Bilingual Cross-Cultural Language and Academic Development (BCLAD)
The BCLAD emphasis is available to prepare students who are proficient in a second language to teach bilingual students in the public schools. Proficiency in the language includes oral and written conversational and academic language skills. Such language proficiency is determined by a state-approved exam administered at Fresno Pacific University or other approved agencies. Adding this emphasis to a multiple subject or single subject credential allows graduates to teach in the target language as well as in English.
Courses
The coursework is centered on language acquisition, second-language teaching methods, linguistics, culture and second-language literature.
| PREREQUISITE COURSES |
| SPAN 300 | Advanced Spanish | 3 units |
| REQUIRED COURSES |
| LANG 340 | Introduction to Linguistics | 3 units |
| SOC 310 | Cultural Communities of California | 3 units |
| OR | 3 units |
| SOC 410 | American Ethnicity and Pluralism | 3 units |
| LANG 310 | First and Second Language Acquisition | 3 units |
| LANG 320 | Teaching English Language Learners | 3 units |
| LIT 445 | Latin American Literature | 3 units |
| SPAN 305 | Composition and Conversation in Spanish | 3 units |
