Bilingual Education Extension
Advanced Graduate Certificate
Stony Brook University’s new 16-credit advanced graduate certificate leads to the NYSED Bilingual Education Extension Annotation. It is designed for those who hold an appropriate NYSED certificate and are fluent, bilingual (English/Spanish) speakers. The program provides the knowledge and skills necessary to teach effectively in English and Spanish in New York State schools.
Program Requirements
The certificate program consists of 16 credits, distributed among the areas listed below. Credits for each course are noted. All requirements must be completed within three (3) years from the semester date of admission as a matriculated student.
- CEF/HHS 526 Foundations of Teaching English Language Arts to Bilingual Learners (3 credits)
- CEF/SPN 536 Methods of Teaching Second Language and Content to Bilingual Students (3 credits)
- SPN 505/LIN 542 Hispanic Dialectology & Sociolinguistics (3 credits)
- SPN 506/LIN 541 Bilingualism (3 credits)
Plus one of the following:
- FLA 574 Bilingual Education in the Schools (4 credits; for all other participants except those in the speech-language pathology program)
- HHS 574 Speech and Language Pathology in the Schools Bilingual Clinical (4 credits; Speech-Language Pathology only*).
*For information about the Master of Science in Speech Language Pathology visit https://healthtechnology.stonybrookmedicine.edu/programs/speech-language-pathology
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