Secondary Education/Chemistry, B.A.

Required Chemistry Courses

• MATH 136 - Precalculus
• CHEM 191 - Principles of Chemistry I and Lab
• CHEM 192 - Principles of Chemistry II and Lab

• Chemistry Electives

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  24 credit hours of Chemistry courses at the 300 or 400 level.

  CHEM 450 may not be counted as an elective/credit hours toward the Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry major.

Secondary Education Requirements

• Level I: Exploring the Profession Coursework

• EDU 200 - Foundations of Education
• EDU 202 - Psychology of Learning and Development

• Level II: Preparing to Teach Coursework

• EDU 306 - Classroom Applications of Technology at the Middle and Secondary School Level
• EDU 330 - Foundations of Equity and Diversity
• EDU 357 - Inclusive Practices in Special Education
• EDU 363 - Literacy Across the Curriculum
• EDU 373 - Issues in Middle and Secondary Health Education
• EDU 374 - Secondary Education Pre-Practicum

• This course is a Pre-Practicum Residency requirement for all Secondary Education majors that will be repeated during sophomore and junior years. All Secondary Education students will be placed in a middle/high school for field experiences and will register for this course to demonstrate their field participation, during: (1) sophomore fall semester, (2) sophomore spring semester, (2) junior fall semester, and (3) junior spring semester. Students must register for three one-hour sections of this course during those semesters and complete a minimum 30-hour residency over the course of each semester. Juniors abroad are excused from this requirement for the abroad semester.

  Three additional pedagogical content knowledge courses in the certification area, the third of which is taken simultaneously with Practicum, and is understood as belonging to Curriculum Level II:

   

  Certification Area: Science

• EDU 392 - Teaching Secondary Science through Inquiry
• EDU 393 - Standards-Based Science in the Secondary School
• EDU 411 - Capstone: Science Education

• Level III: Performing in the Classroom Coursework

• EDU 376 - Secondary Education Practicum (Field Experience)
• EDU 450 - Student Teaching
• EDU 451 - Student Teaching Seminar

Licensure

All teacher education programs at Roger Williams University are approved by the Rhode Island Department of Education. Under the National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification (NASDTEC) agreement, our graduates are eligible for certification in Rhode Island and all other states with the exception of Alaska, Iowa and Minnesota.

RWU discloses that the Master of Arts in Special Education and Bachelor of Arts in Education do not satisfy all educational requirements for licensure as an elementary or secondary public-school educator. Certification and licensure requirements are set by the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE), and students interested in learning about RIDE requirements, including state reciprocity policies, should enquire via the RIDE website or the students’ resident state websites for the most current information on licensure requirements for educators.