Program Type: Credentialing Program
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Location: New York, NY
Website URL: http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/classics/chinese/MAProgram.html

Hunter College has established a Master of Arts degree program in the Teaching of Chinese (Grades 7-12) beginning September 2008. This program is sponsored by the Department of Classical and Oriental Studies, School of Arts and Sciences, and the School of Education. The purpose of this program is to provide training and guidance for qualified students who are interested in teaching Chinese as a foreign language in the public school system in the greater New York area in order to satisfy the need for the ever increasing demand for certified teachers who are capable of offering quality language instruction in New York public schools. Curriculum design for the M.A. Program in the Teaching of Chinese is based on the New York State requirements of the Teacher Education Program in Languages Other than English for Mandarin Chinese. One unique feature about the design of the Chinese M.A. program is that the Methods courses, Teaching Practicum and Student Teaching courses will be taught and supervised by faculty who are specialists in Chinese pedagogy. At present, there is no school in the metropolitan area offering a program in the training of teachers of Chinese comparable to our design.

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