Department of Special Education

Bachelor of Science in Special Education

Secondary/Adult Special Education: English Track

Advisor: Mr. Charles Meyer

CHECKLIST OF DEGREE REQUIREMENTS FOR SPECIAL  EDUCATION STUDENTS MATRICULATING ON OR AFTER SEPTEMBER 1,2007 English Track

The major in special education requires a minimum of 127 semester hours of college credit.  An average GPA of 2.75 or higher is required for entering and remaining in the program, and a GPA of at least 3.0 in the major is required for entering student teaching.  The following listing includes general education requirements (GenEd), major requirements, and Maryland State Certification requirements.

Academic Content
Courses taken before formal admission to the professional education sequence .

I. ENGLISH  (18 units)
(I.A) ENGL 102 Writing for a Liberal Education (3)

(II.C.I) ELGL 221 or 222 British Literature (3)
(II.C.3) ENGL 233 Survey of African-American Lit. (3)
       or    ENGL 235 Com. Ethnic & Amer. Lit. (3)
ENGL 230 Main Curr. In Amer. Lit.  (3)
       or ENGL 236 Amer. Indian Lit.  (3)
ENGL 251 Appl. Grammar  (3)
ENGL 283 Intro. Creative Writing  (3)
       or ENGL 311 Writing Poetry   (3)
       or ENGL 312 Writing Fiction   (3)

ENGL 300  Lit Research and Applied Criticism (4)

II SOCIAL STUDIES (9 units)
(II.D) GEOG 102 World Regional Geography (3)
      or GEOG 105 Geog of International Affairs (3)

(II.B.1) HIST 145 Hist.of US to Mid-19th Century (3)
      or HIST 146 Hist.of US since Mid-19th Cent. (3)
(II.B.2) SOCI 101 Intro to Soc   (3)

III. SCIENCE  (8 units)
(II.A) BIOL  115 Biological Science I (4)
(II.A) PHSC 101 Physical Science I  (4)

IV. MATHEMATICS (7 units)
(I.C) MATH 119 Pre-Calculus (4)
        MATH 231 Basic Statistics (4)

V. ART (3 unilts)
(I.E) Choose one ART course for non-Art majors (3)

VI. PSYCHOLOGY/SOCIOLOGY (6 units)
 II.C.2 PSYC 101 Introduction of Psychology (3)
  PSYC 203 Human Development (3)

VII. Additional Required Courses (15 units)
(I.B) ISTC 201 Using Info Effec. in Educ  (3)

        ISTC 301 Utilization of Inst. Media (3)
(II.B.3) COMM 131 Fundamentals of Speech Comm (3)
(I.D) EDUC 301 Writing & Comm. Skls. Tchrs. (3)
SPED 301 Introduction to Special Education (3)

Refer to the explanation of the General Education requirements in the university catalog.

FIRST TERM- Fall (15 units)

SPED 425   Formal T&M Stds. w/Dis K-12 (3)

SCED 341   Principles Secondary Ed (3)

SPED 460   Read/Writing Secondary Sch (4)

SPED 428   Working with Fam Stds. w/ Dis (3)

SPED 441   Curr/Meth Instruction (3)

SECOND TERM -  Spring (15 units)

SPED 430   Informal T&M Stds. w/ Dis (K-12) (3)

SPED 401   Foundations of Education (3)

SPED 413   Assistive Technology (3)

PSYC 404   Adolescent Psychology (3)

SCED 419   Young Adult Literature (3)

THIRD TERM - Fall (15 units)

SPED 453   Curr/Meth Second Education (3)

SPED 429   Curr/Meth Class Mgmt (3)

SCED 357   Teaching English in Sec School (3)

Approved English course in addition to column I (3)

FOURTH TERM - Spring (15 units)

SCED 498   Student Teaching: SPED (12)

SCED 461   Tchg Rdg in Sec Cont Areas (3)