The Master of Arts in Teaching is available only in Latin and is offered by the School of Education in cooperation with the Department of Classics. The program provides opportunities for individuals to expand in depth and breadth their content specialization (Latin language and literature, Roman history, Classics) while gaining additional understanding of curriculum and instruction at the secondary education level. The requirements of the program are as follows:
1. Teaching license. In general, candidates should hold a secondary teaching license in Latin from an accredited institution. However, a limited number of students without prior licensure may be admitted on a space available basis. Students who have a minimum of 18 hours of upper-level undergraduate work in Latin but who do not hold a teaching license will be expected to complete the requirements for licensure before receiving the MAT.
2. Thirty-three semester hours of courses, including a minimum of:
a. Nine semester hours of graduate courses in Latin literature of the Republican or Augustan periods. Students who present a particularly strong background in these areas may opt at the time of admission for other periods.
b. Nine graduate hours chosen from among Latin, education, or (with prior approval of the student's MAT adviser) related fields such as history, linguistics, Classical archaeology, religion, comparative literature, or Classical literature in translation. (Especially recommended are Latin 726 and History 425, 427 and 752.)
c. One course chosen from: EDUC 770, 728, 744, and EDUC 792.
d. One course chosen from: EDUC 682, and EDUX 722.
e. All of the following: Latin 510: Composition; EDUC 783: Advanced Methodology in Language Teaching.
f. Practicum (no hours credit): EDUC 806: Practicum in Curriculum and Instruction. This requirement can be fulfilled by serving as a teaching assistant in the Department of Classics.
3. Language Proficiency, as demonstrated by:
a. A diagnostic examination, administered to all candidates upon entrance to the program. Any candidate who does not demonstrate acceptable proficiency in Latin on this examination, as determined by the adviser in the Classics Department, will be required to make up that deficiency by taking additional language courses at UNC-CH or at another institution.
b. A second language examination, taken before sitting for the written examination. All MAT candidates must pass this examination.
4. Written examination. The written examination will consist of questions on the literature reading list, on the culture and civilization reading list, on applied linguistics, and on foreign-language teaching methodology.
5. Oral examination. The oral examination will consist of a one-hour presentation and discussion of a project developed by the student on the basis of her or his special interests. This project may deal with the teaching of the language, the theory and practice of education, or any other topic approved by the examination committee. This committee will consist of two persons from the Department of Classics and one from the School of Education.
No thesis is required in the MAT program.