{"id":17566,"date":"2026-07-08T09:31:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T13:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/?page_id=17566"},"modified":"2026-07-08T09:32:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T13:32:01","slug":"modality-and-pacing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/academics\/certificate\/multilingual-learner-education-graduate-certificate\/modality-and-pacing\/","title":{"rendered":"Modality and Pacing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Multilingual Learner Education Graduate Certificate<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Modality and Pacing Options<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Courses are offered fully online through the asynchronous platform, Brightspace. Each week, instructors host live optional office hours through Zoom. Each course is approximately 45 hours of instructional time, and courses are divided into weekly modules to pace content delivery and assignment completion.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Educators can choose from four options to complete the plan of study based on their preferred pacing and start date:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">One-Year Pacing (Summer Required)\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Option 1: Academic Year (September\u2013July) <\/strong><br>Educators start in the fall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Fall Semester: <\/strong>EDC 420\/533 \u2013 Second Language Acquisition and Assessment\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Spring Semester: <\/strong>EDC 501 \u2013 Sociocultural Foundations of Multilingual Education\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Summer Session 1: <\/strong>EDC 563 \u2013 Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Pedagogy\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Summer Session 2: <\/strong>EDC 515 \u2013 Integrated Content and Language Instruction and <em>Assessment\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Option 2: Calendar Year (January\u2013December) <\/strong><br>Educators start in the spring<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Spring Semester: <\/strong>EDC 501 \u2013 Sociocultural Foundations of Multilingual Education\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Summer Session 1: <\/strong>EDC 563 \u2013 Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Pedagogy\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Summer Session 2: <\/strong>EDC 515 \u2013 Integrated Content and Language Instruction and Assessment\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Fall Semester: <\/strong>EDC 420\/533 \u2013 Second Language Acquisition and Assessment\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Two-Year Pacing (Summer NOT Required)\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Option 3: Two Academic Years (September\u2013July)\u00a0<\/strong><br>Educators start in the fall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Year 1, Fall: <\/strong>EDC 420\/533 &#8211; Second Language Acquisition and Assessment\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Year 1, Spring: <\/strong>EDC 501- Sociocultural Foundations of Multilingual Education\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Year 2, Fall: <\/strong>EDC 515- Integrated Content and Language Instruction and Assessment\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Year 2, Spring: <\/strong>EDC 563- Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Pedagogy\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Option 4: Two Calendar Years (January\u2013December)\u00a0<\/strong><br>Educators start in the spring<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Year 1, Spring: <\/strong>EDC 563- Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Pedagogy\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Year 1, Fall: <\/strong>EDC 420\/533 &#8211; Second Language Acquisition and Assessment\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Year 2, Spring: <\/strong>EDC 501- Sociocultural Foundations of Multilingual Education\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Year 2, Fall: <\/strong>EDC 515- Integrated Content and Language Instruction and Assessment\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multilingual Learner Education Graduate Certificate Modality and Pacing Options Courses are offered fully online through the asynchronous platform, Brightspace. 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Each course is approximately 45 hours of instructional time, and courses are divided into weekly modules to pace content delivery and assignment completion.\u00a0 Educators can choose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"parent":17540,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-17566","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17566"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17568,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17566\/revisions\/17568"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}