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Liberal Arts and Sciences Requirements

In order to ensure that prospective teachers have a broad education in the liberal arts and sciences, all students must have completed undergraduate course work from each of the content areas. Please check your program to see what courses are required.

Business Education
Artistic Expression/Humanities (3 s.h..)
Communication (3 s.h..)
Information Retrieval or placement exam (3 s.h..)
Concepts in History/Social Science (3 s.h..)
Language other than English (3 s.h..)
Scientific Processes (3 s.h..)
Mathematical Processes (3 s.h.)
Literature, Analysis & Written Expression (6 s.h..)
Economics (6 s.h..)
Ethics (3 s.h..)
Political Science (3 s.h..)

Physical Education
Artistic Expression/Humanities (3 s.h..)
Communication (3 s.h..)
Information Retrieval or placement exam (3 s.h..)
Concepts in History/Social Science (3 s.h..)
Language other than English (3 s.h..)
Scientific Processes (3 s.h..)
Mathematical Processes (3 s.h..)
Literature, Analysis & Written Expression (6 s.h..)
Research Methods, Statistics, Measurement & Evaluation, Epidemiology (3 s.h..)
Human Development (3 s.h..)
Foundations of Education (3 s.h..)

TESL Education
Artistic Expression/Humanities (3 s.h..)
Communication (3 s.h..)
Information Retrieval or placement exam (3 s.h..)
Concepts in History/Social Science (3 s.h..)
Language other than English (12 s.h..)
Scientific Processes (3 s.h..)
Mathematical Processes (3 s.h..)
Literature, Analysis & Written Expression (6 s.h..)

Childhood and Early Childhood Education
Artistic Expression/Humanities (3 s.h..)
Communication (3 s.h..)
Information Retrieval or placement exam (3 s.h..)
Concepts in History/Social Science (3 s.h..)
Language other than English (3 s.h..)
Scientific Processes (3 s.h..)
Mathematical Processes (3 s.h..)
Literature, Analysis & Written Expression (6 s.h..)

Secondary Education
Artistic Expression/Humanities (3 s.h..)
Communication (3 s.h..)
Information Retrieval or placement exam (3 s.h..)
Concepts in History/Social Science (3 s.h..)
Language other than English (3 s.h..)
Scientific Processes (3 s.h..)
Mathematical Processes (3 s.h..)
Literature, Analysis & Written Expression (6 s.h..)

Health Education
Artistic Expression/Humanities (3 s.h..)
Communication (3 s.h..)
Information Retrieval or placement exam (3 s.h..)
Concepts in History/Social Science (3 s.h..)
Language other than English (3 s.h..)
Scientific Processes (3 s.h..)
Mathematical Processes (3 s.h..)
Literature, Analysis & Written Expression (6 s.h..)

Special Education
Artistic Expression/Humanities (3 s.h..)
Communication (3 s.h..)
Information Retrieval or placement exam (3 s.h..)
Concepts in History/Social Science (3 s.h..)
Language other than English (3 s.h..)
Scientific Processes (3 s.h..)
Mathematical Processes (3 s.h..)
Literature, Analysis & Written Expression (6 s.h..)
Child Development (3 s.h..)

Literacy
Artistic Expression/Humanities (3 s.h..)
Communication (3 s.h..)
Information Retrieval or placement exam (3 s.h..)
Concepts in History/Social Science (3 s.h..)
Language other than English (3 s.h..)
Scientific Processes (3 s.h..)
Mathematical Processes (3 s.h..)
Literature, Analysis & Written Expression (6 s.h..)
SPED Course (3 s.h..)

Speech-Language Pathology
Artistic Expression/Humanities (3 s.h..)
Communication (3 s.h..)
Information Retrieval or placement exam (3 s.h..)
Concepts in History/Social Science (3 s.h..)
Language other than English (3 s.h..)
Scientific Processes (3 s.h..)
Mathematical Processes (3 s.h..)
Literature, Analysis & Written Expression (6 s.h..)