Pre-Professional Core -19 semester hours

• EDFN 338 - Foundations of American Education
• EDFN 395 - Practicum
• EDFN 475 - Human Relations
• EPSY 302 - Educational Psychology
• EPSY 327 - Child Growth & 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
• 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 128 hours, of which 36 hours must be 300-400 level courses.