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Bachelor of Science in Secondary English

 

Program Description

A Bachelor of Science in Education - Secondary English is designed to produce graduates who are qualified to pursue careers as teachers of Language Arts in grades 7-12. Candidates who complete the program will have passed the Praxis examination as well as logged significant hours in local and regional classrooms as observers and student teachers. With an emphasis on culturally responsive teaching, the program will also produce teachers who are at the vanguard of the discipline in terms of engaging students from myriad backgrounds and with diverse needs. As graduates of TMCC specifically, candidates will be uniquely suited to meeting the needs of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, providing exceptional teaching to ensure that classrooms provide the knowledge and environment fundamental to advancing the opportunities available to tribal community members.

Program Outcomes and Requirements

Students who successfully complete the program will be able to:

  • Meet the requirements for becoming fully qualified teachers in 7-12 Language Arts
  • Employ culturally responsive teaching in any secondary school classroom
  • Maintain a high standard of professionalism
  • Pursue further degrees in Education and/or enter the field depending on regional and state- based requirements
  • Address the needs of the TMBCI secondary school system and its students
  • Position themselves to apply for work in other Native communities
  • Adapt interdisciplinary techniques to classroom teaching
  • Conduct discipline-specific research
  • Develop teaching portfolios as well as learn how to use instructional technologies
  • Understand the fundamentals of project-based learning and curriculum development
  • Learn how to engage exceptional and special-needs students

Credit Requirement Breakdown

Total Credits for the 4-year Program: 132
Total Credits for the General/Core: 36
Total Credits for the EDUC portion: 54 (+ 3 credits of clinicals)
Total Credits for the ENGL portion: 42

Required Courses

Courses

Communications – 9 credits

ENGL 110College Composition I

3
ENGL 120College Composition II

3
COMM 110Fundamentals of Public Speaking

3

Arts and Humanities – 6 credits are required in Native Language

LANG 121Chippewa/Cree Language I

3
And
LANG 122Chippewa/Cree Language II

3
Or
LANG 125Ojibwa Language I

3
And
LANG 126Ojibwa Language II

3

Social Sciences – 9 credits

PSYC 111 Introduction to Psychology                  3
Electives Select from ECON,HIST,POLS,PSYC,SOCI                 3

American Indian       

History required

 HIST 118, HIST 251, HIST 252, HIST 261, HIST 262, HIST 296                                              3

Health and Wellness – 2 credits

HPER 210First Aid/CPR

2

Laboratory Science – 4 credits

Choose any from ASTR, BIOL, CHEM, PHYS

Math – 4 credits

MATH 103College Algebra

4

First Year Experience

SOCI 105First Year Experience

2

Required Educational Courses

EDUC 200Introduction to Teaching

3
EDUC 299Secondary Classroom Management

3
EDUC 300Educational Technology

2
EDUC 310Introduction to Exceptional Learner

3
EDUC 320Native Issues in Education

3
EDUC 321Multicultural Education & Human Diversity

3
EDUC 329Curriculum Planning

3
EDUC 331Learning Environments

3
EDUC 350Practicum I

1
EDUC 353Child & Adolescent Psychology

3
EDUC 360Practicum II

1
EDUC 374Adolescent Literacy

3
EDUC 402Foundations of Reading and Reading Diagnosis

4
EDUC 409Methods and Materials for Language Arts

3
EDUC 414Student Teaching

12
EDUC 415Student Teaching Seminar

1
EDUC 471Methods & Materials for Secondary ELA

3

Required English Courses (beyond the General/Core curriculum)

ENGL 224Introduction to Fiction

3
ENGL 211Intro to Creative Writing

3
ENGL 221Introduction to Drama

3
ENGL 236Women and Literature

3
ENGL 240World Literature

3
ENGL 251Classics of British Literature

3
ENGL 260Classics of American Literature

3
ENGL 265Native American Literature I

3
ENGL 266Native American Literature II

3
ENGL 270Introduction to Literary Criticism

3
ENGL 301Multicultural Literature in the United States

3
ENGL 320Reading and Writing about Text

3
ENGL 401Mid-Late 20th Century Literature in English

3
ENGL 420Author/Thematic Focus

3

Total Credit Hours: 132

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