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Department of Teaching and Learning
Teaching and Learning
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Elementary Education + Teacher Licensure
Designed for those with an interest in teaching children from kindergarten through sixth grade across all curriculum areas, our Elementary Education program offers an opportunity for vigorous course work as well as internships and licensure. Your course of study in elementary education will include requirements and additional courses required for teacher licensure with an K-6 endorsement. A number of program options have been designed based on scheduling and degree requirements.
ELEM Master's Degree + Licensure Requirements
REQUIRED ELEM CORE (also meets Licensure requirements) (25 semester hours)
Curriculum and Instructional Design (3)
- EDUC 3500 Foundations of Education (3)
Field Work (3)
- EDUC 3952 Practicum in Elementary Education (2)
- EDUC 3005 Internship Seminar: Elementary (1)
Advanced Teaching Methods (19) all are required
- EDUC 3416 Theory and Practice of Literacy Education in Elementary Grades (3)
- MTED 3250 Advanced Teaching of Mathematics in Elementary Schools (3)
- ENED 3000 Teaching Literature in Preschool and Elementary Classrooms (3)
- SCED 3250 Advanced Teaching of Science in Elementary Schools (2)
- SSED 3250 Advanced Teaching of Social Studies in Elementary Schools (2)
- EDUC 3420 Literacy for Diverse and Special Needs Learners (3)
- One additional course in Literacy from among:
EDUC 3390, 3460, or ENED 3500 (3)
PROFESSIONAL CORE COURSES (also meets Licensure requirements) (9 semester hours)
Humanistic Dimensions of Education (3) (Foundations) choice of one
- EDUC 3050 Advanced Social and Philosophical Aspects of Education (3)
Behavioral Studies (6)
- EDUC 3110 Psychological Foundations of Education (3)
- SPED 3000 Educational Psychology of Exceptional Learners (3)
LICENSURE REQUIREMENTS
- HMED 2250 Introduction to Arts Education (2) *
- EDUC 3000 Internship in Teaching: Elementary (6) *
ELEM Masters + Teacher Licensure Summary
Required Elem Core and Professional Core Courses 34 hours = 34 hours for degree
Licensure only Courses * 8 hours
42 hours total
(This assumes that the student has had no previous education or related coursework and will take all teacher education licensure requirements. An audit of the student's transcript may determine that some licensure requirements have been met.)