The bilingual pathways at Cal State LA provide bilingual teachers and bilingual teacher candidates with the opportunity to obtain a Bilingual Added Authorization (BAA) in Spanish or Mandarin. The BAA prepares you to better serve bilingual learners in English-medium or dual language settings. If you are bilingual, add a BAA and join the movement to advance bilingualism in our communities.
Cal State LA Bilingual Pathways
At Cal State LA, the Bilingual Added Authorization can be obtained through various pathways. Please note that all pathways require a passing score on the CSET 3 for the target language.
This pathway provides bilingual undergraduate students with an accelerated pathway to obtain a bachelor's degree in Urban Learning, a multiple subject teaching credential, and a bilingual added authorization. Read more about the Urban Learning B.A. program.
This pathway provides postbac students with a multiple subject credential and bilingual added authorization by taking methods courses with an “S” and one additional course:
- Requirements:
EDEL 4150-S
EDEL 4160-S
EDCI 5570 - Highly recommended additional bilingual courses:
EDCI 4010-01
EDEL 4170-S (Fall terms)
EDEL 4180-S (Spring terms)
- Explore the Bilingual Multiple Subject Roadmap.
This pathway provides postbac students with a single subject credential and bilingual added authorization by taking two additional courses:
Requirements:
EDCI 5560
EDCI 5570
This pathway provides postbac students with a teaching credential and bilingual added authorization by taking two additional courses.
Requirements:
- EDCI 5560 (Fall terms),
- EDCI 5570 (Spring terms)
This pathway provides postbac students with a teaching credential and bilingual added authorization by taking two additional courses.
Requirements:
- EDCI 5560
- EDCI 5570
This pathway is available for in-service teachers and non-matriculated Cal State LA students. Teachers can add a bilingual authorization in Spanish or Mandarin to their existing teaching credential by taking two courses.
Requirements:
EDCI 5560
EDCI 5570
Read more about the PaGE Sessions.
The CBB option Masters program also allows teachers to add a BAA in Spanish or Mandarin to their existing credential.
Mission and Vision
The vision of the Bilingual Pathways at Cal State LA is to prepare bilingual students to become bilingual teachers and to advocate for reclaiming the ancestral and intergenerational linguistic practices of communities. Through the Bilingual Pathways, the goal is to embrace students’ full linguistic repertoires and ways of being/ thinking/ feeling by creating spaces where students can translanguage while simultaneously building on their pedagogical Spanish or Mandarin. We acknowledge that there are multiple forms through which we communicate and that all forms are valid. Working with a critical consciousness, we reject the hegemony of English and the English-only policies that, for many years, through colonization and the formation of the nation-state, have oppressed our communities. We work to create dual language bilingual education programs where racial and linguistic justice are a priority.
Student Voices
“I feel like a part of home is with me. Being able to be part of the ULRN bilingual pathway makes my experience as a student feel more comfortable and that I can identify with something.”
“My experience [in the bilingual pathway] has been empowering. I feel more comfortable and confident with speaking, expressing, and writing in both languages. Most importantly, I feel reconnected with my language. If my experience has been this positive, I can only imagine the difference we can make when we embrace all aspects of being bilingual and the impact we can create on our students and families.”
Bilingual Educator Student Organization (BESO)
Join us!
The mission of BESO is to create a community of bilingual students and to foster a space for discussions surrounding bilingual education and bilingual teacher preparation. Through this organization, BESO members have the opportunity to reflect on and simultaneously raise awareness about the benefits of bilingualism and biliteracy for students from preschool to higher education.
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Contact
Dr. Verónica González
Bilingual Pathways Coordinator
[email protected]