Oct 08, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Foreign Languages, Spanish Teacher Licensure, B.S.


World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures 
615-898-2981
Luciana Prestes, program coordinator
Luciana.Prestes@mtsu.edu
 

Students seeking a license to teach a foreign language in secondary schools (grades 6-12) must complete (1) a major in the language they intend to teach; (2) FL 4500 Introduction to Teaching Foreign Languages ; (3) a minor; and (4) the Secondary Education Minor . Each student must pass an oral interview in the target language at the high intermediate level.

Academic Map


Following is a printable, suggested four-year schedule of courses:

Foreign Languages, Spanish Teacher Licensure, B.S., Academic Map   

Degree Requirements


True Blue Core (TBC) 41 hours
Major Requirements 38 hours
Auxiliary Requirement 3 hours
Secondary Minor 30 hours
Minor 15-18 hours
TOTAL 127 hours (15 hour minor);
130 hours (18 hour minor)

True Blue Core (41 hours)


True Blue Core (TBC)  requirements (shown in curricular listings below) include courses in the Foundational Skills areas of Written Communication (WC), Information Literacy (Info Lit), Non-Written Communication (NWC), and Quantitative Literacy (Quant Lit). Knowledge Domains include Human Society and Social Relationships (HSSR), Scientific Literacy (Sci Lit), Creativity and Cultural Expression (CCE), and History and Civic Learning (HCL), which include Discovery and Explorations categories. Students must choose at least one course from each Discovery category.

The following courses required by the program meet True Blue Core requirements:

  • 3 credit hours from foreign language 1010, 1020, 2010, or 2020 (NWC)

Major Requirements (38 hours)


Auxiliary Requirement (3 hours)


Secondary Education Minor (30 hours)


Please see Secondary Education Minor  for additional information.

Minor (15 hours)


Curriculum, Foreign Languages, Spanish Teacher Licensure


Freshman


Subtotal: 34 Hours


Sophomore


Subtotal: 32 Hours


Junior


Subtotal: 33 Hours


Senior


Subtotal: 28 Hours


NOTE:


*An upper-division, 3-hour Spanish elective can be taken in the place of these 2 hours.