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TEACHER EDUCATION MINOR IN SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHING

This minor is a component of the teaching option within the following Science and Letters majors: biology, chemistry, English, geology, history, mathematics, physics, and speech. For admission to the teaching option within those majors, see the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences section elsewhere in this catalog.

Transfer into the teaching option within a major can be made only by students who have received approval to complete the minor in education. Approval for the minor in education is gained by successful application to the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Education, upon recommendation by the subject area committees of the Council on Teacher Education.

Two prerequisite courses must be completed before transfer to the teaching option in any major: Educational Psychology 211 and Educational Policy Studies 201/202. Additionally, each major stipulates other prerequisite courses that must be completed before admission to the teaching option. Interested students should see the academic advisers in the major for information on prerequisite courses.

Some students will be able to complete all the prerequisite courses for transfer into the teaching option of their major by the spring of their sophomore year; those students may be able to complete the requirements for the bachelor's degree in LAS, as well as the minor in education and all other requirements for teacher certification in four years.

Students who establish eligibility to transfer into the teaching option of their major in the spring of their junior year will need five years to satisfy the requirements for teacher certification. Those students, however, may be able to petition to count as graduate credit up to 15 hours of course credit in excess of the minimum required for the Liberal Arts and Sciences bachelor's degree.

HOURS     REQUIRED COURSES
1     C & I 235-Content Area Applications of 
     Educational Technology
3     C & I 301-Introduction to Teaching in a Diverse Society
3     C & I 302-Teaching Diverse Middle Grade Students
3     C & I 303-Teaching Diverse Senior High School Students
4     C & I 304-Teaching and Assessing Secondary School Students1
1     EOL 350-Legal and Professional Issues for Teachers
3-4     E P S 201/202-Foundations of American Education
3     EDPSY 211-Educational Psychology
2     EDPSY 320-Early Adolescent Development
2     EDPSY 391-Assessment Issues for Classroom Teachers
1     SP ED 205-Introduction to Serving Students with Special Needs
2     SP ED 305-Teaching Students with Special Needs in the Regular Classroom
8     ED PR 242-Educational Practice in Secondary Education
36-37     Total

1. Students in the Speech Teaching option may substitute SPCOM 247 for C & I 304.

Note: In order for any conversion to graduate credit to be approved, the converted credit must be in excess of the minimum requirements for the bachelor's degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the student must be admitted to the master's program in Curriculum and Instruction and to the Graduate College.

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