Has anyone used a TESU degree to obtain CA teaching certificate?

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TESU's current catalog for this degree is actually located here: https://tesu.smartcatalogiq.com/Current/...n-Language

No idea why they are still linking solely to the old catalog. The requirements are largely the same. The biggest issue is getting the required UL credit. Most foreign language credits seem to be LL. You need 18 total UL credits, 3 of which are the capstone. That leaves 5 UL credits. I don't believe that the intermediate language courses are UL, but the advanced ones should be.

OSU does seem to have sufficient UL classes for Spanish: https://ecampus.oregonstate.edu/soc/ecat...bject=SPAN That would be almost $5k just for the 5 classes, though. It is worth it if THIS is the degree she really wants, but that's still more costly than the average TESU degree.

I was looking at OSU the other day, but with the cost was wondering if it was worth it or better to just take them through the TESU (or wherever she ends up going)? Aside from a Liberal Studies degree, are there some other alt friendly degrees we should be looking at?

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That’s what I’m looking at. Wrap up her AA, then instead of transferring to a state school knock out whatever can be done through Study or something that way (or even knock those out while finishing the AA) before transferring to TESU (they have a foreign language degree). Then find a teaching certificate program to go through. Any suggestions on a cert program? Or know if anyone here has gone this route?

If this person wants to teach, then they to find a program that meets the state's licensing requirements.

https://www.wgu.edu/online-teaching-degr...grams.html

https://cm.wgu.edu/t5/Teacher-Licensure-.../ta-p/4967

The idea of an AA or foreign language degree seems like a waste of time and money.  If you want to prove you can speak Spanish, you don't need a degree, just take the DELE exam.

I’ll take a look at the, thank you. As for the Spanish AA, literally all but Spanish 4NS doubled (or are doubling) as gen ed classes for her. Tested out of Spanish 1 and 2. Chose to only skip 1, since she he had to replace it with something and replaced it with Sociology which fits in the lifelong learning category. First 2 Spanish classes (for her Spanish 2, and 3NS) fills humanities requirement. History of Mexican American People class fits in social science requirement. All that was left was Spanish 4 and bingo; Spanish degree with all transfer requirements completed. The art degree, she is touch different reason. She’s picking that up by focusing her Art requirement and her free electives into one area. We’ve been spreading those classes out over the semesters to lighten her load and keep her from burning out. So, yeah. I can argue “what’s the use in the degree” but it does maximize the gen eds for the major.