Secondary Education/Mathematics, B.S.

Program Requirements

Majors pursuing a dual major for secondary education must satisfy University General Education requirements and the College speech requirement, COMM 210 . In addition, they must complete the following courses and a sufficient number of electives to total 120 credits.

Secondary Education Requirements

• Level I: Exploring the Profession Coursework

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

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  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.

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  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: Mathematics

• EDU 390 - Teaching Secondary Mathematics through Inquiry
• EDU 391 - Teaching Secondary Mathematics: Geometry, Data, and Trigonometry
• EDU 414 - Capstone: Mathematics Education

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  Level III: Performing in the Classroom Coursework

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