Adolescence Education: Earth Science, 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. 36 s.h.

• GEOL 120 - Introduction to Geology 4 s.h.

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• GEOL 115 - Science of Natural Disasters 4 s.h.

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• GEOL 220 - Earth History and the Fossil Record 4 s.h.
• METR 110 - Introduction to Meteorology 4 s.h.
• ESCI 215 - Earth Materials 4 s.h.
• GEOL 370 - Geomorphology 4 s.h.

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• ASTR 108 - Descriptive Astronomy 3 s.h.

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• ASTR 110 - Introductory Astronomy 3 s.h.

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• ASTR 115 - Big Bang: The Creation and Evolution of the Universe 3 s.h.

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• ASTR 270 - Our Solar System 3 s.h.

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• ASTR 271 - Stars and Galaxies 3 s.h.

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• GEOL 250 - Planetary Geology 4 s.h.

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• ESCI 110 - Introduction to Oceanography 3 s.h.
• BIOL, CHEM, ENVS, PHYS 100-399 elective 3-4 s.h.
• METR 212 - Climate Change and Variability 3 s.h.
• ESCI, GEOL, ASTR 300-level elective 4 s.h.

Related Work: Min. 29 s.h.

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

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

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

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• PHYS 203 - General Physics I 4 s.h.

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• PHYS 204 - General Physics II 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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• ESCI 315 - Laboratory Techniques in Earth Science 2 s.h.
• 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.

Minimum Total: 106 s.h.