Master of Arts in Multilingual and Multicultural Studies
The M.A. in Multilingual and Multicultural Studies is designed to provide needed knowledge and skills for the following professionals:
- K-12 Bilingual educators and instructional specialists/curriculum writers
- K-12 ESL and world language instructional specialists/curriculum writers
- Adult ESL instructors and program directors
- Community and nonprofit leaders working with linguistically and culturally diverse families
- Sociologists focused on multilingual and multicultural populations
Marketable Skills
Defined by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board's 60x30 Strategic Plan as, "Those skills valued by employers that can be applied in a variety of work settings, including interpersonal, cognitive, and applied skills areas. These skills can be either primary or complementary to a major and are acquired by students through education, including curricular, co-curricular, and extracurricular activities."
In the program, students will gain the following skills and experiences:
- Application of knowledge of various multilingual populations to practice
- Understanding of bilingualism, biliteracy, and second language acquisition
- Critical perspectives on race, language, and culture
- Development of academic and scholarly writing in English and other languages as students choose
- Engagement with practitioner and research audiences through presentations
- Learn-by-doing through service learning and other real-life course assignments
Admissions
All students must meet the University requirements as outlined in the Admission to the TWU Graduate School section of the catalog.
The academic program may have additional admission criteria that must also be completed as outlined on the program's website.
Degree Requirements
Total Semester Credit Hours Required
30 semester credit hours (SCH).
| First Year | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | TCCN | SCHs | |
| EDUC 5173 | Diversity in the Classroom | 3 | |
| READ 5923 | Biliteracy and Multilingualism | 3 | |
| SCHs | 6 | ||
| Spring | TCCN | ||
| EDBE 5413 | Teaching Reading and Other Language Arts to Linguistically Different Learners | 3 | |
| EDBE 5643 | Sociolinguistics | 3 | |
| SCHs | 6 | ||
| Summer | TCCN | ||
| EDBE 5633 | Education in Culturally Diverse Environments | 3 | |
| EDBE 5333 or 5653 | Curriculum for Bilingual Education: Methods and Materials or Second Language Acquisition: Theories and Practices | 3 | |
| SCHs | 6 | ||
| Second Year | |||
| Fall | TCCN | ||
| READ 5423 | Literacy: Practice to Theory | 3 | |
| READ 5443 | Literacy: Assessment and Instruction | 3 | |
| SCHs | 6 | ||
| Spring | TCCN | ||
| READ 5453 | Processes and Strategies for Comprehending Texts | 3 | |
| READ 5513 | Literacy and the Diverse Learner | 3 | |
| SCHs | 6 | ||
| Total SCHs: | 30 | ||
