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French, MAT

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Degrees Awarded
Master of Arts in Teaching in French
Bachelor of Arts in French with Teacher Preparation Option/Master of Arts in Teaching in French
Bachelor of Arts in French and Linguistics with Teacher Preparation Option/Master of Arts in Teaching in French
 
Director of the Foreign Language Teacher Preparation Program
Faculty Advisor for the MAT in French
Sarah Jourdain
Email: Sarah.Jourdain@stonybrook.edu
Phone: (631) 632-7440

Department Website

The Master of Arts in Teaching program is designed as a course of study leading to New York State certification for teaching French in secondary schools (grades 7-12), with an extension option for grades K-6. This program, which is offered in collaboration with the University’s Department of Languages & Cultural Studies, the School of Professional Development, and D-TALE, is designed for those who have little or no previous coursework in education or formal classroom teaching experience.

Admission Requirements

Application Website

  • Application essay.
  • A bachelor’s degree with an academic major (or a minimum of 36 credits) in the program language or the equivalent. Transcript must reflect a 3.0 minimum cumulative GPA as well as a 3.0 minimum GPA in language studies.
  • Three letters of recommendation. Two of the three recommendations must be from faculty with whom you have completed a course of study at the college level. It would be preferable that these faculty be in the area of your major.
  • In those cases where the departmental admissions committee deems it desirable, personal interviews with departmental representatives may be necessary.

MAT Program Requirements

The degree program consists of 47 credits, distributed among the areas listed below. Unless otherwise noted, each course is three credits. All degree requirements must be completed within five (5) years from the semester date of admission as a matriculated student.

Language, Literature and Culture - 15 credits

Students choose from the courses listed below; those not listed are selected with the approval of a departmental advisor.

Professional Studies in Education - 23 credits

Note

At the program director’s discretion, an undergraduate course from a registered and approved program may be approved as a substitution for any of the courses listed below. In all cases the undergraduate course must have been completed with a B or higher and the student must then take a different graduate pedagogy course to fulfill the graduate credits required for the graduate degree.

  • CEE 505: Education: Theory and Practice
  • CEF 547: Principles and Practices of Special Education
  • CEE 594 OR LIN 544: Language Acquisition and Literacy Development
  • CEE 565 OR PSY 595: Human Development

Speak to your graduate program director for more information and approval.

Supervised Student Teaching and Seminar - 9 credits

Prior to student teaching, students must participate in an official ACTFL OPI (Oral Proficiency Interview) and receive a minimum spoken proficiency rating of Advanced-Low as defined in the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines-Speaking (1999). Students must contact Language Testing International (LTI) and arrange for either a phone interview or a computerized OPI.

Written Project

Students in all degree programs will be required to complete a Teacher Candidate Work Sample specifically designed for the Supervised Student Teaching project.

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