Undergraduate Catalog

Five-Year Bachelor’s to Master’s Programs in Education

Five-Year Degree Options in Education

Marywood University offers a five-year program leading to a Bachelor of Science Degree in Early Childhood/Elementary Education and Special Education and a Master of Science Degree in Reading Education.

Students can earn both degrees in as little as five years with multiple teacher certifications in the areas of Grades PK-4, Special Education PK-12, and Reading Specialist K-12. Successful students will have flexibility in choosing career opportunities and will be prepared to teach in a special education setting or accept a teaching assignment in a regular early education placement, or as a building or district reading specialist.

Undergraduate education requirements are:

EDUC 00_

0

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 251Developmental Psychology

3

SPED 100Characteristics of Students With Mild?Disabilities

3

EDUC 108Orientation to Early Childhood Education

3

EDUC 300Early Childhood Curriculum I

3

EDUC 301Early ChildhoodCurriculum 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

RED 524A

4

RED 526

3

EDUC 311Educational Psychology

3

EDUC 420Universal Design for Learning

3

SPED 300Curriculum Adaptations

3

SPED 350Assessment and Planning for Young?Children

3

SPED 350APracticum I: Birth - Grade 3

1

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 461Meth Assessment/ESL

3

EDUC 442

9

EDUC 498BST: Special Topics in Student Teaching

3

EDUC 00_: ongoing

EDUC 004A, EDUC 004B: taken with EDUC 300/031

PSYC 251: prerequisite to EDUC 311

SPED 350A: PK-3

SPED 352B: Grades 3-8

EDUC 005A, EDUC 005B, EDUC 309F, EDUC 309G, EDUC 309H, RED 524A, RED 526, SPED 352, SPED 352B, SPED 362, SPED 367, SPED 400 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

NOTE: Course taken with student teaching

Students easily transition from the undergraduate phase of study to the graduate phase, given that they maintain the appropriate grade point average and stay on track with courses.

Graduate education requirements are:

RED 530

3

RED 533

3

RED 540

3

RED 542

3

EDUC 502

3

EDUC 554

3

EDUC 501

3

RED 555

0

RED 546

3