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Bachelor of Science in Secondary English

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.

Learning Outcomes

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.

Required Courses

Communications – 9 credits

  • Course ID

    Course Title

    Credits

  • ENGL 110

    College Composition I

    3

  • ENGL 120

    College Composition II

    3

  • COMM 110

    Fundamentals of Public Speaking

    3

Arts and Humanities – 6 credits are required in Native Language

  • Course ID

    Course Title

    Credits

  • LANG 121

    Chippewa/Cree Language I

    3

  • And

  • LANG 122

    Chippewa/Cree Language II

    3

  • Or

  • LANG 125

    Ojibwa Language I

    3

  • And

  • LANG 126

    Ojibwa Language II

    3

Social Sciences – 9 credits

  • Course ID

    Course Title

    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

  • Course ID

    Course Title

    Credits

  • HPER 210

    First Aid/CPR

    2

Laboratory Science – 4 credits

  • Course ID

    Course Title

    Credits

  • Choose any from ASTR, BIOL, CHEM, PHYS

Math – 4 credits

  • Course ID

    Course Title

    Credits

  • MATH 103

    College Algebra

    4

First Year Experience

  • Course ID

    Course Title

    Credits

  • SOCI 105

    First Year Experience

    2

Required Educational Courses

  • Course ID

    Course Title

    Credits

  • EDUC 200

    Introduction to Teaching

    3

  • EDUC 299

    Secondary Classroom Management

    3

  • EDUC 300

    Educational Technology

    2

  • EDUC 300

    Educational Technology

    2

  • EDUC 310

    Introduction to Exceptional Learner

    3

  • EDUC 320

    Native Issues in Education

    3

  • EDUC 321

    Multicultural Education & Human Diversity

    3

  • EDUC 329

    Curriculum Planning

    3

  • EDUC 331

    Learning Environments

    3

  • EDUC 350

    Practicum I

    1

  • EDUC 353

    Child & Adolescent Psychology

    3

  • EDUC 360

    Practicum II

    1

  • EDUC 374

    Adolescent Literacy

    3

  • EDUC 402

    Foundations of Reading and Reading Diagnosis

    4

  • EDUC 409

    Methods and Materials for Language Arts

    3

  • EDUC 414

    Student Teaching

    12

  • EDUC 415

    Student Teaching Seminar

    1

  • EDUC 471

    Methods & Materials for Secondary ELA

    3

Required English Courses (beyond the General/Core curriculum)

  • Course ID

    Course Title

    Credits

  • ENGL 224

    Introduction to Fiction

    3

  • ENGL 211

    Intro to Creative Writing

    3

  • ENGL 221

    Introduction to Drama

    3

  • ENGL 236

    Women and Literature

    3

  • ENGL 240

    World Literature

    3

  • ENGL 251

    Classics of British Literature

    3

  • ENGL 260

    Classics of American Literature

    3

  • ENGL 265

    Native American Literature I

    3

  • ENGL 266

    Native American Literature II

    3

  • ENGL 270

    Introduction to Literary Criticism

    3

  • ENGL 301

    Multicultural Literature in the United States

    3

  • ENGL 320

    Reading and Writing about Text

    3

  • ENGL 401

    Mid-Late 20th Century Literature in English

    3

  • ENGL 420

    Author/Thematic Focus

    3

Total Credit Hours: 132