Special Education Major
Mild/Moderate K-6 Teaching
Subject Endorsement Option
Bachelor of Arts in Education
ED BAE 2804
- Minimum General Studies = 45
- including General Studies coursework required by Teacher Education
- 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 = 7
- Social and Behavioral Sciences minimum = 9 including:
- Take any Economic Perspective GS course - 3 hours
- Take any Political Perspective GS course - 3 hours
- Take any GS course from:
- Social Perspective,
- Geographical Perspective or
- Behavioral Perspective, - 3 hours
- Personal Development minimum = 3
- PE 160GS, Healthful Living - 3 hours
- Professional Sequence = 30
- Students must apply for admission to all Teacher Education
programs.
- Endorsement = 34
- This endorsement also requires both ELED 370, Teaching Elementary School Mathematics,
and ELED 374, Teaching Elementary School Reading,
to meet the 40 hours State Department of Education endorsement requirement. As most
students selecting this endorsement will take these methods courses as a part of their
other endorsement in Elementary Education or Middle Grades Education, 31 hours will
normally complete the endorsement.
- Second Subject Endorsement, normally = 30
- The Mild/Moderate 7-12 Teaching Subject Endorsement can be used as the second
endorsement for this program.
Should required hours of the second endorsement also meet other requirements, the total
required hours may be reduced.
- Minimum total hours required coursework = 139
- Unrestricted electives in 125 hour program = 0
- Minimum total hours required for BAE in Mild/Moderate K-6 Teaching Subject
Endorsement = 139
- 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.
- Mild/Moderate K-6 Teaching Subject Endorsement Requirements (31 hours required)
- Take in the following sequence
- Take all of the following:
- SPED 234, Individuals with Exceptionalities - 3
hours
- PE 369, Remedial and Adaptive Physical Education -
3 hours
- CDIS 352, Normal and Disordered Language: 6-12
Year - 3 hours
- SPED 312, Families, Professionals, and
Collaborative Consultation - 3 hours
- SPED 367, Behavior Analysis and Intervention
Strategies - 3 hours
- SPED 414, Concepts and Characteristics of
Mild/Moderate Disabilities - 3 hours
- SPED 434, Instructional Needs of Students with
Disabilities in Inclusive Settings - 3 hours
- SPED 476, Program Development for Inclusive
Education - 3 hours
- SPED 475, Methods for Moderate Disabilities - 3
hours
- SPED 446, Assessment of Individuals with
Disabilities - 3 hours
- SPED 455, Elementary Methods for Mild
Disabilities - 3 hours
- SPED 498, Special Topics - 1 hour
- ELED 370, Teaching Elementary School
Mathematics, and ELED 374, Teaching Elementary
School Reading are also required. See note above.
11 May 2006
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