Adolescence Education: Biology, B.S.

Professional Education Sequence: 41 s.h.

• EDUC 106 - Issues, Philosophy, and Foundations of Education 3 s.h.
• EDUC 201 - Diversity and Teaching 3 s.h.
• EPSY 229 - Survey of Exceptional Children 3 s.h.
• EPSY 275 - Psychological Foundations of Education: Learning and Motivation 3 s.h.
• EPSY 250 - Adolescent Growth and Development 3 s.h.
• EDUC 246 - Development of Language and Adolescent Literacies 3 s.h.
• EDUC 346 - Teaching Reading in Content Areas 3 s.h.
• EDUC 213 - Education Law Requirements 1 s.h.
• SCED 392 - Research, Theory and Practice in Middle and High School Science Education 4 s.h.
• SCED 396 - Student Teaching in Secondary Science 12 s.h.
• SCED 398 - Seminar in Middle and High School Science Education 3 s.h.

Content Courses: Min. 32 s.h.

• Choose two of the following three courses:

• BIOL 130 - Cellular Perspectives in Biology 3 s.h.
• BIOL 131 - Organismal Perspectives in Biology 3 s.h.
• BIOL 132 - Ecological and Evolutionary Perspectives in Biology 3 s.h.

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• BIOL 133 - Investigative Biology Laboratory 1 s.h.

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• BIOL 201 - Cell and Molecular Biology 4 s.h.

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• BIOL 282 - Ecology 4 s.h.

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• BIOL 212 - Genetics 4 s.h.

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• BIOL 216 - Evolution 4 s.h.

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• BIOL 315 - Lab Techniques in Biology 2 s.h.
• Five Additional 300-Level BIOL Courses: Min. 15 s.h.

Related Work: 31-38 s.h.

• CHEM 111 - General Chemistry I 4 s.h.
• CHEM 112 - General Chemistry II 4 s.h.

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• CHEM 221 - Organic Chemistry I 4 s.h.

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• CHEM 226 - Elementary Organic Chemistry 4 s.h.

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• MATH 105 - Pre-calculus 3 s.h.

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• MATH 223 - Calculus I 4 s.h.

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• STAT 101 - Introduction to Statistics 3 s.h.

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• PHYS 103 - General Physics I (Non-Calculus) 4 s.h.

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• PHYS 203 - General Physics I 4 s.h.

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• PHYS 104 - General Physics II (Non-Calculus) 4 s.h.

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• PHYS 204 - General Physics II 4 s.h.

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• SCIN 315 - Technologies in General Science 2 s.h.
• SCIN 390 - Interdisciplinary Science Capstone 3 s.h.
• Any Foreign Language at the 102 level or higher OR meeting the education foreign language requirement in related work via a proficiency score on the foreign language exam of 250 or higher OR via three years of progressive study of the same foreign language in high school. 0-6 s.h.

Non-Course Requirement:

Take Biology Exit Program Assessment.

Minimum Total: 104 s.h.