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2025-2026 UH Mānoa Catalog 
  
2025-2026 UH Mānoa Catalog

Hawaiian Studies, BA/Teaching, MEd


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Effective Fall 2021, in collaboration with the College of Education, Kamakakūokalani offers a combined Bachelor of Arts in Hawaiian Studies (HWST) and Master of Education in Teaching (MEdT) pathway that helps students earn both degrees in five years, including teacher certification leading to licensure. For more information contact Academic Advisor Lehua Nishimura (lehua.nishimura@hawaii.edu).

5-Year Plan


This is a sample academic plan. Students should meet with an academic advisor prior to registration to formulate their own plan

Year 1


Total Credits 32


Year 2


Total Credits 65


Year 3


Credits 15

Spring


Credits 16

Total Credits 96


Apply for MEdT (Spring/Summer)

Year 4


Total Credits 127


HWST BA Degree Awarded (120 credits)

MEdT Year 1


Total Credits 166


MEdT Degree awarded (46 credits)**

Notes:

Courses in bold font are prerequisites and requirements for the BA major in Hawaiian Studies and/or MEdT. See below for additional information about the teaching methods courses required for MEdT (STE 404G  or STE 401  in Spring, Year 4 and STE 404D  or STE 404  in Fall, Year 5.)
HWST 442 , is the gateway course for the pathway, which requires a grade “B” or better.
*Courses are double counted for both the BA and MEdT (9 credits): HWST 601 , HWST 6XX AOC, and STE 604B . For all three double-counted courses, the student must earn grades of “B” or better. Total credits for the BAM Pathway is 166, including these 9 double-counted credits. These courses are offered every year in the semesters identified above. See bullet below for additional information about STE 604B . See below for additional information about the HWST 6XX AOC and how these courses will be counted for the BA and MEdT. *HWST 6XX AOC Hawaiian Studies Area of Concentration Courses: HWST 640 , HWST 690 , HWST 691 .
†Courses are excess credits (7 total), which are part of the required course work for the MEdT: STE 600 , STE 602B , and a Research Methods course.
These courses are offered every year in the semesters identified above. Given the cohort nature of the MEdT, these three excess credit courses need to be taken together, in sequence during the first year of the graduate program.
**BAM students will take SPED 444  or SPED 445  and STE 404G  or STE 401  as undergraduate electives and the MEdT program will waive these 6 credits as long as they pass with a B or better. Therefore, there are 46 credits for the MEdT, but 40 of them will be taken as a graduate student.
Students are highly encouraged to maintain regular communication with their academic advisor throughout the BAM pathway.

Double Counted Courses


FALL, Senior Year


SPRING, Senior Year


Teaching Methods courses:


Elementary Teacher Candidates:


Secondary Teacher Candidates:


  • STE 401  - Principles & Methods of Literacies Within and Across the Disciplines (6-12)
  • STE 404  (Alpha) - (B) art; (C) business and marketing; (D) language arts; (E) physical education; (F) industrial arts/agriculture; (G) mathematics; (H) science; (I) social studies; (J) foreign languages; (K) music; (M) home economics; (N) interdisciplinary; (P) English as a Second Language.
    Repeatable five times for different alphas.

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