The four-year curriculum for the Bachelor of Science in Education contains required graduate courses that prepare students in the Elementary Teacher Education (ETE) major for the Master of Arts in Childhood Foreign Language Education. This interdisciplinary degree trains candidates to teach in the dual-language immersion classroom. With this 4+1 plan and the proper scheduling of graduate EDUC courses, students may enter immediately into the MA program in the College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, full-time with the possibility of completion within one year.
Program Requirements:
Students in the 4+1 program will complete all requirements for the undergraduate major in Elementary Teacher Education. However, the four-year curriculum for the Bachelor of Science in Elementary Teacher Education, when taken as part of the 4+1 program, contains required graduate courses that prepare the student for completion of the Master of Arts curriculum. With this 4+1 plan and the proper scheduling of courses as an undergraduate, students may enter immediately into the MA program full-time with the possibility of completion within one year. UD Elementary Teacher Education undergraduate majors who are provisionally granted admission to the 4+1 BS/MA program in Childhood Foreign Language Education and subsequently admitted to the 4+1 program would take:
- EDUC 601, Language Development in the Classroom OR EDUC 740, Literacy Instruction for English Language Learners
- EDUC 622, The Role of Literacy in Content Areas, as an elective (for students in concentrations that include electives) or in addition to ETE major requirements (for students in concentrations that do not include electives).
Students who take EDUC 740 in place of EDUC 400 would need to earn a C- or higher in order for the course to count toward the ETE major.
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February 2025
College of Education and Human Development
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19716, United States
Applicants to the University must be graduates of accredited secondary schools or have equivalent credentials. Specifically, for post-secondary, degree-seeking programs, we consider for admission students who
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