MINIMUM HOURS REQUIRED FOR GRADUATION: 123 [Effective Fall 2005]

An overall GPA of 2.500 and a GPA of 2.500 in the major are required for student teaching and for graduation.

The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures does not accept D's in freshman English, nor in any course in the major, departmental electives and advised electives.

For more detailed information, please consult the Handbook for Foreign Language Majors available online at http://sasw.chass.ncsu.edu/fl/hand.htm.

1. Students will take one four-hour writing course, ENG 101, in their first year to satisfy the freshman component of the General Education Requirements in Writing and Speaking. Students with lower placement scores will take a two-course freshman sequence, ENG 100 and ENG 101, with ENG 100 awarding 4 hours of free elective credit. Students with exceptionally high placement scores may qualify for exemption. See http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/fwp/NewFrWrReq.htm.

2. Two-semester requirement includes a course concerned with pre-industrial Western or non-Western societies (HI 207, 208, 209, 215, 216, 263, 264, 270, 275 or 276), and another dealing with the United States, or post-industrial Western societies (HI 205, 210, 221, 222, 233, 251 or 252).

3. Two courses (6 hours credit) are required. This requirement may be satisfied with two mathematics courses from the University GER list or with one mathematics course plus a course in statistics or logic (LOG 201 and 335). Note: Students will not be given credit for MA 111 if they have taken MA 107 or MA 108. Credit is not given for more than one of the calculus courses MA 121, MA 131, and MA 141.

4. Twelve hours of social science from the University GER list, representing at least three different disciplines. EDP 304 and PSY 376 count toward the social science requirement in the Teacher Education Option. Therefore, the remaining six credits must be chosen from among two of the following: Anthropology, Economics, Politics and Government, Sociology.

5. Physical Education: All undergraduate students are required to complete a “Fitness and Wellness” course (100 level PE) and one additional credit hour of a PE activity course.

6. Three hours of philosophy from the University GER list fulfill this requirement.

7. The Natural Sciences requirement calls for a minimum of eleven credit hours. Students must receive credit for two different basic introductory courses in physics, chemistry, the earth sciences, and the biological sciences from the University GER list. The third course may be any of the basic introductory courses listed above or any course from the university approved list of Natural Sciences (Other Natural Sciences in addition to Biology, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Physics). At least two courses must include a laboratory experience. Note: if BIO 125 or BIO 105 has been taken, the other may not be taken for credit; BO 200 may not be combined with either BIO 125 or BIO 105; and CH 100 may not be taken for credit if the student has previously received credit for CH 101.

8. Science Technology Society. One three-credit course taken from the following: ADN 231; ANS 105, 110, 301; ANT 261; ARE 336, 436; ARS/STS 257; BO 213, 222, 360; CH 100; EC 336,436; ENG 232, 233, 414; ET 410; FS 201, 301; FW 221, 403; GN 301; HI 321, 322, 341, 423, 440, 480, 481, 482, 483, 484, 485; HS 201; IDS 105, 201, 211, 220, 303; IDS/TAM 414; LAR 445; MAT 230; MB 200; MEA 140, 430; MSE 230; NR 406; NTR 301; PHI 311, 322, 340, 415, 420, 440, 450; PS 314, 336; PSY 312; SOC 261, 381, 450; SSC 185, 361; STS 214,301, 302,304, 320, 322, 323, 324, 325, 326, 402, 405, 412, 451, 484, 490; TAM 414; TC 401; TOX 201; WGS/STS 220; ZO 221, 260. The course used to meet this requirement may not be used to fulfill any other degree requirement.
9. Any 3-credit course in music (including ARS/MUS 306), history of art, dance (including the DAN 272/295 sequence) or multi-arts (including FL 216, ARS 251, 252, 259, 351, 353) or a course in design (ARC 140, 141, 142; GD 200, 342; LAR 444; any ADN course at the 100 or 200 level [except ADN 292]; ADN 311, 383, 386, 414, 454), film (COM/ENG 364, 374; ENG 282, 492; FLF 318; FLG 318; FLS 318; IDS 496) or theatre (COM 103, 203, 213, 233, 243, 303, 323, 333) or in religion (any REL course other than a Hebrew language course), rhetoric
(COM/ENG 321 or 411) or classics (GRK/LAT 310) will fulfill this requirement. This course may not be drawn from the student’s major field of study.

10. Required courses for major program in French: Twenty-seven semester hours. No D is accepted in these courses. Please consult the Handbook for Foreign Language Majors for the required prerequisites.

FLF 201 Intermediate French I
FLF 202 Intermediate French II
* FLF 301 Survey of French Literature from the Middle Ages through the Enlightenment
* FLF 302 Survey of French Literature from Romanticism to the Contemporary period
FLF 308 Advanced Conversation: Contemporary French Cultures
FLF 309 French Phonetics and Pronunciation
FLF 310 French Syntax and Composition
FLF 315 French Civilization and Culture
** FLF 492 Seminar in French Studies

* Major papers are required in these courses.
** Corequisite with FLF 492 is the CHASS Computer Literacy Requirement. The major paper in FLF 492 must be written using (1) a word processing program; (2) on-line library references; (3) Internet resources.

