Special Education Major
Early Childhood Special Education
Teaching Subject Endorsement Option
Bachelor of Arts in Education
ED BAE 2806
- Minimum General Studies = 45
- including General Studies coursework required by Teacher Education and endorsement
- English Language minimum = 9 including:
- ENG 101GS, Expository Writing I - 3 hours
- ENG 102GS, Expository Writing II - 3 hours
- SPCH 100GS, Fundamentals of Speech
Communication - 3 hours
- Humanities minimum = 12 including:
- Take 1 course from:
- HIST 210GS, Western Civilization - 3 hours
- HIST 211GS, Western Civilization - 3 hours
- HIST 212GS, Non-Western World History - 3 hours
- HIST 215GS, Introduction to Latin America - 3
hours
- Take 1 course from:
- HIST 250GS, American History - 3 hours
- HIST 251GS, American History - 3 hours
- Mathematics, Statistics & Computer Science minimum = 3
- Natural Sciences minimum = 10
- Social and Behavioral Sciences minimum = 9 including:
- PSY 203GS, General Psychology - 3 hours
- Take any Economic Perspective GS course - 3 hours
- Take any Political Perspective GS course - 3 hours
- Personal Development minimum = 3
- PE 160GS, Healthful Living - 3 hours
- Professional Sequence = 30
- PTE 390EC, Pre-Student Teaching Field Experience
- 1 hour
- Students must apply for admission to all Teacher Education
programs.
- Endorsement = 31
- Second Subject Endorsement, normally = 30
- Should required hours of the second endorsement also meet other requirements, the total
required hours may be reduced.
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- Minimum total hours required coursework = 136
- Unrestricted electives in 125 hour program = 0
- Minimum total hours required for BAE in Early Childhood/Special Education-Teaching
Subject Endorsement = 136
- All UNK degrees require a minimum of 125 hours. Forty (40) of the hours required for
all UNK degrees must be upper division hours, which are courses numbered 300 or above
taken at a 4-year college or university.
- Early Childhood/Special Education Teaching Subject Endorsement Requirements (31 hours
required)
- Take in the following sequence
- Take all of the following:
- SPED 406, Introduction to Early Childhood
Special Education - 3 hours
- CDIS 354, Normal and Disordered Communication:
0-5 Years - 4 hours
- ELED 262, Introduction to Early Childhood
Education - 3 hours (Prereq: Concurrent enrollment in PTE
390 PreK or K)
- SPED 312, Families, Professionals, and
Collaborative Consultation - 3 hours
- ELED 362, Early Childhood Curriculum
Foundations - 3 hours
- SPED 367, Behavior Analysis and Intervention
Strategies - 3 hours
- SPED 445, Assessment of Young Children: Birth
to Five - 3 hours
- SPED 415, Intervention Methods: Three to Five
Years - 3 hours
- SPED 425, Intervention Methods: Birth to Two
Years - 3 hours
- Take 1 from:
FCSC 253, Child Development - 3 hours
- PSY 453, Developmental Psychology - 3 hours
02 Jun 2006
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