Elementary Education Certification Minor

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Seventy-one semester hours of courses with an EDUC field code plus MATH 102, ANTH 270 or SOCI 270, and CDEV 106. Minor is restricted to the following specific 80 hours of coursework. Students must complete at least half of the Education coursework through Columbia College and maintain a 3.0 GPA with no grade lower than a C.

Education Coursework (80 sem. hrs)

EDUC 102 - Teaching and Learning Elementary Mathematics from an Advanced Perspective 3 hours or
MATH 102 - Teaching and Learning Elementary Mathematics from an Advanced Perspective 3 hours
SOCI 270 - Minority Cultures and Relations 3 hours or
ANTH 270 - Minority Cultures and Relations 3 hours
CDEV 106 - Child Health, Nutrition, and Safety 3 hours
EDUC 100 - Introduction to Education 3 hours ^1, ²
EDUC 198 - Field Experience I 1 hours ¹
EDUC 200 - Law, Ethics, and Education 3 hours ³
EDUC 230 - Educational Psychology 3 hours or
PSYC 230 - Educational Psychology 3 hours
EDUC 270 - Literature for Children and Adolescents 3 hours
EDUC 280 - Language Acquisition and Emergent Literacy 3 hours
EDUC 298 - Field Experience II 1 hours ¹
EDUC 300 - Techniques of Teaching 3 hours ¹
EDUC 311 - Classroom and Behavior Management Techniques 3 hours ¹
EDUC 322 - Educational Measurement and Assessment 3 hours
EDUC 331 - Teaching Reading 3 hours ¹
EDUC 335 - Teaching Creative Arts and Movement to Children 3 hours or
CDEV 335 - Teaching Creative Arts and Movement to Children 3 hours
EDUC 337 - Teaching Language Arts in Middle and Elementary Schools 3 hours
EDUC 338 - Content Reading and Writing 3 hours 1
EDUC 352 - Teaching Science to Elementary Children 3 hours
EDUC 354 - Teaching Social Studies to Elementary Children 3 hours
EDUC 358 - Teaching Mathematics in the Elementary School 3 hours ¹
EDUC 380 - Diagnostic and Corrective Reading 3 hours
EDUC 390 - Education and Psychology of the Exceptional Child 3 hours
EDUC 396 - Child and Adolescent Development 3 hours or
PSYC 396 - Child and Adolescent Development 3 hours
EDUC 400 - Senior Seminar 3 hours (Take course in the semester prior to student teaching)
EDUC 420 - Student Teaching in the Elementary School 12 hours ⁴ (15 weeks)

Note(s):

¹ Includes Field Experience
² Must be taken within first 9 hours of EDUC classes
³ Meets college Ethics requirement
⁴ Must receive a grade of B or higher for certification