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Spanish (MAT) | Master’s Degree

The Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) with Licensure offers a secondary (7–12) teaching license in Spanish valid for teaching in the U.S. public school systems.

The MAT is an 18-month master’s degree leading to licensure designed for working professionals, who can enroll for the summer in person and work part-time online during the academic year.

MAT students join their Language School for two 6-week summers in Vermont (in Spanish) and participate fully in cocurricular activities, from clubs and performances to guest speakers and films to dances and athletics with the immersion and graduate students.

During the academic year between the summers, students take four 7-week asynchronous courses in English together with MAT students from different languages. In the final fall, students complete a 13-week teaching practicum in their preferred state while completing a final 15-week course. This 15-week course is designed to resource students as they do their student teaching and guide them in completing their licensure portfolio.

Korean (MAT) | Master’s Degree

The Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) with Licensure offers a secondary (7–12) teaching license in Korean valid for teaching in the U.S. public school systems.

The MAT is an 18-month master’s degree leading to licensure designed for working professionals, who can enroll for the summer in person and work part-time online during the academic year.

MAT students join their Language School for two 6-week summers in Vermont (in Korean) and participate fully in cocurricular activities, from clubs and performances to guest speakers and films to dances and athletics with the immersion and graduate students.

During the academic year between the summers, students take four 7-week asynchronous courses in English together with MAT students from different languages. In the final fall, students complete a 13-week teaching practicum in their preferred state while completing a final 15-week course. This 15-week course is designed to resource students as they do their student teaching and guide them in completing their licensure portfolio.

Japanese (MAT) | Master’s Degree

The Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) with Licensure offers a secondary (7–12) teaching license in Japanese valid for teaching in the U.S. public school systems.

The MAT is an 18-month master’s degree leading to licensure designed for working professionals, who can enroll for the summer in person and work part-time online during the academic year.

MAT students join their Language School for two 6-week summers in Vermont (in Japanese) and participate fully in cocurricular activities, from clubs and performances to guest speakers and films to dances and athletics with the immersion and graduate students.

During the academic year between the summers, students take four 7-week asynchronous courses in English together with MAT students from different languages. In the final fall, students complete a 13-week teaching practicum in their preferred state while completing a final 15-week course. This 15-week course is designed to resource students as they do their student teaching and guide them in completing their licensure portfolio.

Hebrew (MAT) | Master’s Degree

The Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) with Licensure offers a secondary (7–12) teaching license in Hebrew valid for teaching in the U.S. public school systems.

The MAT is an 18-month master’s degree leading to licensure designed for working professionals, who can enroll for the summer in person and work part-time online during the academic year.

MAT students join their Language School for two 6-week summers in Vermont (in Hebrew) and participate fully in cocurricular activities, from clubs and performances to guest speakers and films to dances and athletics with the immersion and graduate students.

During the academic year between the summers, students take four 7-week asynchronous courses in English together with MAT students from different languages. In the final fall, students complete a 13-week teaching practicum in their preferred state while completing a final 15-week course. This 15-week course is designed to resource students as they do their student teaching and guide them in completing their licensure portfolio.

Please contact The School of Hebrew with any questions about this program.

German (MAT) | Master’s Degree

The Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) with Licensure offers a secondary (7–12) teaching license in German valid for teaching in the U.S. public school systems.

The MAT is an 18-month master’s degree leading to licensure designed for working professionals, who can enroll for the summer in person and work part-time online during the academic year.

MAT students join their Language School for two 6-week summers in Vermont (in German) and participate fully in cocurricular activities, from clubs and performances to guest speakers and films to dances and athletics with the immersion and graduate students.

During the academic year between the summers, students take four 7-week asynchronous courses in English together with MAT students from different languages. In the final fall, students complete a 13-week teaching practicum in their preferred state while completing a final 15-week course. This 15-week course is designed to resource students as they do their student teaching and guide them in completing their licensure portfolio.

French (MAT) | Master’s Degree

The Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) with Licensure offers a secondary (7–12) teaching license in French valid for teaching in the U.S. public school systems.

The MAT is an 18-month master’s degree leading to licensure designed for working professionals, who can enroll for the summer in person and work part-time online during the academic year.

MAT students join their Language School for two 6-week summers in Vermont (in French) and participate fully in cocurricular activities, from clubs and performances to guest speakers and films to dances and athletics with the immersion and graduate students.

During the academic year between the summers, students take four 7-week asynchronous courses in English together with MAT students from different languages. In the final fall, students complete a 13-week teaching practicum in their preferred state while completing a final 15-week course. This 15-week course is designed to resource students as they do their student teaching and guide them in completing their licensure portfolio.

Chinese (MAT) | Master’s Degree

The Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) with Licensure offers a secondary (7–12) teaching license in Chinese valid for teaching in the U.S. public school systems.

The MAT is an 18-month master’s degree leading to licensure designed for working professionals, who can enroll for the summer in person and work part-time online during the academic year.

MAT students join their Language School for two 6-week summers in Vermont (in Chinese) and participate fully in cocurricular activities, from clubs and performances to guest speakers and films to dances and athletics with the immersion and graduate students.

During the academic year between the summers, students take four 7-week asynchronous courses in English together with MAT students from different languages. In the final fall, students complete a 13-week teaching practicum in their preferred state while completing a final 15-week course. This 15-week course is designed to resource students as they do their student teaching and guide them in completing their licensure portfolio.

German | Master’s Degree

The Master of Arts (MA) in German is designed as a broadly based program of study in itself, rather than as the first stage of a doctoral program. You may choose to earn your MA in a single year, by combining one summer in Vermont with an academic year in Mainz or Potsdam, or by studying for four summers on the Middlebury campus in Vermont.

Applied Lanugages: German | Master’s Degree

Acquire specific skills, knowledge, and experience applicable to an individual career path with our one-year Master in Applied Languages.

Students spend a summer in Vermont at the German School followed by an Academic Year in Mainz or Potsdam, Germany. Students complete a hands-on internship in Germany combined with academic coursework in traditional subjects, interdisciplinary areas, and pre-professional disciplines. Students can only specialize in language teaching.

French | Master’s Degree

Middlebury offers many different specializations for French MA students: a Literature focus, a Civilization, Culture and Society focus, a Pedagogy and Linguistics focus and a Generalist focus. We have have different specializations for the MA in Applied Languages in French.

There are four different ways you can complete this program. Option 1 is four summers (6 weeks each) in Vermont; option 2 is three summers in Vermont and one summer in Paris, France (6 weeks each); option 3 is two summers in Vermont and one academic year in Paris, France; and option 4 is one summer in Vermont and one accelerated academic year in Paris, France.