Secondary Education Requirements

Students who plan to teach at the high school level should major in a secondary subject matter field. Secondary teaching certification requirements include the college core (outlined elsewhere in this catalog for the B.A., B.S., or B.M. degree), additional teacher education core courses, the specialty area courses (outlined under the respective department sections of this catalog), and all professional education courses including:

Bachelor of Arts General core: 46 hours of courses are required for admission to teacher certification: ENG 101-102, six hours of English literature, MAT 131 or higher, PSY 201, COM 101 or 230, HIS 101 or 201, HIS 102 or 202, three hours of fine arts, four hours of a lab science, six hours of Foreign Language (intermediate level), three hours of a social studies elective (history, political science, geography, anthropology, economics sociology) and three hours of history, philosophy or English elective.