<p>My daughter will be attending MSU and was accepted into RCAH. She has always been planning to get a second major in journalism, but has recently started thinking more seriously about Education (specifically, teaching high school English and Journalism). </p>
<p>Can anyone who has been in RCAH or the COE comment as to whether she could still do both RCAH and the teaching degree simultaneously or would that not work out well. Of the two, she would likely drop RCAH - which I hate to see her have to do. </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>RCAH + Education is probably the 2nd most common combination next to RCAH + Psych. </p>
<p>It works out fine. Both are pretty flexible and they’re both used to the overlap. </p>
<p>RCAH requires ~50 of the required 120 credits to graduate and those 50 credits fulfill some university requirements (WRA, IAH, etc). RCAH was designed to double major and she will not feel a pinch with both majors. </p>
<p>Good luck </p>
<p>ETA: If she’s interested in education she should talk to: <a href=“People of RCAH | Residential College in the Arts and Humanities | Michigan State University”>People of RCAH | Residential College in the Arts and Humanities | Michigan State University; (Estrella’s interests are primarily in critical pedagogy and radical education); <a href=“People of RCAH | Residential College in the Arts and Humanities | Michigan State University”>People of RCAH | Residential College in the Arts and Humanities | Michigan State University; (Donna’s interests are in restorative justice in our schools. She has been involved in the East Lansing School District for quite some time and is very hands-on in education.)
Her interests in journalism should go to: <a href=“People of RCAH | Residential College in the Arts and Humanities | Michigan State University”>People of RCAH | Residential College in the Arts and Humanities | Michigan State University; (Vince is a journalist who did work in Latin American for many, many years.). English should go to: <a href=“People of RCAH | Residential College in the Arts and Humanities | Michigan State University”>People of RCAH | Residential College in the Arts and Humanities | Michigan State University; (Eric’s more into literature than writing but he’s our go-to English guy… plus he’s one of the nicest people you’ll ever meet. EVER)</p>
<p>Btw, I took two different RCAH classes that placed me in community schools. Donna’s class (RCAH 292B Public Education and Social Change) places you into a community school for a semester and empowers you to make your own semester-long project with them. The other was Patti Roger’s class (292B It’s Great to be a Girl) which placed us in a Lansing school to work with adolescent girls in various different workshops. </p>
<p>Your daughter can honestly get more in-classroom time with an RCAH degree than she’d get with almost any other degree (except obviously for the student teaching she’d have to do for her education degree). </p>