Undergraduate Studies

Three majors are offered in the School of Education: Elementary Education, Learning Foundations, and Special Education.

An Elementary Education Major is designed for students wanting to teach in early grades, elementary grades, or middle grades. This major reflects best-practices pedagogy that supports learning in a variety of classroom settings.

Within this major students choose specific grade level endorsements (Grades K-6, Grades PreK-3, or Grades 4-8). Instead of selecting an academic minor, students majoring in Elementary Education are required to have an additional major. The second major is chosen from the list below.

• Learning Foundations Major - a newly enhanced interdisciplinary major
• Biology
• Chemistry
• English
• History
• Language (French, Spanish, ESL)
• Mathematics
• Physics
• Political Science

As listed above, the Learning Foundations major is an interdisciplinary major that supports the varied content areas taught in PreK-8 classrooms. In addition to the varied academic preparation, students choose an area of emphasis to ensure a deepened liberal arts experience. This one area of emphasis is selected from one of the four school academic domains: language arts, social studies, mathematics, or science.

The School of Education also offers a major in Special Education. This major prepares students to teach special education in grades K – 12 in inclusionary settings, pull-out programs, and self-contained special education classrooms.

School of Education Majors

• Elementary Education Major
  • Early Childhood Licensure (Grades Pre-K–3)
  • Elementary Grades Licensure (Grades K-6)
  • Middle Grades Licensure (Grades 4-8)
    
• Learning Foundations Major
  • A newly-enhanced interdisciplinary major
  • Includes an emphasis in one of the following
    • English
    • Mathematics
    • Science
    • Social Studies
• Special Education Major includes endorsements in both:
  • Modified (Grades K-12 inclusion/resource) &
  • Comprehensive (Grades K-12 self-contained classrooms)