Undergraduate Programs - Middle Grades Education

Coordinator of Undergraduate Middle Grades Education:  Dr. Powell

The Bachelor of Science degree with a major in middle grades education requires two concentration areas, social studies and language arts, in addition to the core curriculum and professional education courses. All majors are required take the following courses:

English 101,102, and two of the following courses: 201, 202, 203, 204. History 111 and 112; Government 229; Sociology 345; Foreign Language 201 and 202* ; Religion 101 and a religion elective; Two laboratory science courses; Mathematics 111 and 203; Exercise Science 111 or 112, 185, and 334; Psychology 222; Theater 115; and the following Education Courses:

  1. EDUC 131
Introduction to Fine Arts (3)
  1. EDUC 221
  Introduction to Education (3)
  1. EDUC 225
  Writing Seminar (3)
  1. EDUC 341
  Child and Adolescent Development (3)
  1. EDUC 352
  Middle Grades Curriculum (3)
  1. EDUC 431
  Educational Psychology (3)
  1. EDUC 441
  Teaching Reading in the Middle and Secondary School (3)
  1. EDUC 449
  Social Studies for Middle Grades Education (3)
  1. EDUC 454
  Student Teaching Seminar (3)
  1. EDUC 455
  Effective Teaching Strategies (Secondary and K-12) (3)
  1. EDUC 456
  Practicum (Elementary Education and Middle Grades) (3)
  1. EDUC 457
  Student Teaching (Elementary Education and Middle Grades) (6)
  1. EDUC 502
  The Middle School (3)

Plus all the coursework in the following concentration areas:

Social Studies Concentration:  History 221,222,331 or 332,351, and 353; Geography 113 or 114; Sociology 345.
English/Language Arts Concentration:  English 302; Drama 115 and131; Education 400, 441

A grade of "C" or better must be earned for all concentration area courses.

*To fulfill the foreign language requirement, the student must pass 201, and 202, or if starting a new language, the student must pass 101,102, and 201, with all courses in the same language.

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