The MMPP will serve professionals working with multilingual and multicultural communities in the state. It is available to both graduate students enrolled in degree programs at the university and professionals working in the community. The certificate enhances their opportunities to work across disciplines and collaborate on problem-solving around common issues.

The MMPP can serve as an entry point into degree programs. It can also be complementary and show specialization within a degree program, for example:

• education professionals can benefit from a certificate that specifically upgrades their multilingual multicultural knowledge and skills in the context of schooling;
• legal professionals can benefit from a qualification showing additional expertise in local, community-oriented matters (where multilingual and multicultural competencies are relevant).

• Must have graduated from an accredited, four-year institution of higher education recognized by the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UHM), prior to beginning the MMPP/TESOL program.
• An Undergraduate Cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher.
• A transcript from each post-secondary institution attended (except for UH System transcripts)
• A written statement of objectives as part of your application.
• Your resumé or CV.
• Two (2) letters of recommendation

*Applications will be reviewed upon receipt on a rolling basis beginning February 1. Applications may be accepted until a cohort fills.

We are currently not admitting international students residing outside of the US into our hybrid or online programs due to legal and tax implications. For more information, please contact Graduate Division at gradss@hawaii.edu.

Courses are offered through Outreach College and regular day school. Depending on how the course is offered, participants pay either the UHM regular or Outreach College per-credit course rate and fees.
For the most current information, always refer to the Graduate Division website, UHM regular Tuition & Fees or UHM Outreach College Tuition & Fees.

Financial assistance may be found at:

Department

• Department of Curriculum Studies Merit-based Giving Tree Scholarship (Notices come out in March)

College of Education

• College of Education scholarships
• Dr. Niki Libarios #BeKindToAStudent Scholarship

University of Hawaiʻi

• STAR website (please note that this is only accessible to students with a valid UH ID number – must be admitted as a student prior to looking for scholarships on this site)
• Graduate Assistantships and Campus Employment
• Financial Support section of the Graduate Division website
• Tuition Waivers (Graduate Assistant Tuition Waivers, Kua‘ana Tuition Waiver)
• UH Mānoa Financial Aid Office (finaid@hawaii.edu)

Community/State

• Hawai‘i Community Foundation
• Hawai‘i Education Association
• Office of Hawaiian Affairs
• Kamehameha Schools
• Hawaiʻi Scholarships
• Hawaii State FCU Investing in Education Grant

Federal

• TEACH Grant
• Federal Teacher Loan Forgiveness
• FLAS Fellowship (Foreign Language Area Studies) Asian Studies, East Asian Studies, Pacific Island Studies, Southeast Asian Studies

The MMPP courses are hybrid. Cohorts begin annually during Summer. Each cohort will span one academic year, plus the preceding summer (i.e., Summer, Fall, Spring).

The MMPP graduate certificate will be fifteen credits.

• Two core courses (SLS 680U Introduction to Multilingualism Multiculturalism, EDCS 696 Graduate Certificate Capstone) will be taken with students from across disciplines.
• Three courses will be elective professional courses that focus on multilingual multicultural aspects of the professional field in the context of Hawai‘i (e.g., Curriculum Studies, Second Language Studies, Law, and Linguistics)
• Across the curriculum as a whole, Hawaiian culture, history, and language are foundational in every course and important in understanding our multilingual multicultural context.

Students may be eligible to add a TESOL Licensure Add-a-Field to their existing Hawaiʻi state teaching license upon the successful completion of the MMPP. For educators wanting a TESOL Licensure Add-a-Field, they are advised to take a set of professional courses aligned to the Hawai‘i Department of Education Nā Hopena A‘o (HĀ and BREATH, Policy E-3) and the TESOL International Association P-12 Teacher Education Program Standards.

For more information on coursework and a full list of courses view the CS Handbook.

International applicants already residing in the U.S. with a student visa will have restrictions on the number of online course credits they can enroll in, and may or may not be eligible to enroll in this certificate program. International applicants not residing in the U.S., and with no plans of entering the U.S. are ineligible to apply. If you are an international applicant, please contact the Department Chair below to verify eligibility before you begin preparing your application.