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MISSION STATEMENT
The Cherokee Education Degree Program was founded to prepare its students to be teachers and speakers of the Cherokee language, and to impart those essential elements dealing with Cherokee lifeways to its students. More than just the learning and teaching of language, the Cherokee program seeks to transform students not only in terms of their choice of language, but as representatives of lifeways as well.
SPECIFIC PROGRAM GOALS
The following goals have been established for the Bachelor of Arts in Education with a Cherokee Major degree program:
- To provide an innovative undergraduate program that prepares students for K-12 teaching positions in Cherokee;
- To produce teachers who are fluent in speaking Cherokee and proficient in the reading and writing of Cherokee;
- To produce teachers who are knowledgeable about the Cherokee culture and who receive preparation to teach about the Cherokee cultural heritage;
- To provide a program that prepares students with the necessary skills and methods for teaching the speaking, reading and writing of Cherokee.
SPECIFIC PROGRAM OBJECTIVES
Upon successfully completing the B.A. in Education with the Cherokee Major degree program, students should be able to:
- Speak the Cherokee language at the Advanced-Mid level as established by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL);
- Write with the Cherokee syllabary at the Intermediate-High level as established by the ACTFL;
- Read the Cherokee syllabary at the Intermediate-High level as established by the ACTFL;
- Demonstrate knowledge of pre-contact culture, cultural change and contemporary culture through course work and construction of curricular units for K-12 grade levels;
- Analyze the morphology, phonology and semantics of the Cherokee language
- Demonstrate understanding of language teaching approaches and methods through courses, curricular planning and field experiences;
- Assess the status of Cherokee speech communities, the effects of language endangerment and approaches to language revitalization;
- Critique literature and historical documents written in the Cherokee language;
- Demonstrate professional conduct and responsibilities in the classroom through field experiences and course work.
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