Beacon Elementary Education Certification Minor

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Seventy-three semester hours of courses with an EDUC field code plus ANTH 270 or SOCI 270 , and CDEV 106 . Minor is restricted to the following specific 79 hours of coursework. Students must complete at least half (40 hours) of the Education coursework through Columbia College and maintain a 3.0 GPA with no grade lower than a C.

Education Coursework (79 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 - Diversity and Society 3 hours or
ANTH 270 - Diversity and Society 3 hours
CDEV 106 - Child Health, Nutrition, and Safety 3 hours
EDUC 100 - Introduction to Education 3 hours ^1, ²
EDUC 200 - Law, Ethics, and Education 3 hours ³
EDUC 220 - Methods of Teaching English Learners 3 hours
EDUC 230 - Educational Psychology 3 hours or
PSYC 230 - Educational Psychology 3 hours
EDUC 280 - Language Acquisition and Emergent Literacy 3 hours
EDUC 298 - Field Experience 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
Choose one option from the following:
PSYC 396 - Child and Adolescent Development 3 hours or
EDUC 396 - Child and Adolescent Development 3 hours or
EDUC 391 - Child Psychology 3 hours and
EDUC 392 - Adolescent Psychology 3 hours
EDUC 400 - Senior Seminar 3 hours (Take course in the semester prior to student teaching)
EDUC 425 - Undergraduate Student Teaching 12 hours ⁴ (16 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