Beacon Secondary English Certification Minor

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Forty-eight semester hours of courses with an EDUC field code plus ANTH 270 or SOCI 270 . Minor is restricted to the following specific 51 hours of Professional Education coursework as well as 33 hours of English content courses. Students must complete at least half (26 hours) of the Professional Education coursework through Columbia College and maintain a 3.0 GPA in Professional Education and a 2.5 GPA in English content area with no grade lower than C. Program leads to Missouri certification. Students who do not live in Missouri will be required to sign an attestation that they will complete their field experiences and student teaching in Missouri and will work in Missouri upon graduation.

BEACON Secondary (9-12) English Certification Checklist

Content Area Requirements (33 sem. hrs)

Composition and Rhetoric (12 hrs)

ENGL 133W - First-Year Writing Seminar 3 hours (or ENGL 112 if taken previously)
ENGL 373 - British Romanticism 3 hours

Writing Elective (6 hrs) choose from the following:

Study of the English Language (6 hrs)

American Literature (6 hrs)

(Must include literature for adolescents and literature of ethnic groups)

EDUC 270 - Literature for Children and Adolescents 3 hours (or EDUC 518)
Choose three hours from the following:
ENGL 241W - American Literature I 3 hours
ENGL 242W - American Literature II 3 hours
ENGL 372W - African American Literature 3 hours

English and/or World Literature (6 hrs) choose from the following:

English Elective (3 hrs) choose from the following (if not already used above):

Professional Education Requirements (57 sem. hrs)

SOCI 270 - Diversity and Society 3 hours or
ANTH 270 - Diversity and Society 3 hours
EDUC 200 - Law, Ethics, and Education 3 hours ³
EDUC 220 - Methods of Teaching English Learners 3 hours
EDUC 230 - Educational Psychology 3 hours or
PSYC 230 - Educational Psychology 3 hours
EDUC 300 - Techniques of Teaching 3 hours ¹
EDUC 311 - Classroom and Behavior Management Techniques 3 hours ¹
EDUC 322 - Educational Measurement and Assessment 3 hours
EDUC 338W - Content Reading and Writing 3 hours ¹
EDUC 367 - Teaching Middle School and Secondary English 3 hours
EDUC 376 - Adolescent Literacy 3 hours
EDUC 390 - Education and Psychology of the Exceptional Child 3 hours
Choose one option from the following:
PSYC 396 - Child and Adolescent Development 3 hours or
EDUC 396 - Child and Adolescent Development 3 hours or
EDUC 391 - Child Psychology 3 hours and
EDUC 392 - Adolescent Psychology 3 hours
EDUC 400 - Senior Seminar 3 hours (Take course in the semester prior to student teaching)
EDUC 425 - Undergraduate Student Teaching 12 hours ⁴ (16 weeks)

Total Semester Hours: 90

Note(s):

¹Includes Field Experience

² Must be taken within first 9 hours of EDUC classes

³ Meets college Ethics requirement

⁴ Must receive a “B” or higher for certification: Two placements (Elementary and Secondary)