Program Type: Certificate, Associates, Bachelors or Masters
Bachelors
Estimated Time to Compete
Four Years
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.
Mission:
Institutional Mission Statement
Turtle Mountain Community College is committed to functioning as an autonomous Indian controlled college on the Turtle Mountain Chippewa Reservation focusing on general studies, undergraduate education, Career & Technical Education, scholarly research, and continuous improvement of student learning. By creating an academic environment in which the cultural and social heritage of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa is brought to bear throughout the curriculum, the college establishes an administration, staff, faculty, and student body exerting leadership in the community and providing service to it.
Career Outlook
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 Hours
Total Credits for the 4-year Program: 134.5
Total Credits for the General/Core: 36
Total Credits for the EDUC portion: 54 (+2.5 credits of clinicals)
Total Credits for the ENGLS portion: 42
Application Deadlines
Review the TMCC Academic Calendar for registration deadlines for each semester.
Plan of Study Grid
Year Three (Fall)
Year Three (Spring)
Year Four (Fall)
| ENGL 270 | Introduction to Literary Criticism | 3 |
| ENGL 301 | Multicultural Literature in the US | 3 |
| ENGL 266 | Native American Literature II | 3 |
| EDUC 236 | Praxis II-Secondary Science | 1 |
| EDUC 360 | Practicum II | 1 |
| EDUC 320 | Native Issues in Education | 3 |
| EDUC 402 | Foundations of Reading and Reading Diagnosis | 4 |
| EDUC 409 | Methods/Materials for Language Arts | 3 |
| EDUC 409L | Clinical V | 0.5 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 21.5 |
Year Four (Spring)
| EDUC 414 | Student Teaching | 12 |
| EDUC 415 | Student Teaching Seminar | 1 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 13 |
Summer Semester
| ENGL 320 | Reading and Writing about Text | 3 |
| ENGL 401 | Mid-Late 20th Century Literature in | 3 |
| Or | |
| ENGL 420 | Author/Thematic Focus | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 9 |
*Note: Students should be advised to take ENGL 224 – Intro to Fiction, as well as ENGL 211 – Creative Writing, and PSYC 111 BEFORE this program…otherwise, they will have to find a way to fit those classes in