B.A. in Middle and Secondary Spanish Education
58 total credits required.
Contact Person: Elvira Sanatullova-Allison, Program Coordinator 206 Satterlee, (315) 267-2025, sanatue@potsdam.edu
All education courses must be completed with a 2.0 or higher with a 2.75 GPA in the education major.
The Secondary Spanish Education program requires completion of a
Spanish major. The Spanish major must be completed with a 2.5 GPA.Contact the chair of the Department of Modern Languages to declare
the major, be assigned a Spanish adviser and select appropriate courses.
All courses are 3 credits unless noted. Credits are divided as follows:
| Credits | ||
| Education Major | 24 | |
| EDLS 315 | Teaching Students with Special Needs: Grades 5-12 | |
| SECD 210 | Computer Applications in Middle/Junior and Secondary Education (1 credit) | |
| SECD 356 | Reading in the Middle and Secondary Schools | |
| EDLS 333 | Education, Language and Culture | |
| EDLS 349 | Introduction to Middle and Secondary School Education | |
| SECD 340 | Classroom Management in Secondary Education | |
| Courses which must be taken concurrently | ||
| SECD 374 | Introduction to First and Second Language Acquisition: Grades 5-12 |
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| SECD 394 | Observation in the Foreign Language Classroom: Grades 5-12 (1 credit) | |
| Courses which must be taken concurrently | ||
| SECD 474 | Foreign Language Instruction, Curriculum, and Assessment: Grades 5-12 | |
| SECD 494 | Practicum in the Foreign Language Classroom, Grades, 5-12 (1 credit) | |
Student Teaching Semester |
14 |
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| Courses which must be taken concurrently | ||
| EDLS 421 | Seminar in Middle/Junior and Secondary School Education (2 credits) | |
| SECD 455 | Student Teaching in the Middle/Junior High School (6 credits) | |
| SECD 456 | Student Teaching in the Senior High School (6 credits) | |
Cognate Requirements All cognate courses must be completed with a 2.0 or higher. Arts and sciences elective selected with approval of edu. adviser |
20 |
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| HLTH 230 | School Health (CA, SAVE, 2 credits) | |
| PSYC 321 | Psychology of Adolescence | |
| PSYC 350 | Educational Psychology | |
| SPAN 303 | Historia Cultural de Espana | |
| SPAN 304 | Panorama Cultural de Latinoamerica | |
| One of the following | ||
| COMM 106 | Basic Principles of Speech | |
| COMM 311 | Small Group Communication | |
| COMM 324 | Persuasive Speaking | |
| Plus one of the following | ||
| ARTH | Elective | |
| MUAM | Music course regarding a Spanish-speaking region of the world (with adviser approval) | |
Certification Requirements
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