11. Departmental Electives: Six semester hours. Select two of the following courses. No D is accepted in these course. Please consult the Handbook for Foreign Language Majors for the required prerequisites.

FLF 306 Business Communication
FLF 307 Technical and Commercial French
FLF 318 The Heritage of French Cinema
FLF 321 Cultures and Contexts
FLF 411 Methods and Techniques in French Translation
FLF 414 Studies in French Prose
FLF 425 Literature, Cinema, and Culture of the Francophone World
FL 495 Special Topics in Foreign Languages and Literatures
FL 498 Independent Study in Foreign Languages and Literatures
(Offered only under special circumstances upon consultation with major adviser)

It is recommended that all French majors participate in a study abroad program. Please note that, no more than 15 hours of study abroad transfer credit may be applied towards the major program in French. FLF 492 must be taken at NC State.

All French majors will submit two copies of their research paper for the FLF 492 senior seminar. One copy of the paper, as well as a faculty report on the student’s oral presentation for the seminar, will be filed in the student’s portfolio. The paper should be representative of the student’s best work.

12. Free Electives: Eighteen hours of free electives outside the required courses in the French Teacher Education Program. Students are encouraged to elect either additional FLF electives, FL 216, HI 414, 415, 430, ECI 201, 305, 416 or minor in Spanish or add on ESL (See #18 below) as free electives.

13. The six-hour CHASS literature requirement, as well as the three-hour university GER literature requirement is met by FLF 301 and FLF 302.

14. Teacher Education Option: The following courses are required for licensure in the Foreign Language Teacher Education program: (These courses are considered Advised Electives in this program.) No D is accepted in these courses.

EDP 304 Educational Psychology (Social Science)
PSY 376 Developmental Psychology (Social Science)
* ECI 205 Introduction to Teaching Humanities and Social Sciences
ELP 344 School and Society
ECI 423 Methods & Materials in Teaching Modern Foreign Languages K-12
ECI 424 Student Teaching in Modern Foreign Languages

Communication Elective: COM 110 is recommended (Also acceptable: COM 112, 201, 202, 212).

* ECI 205 must be taken in the sophomore year. A grade of B or better is required in this course. Students should take the PPST or PRAXIS I (Reading, Mathematics, Writing) DURING ECI 205, or before. All students must pass all three parts of the PRAXIS I by the fifth day of classes in the semester before they plan to student teach, i.e., January before the fall student teaching semester.

15. ECI 205, 423 and 424 all require observations/practica in the public schools. Each of these experiences must be at a different level (i.e., K-5, 6-8, 9-12). ED 310 Tutoring Adolescents is not required in this curriculum.

Note: Students must take five sections of the Praxis Exam. The Pre-Professional Skills (PPST) Reading, Mathematics, and Writing sections must be taken sophomore year (during ECI 205). Students will not be admitted to Candidacy or to the methods course and student teaching without having passed these tests by no later than the fifth day of the spring semester (January) before the student teaching semester. The Content Knowledge and Productive Skills sections should be taken senior year or during or after completion of ECI 423 or 424. Passing scores on all sections of the Praxis Exam are required by the State of North Carolina in order to obtain a teaching license. You must take the Productive Language Skills and Content Knowledge Exams before graduation or before exiting the program.

A French proficiency test may be administered to students in the Teacher Education program in their sophomore and senior years.

Before student teaching, students must complete all required courses in the major program except FLF 492. These are FLF 201, 202, 301, 302, 308, 309, 310, 315 plus at least one departmental elective for a minimum of 27 semester hours. In unusual circumstances, this requirement may be waived, but only with written permission of the LTF advisor.

From NC State Board of Education Policy Manual, January 24, 1997.

16. Students must demonstrate their competence in teaching with technology at the BASIC and ADVANCED levels. During student teaching, students will prove ADVANCED competencies in technology. Students needing instruction in BASIC educational applications of technology are encouraged to enroll in ECI 201 (2 credits) to upgrade their skills. Successful completion of this course will satisfy the BASIC TECHNOLOGY COMPETENCIES. If you do not need additional instruction to satisfy the BASIC TECHNOLOGY COMPETENCIES, you can prepare four (4) artifacts: Newsletter to parents which includes 2 columns, graphics, header or footer; spreadsheet with students’ grades with averages calculated; database (sorted three ways) with student information or materials documentation; multimedia teaching project using Hyperstudio, web page, or Power Point. The four artifacts must be presented to the LTF coordinator during March advising preceding the student teaching semester. Satisfactory completion of the BASIC TECHNOLOGY COMPETENCIES is required for entrance into the Professional/Student Teaching semester. Information can be found at the following websites: ced.ncsu.edu/techcomps, cnets.iste.org/teachers/t_stands.html, ced.ncsu.edu/techcomps/portfolio.

