The Spanish Studies program provides courses required by the State of Florida for certification as foreign language teachers in the public school system. Requirements vary, but a Spanish major is required for permanent certification. FAU’s College of Education offers a range of education courses required by the State and that complement the Spanish major. Visit http://www.coe.fau.edu/teached/default.htm for more information about education courses.

Students interested in State certification for Foreign Language Teachers, should visit the following website of the Florida Department of Education: http://www.fldoe.org/educator

Teachers in need of re-certification courses are encouraged to enroll in appropriate classes as “non-degree seeking” students in our program.

As you can read below, Certification in Foreign Language requires a bachelor’s degree or higher and a major in the language to be taught that includes the following courses. Our major is designed to meet these requirements:

6A-4.0243 Specialization Requirements for Certification in Foreign Language (Grades K-12)--Academic Class.
(1)  Specialization requirements for the following modern languages: Chinese, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.

(a)  Plan One. A bachelor's or higher degree with an undergraduate or graduate major in one of the modern languages listed in Subsection (1) of this rule, or

(b)  Plan Two. A bachelor's or higher degree with thirty (30) semester hours in one of the modern languages listed in Subsection (1) of this rule to include credit in the areas specified below:

 1.  History or culture of the people who speak the language as their native language,

 2.  Literature in the language, and

 3.  Applied linguistics or second language acquisition, or (c)  Plan Three. A bachelor's or higher degree with specialization requirements completed in in one (1) of the modern languages as specified in Paragraph (1)(a) or (b) of this rule, and twenty-one (21) semester hours in another one of the modern languages listed in Subsection (1) of this rule to include credit in the areas specified below:

 1.  History or culture of the people who speak the language as their native language, and

 2.  Literature in the language.