Grades 8-12 ( SECONDARY)
Teacher Certification Programs

Programs leading to the certification of teachers for grades 8-12 are offered in cooperation among the Schools of Arts and Sciences, Business Administration and Education. Students earn their academic degrees through the Schools of Arts and Sciences and Business Administration and obtain teacher certification through the School of Education and Human Development, Office of Teacher Education Records. Please refer elsewhere in this section of the catalog for a complete description of certification and endorsement programs.

The following are the requirements for degrees that incorporate the provision of teacher certification:

1. Satisfy the requirements for the Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Business Administration.
1. For the Bachelor of Arts option, students can indicate a choice of plan as Humanities with either English or History or students may indicate a choice of Plan as Mathematical Science with Math.
2. For the Bachelor of Science option, students indicate a choice of plan as either computer science or mathematics or Biology (Science certification)
3. The Bachelor of Business Administration applies to those electing to choose a plan in management and obtain a composite business certificate
4. All teacher certification students must have 9 semester hours of English, 6 of which must be in composition.


2. Complete courses in fundamentals of speech and computer proficiency, or pass a test demonstrating competence in these two areas, and complete a minimum of six hours of laboratory natural science courses for the B.B.A. or eight hours of laboratory natural science courses for the B.A. or B.S. degrees.



3. Secure admission to teacher education through the School of Education and Human Development.



4. Complete 24 hours of Professional of Development/Education courses:

C&I 3323 Instructional Design
IDS 3323 Child Development and Its Application to Learning;
(After completion of the above courses, you must pass the PPR qualifying test with an 80% or higher to advance.)
RDG 4364 Content Area Reading and Study Skills;
FED 3321 Educational Foundations for Teaching;
3 semester hours of a methods course in the teaching field;

and, AFTER ADMISSION TO STUDENT TEACHING

SED 4303, 4304 Secondary Student Teaching
SED 4308 Secondary School Education Professional Seminar.



5. Satisfy requirements in one of the following teaching fields, consistent with the courses meeting new state standards.

NOTE: The following are guidelines. Please check with faculty advisors for verification.

Business Administration – 27 semester hours
Lower Division:	6 semester hours of accounting 6 semester hours of economics 3 semester hours of computer science
Upper Division:	ECO 3315 Managerial Economics or ACC 3332 Financial Statement Analysis MGT 4311 Human Resources Management MGT 3311 Principles of Management MGT 3312 Legal Environment of Business.

Business, Basic or Composite – 57 semester hours
Lower Division:	6 semester hours of accounting 6 semester hours of economics 3 semester hours of advanced word processing 3 semester hours of computer science
Upper Division:	ACC 3332 Financial Statement Analysis MGT 4311 Human Resource Management FIN 3311 Business Finance ISC 3325 Information Systems in Organizations MGT 3311 Principles of Management MGT 3312 Legal Environment of Business MGT 4314 Leadership MGT 4340 Strategic Management MKT 3311 Principles of Marketing MGT 4322 Strategy and the Environment of Business QMS 3311 Statistics for Business and Economics

Computer Science – 57 semester hours
Lower Division:	6 semester hours of calculus 3 semester hours of C/C++ programming 3 semester hours from Fortran, Ada, Pascal, Java, or Advanced C/C++ (Advanced C/C++ recommended)
Upper Division:	ISC 3317 Object Oriented Programming and Design ISC 3331 Data Structures and Algorithms I ISC 3332 Computer Organization and Architecture ISC 3333 Data Structures and Algorithms II ISC 4331 Structure of Programming Languages ISC 4336 Database Systems ISC 4337 Operating Systems ISC 4339 Telecommunication and Networks ISC 4320 Software Engineering ISC 4350 Information Security, Privacy & Ethics 9 s.h. of UD Computer Science, Math courses by advisement (excluding ISC 3325 and ISC 4305).

English, Language Arts, and Reading – 27 semester hours
Lower Division:	3 semester hours of British Literature
Upper Division:	6 semester hours taken from ENG 3311Shakespeare ENG 3313 Poetry and Poetics ENG 3316 Narrative Fiction, and ENG 3312 Grammar and Rhetoric ENG 3310 Introduction to the Study of Language ENG 3320 19th Century Literature, or ENG 3321 20th Century American Literature RDG 3320 Foundations of Reading Theories and Assessment RDG 3340 Using Literature with Adolescents RDG 4361Reading and Writing Workshop or RDG 4362 Workshop Approach to Reading and Writing Instruction COM 3325 Advanced Professional Speaking COM 4318 Mass Media Communication

History – 27 semester hours
Lower Division:	6 semester hours of United States History 3 semester hours of Western Civilization 3 semester hours of Texas History 3 semester hours of World Geography
Upper Division:	HIS 4313 Social History of the United States to 1865 HIS 4314 Social History of the United States Since 1865 HIS 4320 History of England to the 18th Century HUM 4314 Age of Enlightenment or HUM 4315 Age of Revolution.

Mathematics – 24 semester hours
Lower Division:	6 semester hours of calculus
Upper Division:	MAS 3343 History of Mathematics MAS 3357 Introduction to Higher Geometry MAS 3361 Linear Algebra MAS 3362 Discrete Structures MAS 3391 Probability and Statistics MAS 4310 Fundamental Concepts of Analysis

Science – 57 to 61 semester hours
Lower Division:	6 semester hours of earth science 6 semester hours of chemistry 6 semester hours of physics or physical science CHEM 2323 Organic Chemistry BIO 1406 and 1407 General Biology for Science Plans BIO 2420 Elementary Microbiology
Lower or Upper Division:	CHEM 2325 Organic Chemistry, or BIO 4310 Biochemistry *
Upper Division:	BIO 3320 Human Genetics BIO 3323 Comparative Anatomy, or BIO 4333 Comparative Animal Physiology BIO 3330 Histology or BIO 4320 Embryology BIO 3326 Plant Biology BIO 4337 Cell and Molecular Biology * or BIO 4335 Ecology BIO 3340 Animal Behavior, or BIO 3342 Social Biology (* Student must have either BIO 4237 or BIO 4210 taken with corresponding lecture.)