17. LTF students interested in being able to teach English as a Second Language (ESL) after graduation have the opportunity to add on ESL licensure courses as undergraduates. If you are interested, contact Ms. Toby Brody, ESL Program Coordinator at tpbrody@social.chass.ncsu.edu .

PLANNING AHEAD

Requirements for admission to teacher education candidacy in French and Spanish

If you are interested in earning a license to teach in the North Carolina schools (grades K - 12), the following information will be useful to you as early as your freshman year. While taking courses
for your French major, you can also take those classes necessary for a teaching license. Go to www.ced.ncsu.edu/teachered and download a copy of “Teacher Education at a Glance.” This
informative booklet lists requirements for successful program completion.

There are two important points in the teacher education program for which you need to plan ahead: admission to teacher education candidacy and admission to the methods and student teaching courses or the Professional Semester which both require formal applications.

1. Admission to Teacher Education Candidacy: granted after submission of a formal “Application to Candidacy” is submitted and approved and after completion of the requirements listed below:

a. successful completion of freshmen English and mathematics course requirements
b. successful completion of the Pre-Professional Skills Test (PPST) in Reading, Mathematics,
and Writing of the Praxis Exam

c. junior status (60 or more semester hours)

d. admission to a teacher education curriculum or the filing of a licensure plan of work

e. a GPA of 2.50 or higher on all courses taken at NCSU
f. passing of ECI 205 with a grade of B or better
In your sophomore year you will need to take ECI 205 and ECI 205L and complete any of the above requirements not already fulfilled. During ECI 205 you must take the PPST of the Praxis exam and you may be asked to take a foreign language proficiency exam at the intermediate level. The results will be used to help you plan your future program.

At the end of your sophomore year the Coordinators of Foreign Language Education in the Foreign Language Department and the College of Education and Psychology will review your records and recommend full or provisional admission, or denial of admission to Teacher Education Candidacy. You will be notified of the status of your candidacy by a letter from the Director of Teacher Education. After full admission to candidacy, your advisor will give you the "Application Package for Admission to a Methods Course@ during the Spring Semester preceding the Professional Semester.

2. Admission to the Methods and Student Teaching Courses. During your junior year you will complete the rest of the courses that need to be taken before the teaching block in the fall of your senior year. Professional courses required before the block semester (in addition to ECI 205) are:

Taken before admission to the block Taken after admission to the block

ELP 344
EDP 304 PSY 376

A grade of C or better is required in all of the professional and French major courses. The minimum GPA required for admission to the Methods and Student Teaching courses is 2.500 overall and 2.500 in the French major.

You will receive other information as your progress toward licensure. If you have questions, you can consult Diane Fagin Adler 515-9293 / adlerd@social.chass.ncsu.edu in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAM GOALS
AND OBJECTIVES K - 12
Program Goals:

Teachers know the content they teach.
Teachers know how to teach students.
Teachers are successful in teaching a diverse population of students.
Teachers are leaders.
Teachers are reflective about their practice.
Teachers respect and care about students.

Program Objectives:

1. Teachers demonstrate target language competency commensurate with their role as a second language model by functioning effectively in interpersonal, interpretive and presentational modes using listening, speaking, reading and writing.

2. Teachers demonstrate understanding of the basic linguistic components of the target language.

3. Teachers demonstrate familiarity with multiple cultures represented by the target language as they relate to products, practices and perspectives.

4. Teachers demonstrate insight into how the target languages and cultures compare to the students' language(s) and culture(s).

5. Teachers demonstrate familiarity with current theories in second language acquisition, human cognitive development and brain research.

6. Teachers create and manage a classroom environment conducive to second language learning.

7. Teachers employ multiple strategies to engage students actively and effectively in learning the target language and cultures.

8. Teachers identify, select, adapt and use a wide variety of instructional resources and technology to enhance student learning and to provide access to the target language and cultures.

9. Teachers understand the sequential nature of the second language curriculum and articulate the instructional program accordingly.

10. Teachers link the skills and knowledge between the broader curriculum and second language instruction.

11. Teachers implement assessment strategies that address all second language modalities (listening, speaking, reading and writing) and culture in order to measure student achievement and proficiency.

12. Teachers affirm that second language learning is appropriate for all students regardless of ability, language, background, race, ethnicity, gender, religion and other cultural factors.

13. Teachers recognize the unique contributions of heritage learners and adapt curriculum and instruction to meet their needs.

14. Teachers maintain and enhance linguistic and cultural skills beyond the classroom.

15. Teachers understand and communicate the value of learning language other than English to students, parents, colleagues, administrators, and the community at large.