Overview
The MEd degree is designed as a practitioner's degree, for students who wish to acquire the knowledge, skills and experience necessary to work in a professional field. As a professional degree, the MEd is intended for students who wish, upon graduation, to assume positions of leadership in a practical setting or positions requiring more advanced study than that available at the bachelor's level. The MEd degree is a course-based degree (no thesis required).
The MEd in Modern Languages is a specialized, individualized and interdisciplinary graduate program in which students can focus on French as a Second or Additional Language education, Asia-Pacific or modern language education in other languages, or Indigenous language education and revitalization.
MLED graduate students gain experience and understanding in such areas as: current issues in second language theory and practice, second language acquisition, second language reading and writing, language socialization, language and identity, bi-/multilingual pedagogies and multimodalities, language policy and planning, second language assessment, intercultural education, technology integration in language education, discourse analysis, critical applied linguistics, and research methods.
Teachers in French immersion, core and intensive French, and francophone programs have the option of completing an online cohort MEd taught entirely in French. The focus is on teachers’ specific interests related to French language teaching and includes a three-week course delivered face-to-face in Montreal. Online courses are offered synchronously between September and June via web-conferencing. For information about this specific program please visit: https://opl.educ.ubc.ca/med_french/
What makes the program unique?
The program faculty have expertise in second/additional language teaching, applied linguistics, critical applied linguistics, discourse analysis, intercultural education, second language acquisition and socialization, content-based language education, pedagogical and functional grammar, second language reading and writing, issues of language and identity, language in education, multilingual literacies, language policy, and language learning and use in immigrant and international communities.
Although there are formal course requirements for the advanced degrees, graduate students are encouraged, with the aim of individualizing each program of studies, to take graduate courses in other departments in the Faculty of Education as well as in Linguistics and other Language Departments, Anthropology/Sociology, Psychology, and other disciplines Linguistics in the Faculty of Arts. This allows students to individually tailor their program of studies according to their interests.
On-campus MEd programs in the Department can be pursued either full time or part time.
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