The Department of Education may contract with universities and colleges in this state approved by the Commission for Teacher Preparation and Licensing as a teacher education institution for furnishing refresher courses in which applicants for a special credential in the teaching of a foreign language issued under Section 44615 who have not had previous recent teaching experience may secure instruction in the teaching of a foreign language that will enable them to meet the standards prescribed by the commission.
Instruction in the teaching of foreign languages pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be limited to 500 persons a year.
The Department of Education may pay to each person enrolled in such a refresher course a stipend of seventy-five dollars ($75) a week for a total of six weeks or a stipend paid in some other manner but the total amount paid to an individual shall not exceed four hundred fifty dollars ($450).