1993-1994 Academic Catalog

Early childhood education certification prepares students to teach at the level. Students may obtain this ~ertification by meeting the elementary education requirements and the following additions to or excep– tions to those requirements: 1. Earn a minimum GPA of 2.3. 2. Earn a grade of "C" or above in the professional education area, concentration area and communications courses. 3. Complete the following courses: EDUC-250 Early Childhood Education ................. 4 EDUC-251 Kindergarten Curriculum and Methods ... 5 EDUC-450 Super. Teach. & Seminar (K-3 level) 15-16 4. Acceptable scores on NTE Core Battery and Spe– cialty Exams. Students may prepare to teach reading and typewrit– ing by taking additional courses beyond the standard elementary or secondary education certification require– ments. Course requirements for the reading endorsement involve eighteen quarter hours including: EDUC-350 Reading in the Content Area ................. . EDUC-352 Developmental Reading ..................... 5 EDUC-380 Reading: Diag. & Remediation Tech ..... 5 EDUC-391 Reading Methods (Elementary) ......... . EDUC-394 Clinical Experience in Elementary Reading Methods (included in Elementary School Methods I) Cou!se requirements for the typewriting endorse– ment mvolve eleven quarter hours including: OTEC-183 Document Processing .. ... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ... 4 OTEC-291 Word Processing .............................. 4 ~he .T~SL program eq~ips students to teach English to mdividuals whose native language is not English. S~dents who complete these course requirements along with those of another teaching field will qualify for State of Ohio certification. Course requirements include thirty-one quarter hours including: COM-314 Intercultural Communications ................ 4 ENG-305 History of the English Language ............. 5 ENG-307 Advanced English Grammar .................. 5 LING-308 Linguistics for Language Leaming . ... ..... 5 LING-309 Sociolinguistics ................................. 4 LING-360 Clinical Experience . .... .. ... ...... ... .. .... ... 2 LING-361 Practicum ........................................ 3 SPAN-370 Teaching Foreign Language ................. 3 The program prepares s~dents to ~e~ch specific subjects grades 7- 12 m pubhc ~d Christi.an schools. Seventeen teaching fieldsare avatlable. This program provides certifica– tion; it does not necessarily qualify as a major or lead to a degree. The requirements for a specific major must also be completed. All secondary education students must receive credit for one mathematics course as a general education elective. Secondary education course requirements involve forty-seven quarter hours including: EDUC-100 Introduction to Education .................... 2 EDUC-101 Field Experience .............................. 2 EDUC-102 Education of Exceptional Children ........ 2 EDUC-201 Preliminary Student Involvement .......... O EDUC-270 Audio Visuals Secondary .................... 1 EDUC-300 Leamer & the Leaming Process ........... 4 *EDUC-301 Tutoring for Secondary Education ....... 1 EDUC-302 Teaching Thinking Skills (Secondary) .... 2 EDUC-316 Principles of Teaching ....................... 4 EDUC-317 Field Experience .............................. 4 EDUC-321 Philosophy of Education ..................... 3 **EDUC-350 Reading in the Content Areas ............ 3 Content Methods .. .... ..... ....... ...... ................ .. 2-3 Clinical Experiences ......................................... 2 EDUC-450 Supervised Teaching & Seminar ..... 15-16 * Tutoring is consider one of the necessary clinical hours and must be taken before Principles of Teaching. **English majors must take ENG-352 Developmental Reading. :Sec:ondm~v Education HICJ~loe:ical Science .....••.•....•.....•.......•..•.•........•••.•. 73 BI0-114 Introduction to Biology ................................ 5 BI0-115 General Zoology ........................................ 5 BI0-134 General Botany .......................................... 5 BI0-200 General Ecology ........................................ 5 BI0-306 Genetics .................................................. 5 Electives (selected from the following): ... .. .. ... .. .. .. ... .. . . 20 BI0-212 Invertebrate Zoology ................................ 5 BI0-213 Vertebrate Zoology .................................. 5 BI0-236 Taxonomy of Seed Plants ........................... 5 BI0-238 Introductory Microbiology ......................... 5 BI0-311 Vertebrate Embryology ............................. 5 BI0-316 Human Structure and Function ..................... 5 BI0-317 Human Structure and Function ..................... 5 BI0-334 Plant Taxonomy and Ecology ...................... 5 BI0-336 Plant Physiology ..................................... 5 BI0-340 Topics in Environmental Biology .................. 5 BI0-405 Environmental Biology Internship ............. 4-1O