can college professors teach more than one subject? if so, what do they need to have in terms of education?

Question

Like teaching math, latin, and greek

Answer 1

Yes they can. College professors have Ph.D.s, and to teach more than one subject, they don't need multiple Ph.D.s, but those two subjects are typically interrelated as to the type of research they currently do as professors and/or the type of research they did for their doctoral dissertation.

Clinical Social Work, Psychology and Psychiatry, for example, can all be taught be a professor who has one Ph.D. in Social Welfare, Psychology, or Psychiatric Medicine.

Teaching math, Greek and Latin, on the other hand, is extremely unlikely. Maybe just Greek and Latin, if the person studied mediterranean languages past and present for the Ph.D. or current research projects. Someone who wanted to teach very different subjects would need more than one Ph.D.

Answer 2

For those three subjects, and knowing the Southern Association's rules, to teach in a SACS school, they would need:

1) A Masters in one of the three;
2) 18 graduate hours in each field they were teaching in.

It'll vary some depending on which of the six regional accreditors a school is under.

No Ph.D. is needed to teach in a University- at least at the minimum end. One is necessary for almost any decent job, however.

Answer 3

they need to be competent in whatever field they're teaching. different schools have different versions of "competency"

so yes, but you need an advanced degree in the field in which you're teaching -- unless it's a situation where they have english or philosophy professors teaching something like "humanities" to freshmen...
then they're forced to teach a different subject, lol.