Offered by Department of Teacher Education and Department of Modern Languages

English as a Second Language
Teaching Subject Endorsement
Bachelor of Arts in Education

• General Studies Program Hours = 45
  including General Studies coursework required by Teacher Education
  • Foundational Core (Written, Math, Oral, Democracy) = 12 including:
    • ENG 102GS, Academic Writing and Research - 3 hours
    • SPCH 100GS, Fundamentals of Speech Communication - 3 hours
  • Portal = 3
  • Distribution = 27
    • Aesthetics minimum = 3
    • Humanities minimum = 6
    • Social Sciences minimum = 6 including:
      • PSCI 110GS, Introduction to American Politics - 3 hours
    • Natural Sciences minimum = 7
    • Analytical and Quantitative Thought minimum = 0
    • Wellness minimum = 3 including:
      • PE 150GS, Healthy, Wealthy and Wise - 3 hours
  • Capstone = 3
• Professional Sequence = 30 including:
  • TE 319, Management and Assessment in K-12/Secondary Classrooms - 2 hours
  • TE 320, Field Experience in Secondary Classroom - 2 hours
  • Students must apply for admission to all Teacher Education programs.
• Endorsement = 20-30
• Second Subject Endorsement, normally = 30
• Should required hours of the second endorsement also meet other requirements, the total required hours may be reduced.
• Minimum total hours required coursework = 125-135
• Unrestricted electives in 125 hour program = 0
• Minimum total hours required for BAE in English as a Second Language Teaching Subject Endorsement = 125-135
• All UNK degrees require a minimum of 125 hours. Forty (40) of the hours required for all UNK degrees must be upper division hours, which are courses numbered 300 or above taken at a 4-year college or university.

1. TESOL Requirements (20 hours required)
   • Take all of the following:
     • ENG 303, Introduction to Linguistics - 3 hours
     • FORL 470, TESOL - 3 hours
     • FORL 472, Foreign Language Pedagogy - 3 hours
     • SPCH 154GS, Cross-Cultural Communication - 3 hours
     • TE 327, Introduction to Language Minority Students - 2 hours
     • TE 328, Content Methods in English as a Second Language - 3 hours
     • TE 329, Educational Assessment of ESL Students - 3 hours
2. Other Requirement (0-10 hours required)
   • Modern Languages - 0-10 hours
   • One year of another language or equivalence in a language other than a native language at University level (10 credit hours). Fall 1997 admission requirements will normally meet this expectation.