Foreign Languages B.A. – K 12 German Teaching Emphasis - Licensure: World Languages (grades K-12)

College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Contact: Donald Holman, Ph.D., Chair

Location: Candelaria 0190

Telephone: [phone]

Fax: [phone]

Website: http://www.unco.edu/hss/modern-languages/

Advising Information:

Students must consult with their assigned major advisor each semester prior to registering.

Assigned advisor is available through the Ursa login; ursa.unco.edu; under Student tab Academic Profile channel and is term specific. If no advisor is listed, contact the major program for advisor information.

The program consists of four parts:

1. Liberal Arts Core (LAC) Credits
2. Required Major Credits
3. University-Wide Credits
4. Professional Teacher Education Program (PTEP) Credits

Program Description:

By applying critical thinking skills at all levels of language learning, foreign language students develop familiarity with contemporary global issues, knowledge of civilization and culture, and a competence for reading and interpreting in their chosen language of study. The study of foreign languages helps students develop functional proficiency in the language, cultural competence, and an understanding of content in other disciplines through the language. Further, this study provides insight into students' own language and culture, and facilitates the use of linguistic and cultural knowledge beyond the classroom. Foreign language majors may further their studies by pursuing a graduate program in their discipline. They may also choose to combine their language studies with a study of education, business, political science, international studies, history, and fine arts, to mention a few. Graduates work in careers in international relations, law, education, public policy, social services, health professions, business, publishing, and the arts. Faculty encourage and assist students in arranging foreign study opportunities. Participation in study abroad programs reinforces and strengthens language acquisition, and heightens cultural awareness and appreciation. The program's extracurricular activities encourage cultural consciousness and communication skills while developing leadership, organizational, and promotional abilities. Participation is optional. Activities include regularly scheduled conversation credits, language immersion weekends, World Language Day, and Foreign Language Clubs.

Completion of the French or German teaching major prepares the student for State of Colorado Licensure to teach in the elementary and secondary schools.

Program Admission Requirements:

• All work to be counted toward the degree must be beyond the first year level. Advising and advisor’s signature are required each semester before registration.

Program Requirements:

• Unless otherwise noted, all courses with the GER prefix are conducted in German.
• Students must demonstrate competency in certain areas of language activity: oral and written proficiency in foreign language, ability to apply one’s knowledge of the culture to appropriate situations in a foreign language environment. Consult program advisor.
• To graduate with a Foreign Language degree, students must have a 2.5 grade point average in those courses that count toward the major and that were taken at UNC.

• In accordance with University Policies, coursework earned more than 10 years prior to the date of matriculation to UNC may not be used to satisfy any major or minor requirements.  Any exception to this policy is at the discretion of the academic program. 

PTEP Program Requirements:

If you are seeking licensure in your program area, the following items are required to complete your program.

• Completion of Application for Initial Admission to PTEP
• Completion of Full Admission to PTEP
• Completion of Application for Student Teaching
• Completion of content specific PRAXIS test prior to Student Teaching
• Candidates may not take extra courses with Student Teaching without prior approval from the Program Coordinator and the STE Director.
• All PTEP Field Experiences and methods courses need to be successfully completed prior to Student Teaching.
• Student Teaching outside the supervision of UNC Faculty may or may not be approved.
• Teacher Candidates will not be placed in a school where they were once students or where they have a close relative attending and/or working.
• Teacher education and educator preparation licensure programs do not accept Professional Teacher Education Program (PTEP) or field based courses that are more than ten years old. PLEASE NOTE: Teacher Candidates have the right to petition this policy at the discretion of the program coordinator.

Please work with your content advisor to determine when these requirements will be completed throughout your program.

Degree Requirements — 120 Credits

Degree Requirements

1. Required Specified LAC — 6 credits

LAC area 3.d. — World Languages

GER 201	Intermediate German I	3
GER 202	Intermediate German II	3

Remaining LAC — 34 credits

See “Liberal Arts Core”.

2. Required Major — 30 credits

Take all of the following courses:

GER 301	Germany and the Germans I	3
GER 302	Germany and the Germans II	3
GER 311	German Civilization and Literature Survey I	3
GER 312	German Civilization and Literature Survey II	3
GER 407	German Phonetics and Oral Proficiency	3
GER 422	Directed Studies	1-4

GER 422: Take 2 credits.

Choose two of the following courses:

GER 411	Germany Then and Now	3
GER 412	Politics and Society	3
GER 413	German Cultural Identity	3
GER 414	Language, Society and the Profession	3

Choose two offerings from the two repeatable, variable-topic courses

GER 450	Literature, Self and Society	3
GER 475	Research Seminar: German Texts and Contexts	3

3. University-Wide Credits — 12 credits

Complete additional credits to achieve the minimum credits needed for this degree at UNC; for this degree, that will typically be 12 credits.

4. Required PTEP — 38 credits

Phase I (5 credits taken concurrently)

EDFE 170	Introduction to Field Based Experience	1-3
EDF 366	Conceptions of Schooling: Context and Process	3

EDFE 170: Take 2 credits

Phase II (8 credits taken concurrently)

EDFE 270	Field Based Experience	2
EDSE 360	Adaptation, Modification, and Integration of Curriculum for the Secondary Exceptional Learner	3
PSY 347	Educational Psychology for Elementary Teachers	3
	or
PSY 349	Educational Psychology for Secondary Teachers	3

Phase III (11 credits taken concurrently)

EDFE 370	Advanced Field Based Experience	1-3
EDRD 340	Developing Language and Literacy in the Content Areas	3
FL 341	Methods of Teaching Foreign Languages	3
FL 440	Methods of Teaching Foreign Languages in K-6	3

EDFE 370: Take 2 credits

EDRD 340: maybe taken outside of Phase III

Phase IV (14 credits)

EDFE 444

Supervised Student Teaching

1-15

A 2.5 grade point average is required before students may seek approval for full admission to the Secondary Professional Teacher Education Program and to be recommended for teacher licensure.

In order to obtain approval for a student teaching assignment, a French or German teaching major must have obtained a grade of (3.0) or better in FL 341 and FL 440 and have successfully passed the ACTFL OPI oral proficiency exam. (Consult advisor).

Teaching skills are developed through advising and consultation with program faculty, through FL 341 and FL 440, and through the courses in the Professional Teacher Education Program (PTEP).

In order to be recommended for teacher licensure, a 2.5 grade point average is required at the completion of the program in those courses that count toward the major and that were taken at UNC.