Program Type
Bachelors
Estimated Time to Compete
Four Years
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.
Mission
Institutional Mission Statement
Turtle Mountain Community College is committed to functioning as an autonomous Indian controlled college on the Turtle Mountain Chippewa Reservation focusing on general studies, undergraduate education, Career & Technical Education, scholarly research, and continuous improvement of student learning. By creating an academic environment in which the cultural and social heritage of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa is brought to bear throughout the curriculum, the college establishes an administration, staff, faculty, and student body exerting leadership in the community and providing service to it.
Career Outlook
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
Credit Hours
Total Credits for the 4-year Program: 123.5
Application Deadline
Review the TMCC Academic Calendar for registration deadlines for each semester.
Plan of Study Grid
Year One (Fall)
| COMM 110 | Fundamentals of Public Speaking | 3 |
| ENGL 110 | College Composition I | 3 |
| HIST | Native American History Elective | 3 |
| LANG 125 | Ojibwa Language I | 3 |
| SCIENCE | Review Science/Lab Requirements | 4 |
| SOCI 105 | First Year Experience | 2 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 18 |
Year One (Spring)
| ENGL 120 | College Composition II | 3 |
| ENGL 224 | Introduction to Fiction | 3 |
| LANG 126 | Ojibwa Language II | 3 |
| MATH 103 | College Algebra | 4 |
| SOCI | Select from CJ, ECON, HIST, POLS, PSYC, SOCI | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 16 |
Year Two (Fall)
Year Two (Spring)
Year Three (Fall)
Year Three (Spring)
| EDUC 320 | Native Issues in Education | 3 |
| EDUC 350 | Practicum One | 1 |
| ENGL 260 | Classics of American Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 266 | Native American Literature II | 3 |
| ENGL 270 | Introduction to Literary Criticism | 3 |
| ENGL 301 | Multicultural Literature in the US | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 16 |
Year Four (Fall)
Year Four (Spring)
| EDUC 414 | Student Teaching | 12 |
| EDUC 415 | Student Teaching Seminar | 1 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 13 |