General Arts/Secondary Education
Combined Bachelor of Arts (BA)/Bachelor of Education (BEd)
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About General Arts/Secondary Education
What is General Arts/Secondary Education?
Study to become a junior high or high school teacher. In this program, you'll typically do your work experience placements in a rural or small-town school. Graduates from this program are recommended for teacher certification in ß÷ßäÉçÇø.
Why Choose This Program?
Earn two degrees in five years! This combined degree allows you to complete the first three years of your degree at Augustana, followed by two years on North Campus in Edmonton.
Although you'll be majoring in general arts, you'll be able to select a focus area in arts, English language arts, physical education or social studies. No matter your focus, you'll master skills across all of these disciplines to help shape you as a well-rounded teacher.
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View what studying in this program could look like each year, from courses to experiential learning to career development.
Program Information
Degree
Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Education
Bachelor of Arts Specializations
Arts, English Language Arts, Physical Education, or Social Studies
Bachelor of Education minors
Art, Biology, Chemistry, Career and Technology Studies, Drama, English Language Arts, General Sciences, Mathematical Sciences, Religious and Moral Education, Physical Education, Physical Sciences, or Social Studies
Students in this program are eligible for 145+ Augustana awards (totalling over $495,000)
Low 70s program admission-average range
Earn two degrees in five years, providing you a higher teacher wage post graduation
Conduct your practicum in a rural or small-town school
Program Objectives
In this program, you will:
- Build a strong foundation in arts and humanities disciplines while developing essential practical skills, professional ethics, and a knowledge of theory and its relationship to practice, liberal studies and subject-matter competence.
- Gain a sensitivity to and respect for children and the sociocultural contexts in which they live, and an understanding of schooling in their social/political/economic environment.
- Engage in quality teacher preparation that recognizes the importance of programming that adequately reflects changes in society and advances in knowledge.
Learning Outcomes
You will leave this program with the ability to:
- Teach arts and humanities subjects and facilitate the learning of students at the secondary school level within our multicultural society.
- Help students develop attitudes that encourage self-evaluation and improvement, and acquire knowledge and skills that facilitate life-long learning.
- Foster a sense of community in the classroom, and develop a strong professional commitment that is reflected in your own personal philosophy of education.
Careers
A combined bachelor of arts/bachelor of education is great for entry into the workforce or graduate and professional programs. Potential career options include:
Course Highlights
An introduction to historical and modern relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Canada. This course investigates how Canada's history of anti-Indigenous policies (such as residential schools and the Sixties Scoop) have negatively impacted First Nations, Métis, and Inuit into the present. The course further highlights the resilience of Indigenous peoples through community organization, artistic and cultural expression, and the fight for self-determination.
Orientation to teaching. For the laboratory component of the course, a student spends half a day per week assisting in a local elementary or secondary school.
Advanced poetry workshop, which will include the completion of a chapbook-length collection of poems (20 to 48 pages) is required.
Study of the sequential changes in physical growth and motor development with emphasis on individual differences.
A critical examination of how race and criminalization intersect, focusing on Canada and the United States. We will explore how modern racial disparities in these criminal justice systems are connected to inequality and social control through historical and ongoing processes of racialization and criminalization.
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Featured Faculty
Janet Wesselius
Janet Wesselius is a professor of philosophy and coordinator of the Semester Abroad in Cuba program. She teaches courses on philosophy of science, ethics, and sex and gender. Her research focuses on Canadian philosophy, feminist epistemology, and philosophy of the environment.
