Clayton
campus
Course code: 2039
Contact: Dr Margaret Gearon (please telephone 9905 2819 or 9905 2784
for initial inquiries)
The Postgraduate Diploma in Bilingual/Immersion Education is designed to accommodate teachers and school administrators involved in implementing a content-based immersion program in their school and to assist them to deepen their understanding of the processes of second language teaching and learning in such a context.
The major objectives of the Postgraduate Diploma in Bilingual/Immersion Education course are to provide teachers of languages other than English and school administrators involved in such programs with:
Candidates will hold a university degree or its equivalent and be school administrators or qualified teachers of a language other than English.
Applicants
contemplating admission to this course may seek formal credit or recognition of
prior learning. Applicants should apply for credit prior to enrolment but
currently enrolled students may also apply. The Faculty of Education considers
each application on its merits within the context of the faculty guidelines on
credit transfer which are contained in a booklet Learning from
experience available from the Professional Development Institute, Faculty
of Education, Monash University, Gippsland campus, Churchill 3842 ($7
postage and packing).
Candidates who successfully complete the Postgraduate Diploma in
Bilingual/Immersion Education will receive twenty-four points credit towards a
masters degree.
For the award of the Postgraduate Diploma in Bilingual/Immersion Education, a candidate must satisfactorily complete the following four subjects:
*GED3847 MAY BE REPLACED BY THE LINGUISTICS DEPARTMENT'S SUBJECT ALM5230 (BILINGUALISM).
This course may be taken on campus by part-time study over two academic years. Each subject is of one-semester length and the option of summer school study will be provided for some subjects. The expected number of hours per week for a full-time student is forty-eight.
Details
of all subjects, including reading lists, follow the course information in this
handbook.
Further information regarding this course may be obtained from the inquiry
office, Faculty of Education, Clayton campus (telephone 9905 2819 or
9905 2784) or visit our web site at http://www.education.monash.edu.au/