Dual Language Pathway Certificate

The Department of Teaching and Learning offers a Dual Language Pathway Certificate to multilingual students in the teacher preparation program on all WSU campuses. The Dual Language Pathway Certificate demonstrates to potential employers (like school districts) that the teacher candidates have received professional training across a variety of topics and content areas in the field of education in a language other than English. The Certificate also highlights that the teacher candidates are linguistically proficient enough to succeed in upper-division teacher preparation courses in a language other than English. 

Certificate Requirements: 

The Dual Language Pathway Certificate entails successfully completing the required course work for the Washington State Bilingual Education endorsement (7 courses, 21 credits). As part of that process, students must take 3 of the 7 courses required for the Bilingual Education endorsement in a language other than English. The 3 courses (9 credits) offered in an additional language are: TCH LRN 330, 333, 411. Students must pass all 3 courses in the additional language with a 2.0 or better to receive the certificate. The Dual Language Pathway Certificate offered through the Department of Teaching and Learning does not automatically qualify the student for a teaching endorsement or teaching certificate through the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI).