Core Curriculum (30-33 Credit Hours)

For details on the required courses, refer to the Core Curriculum   program. For students in this major, the following courses satisfy both core curriculum and major requirements:

• EDUC 2201 - Instructional Technology Credit Hours: 3
• ENGL 1102 - Written English II Credit Hours: 3
• BIOL 1105 - Biological Principles I Credit Hours: 4
• MATH 1540 - Trigonometry Credit Hours: 3

Professional Education Courses (49 Credit Hours)

• ENGL 1102 - Written English II Credit Hours: 3
• EDUC 2200 - Introduction to Education Credit Hours: 3
• EDUC 2200L - Field Experience I Credit Hours: 0
• EDUC 2201 - Instructional Technology Credit Hours: 3
• EDUC 2203 - Human Development, Learning & Teaching Credit Hours: 3
• EDUC 2240 - High Incidence Disabilities for Educators Credit Hours: 3
• EDUC 2241 - Field Experience 2: The Learner and Learning Environment Credit Hours: 1
• EDUC 2260 - Instructional Design I Credit Hours: 3
• EDUC 2261 - Field Experience 3: Learning Context and Teaching Credit Hours: 2
• EDUC 3331 - Reading in the Content Areas Credit Hours: 3
• EDUC 3334 - Field Experience 4: Disciplinary Literacy and Assessment Credit Hours: 2
• EDUC 3340 - Instructional Design II Credit Hours: 3
• EDUC 3341 - Residency 1: Teaching Practice and Assessment Credit Hours: 5
• EDUC 3351 - Inclusive Classroom Practices for Individual Differences Credit Hours: 3
• EDUC 4483 - Residency 2: Student Teaching for Secondary Credit Hours: 10
• EDUC 4480 - Teacher Performance Assessment Seminar Credit Hours: 2

Major Courses (52 Credit Hours)

All courses in the specialization and the Praxis II Exam must be completed prior to admission to Secondary Student Teaching.

• BIOL 1105 - Biological Principles I Credit Hours: 4
• BIOL 1106 - Biological Principles II Credit Hours: 4
• BIOL 2202 - General Botany Credit Hours: 4
• BIOL 2203 - General Zoology Credit Hours: 4
• BIOL 3306 - Fundamentals of Ecology Credit Hours: 4
• BIOL 3380 - Genetics Credit Hours: 4
• CHEM 1105 - Chemical Principles Credit Hours: 5
• CHEM 2200 - Foundational Biochemistry Credit Hours: 4
• GEOL 1102 - Historical Geology Credit Hours: 4
• MATH 1540 - Trigonometry Credit Hours: 3

• OR

• MATH 1520 - Applied Technical Mathematics II Credit Hours: 3
• PHYS 1001 - General Physics I Credit Hours: 4

• OR

• PHYS 1101 - Introduction to Physics I Credit Hours: 4
• PHSC 4430 - Science Integration Seminar Credit Hours: 1
• PHSC 4431 - Methods and Materials in Teaching Science Credit Hours: 3
• SCIE 1120 - Introduction to Meteorology Credit Hours: 4