Undergraduate Catalog
College of Education
Early Childhood Education Specialty Areas
Students may choose to use these hours in their program as free electivity to broaden and/or deepen their knowledge background OR choose to focus these hours in a specialty area.
Language Arts Specialty Area (18 hours)
- Required - 12 hours
- ENG-2100 Linguistics
- ENG-3800 Literary Theory & Criticism
- CTH-4511 Oral Interpretation of Literature or CTH-4710 Creative Dramatics
- EDU-4400 Literature for Children/Adolescents or ENG-4150 Literature and Related Media for Adolescents
- Choose two (2) courses with an ENG prefix.
Music Specialty Area (15 hours)
- Required Courses
- MUS-1661 Class Voice
- MUS-2111 Aural Skills I
- MUS-2113 Music Theory I
- MUS-2203 Survey of Western Music
- MUS-4442 Approaches to Music Education: Orff
- Applied Music: 3-4 hours in piano, guitar, and/or voice.
- Ensemble Participation: 1-2 remaining hours as an ensemble member
Sociology Specialty Area (15 hours)
- Required
- SOC-2010 Introduction to Sociology
- Choose one
- SOC-4610 Social Inequality: Minority Group Relations
- SOC-4620 Social Inequality: Class/Status/Power
- Electives
- Any course with SOC prefix, except SOC-4905 and SOC-4990
Spanish Specialty Area (15 hours)
- Choose any SPA courses.
Special Education Specialty Area (15 hours)
- PSY-4201 Counseling Skills or PSY-4210 Group Theory and Leadership
- PSY-4421 Characteristics/Learning Needs of Students-Academically/Physically Challenged
- PSY-4426 Characteristics/Learning Needs of Students-Learning/Behavior Disorders
- PSY-4435 Identification & Education of Young Children with Special Needs
- PSY-4440 Basic Sign Language
Religion Specialty Area (15 hours)
- 15 hours beyond the General Education Public Teacher Education Core, distributed among the four categories of theological study. (For LTE students this would mean five hours beyond their General Education requirement.)
