Department of Special Education

Bachelor of Science in Special Education

Advisor: Mr. Charles Meyer

CHECKLIST OF DEGREE REQUIREMENTS FOR SPECIAL  EDUCATION STUDENTS MATRICULATING ON OR AFTER SEPTEMBER 1, 2007 Social Science 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  (6 units)
(I.A) ENGL 102 Writing for a Liberal Education (3)
(II.C.3) Choose an English course from II.C.3 (3)
 

II SOCIAL STUDIES (27 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)
 HIST 146 Hist.of US since Mid-19th Cent. (3)
(II.C.1) HIST 102 Hist. Of Eur Civ through 17th Cen (3)
HIST 103 Hist of Eur Civ from 17th Cen (3)
ECON 201 or 202 Microeconomic Prin  (3)
POSC 103 American National Government   (3)
(II.C.2) SOCI 101 Intro to Sociology  (3)

SOSC 401 Topics in Social Sciences (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 (3)

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

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

VIII. Additional Required Courses (15 units)
(I.B) ISTC 201 Using Info Effec. in Educ  (3)
(II.B.3) COMM 131 Fundamentals of Speech Comm (3)
(I.D) EDUC 301 Writing & Comm. Skls. Tchrs. (3)
ISTC 301 Utilization of Inst. Media  (3)

SPED 301 Introduction to Special Ed (3)

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

FIRST SEMESTER - Fall (15 units)
SPED 425    Formal T& M Stds. w/Dis K-12 (3)

SCED 341    Principles of Secondary Education (3)

SCED 460    Read/Writing Secondary Sch (4)
SPED 428    Working w/Fam Stds. w/Dis (3)

SPED 441    Curr/Meth Instr (3)

SECOND SEMESTER -Spring (15 units)

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

EDUC 401   Foundations of Education (3)

SPED 413    Assistive Technology  (3)

PSYC 404   Adolescnet Psychology (3)

Soc Sci course from academic content column (II) (3)

THIRD SEMESTER -Fall  (15 units)
SPED 496    Internship: Std w/Dis Sec/Adult (3)

SPED 453    Second Education (3)

SPED 429    Curr/Meth Class Mgmt   (3)

SCED 355   Teaching Soc. Sci in Sec School (3)

Soc Sci course from academic content column II (3)

FOURTH TERM - Spring (15 units)
SPED 498    Student Teaching: SPED  (12)
SPED 461    Teaching Reading in Content Areas (3)