Required Professional Education Courses

Complete the following courses:

• ED 5000: Introduction to FasTrack (1 credit)
• ED 5100 Introduction to the Foundations of Public School Education (3 credits)
• ED 6107 Advanced Educational Psychology (3 credits)
• ED 5140 Human Relations In Education (3 credits)
• ED 5350 Pedagogy: Planning for Instruction (3 credits)
• ED 5780 Adaptation and Management: Designing the Learning Environment (3 credits)
• ED 5737 Content Area Reading (3 credits)
• ED 5799 The Professional Teacher (1 credit)
• HLTH 5400 Health and Drugs in Society (2 credits)
• ED 5410 Secondary Science Methods (4 credits)

Complete 12 credits of student teaching:

ED 5830 Student Teaching – Secondary (1-12 credits)

Life Science Specialty

A. Required Biology courses
Complete the following courses:

• BIOL 2360 Genetics (4 credits)
• BIOL 2610 General Ecology (3 credits)
• BIOL 3710 Microbiology (4 credits)
• BIOL 4620 Evolution (3 credits)
• BIOL 3720 Plant Form and Function (4 credits)
  or BIOL 3830 Aquatic Plants and Algae (4 credits)
• BIOL 4894 Advanced Research Project I (2 credits)
  or BIOL 4895 Advanced Research Project II (2 credits)

B. Required Biology elective
Select 1 of the following courses:

• BIOL 3150 Animal Behavior (3 credits)
• BIOL 3310 Entomology (4 credits)
• BIOL 4510 Ornithology (4 credits)
• BIOL 4520 Mammalogy (4 credits)
• BIOL 4534 Ichthyology (4 credits)