Majors

Elementary Education
The elementary education program prepares you to teach children in kindergarten through sixth grade in self-contained classrooms. The three parts of the 125 credit-hour program are:

1. General Education (53-54 hours)
2. Teacher Education
3. Area of Concentration (15 hours)
    choose from one of the following:

• English (PDF)
• English for Speakers of Other Languages (PDF)
• General Science (PDF)
• Mathematics (PDF)
• Modern Foreign Language (PDF)
• Social Science (PDF)
• Special Education (PDF)

Secondary Education
The secondary education program prepares you to teach in grades 6 through 12. Secondary educators teach in high schools, junior high schools, and middle schools. Secondary teachers prepare to teach in one or more content areas. The three parts of the 126 credit-hour program are:

1. General Education (varies)
2. Teacher Education (40 hours)
3. Teaching Field (varies)
    choose from the following:

• Agriculture (PDF)
• Art Education (PDF)
• Biological Sciences (PDF)
• Business (PDF)
• Chemistry (PDF)
• Earth Science (PDF)
• English (PDF)
• English/Journalism (PDF)
• Family and Consumer Sciences (PDF)
• Journalism (PDF)
• Mathematics (PDF)
• Modern Languages:
  – Chinese (PDF)
  – French (PDF)
  – German (PDF)
  – Japanese (PDF)
  – Spanish (PDF)
• Music (PDF)
• Physics (PDF)
• Social Studies (PDF)
• Speech/Theatre (PDF)