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Tanya Cruz Teller '95

Getting a Master's degree at SIT was part of Tanya Cruz Teller's five-year plan. Three years of research-based international work for academic and nonprofit organizations in Grenada, Cuba and Israel had convinced her that it was time to commit her energies in the US for at least five years. Says Tanya, "I decided that if I could be of assistance here it would have an international impact."

While she planned to work in the US, Tanya wanted to continue her education at an institution that was internationally focused and also valued the experiences of its students. "I was looking for a graduate school that walked its talk around the value of experience," says Tanya.

Now, in her position as associate director of Youth Build USA's training center, Tanya says she uses skills she learned at SIT every day. Viewed as an expert process facilitator, meeting convener and trainer, Tanya attributes much of her expertise to the significant work she did at SIT in cross-cultural communication.

As her five-year plan unfolds, Tanya has been involved in a new area of Youth Build's mission. In addition to her other roles, she manages the organization's partnership with a youth organization in South Africa. "It's very exciting, very inspirational," says Tanya, who will soon travel to South Africa to help launch the new program.

"I'm very happy to be the one who's leading Youth Build's first international initiative," says Tanya. "If I can keep checking myself with regard to all that I learned at SIT, I'll be good and right in this partnership."

SIT Graduate Degrees

Our innovative graduate school programs give you the multicultural education you need to succeed. Discover how our graduate school will help you thrive in your multicultural career. From a graduate school program focusing on Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) to a program in multicultural education and sustainable development, you can pursue a meaningful career path and benefit people worldwide.

Master of Arts in Teaching.

Form a strong learning community and share multicultural experiences and challenges as you pursue a degree in language teacher education. From Teaching English to Speakers of other languages (TESOL) to learning about multicultural education, you'll develop the knowledge and skills you need to be an effective teacher in the U.S. or overseas. Offered in Academic Year or Summer formats with concentrations in TESOL, French or Spanish. Double concentrations are also available. Vermont certification for teaching in U.S. public schools is available in the Academic Year format.

Master of Arts in Conflict Transformation.

Develop practical skills in interethnic dialogue, intercommunal relationship building, negotiation, and group facilitation within a supportive learning community that emphasizes reflection, self-knowledge, and cultural awareness. Become part of a worldwide network of skilled peacebuilders working with governments, academic institutions, nongovernmental organizations, the media, and the private sector as advocates, catalysts, and trainers helping communities heal and embrace peace.

Master of Arts in Intercultural Service, Leadership, and Management.

You can also develop a personalized multicultural master's program. Our Master of Arts in Intercultural Service, Leadership, and Management is a student-designed degree which draws upon the courses and resources of all other SIT graduate school programs.

Master of Arts in International Education.

Discover the theoretical, historical and social foundations of multicultural education systems and study abroad. Two distinct concentrations -- international education advising and international education management -- will help you foster international understanding through community education, citizen exchange, and educational travel.

Master of Arts in Social Justice in Intercultural Relations.

Enhance your ability to facilitate communication, learning, and collaboration between persons and groups separated by cultural differences. Focusing on multicultural education and relations, this graduate school program offers three concentrations: human resource development and training; diversity leadership; and community development and social action training; and conflict transformation.

Master of Arts in Sustainable Development.

Discover how our sustainable development program will prepare you to help create a long-term, positive impact on problems such as poverty, human rights abuses, environmental degradation and social conflict in the United States and around the world, especially in the Global South. Our sustainable development program offers two concentrations: community development and social action training, and development management.

Master of Science in Organizational Management.

Learn new ways you can prepare for management roles in nonprofit organizations, businesses and a wide variety of other mission-driven organizational contexts. This cutting edge graduate school program enables students to develop a strong understanding of the cultural, political, economic and environmental context of management. Students also develop very specific skills demanded by the nonprofit, nongovernmental (NGO), governmental and for-profit sectors, including strategic planning, management of human and financial resources, and marketing.

Master's Community Development Program

Take advantage of SIT's unique partnership with AmeriCorps*VISTA by applying a one-year, full-time VISTA placement toward the fulfillment of the professional practicum requirement for an SIT master's degree in Conflict Transformation, Sustainable Development, International Education, Intercultural Relations, Organizational Management, or the self-designed degree in Intercultural Service, Leadership and Management.

Master's International Program

If you're finding it hard to choose between graduate school and the U.S. Peace Corps, SIT's Master's International Program allows you to do both. Through a partnership with the School for International Training (SIT), which offers master level studies in public policy and administration/NGO development and teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL), you can become a Peace Corps Volunteer as partial fulfillment of your graduate degree.

International Diploma in Language Teaching Management.

Globally recognized graduate level diploma providing a foundation in management skills for those who have administrative or management responsibilities in language teaching organizations. Six month course involves both face-to-face and distance study.

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