Spanish B.A.– K-12 Spanish Teaching Emphasis - Licensure: World Languages (grades K-12)
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Contact: Department of Hispanic Studies
Location: Candelaria 0295
Telephone: 970.351.2811
Website: http://www.unco.edu/hss/hispanic-studies
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:
- Liberal Arts Core (LAC) Credits
- Required Major Credits
- University-Wide Credits
- Professional Teacher Education Program (PTEP) Credits
Program Description:
Students develop a functional proficiency in the four language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) with an appreciation and understanding of the civilization and culture of the Hispanic world. Students become competent secondary school teachers of Spanish.
Program Admission Requirements:
Academic Good Standing
Program Requirements:
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Students must earn a grade of “C” or better (GPA 2.0 or above) for all Spanish courses in the major.
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All Spanish language courses to be counted for the major and minor must be beyond the first year level.
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.
Program Recommendations:
It is recommended that Spanish majors take HIST 118 and MAS 100 and either MAS 110, MAS 337 or ENG 337. Students who wish to take additional electives may select HISP 102.
Degree Requirements — 120 Credits
Degree Requirements
1. Required Specified LAC — 6 credits
LAC area 3.d. — World Languages
Remaining LAC— 34 credits
See
“Liberal Arts Core”.
2. Required Major — 33 credits
Complete one of the following options:
Non-Heritage Speaker Option
Heritage Speaker Option
| SPAN 310 | Spanish for Native Speakers | 3 |
| SPAN 312 | Written Spanish for Native Speakers | 3 |
The Heritage Speaker courses must have program approval through a placement exam.
Take all of the following courses:
| SPAN 304 | Introduction to Hispanic Literature | 3 |
| SPAN 305 | Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics | 3 |
| SPAN 455 | Literature for Children and Adolescents | 3 |
| SPAN 470 | Spanish for Oral Proficiency | 3 |
Choose five of the following courses:
(at least two courses must be 400 level)
| SPAN 303 | Spanish Conversation | 3 |
| SPAN 321 | Spanish Civilization and Culture | 3 |
| SPAN 331 | Latin American Civilization and Culture | 3 |
| SPAN 341 | Mexican and Mexican American Civilization and Culture | 3 |
| SPAN 405 | Spanish Phonetics and Dialects | 3 |
| SPAN 406 | Introduction to Translation | 3 |
| SPAN 450 | Masterpieces of Spanish Literature | 3 |
| SPAN 451 | Masterpieces of Latin American Literature | 3 |
| SPAN 456 | Spanish and Latin American Short Story | 3 |
| SPAN 457 | Masterpieces in Chicano/a Literature | 3 |
| SPAN 459 | Hispanic Drama | 3 |
3. University-Wide Credits — 9 credits
Complete additional credits to achieve the minimum credits needed for this degree at UNC; for this degree, that will typically be 9 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 |
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 |
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| PSY 349 | Educational Psychology for Secondary Teachers | 3 |
Phase III (11-14 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 |
EDRD 340 may be taken outside of Phase III.
Phase IV (14 credits)
See “Spanish Endorsement”.
Students wishing to be licensed must have obtained a grade of 3.0 or better in FL 341 and FL 440.
It is recommended that Spanish majors take HIST 118 and either HIST 314 or HIST 315.
All Spanish language courses to be counted for the major and the minor must be beyond the first year level.
Courses with the SPAN prefix are taught in Spanish and courses with the HISP prefix are taught in English.