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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Education, BS-MEd Justice in SPED - Elementary Education, Teacher Licensure


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General Education Requirements


Competencies

Competencies must be completed within the student’s first 30 credits.

Basic College Mathematics

Reading Comprehension

General Education Categories (34-35 credits total)

FYS, W-I, and OC courses must be completed within the student’s first 30 credits. Courses used to satisfy the general education requirements of the university must be taken from a minimum of six different academic disciplines. First Year Seminar and Level I Written Communications courses are exempt from this restriction.  Courses may not be used to fulfill both major discipline and general education requirements. 

♦FYS

First Year Seminar (Required of all freshmen and transfers with fewer than 15 transfer credits) 3 credits

♦W-I

Written Communication Level I 3 credits

♦OC

Oral Communication 3 credits
PGR Personal Growth and Responsibility 3 credits
CEA Creative Expression and Appreciation 3 credits
HP The Human Past 3 credits
CS Contemporary Society 3 credits
WC World Cultures 3 credits
#SR Scientific Reasoning Laboratory Course 4 credits
Any Scientific Reasoning Course 3-4 credits
QR Quantitative Reasoning 3 credits

  Written Communication (Level II & Level III) and Diversity, Power Dynamics & Social Justice

Courses taken for Written Communication Level II, Level III and Diversity, Power Dynamics and Social Justice may be used to satisfy requirements anywhere else in a student’s program of study where they may apply.  Credits will be counted in the area where they apply.

W-II Written Communication - Level II
W-III Written Communication - Level III
DPDS Diversity, Power Dynamics & Social Justice

       Students may choose to use support courses to satisfy general education categories, but may not be required to do so.  Note:  If a course is used to satisfy two or more requirements (for example, a support course and Scientific Reasoning requirement), the credits are counted in only one place.  Using a course to satisfy more than one requirement does not reduce the credit total required for graduation.  

       Courses used to satisfy the general education requirements of the university must be taken from a minimum of six different academic disciplines.  First Year Seminar and Level I Written Communications courses are exempt from this restriction.  Courses may not be used to fulfill both major discipline and general education requirements.

#       These Scientific Reasoning General Education Category courses do not have to be a sequence or be from the same discipline.

        Level II and Level III Written Communications courses and Diversity, Power Dynamics & Social Justice may be used to satisfy requirements anywhere else in a student’s program of study where they may apply. The credits are counted only in one area.

♦        General Education categories to be completed with the first 30 credits. Exceptions in the timing of these courses will be made for transfer students.

 

COURSES IN MAJOR (70)


Required (103)

**Apply to special education 2nd license program Stage 2: Senior Year (28.5)


♦ Required Programmatic Assessments


  • EDA 901 Prog Assess for Initial Ed Lic I
  • EDA 904 Prog Assess for Initial Ed Lic IV
  • EDA 905 Prog Assess for Initial Ed Lic V

Stage 3: 5th Year Courses (15 credits) FALL


  • EDC 850 Practicum I In ELEM AND
  • EDC 855 Practicum Seminar I in ELEM
  • EDC 795C UDL Practicum Support
  • EDG 805 Pract Sem in CRT
  • EDS 891 Mat. and Methods in SPED
  •                     SPRING
  • EDC 805 Prof. Lives of Teachers
  • **EDS 862 Pract Sem in SEI
  • **EDS 959P Practicum in SPED
  • **EDS 959S Practicum Sem. In SPED

 

Free Electives (0 credits Total) Additional free elective credits listed may be required based on the use of support courses to satisfy General Education Category requirements.


Required Minor (15-18 credits)


 Students in the Teacher Licensure program must complete a minor in an area of their choosing.

 See reverse for suggested minors aligned with the major’s justice focus.

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Added Notes


      **Courses with a double asterisk are for the second license in special education.

♦        Programmatic Assessments are required for all students pursuing educational licensure in a specified

          sequence. Results will be factored into gateway reviews for progression that occurs each term

           beginning Spring term of the Junior year.        

        Practicum Seminars in areas other than ELED may carry more than 1.5 credits.

                                  

                  Exceptions in the timing of courses may be made for transfer students.

Total credits for undergraduate degree: = 120  The additional credits listed above are required for Graduate degree.

Total credits for combined degree: 149.5


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