Middle Grades Education 4-8 (BA)

Bachelor of Arts Degree

Category I: The Individual (9 to 11 hours)
IA: Rhetoric	ENGL 1101	Rhetoric and Composition	3
IB: Mathematical Reasoning		Choose course from approved list	3 to 4
IC: Critical Thinking	EDUC 3307	Learning and Cognition	3
ID: Scientific Method		Choose course from approved list	0 to 1
Category II: Western Civilization (15 hours)
IIA: Freshman Composition	ENGL 1102	Literature and Composition	3
IIB: Speaking		Choose course from approved list	3
IIC: Social and Behavioral Sciences		Choose course from approved list	3
IID: Humanities		Choose course from approved list	3
IIE: Government		Choose course from approved list	3
Category III: World Citizen (12 hours)
IIIA: Modern Language		Choose sequence from approved list	6
IIIB: History of Other Cultures	EDUC 4401	The Multicultural Classroom	3
IIIC: Fine Arts		Choose course from approved list	3
Category IV: The Natural World (6 to 9 hours)
IVA: Natural Science		Choose course from approved list	6 to 9
Category V: Ethical Perspectives (0 hours)
VA: Philosophy, Religion, and Ethics		Middle Grades Education students are exempt from this requirement.
Category VI: Institutional Requirement (1 hour)
VIA: First-Year Experience	PDMT 1101	Introduction to University Life and the Liberal Arts Tradition	1

Total Credit Hours:

43-48

Students who enter with fewer than 24 semester credit hours must satisfy the institutional requirement.

EDMG 3331	Reading Methods (4-8)	3
EDMG 3345	Teaching in the Middle School	3
EDUC 1199	Introduction to Education	3
EDUC 2000	Introduction to Professional Practice	3
EDUC 2250	Media and Technology for Educators	3
EDUC 3337	Teaching Reading and Writing in the Content Areas	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 4497	Classroom Management	3
EDUC 4498	Senior Seminar: Reflection and Application	3
EDUC 4499	Internship III	6
Total Credit Hours:		40

Students must select two methods courses from the following list:

	General Electives	3-8
Total Credit Hours:		3-8

Students must select two content areas and complete a minimum of 12 semester credit hours of coursework in each content area.

Total Credit Hours:

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

Students must selected a minimum of six semester credit hours of electives from the following list:

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 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

MATH 1000	Mathematics for the Liberal Arts	3

MATH 1113	Precalculus	3
	OR
MATH 2450	Calculus I	4
	AND
MATH 2450L	Calculus I Lab	0

MATH 1300	Elementary Statistics	3

MATH 1700	Geometry for Middle Grades Teachers	3
	OR
MATH 3700	Geometry	3

EDUC 3333	Geography in the P-12 Classroom	3

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
POSC 1101	American Government	3

Total Credit Hours: 121