Accelerated (4+1) M.A. in Multilingual Education-Tesol
Motivated students may seek to complete the requirements for the B.A. Asian Studies and M.A. Multilingual Education, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) in five years. To obtain both degrees, students must complete all the requirements for the B.A. in Asian Studies, either with a Liberal Arts Concentration, described in the Undergraduate Catalog (120 for Liberal Arts) and all of the requirements for the M.A. Multilingual Education, TESOL described in the Graduate Catalog (30 credit hours). However, the accelerated B.A./M.A. program involves shared credit hours shared between the Bachelor's and Master's programs, so the total number of credit hours to complete the accelerated Master’s program is 141 for students.
Completing the requirements for both degrees is made possible by taking double-counted B.A./M.A. credits (ECLD 592, ECLD 523, and ECLD 594) during the Junior and Senior years (paid for at the undergraduate tuition rate) and graduate-level credits (online – graduate-level tuition rate) in the summer following the Senior year and completion of the undergraduate program. While this is the most efficient route, students may also elect to complete the program at a slower pace. Students remain eligible for financial aid as an undergraduate; any Graduate School aid is not available until students are admitted as a Graduate student.
To be fully admitted to the MAT program, students must graduate with a cumulative GPA at 3.00 and above for the BA. Students then take the remaining 7 graduate courses: ECLD 504, ECLD 510, ECLD 601, ECLD 510, ECLD 605, ET 640, and SRM 600 to complete the MAT program.
Accelerated M.A. TESOL 4+1 Timeline
BA Asian Studies Majors in Accelerated MA TESOL 4+1 Program take 9 out of the 28 University-Wide Credits for the BA at the 500 levels in junior and senior years.
Students take the following as undergraduate electives:
Multilingual Education M.A. – Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)— 30 Credits
Students complete the remaining 7 courses after graduation. See completion plans below.
Required Credits — 24 credits
| ECLD 504 | Field Experience in Culturally & Linguistically Diverse Education | 3 |
| ECLD 510 | Practices in ESL/EFL Instruction and Assessment | 3 |
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| ECLD 590 | Communication and Technologies for Multilingual Education | 3 |
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| ET 525 | Learners and Curriculum in the Digital Age | 3 |
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| ET 640 | Applications of Multiliteracies | 3 |
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| ECLD 592 | Second Language Acquisition Theory | 3 |
| ECLD 594 | Foundations of Language and Linguistics for ESL/Bilingual Educators | 3 |
| ECLD 601 | Language, Linguistics, and Education | 3 |
| ECLD 605 | Seminar in Multilingual Teaching and Learning | 3 |
| SRM 600 | Introduction to Graduate Research | 3 |
Elective Credits — 6 credits
Choose Two
| ECLD 523 | Academic Language/Literacy Development for Diverse Learners in School Settings | 3 |
| ECLD 593 | Language, School and Society | 3 |
| ECLD 596 | Effective Instruction in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education | 3 |
| ECLD 602 | Teaching Culturally Linguistically Diverse and Bilingual Learners | 3 |
| EDSE 679 | Interventions for Students with Cultural and Linguistic Differences | 3 |