Programs
Build Your Future in Secondary Education
If you want to teach middle school or high school, this is your starting point. Explore our Secondary Education pathways that combine practical preparation, supportive advising and real classroom experience in Bay Area partner schools.
The Department of Secondary Education offers programs designed for future secondary teachers who want strong training in subject specific instruction, equity centered teaching and classroom leadership. You can pursue the Single Subject Teaching Credential to become a California middle or high school teacher, including an intern option if you are already hired and want to earn your credential while teaching. If you are ready to go further, you can pair credential work with graduate study through master’s options that help you deepen your instructional practice, build leadership skills and connect what you learn to the realities of today’s schools.
Important Deadlines
- Spring admissions: November 15
- Fall admissions: February 15
- Spring admissions: November 15
- Fall admissions: May 1
Fall admissions: August 1 (Only applicants meeting all Intern Program Requirements will be consider at this date).
April (for specific date, please ask your SED 752 professor)
- The Department will support those submitting for the April deadline through SED 751 & 752 courses. If one chooses to submit before or after the April deadline, institutional support will not be available.
- Graduate Studies Division deadlines — for admissions, culminating experience, and graduation
- Registrar's Office deadlines — for drop / add / withdrawal and other class-related actions
Degrees and Credentials
Single Subject Credential + M.A. in Education
The Single Subject Teaching Credential + M.A. program is designed to prepare qualified candidates to effectively teach the following content areas in public California middle and high schools: Art, English, Mathematics, Music, Physical Education, Science, Social Science/History and World Languages.
Single Subject Credential Internship
The Single Subject Credential Intern program is a two-year program for employed teachers in public California schools. If you have a letter of hire from a public school district near SF State you can enroll in a teaching credential program while you work.