Advanced Graduate Certificate in Bilingual Education Extension

SUNY Stony Brook University

Advanced Graduate Certificate Stony Brook University’s 16-credit advanced graduate certificate leads to the NYSED Bilingual Education Extension Annotation and is offered fully online.The program is designed for fluent, bilingual (English/Spanish) speakers who hold an appropriate NYSED certificate. The program provides the knowledge and skills necessary to teach effectively in English and Spanish in New York State schools.Certificate RequirementsStudents will complete 5 courses (16 credits) in one of two pathways. Credits for each course are noted. Course descriptions are published in the SPD Bulletin (CEF courses) and the Graduate Bulletin (all others).Pathway 1: For TeachersFor English Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science, Physics Social Sciences, Spanish-English Bilingual ExtensionCEF 574 Bilingual Education in the Schools (4 credits)CEF 526 Foundations of Teaching English Language Arts to Bilingual Learners (3 credits)CEF 536 Methods of Teaching Second Language and Content to Bilingual Students (3 credits)LIN 542 Sociolinguistics, or LIN 532 Second Language Acquisition (3 credits)LIN 541 Bilingualism (3 credits)Pathway 2: For Speech LanguageFor Speech-Language Pathology, Spanish-English Bilingual ExtensionHHS 574 Speech and Language Pathology in the Schools, Bilingual Clinical (4 credits)HHS/CEF 526 Foundations of Teaching English Language Arts to Bilingual Learners (3 credits)CEF/FLA/SPN 536 Methods of Teaching Second Language and Content to Bilingual Students (3 credits)LIN 542 Sociolinguistics, or LIN 532 Second Language Acquisition (3 credits)LIN 541 Bilingualism (3 credits)