Middle Childhood Education Major (grades 4-9)

Required Courses:

• EDUC 101 - Developing as a Professional Educator I
• EDUC 151 - Foundations of the Education Profession
• EDUC 201 - Developing as a Professional Educator II
• EDUC 222 - Philosophy and Organization of Middle Schools
• EDUC 231 - Introduction to Exceptionalities and Interventions
• EDUC 241 - Phonics for Student Learning
• EDUC 242 - Adolescence Literature and Literacies
• EDUC 243 - Instructional Technology
• EDUC 301 - Developing as a Professional Educator III
• EDUC 373 - Assessment and Intervention: Literacy, Phonics, and Alphabetic Principle
• EDUC 374 - Content Area Literacy
• EDUC 401 - Developing as a Professional Educator IV
• EDUC 420 - Student Teaching: Middle School

Required Supporting Courses:

• PSYCH 121 - General Psychology or PSYCH 120 Introduction to Psychology  
• EDUC 232 - Educational Psychology

Required Courses for Areas of Concentration

(Two content areas required):

Notes:

Middle Childhood Generalist Endorsement is available. Please refer to “Middle Childhood Generalist Endorsement (grades 4-6) ” for course requirements.

Signature Learning Requirements for Education Majors:

• First Year Seminar - EDUC 151 Foundations of the Education Profession  (Grade of C or better required)
• Reading and Writing - (Grade of C or better required)
• Oral Communication - UC 120 Oral Communication  (Grade of C or better required)
• Ethics 
• Quantitative Reasoning * - (Grade of C or better required)
• Fine Arts 
• Social Science - (Requirement fulfilled with Major)
• Religion 
• Cultural Pluralism 
• Natural Science * (Students must take six (6) credit hours of Natural Science (the combination of the Natural Science and Society requirement and the Laboratory Science requirement) - (EDUC 243 Instructional Technology  = 2 credits )
• Humanities 
• Global Systems - (EDUC 283 Intercultural Student Teaching and Community Engagement Seminar  fulfills this requirement)

See Signature Learning  Pathways for a complete listing of applicable cognate courses. Requirements for Education Majors may change depending upon the area of Licensure chosen.