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Nov 21, 2024
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2010-2011 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Modern Foreign Languages Major with Adolescence Education
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The purpose of the major program is to educate students to think and perceive rationally and critically. This education includes reading and thinking; learning about literary and cultural movements; and making connections between the primarily aesthetic literary artifacts of the culture and its political, social, and economic history.
Through the Emerson Foreign Language Laboratory, students are trained to use new learning and technology media at all language levels to allow them to communicate effectively in the world. Likewise, they are encouraged to prepare themselves philosophically and practically to make linkages between the major and other academic disciplines.
Students majoring in modern foreign languages learn about the world of ideas and letters, past and present. This training requires study abroad in both languages, as well as comprehensive examinations in both languages. The cohesive, integrated program of foreign language, culture, and literature courses ensures maximum proficiency in the target languages.
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Required Courses for Modern Foreign Languages Major with Adolescence Education
The Modern Foreign Languages core provides the foundation for all of our programs. Students take the courses listed below in both languages. Any of the courses listed below, except for the 400 Level Senior Seminars, may be taken abroad. Students may need to take 3 courses during the Summer.
First Language
Students enrolled in teacher certification programs must take a minimum
of 30 advanced credits in the language in which they will receive
initial certification.
- First Language 201-202 Credits: 6
- First Language 203-204 Credits: 6
- First Language 300 Level Credits: 12
- First Language 400 Level Senior Seminar Credits: 6
- First Language Senior Comprehensive (DEPT 499) Credits: 0
- First Language Study Abroad (LAN 300/301)
Second Language
A minimum of 24 advanced credits are required for the Second Language.
- Second Language 201-202 Credits: 6
- Second Language 203-204 Credits: 6
- Second Language 300 or 400 Level Credits: 12
- Second Language Senior Comprehensive (DEPT 499) Credits: 0
- Second Language Study Abroad (LAN 300/301)
Required Courses for Adolescence Education
The following courses are required for Adolescence Education for majors in Biology, Chemistry, English, History, Mathematics, Theatre, (English Certification) French, Italian, German, or Spanish.
- Student Teaching and Curriculum Methodology: These courses hold the academic department acronym. These course are numbered 457, Curriculum Methodology: Middle School and Senior High in their area of certification and 479, Student Teaching or professional semester in their area of certification (Ex: HIS 457 or MTH 457).
Additional Program Option: Teaching Students with Disabilities at the Adolescence level (Grades 7 - 12) (Dual Certification)
Students also have the option of completing required coursework and field experiences that would lead to another certification in Teaching Students with Disabilities at the Adolescence level. This dual certification option is designed to provide the knowledge base to support student learning in content areas at the adolescence level, as well as to specifically meet the needs of students who have special education needs in grades 7-12 by means of differentiated instruction and collaborative teaching.
Students who elect to pursue this option complete the following courses in addition to the required courses for Adolescence Education listed above: Modern Foreign Languages Senior Experience
The Senior Experience for
the Modern Foreign Languages major culminates with two literature seminars (400
level) that encourage students to develop further scholarly and critical
thinking, including current theoretical discussions in the academy.
The Comprehensive
Examinations in both languages (written, oral) provide students with the threefold opportunity:
- to demonstrate a working knowledge of the
cultures and literatures of the target languages
Sample Program for Modern Foreign Languages Major with Adolescence Education
Freshman Year
- Math and Science Perspectives I Credits: 7
- Major Language (201-202 Level) Credits: 6
- Second Language (201-202 Level) Credits: 6
As well as: Summer
Perspectives I Credits: 3 Sophomore Year
- Perspectives I Credits: 12
- Perspectives II Credits: 6
- Major Language Credits: 3
- Second Language Credits: 3
- Full year abroad - Minimum one semester each country
- Major Language (300 level) Credits: 3
- Second Language (300 level) Credits: 3
Summer
Perspectives I Credits: 3 Junior Year
- Math or Science Perspectives II Credits: 3
- Perspectives II Credits: 6
- Major Language (204 level) Credits: 3
- Second Language (204 level) Credits: 3
- Major Language 457 Credits: 3 (Spring Only)
- Major Language (300 level) Credits: 6
Senior Year
- Major Language Student Teaching (479) Credits: 6 (Fall Only)
- Major Language (300 level) Credits: 3
- Major Language (400 Level) Credits: 6
- Second Language Electives (300-400 level) Credits: 6
- Major Language Comprehensive Exam (499) Credits: 0
- Second Language Comprehensive Exam (499) Credits: 0
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