Undergraduate Catalog

Special Education PK-8 with Grades PK-4, Bachelor of Science

Special Education PK-8 Majors with Dual Certification in Early Childhood Grades PK-4 (89 credits)

Required Courses:

SPED 100Characteristics of Students With Mild?Disabilities

3

SPED 300Curriculum Adaptations

3

SPED 350Assessment and Planning for Young?Children

3

SPED 352Diagnostic Evaluation/Prescriptive?Teaching-Phase II

3

SPED 352BPracticum II: Grades 4-6

1

SPED 362Secondary Programming and Career?Education

3

SPED 367Behavior and Classroom Management

3

SPED 400The Law and Special Education

3

EDUC 420Universal Design for Learning

3

SPED 352B: Grades 3-8

SPED 352, SPED 352B, SPED 362, SPED 367 and SPED 400: Upper-level course: requires successful completion of sophomore screening

SPED 300: Course taken with student teaching

Special Education PK-8 with Grades PK-4 requires the following courses in addition to the Special Education PK-8 credits listed above:

EDUC 00_

0

SPED 350APracticum I: Birth - Grade 3

1

EDUC 004A

0.5

EDUC 004B

0.5

EDUC 005A

1

EDUC 005B

1

EDUC 100Introduction to Education

1

EDUC 101Introduction to Education

0.5

PSYC 214Child Development

3

EDUC 108Orientation to Early Childhood Education

3

EDUC 300Early Childhood Curriculum I

3

EDUC 301Early Childhood Curriculum II

3

EDUC 302Child in the Family

3

EDUC 309FElementary Curriculum and Instruction:?Math

3

EDUC 309GElementary Curriculum and Instruction:?Science

3

EDUC 309HElementary Curriculum and Instruction:?Social Studies

3

EDUC 309MElementary Curriculum &?Instruction:language and Literacy I

4

EDUC 309NElementary Curriculum &?Instruction:language and Literacy II

3

EDUC 311Educational Psychology

3

EDUC 461Meth Assessment/ESL

3

EDUC 442

9

EDUC 498BSpecial Topics in Student Teaching

1

EDUC 00_: ongoing

SPED 350A: PK-3

PSYC 214: prerequisite to EDUC 311

EDUC 442: 1 of 2placements is in a SPED setting

EDUC 005A, EDUC 005B, EDUC 309F, EDUC 309G, EDUC 309H, EDUC 309M, EDUC 309N and EDUC 442: Upper-level course: requires successful completion of sophomore screening

Additional Liberal Arts Credits

BIOL 110Principles of Biology

3

And

BIOL 110LPrinciples of Biology Laboratory

1

 

COMM 101Public Speaking and Presentation

3

MATH 120Mathematics in the Liberal Arts

3

SSCI 201Introduction to Social Sciences

3