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The Master of Arts in Teaching Program
Ginny Buckner, Director
The Master of Arts in Teaching program (MAT) is designed for talented liberal arts graduates who wish to teach
their discipline in secondary schools. The MAT degree requires 36 units of graduate credit, consisting of 15 units (five
courses) within the student’s discipline, nine units (three courses) of MAT-specific education courses, and 12 units
devoted to a year-long internship/seminar and a master’s portfolio. The program is open to students with strong
undergraduate preparation in English, mathematics, the sciences, or social studies. A joint-degree program (Master of
Environmental Management/Master of Arts in Teaching General Science) is available.
More information on the program is available from the MAT office, 01 West Duke Building, Box 90093, Duke
University, Durham, North Carolina 27708-0093, or on the Web at http://www.duke.edu/web/MAT/ or by e-mail: MAT-
Program@duke.edu.
Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT)
302. Educating Adolescents. Focus on understanding the adolescent as a learner. Study of selected theories of adolescent
development and theories and principles of educational psychology emphasizing secondary education. Open only to
MAT students. Instructor: Buckner. 3 units.
303. Effective Teaching Strategies. During the first part of the course students learn general teaching strategies for
secondary classrooms such as time management, student behavior management, planning for instruction, instructional
presentation, designing effective lessons, feedback, promoting critical thinking skills, and cooperative learning. In the
second part students work on methodologies in specific subject area groups. Open only to MAT students. Instructor:
Teasley. 3 units.
341. Internship and Reflective Practice. During fall semester MAT students are placed in supervised internships in local
high schools under the direction of trained and certified mentor teachers. The accompanying seminar provides students
with an understanding of the adolescent as learner, and opportunities for directed reflection on themselves as teachers
and learners, and their students as learners. Open only to MAT students. Instructor: Staff. 7 units.
342. Internship and Content Methodology. During spring semester each MAT student changes placements to a different
local high school under the supervision of a trained and certified mentor teacher. The seminar brings together interns,
high school teachers, and content facutly members in specific subject area groups to explore emerging knowledge in
the discipline, and the ways that knowledge is best delivered in the high school classroom. Open only to MAT students.
Instructor: Staff. 5 units.
343. Teaching Diverse Learners. Teaching students with specific learning disabilities in the regular classroom;
cooperative discipline; cooperative learning, reading in the content area; working with non-English speakers. Open only
to MAT students. Co-requisite: MAT 341. Instructor: Staff. 2 units.
344. Teaching Diverse Learners. Continuation of MAT 343 focusing on student assessment, working with families and
communities. Emphasis on professional job preparation, including resumes and interview skills. Teaching portfolio
serves as final exam. Co-requisite: MAT 342. Open only to MAT students. Instructor: Staff. 1 unit.
399. Independent Study. Independent Study in teaching methods. Open only to MAT students. Consent of Director of
Graduate Studies required. Instructor: Staff. Variable credit.
Women’s Studies (Certificate Program)
Professor Khanna, Director (210 East Duke Building); Professor Wiegman; Associate Professors Campt, Rudy, Weeks,
Wilson; Associate Faculty: Professors Allison (cultural anthropology), Brody (African and African American Studies),
Fulkerson (divinity), Holloway (English), Koonz (history), Silverblatt (cultural anthropology), Wald (English);
Associate Professors Holland (English), Lubiano (African and African American studies), Mottahedeh (literature),
Nelson (cultural anthropology), Piot (cultural anthropology and African and African American Studies), Yoda (Asian
and Middle Eastern studies); Assistant Professor Stein (cultural anthropology)
Women's Studies is part of an historical educational enterprise inaugurated by social movements and dedicated to
the study of identity as a complex social phenomenon. In the field's first decades, feminist scholarship reoriented
traditional disciplines toward the study of women and gender and developed new methodologies and critical
vocabularies that have made interdisciplinarity a key feature of Women's Studies as an autonomous field. Today,
scholars continue to explore the meaning and impact of identity as a primary—though by no means transhistorical or
universal—way of organizing social life by pursuing an intersectional analysis of gender, race, sexuality, class, and
nationality. In the classroom, as in our research, our goal is to transform the university's organization of knowledge by
reaching across the epistemological and methodological divisions of historical, political, economic, representational,
technological and scientific analysis. In our program's dual emphasis on interdisciplinarity and intersectionality, we
offer students new knowledge about identity while equipping them with a wide range of analytical and methodological
skills.
Women's Studies at Duke is a focal point within the university for the study of women, gender, and feminist theoriesa
structure that allows graduate students to address complex issues beyond their traditional disciplinary and classroom
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