Middle Grades Education (4-8), B.A.

Middle Grades Education Curriculum Outline

Bachelor of Arts (BA) Degree in Middle Grades Education

Mission: The Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree program in Middle Grades Education prepares graduates to be professional, proactive, reflective, and scholarly middle grades practitioners and leaders in middle grades classrooms.

The Bachelor of Arts Degree in Middle Grades requires a minimum of 120 credit hours as follows:

General Education

Total Credit Hours:

46

Piedmont University Requirement

PDMT 1101	Intro to University Life and Liberal Arts Tradition	1
Total Credit Hours:		1

Students who have not completed a minimum of 24 semester credit hours of college-level coursework upon admission to Piedmont University must meet this college requirement.

Professional Education courses

EDUC 1199	Introduction to Education	3
EDUC 2000	Introduction to Professional Practice	3
EDUC 2250	Media and Technology for Educators	3
EDMG 3331	Reading Methods, 4-8	3
EDUC 3337	Teaching Reading and Writing in the Content Areas	3
EDMG 3345	Teaching in the Middle School	3
EDUC 3355	Exceptional Children	3
EDUC 4479	Internship I	1
EDUC 4489	Internship II	3
EDUC 4495	Educational Assessment for All Learners	3
EDUC 3307	Learning and Cognition	3
EDUC 4401	The Multicultural Classroom	3

Two methods courses of the following four, taken before Internship II

EDMG 3332	Language Arts Methods, 4-8	3
EDMG 3334	Social Studies Methods, 4-8	3
EDMG 3335	Science Methods, 4-8	3
EDMG 3336	Math Methods, 4-8	3

Professional Semester – All three taken in last semester

EDUC 4497	Classroom Management	3
EDUC 4498	Senior Seminar: Reflection and Application	3
EDUC 4499	Internship III	6
Total Credit Hours:		54

Content courses

Content courses for Middle Grades concentrations.

Total Credit Hours:

24

Total Credit Hours: 120

 

Area of Content Courses

Middle grades education majors additionally select two areas of concentration (12-13 hours each) from language arts, mathematics, natural sciences and social sciences. Courses taken in the concentration areas may be used to meet general education requirements, but if so, electives must be chosen to fill up the rest of the 120-hour undergrad requirement.

A. Language Arts

ENGL 4450	Seminar in Composition Studies	3
ENGL 4455	Survey of English Usage for Teachers	3

Plus select two of the courses below:

ENGL 2210	United States Literature to 1865	3
ENGL 2211	United States Literature from 1865	3
ENGL 2220	Ethnic American Literature	3
ENGL 2221	Women Writers	3
ENGL 2225	Nature Writers	3
ENGL 3307	Short Story	3
ENGL 3308	Novel	3
ENGL 3309	Poetry	3
ENGL 3311	Drama	3
ENGL 3312	Non-Fiction	3
ENGL 4427	American Romanticism	3
ENGL 4428	Twentieth-Century American Literature	3
ENGL 4429	Multicultural American Literature	3
ENGL 4430	Literature of the American South	3

B. Mathematics

MATH 1000	Mathematics for the Liberal Arts	3
MATH 1113	Precalculus	3
	OR
MATH 2450	Calculus I	4
MATH 1700	Geometry for Middle Grades Teachers	3
	OR
MATH 3700	Geometry	3
MATH 1300	Elementary Statistics	3
Total Credit Hours:		19

C. Natural Sciences - only need one lab science total

BIOL 1101	General Biology I	3
CHEM 1101	General Chemistry I	3
	OR
PHYS 1011	Physical Science I	4
	OR
PHYS 1012	Physical Science II	4
ERSC 2201	Physical and Historical Geology of Georgia	4
	OR
ERSC 2202	Astronomy and Meteorology	4
	OR
GEOL 1101	Physical Geology	3
	OR
GEOL 1102	Historical Geology	3

D. Social Sciences

HIST 3301	History of the United States to 1836	3
	OR
HIST 3302	History of the United States, 1836-1912	3
HIST 3330	History of Georgia	3
EDUC 3333	Geography in the P-12 Classroom	3
POSC 1101	American Government	3
Total Credit Hours:		15