Spanish, B.A. and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) PreK-12, M.S.

Bachelor of Arts in Spanish

General Education Requirements	60 credits
Spanish and TESOL
Undergraduate Courses	30 credits
Open Electives	15 credits
TESOL Graduate Courses	15 credits
Completed for B.A. degree
Total	120 credits

Master of Science in TESOL, PreK-12

Course work completed during B.A. degree	15 credits
Course work completed during M.S. degree	21 credits
Total	36 credits
Total combined B.A. and M.S.	141 credits

The TESOL graduate courses that must be completed for the B.A. degree are the following:

EDUC 501- Education in Today’s Schools
EDUC 505- Teaching English as a Second Language
EDUC 504- Cultural Perspectives and the Teaching Learning Process
EDUC 506- Educational Evaluation and Assessment from Early Childhood through Adolescence
EDUC 507- Approaches to Literacy in Early Childhood through Adolescence

The above 15 credits are taken as an undergraduate student as part of the B.A. degree program. The remaining 21 credits are taken as a graduate student after receiving the B.A. degree and after meeting the admission requirement for acceptance into the M.S. degree program. Please see the Graduate Catalog for course descriptions of the above courses and for specific requirements for the M.S. degree.

Graduate Progression Criteria

In Spring of the fourth year, students in the B.A. Spanish / M.S. TESOL, Pre-K-12 program will be evaluated by the School of Education Associate Dean and graduate Program Director for a review of their qualifications to progress to the graduate education portion of the program. Students who meet the following requirements will be permitted to progress to the graduate education portion of the 4+1 program:

Minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA and in Graduate Education courses
Submit an Effective Educator Statement.
Submission of an acceptable score on the Verbal Reasoning, Mathematical Reasoning, and Analytic Writing subtests of the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) or the PRAXIS Core Exams in Reading, Writing, and Mathematics.

Students in the 4+1 program who do not meet the above criteria, will not be permitted to continue to the graduate education portion of the program. Their major will be changed to the B.A. Spanish and the undergraduate degree will be conferred upon completion of the undergraduate program. Credits earned for graduate education courses taken will be applied to the undergraduate degree as elective credit.