required courses that lead to an advanced certificate for in Adolescent Education: Italian Language Education and a recommendation for New York State Initial Certification 7-12. Students within this MAT program are dually matriculated for both award programs.  After completing the 24 required credits for the advanced certificate referred to above, an additional 9 credits of graduate level Italian coursework distributed by one course each in Linguistics, Culture, and Literature, 3 credit graduate-level pedagogical content course in world language education (SEYS 743), 3 credits in graduate research (785), and 3 elective credits of graduate level world language curriculum and instruction selected topics courses are required to complete the MAT degree. 

Candidates enrolling in the MAT in Italian Language Education program will be assigned an advisor and will first take pedagogical core courses (12 credits) and pedagogical courses in world language education (12 credits.)  The additional 18 credits of graduate level pedagogical study are required to complete the MAT. All have prerequisites among the first 24 credits.