French

Grades 7-12 with 5-6 extension

Contact Person:
Elvira Sanatullova-Allison, Program Coordinator
206 Satterlee, (315) 267-2025 (sanatue@potsdam.edu)

 

Education Program:
All education courses must be completed with a 2.0 or higher with a 2.75 GPA in the education major.

Students pursuing the Secondary French Education Program must also complete a French major. Contact the chair of the Department of Modern Languages to declare the French  Language and Literature major, be assigned a French major adviser and select appropriate courses. The French major must be completed with a 2.5 GPA.

Education Major
Credits
@SECD 210 Computer Applications in Middle/Secondary Education
1
@SECD 356 Reading in the Middle and Secondary Schools
 3
@SECD 340 Classroom Management
1
EDLS 315 Teaching Students with Special Needs: Gr. 5-12
3
EDLS 333 Education, Language and Culture
3
EDLS 349 Introduction to Middle and Secondary Education
3

       
The following two courses must be taken concurrently:
@SECD 374 Introduction to First and Second Language Acquisition
3
@SECD 394 Observation in the Foreign Language Classroom: Grades 5-12
1
  
The following two courses must be taken concurrently:
@SECD 474 Foreign Language Instruction, Curriculum, Assessment: Gr. 5-12
(prerequisites: SECD 374 and 394
3
@SECD 494 Practicum in the Foreign Language Classroom, Grades 5-121


Student Teaching Semester:
The following courses must be taken concurrently:
@SECD 455 Student Teaching in the Middle/Junior High School
 6
@SECD 456 Student Teaching in the Senior High School
6
EDLS 421 Seminar in Middle/Junior and Secondary Education
2
  
Cognate Requirements:
Credits
All cognate courses must be completed with a 2.0 or higher.

FREN 303 Contemporary France
 3
FREN 304 Contemporary Québec
3
HLTH 230 School Health (CA, SAVE)
2
PSYC 321 Psychology of Adolescence
3
PSYC 350 Educational Psychology3
Arts and Sciences elective
(selected with approval of the education adviser)

3
one of the following:
3
COMM 106 Basic Principles of Speech
 
COMM 311 Small Group Communication

COMM 324 Persuasive Speaking
 
  
plus one of the following3-4
ARTH (any course)
 
MUAM Music course regarding a Francophonic
region of the world (with advisement)		 
  

Certification Requirements:

  1. New York State Teacher Certification Exams required for Initial certification: LAST, ATS-W and CST (multi-subject) 
  2. Fingerprinting Clearance