I’m currently a freshman at an extremely small commuter liberal arts college. I came in with a ton of credits from AP courses, so I have finished most of the classes needed to fulfill the core. At the end of this semester, I need to declare my major. I would like to be major in Spanish Teacher Educaton. I’m currently taking a grammar course that would go towards my major and I’m enjoying it. However most of my peers in my class are not Spanish majors, concentrations, or minors. They are simply taking the course to fulfill a core requirement. All of them are native speakers and were too advanced for intermediate level. Now that I’m getting ready to register for the Spring semester, a class I need to take for my major (that is only offered every 2 years) is in danger of cancellation. My advisor just told me today. Not many people are signing up to take it and it seems to my shock and horror that my major is not in demand at my school. I’m the only freshman as of now considering it. There aren’t many upperclassmen majoring it in either. Apparently, a large amount of students did, but they all graduated by now. While looking through the course catalog, I see that my school isn’t even offering many courses for my major this fall semester either! If the class I need is cancelled for next semester, should I just finish up taking my core classes during my spring semester, and submit transfer apps for next fall? My mother is against me transferring, she thinks everything will work out. She also is against it because I have an excellent financial aid package and scholarship. I’m going to meet with my advisor next week to discuss what I should do.
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Go meet with your advisor and find out about your options. There are probably are a whole bunch of required courses that you need to get through in order to meet your state’s requirements for certification. Find out how to get all of those into your schedule. If it looks like it might be hard for you to get all of the Spanish classes that you need at your own college, those should be easy enough to pick up elsewhere either in a summer session elsewhere or in a semester or year abroad.
You also should speak with your advisor about good options for other subjects you might want to become certified to teach. TESOL could be a very good choice given that you are already interested in language instruction. It is a high-need field in just about every part of the country.