Pre-Professional Core -19 semester hours
- EDFN 338 - Foundations of American Education
- EDFN 295 - Practicum
- EDFN 475 - Human Relations
- EPSY 302 - Educational Psychology
- EPSY 428 - Child & Adolescent Development
- HLTH 251 - First Aid & CPR
- INED 411 - South Dakota Indian Studies
- PSYC 101 - General Psychology
Special Ed Core - 24 semester hours
- SPED 405 - Educating Secondary Students with Disabilities
- or
- SPED 300 - Students with Exceptionalities
- SPED 410 - Behavior Management of Exceptional Children
- SPED 413 - Serving Students with MR, DD, and Severe Disabilities
- SPED 420 - Curriculum & Instructional Strategies K-12
- SPED 431 - Identification and Assessment in Special Education
- SPED 432 - Methods and Materials for LD K-12
- SPED 460 - Family Systems and Professional Collaboration
- SPED 495 - Practicum
Take one course from the following:
- ELED 459 - Diagnosis & Remediation of Reading Difficulties
- MUS 351 - Elementary School Music Methods
- PE 352 - Adapted Physical Education
- PSYC 451 - Psychology of Abnormal Behavior
Teaching Core - 30 semester hours
- EDFN 365 - Computer-Based Technology & Learning
- MLED 480 - Middle Level Methods
- SEED 408 - Professional Teacher-Secondary Only
- SEED 450 - 7-12 Teaching Reading in the Content Area
- or
- ELED 315 - Foundations & Theory of Reading
- ELED 495 - Practicum
- or
- SEED 495 - Practicum
- EDFN 475 Human Relations
- SPED 488 - Student Teaching in Special Education
Gen Ed Requirements - 40 semester hours
- MATH - Gen Ed - Mathematics - 3 semester hours
- Gen Ed - Social Science - 6 semester hours
- (See footnote * below)
- Gen Ed - Arts & Humanities - 12 semester hours
- (See footnote * below)
- Gen Ed - Natural Science & Lab - 8 semester hours
- ENGL 101 - Composition I
- ENGL 201 - Composition II
- SPCM 101 - Fundamentals of Speech
- or
- SPCM 215 - Public Speaking
- or
- SPCM 222 - Argumentation and Debate
- WEL 100 - Wellness for Life
- WEL 100L - Wellness Lab
Notes
* Global Requirement: depending on your selection, this requirement will satisfy 3 hours of either Social Science or Arts & Humanities requirements. Take 1 course from AIS/HIST 257, ANTH 210, ARTH 211/212/251, ENGL 211/212, GEOG 210, HIST 121/122/153, HUM 100, MCOM 151, POLS 141/250.
A minor is NOT required with this major but electives are required to total 120 hours, of which 36 hours must be 300-400 level courses.