Education Department | Certification
and Minors | Educational Studies
Master of Arts in Teaching | Course
of Study
Lower Division | Upper Division | Graduate
The purpose of the Education Department is to provide well-developed programs which are firmly rooted in the liberal arts and which will enable those completing them to become certified elementary and secondary classroom teachers.
All students enrolled in education programs—either elementary or secondary—must major in a specific discipline. Those pursuing a secondary teaching credential are encouraged to have a major and a minor in their selected teaching fields. Both must pursue an educational studies curriculum as outlined below, including a fifth-year internship under the guidance of the Education Department.
Both elementary and secondary education students may elect to complete a minor in literacy education, English as a Second Language or bilingual education.
Acceptance into the teacher education program is contingent upon the following criteria: