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

  • Course ID

    Course Title

    Credits

  • ACCT 102

    Fundamentals of Accounting

    3

  • ACCT 161

    Internship

    2

  • ACCT 200

    Elements of Accounting I

    3

  • ACCT 201

    Elements of Accounting II

    3

  • ACCT 212

    Payroll Accounting

    3

  • ACCT 218

    Computer Applications in Business

    3

  • BADM 201

    Principles of Marketing

    3

  • BADM 202

    Principles of Management

    3

  • BADM 215

    Leadership Development

    3

  • BADM 224

    Management Information Systems

    3

  • BOTE 107

    Customer Service Strategies

    3

  • BOTE 108

    Business Mathematics

    3

  • BOTE 127

    Information Processing

    3

  • BOTE 177

    Job Readiness

    1

  • BOTE 211

    Business Communications

    3

  • BOTE 247

    Spreadsheet Applications

    3

  • CIS 274

    Project Management

    3

Related General Education Courses

  • Course ID

    Course Title

    Credits

  • COMM

    3

  • ENGL 105

    Technical Communications

    3

  • or

  • ENGL 110

    College Composition I

    3

  • PSYC 100

    Human Relations in Organizations

    3

  • or

  • PSYC 111

    Introduction to Psychology

    3

  • Electives

    6

COMM: Communication Requirement – see Gen Ed Matrix
Electives: General Education Electives - see Gen Ed Matrix
Total Credit Hours: 63