Sep 12, 2024  
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog

Modern Languages Education, MAT


Program Description


The online Modern Language Education Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program is a 30-credit hour degree designed for mid-career professionals who have a content background in American Sign Language, French, or Spanish, are seeking to change fields, and are not currently certified to teach. By allowing acceleration through the program with the goal of placement and retention after completion, the MAT helps address the ongoing teacher shortfall in the state of South Carolina. Most importantly, it places well-prepared candidates in the classroom in a timely manner. The MAT program is a technologically rich program in which students master the fundamentals of teaching and become skilled at motivating and helping students learn. The program addresses content directly related to the PK-12 classroom, educational foundations, and specific teaching methods that reflect current research in the field. The program also provides the courses required for initial certification to teach grades PK-12 in South Carolina.

Summary of Degree Requirements


The Master of Arts in Teaching in Modern Languages Education requires completion of 30 credit hours of coursework.