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Post-Baccalaureate Certification in Secondary Education

• Options for Certification
• Graduate Equivalent Course Listing (select with advisement)
• Graduate Equivalent Course Listing (for fall 2009 grid versions
  -- select with advisement)
   

*** Informal Information Sessions ***
 Held the first Thursday of every month, September - May, for prospective
Post-Baccalaureate students beginning at 4:30 PM in Beekey 228

Undergraduate Secondary Education Program

The Secondary Education Undergraduate Curriculum consists of four categories of coursework, and 40 hours of Education Exploration.

• General Education: 60 semester hours
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  1. University Core: 12 s.h.
     1. Oral Communication - 3 hrs.
     2. Written Communication - 3 hrs
     3. Mathematics - 3 hrs.
     4. Wellness - 3 hrs.
  2. University Distribution: 15 s.h.
     1. Natural Sciences - 3 hrs.
     2. Social Sciences - 3 hrs.
     3. Humanities (English Literature) - 3 hrs.
     4. Arts - 3 hrs.
     5. Free Elective - 3 hrs.
  3. College Distribution: 21 s.h.
     1. Foundations - 3 hrs.
     2. Special Education - 6 hrs.
     3. Literacy - 3 hrs.
     4. Diversity - 3 hrs.
     5. Technology - 3 hrs.
     6. Mathematics - 3 hrs.
  4. Specialization Courses: 
     See "Academic Specialization" below.

• Academic Specialization
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  The student will choose an area of academic specialization and certification. In choosing specialization courses, the student will be advised by an academic advisor in that department and a professional advisor from the Department of Secondary Education. Sufficient credits to satisfy this category vary with each specialization. Courses chosen to fill academic specialization requirements may satisfy general education requirements as well.

  Kutztown University offers the following eleven areas of Specialization and Certification.

  • Biology
  • Chemistry
  • Earth Space Science
  • General Science
  • Mathematics
  • Mathematics and Physics---Dual Certification
  • Physics
  • English
  • Foreign Language - German
  • Foreign Language - Spanish
  • Social Studies
    
    
• Professional Education: 42-45 semester hours
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  The following courses comprise the education instruction in the Secondary Education curriculum. 

  • Education Curriculum
    • EDU 100 - Perspectives on American Education 3 hrs.
    • SPU 201 - Introduction to Special Education 3 hrs.
    • SPU 314 - Effective Instructional Strategies 3 hrs.
    • *SEU 312/313 - Principles of Learning/Clinical 6 hrs.
    • *SEU 342/343 - Principles of Teaching/Clinical 6 hrs.
    • *SEU 321-325, 410 - Methods of Teaching 3 hrs.
    • +EDU 411 - Methods of Teaching Foreign Languages to Early Second
      Language Learners 3 hrs.
    • EDU 326 - Introduction to Middle Level Education (elective in some programs) 3 hrs.
    • ITC 321 - Instructional Technology in Education 3 hrs.
    • SEU 390/391 - Clinical Experience/Practicum 12 hrs.
      
      
      • Clinical Field Experience & Practicum
        Secondary Education teacher candidates will have the opportunity to participate in two clinical field experience and practicums as their capstone experiences. Each experience will be for an eight week period. Teacher candidates will be appropriately placed for these experiences according to their major areas of certification. Most teacher candidates will be placed at the middle level and the high school level to better prepare them for the job market. If possible, rural, urban, and suburban placements are used to give teacher candidates diversity in their preservice experience. Modern language teacher candidates will be certified for K-12 and will receive additional training in learning to teach a modern language to early level language learners. Clinical field experience and practicum opportunities in England are also available.
        
  +Foreign Languages certification only

  *In the Secondary Education program field experiences increase in complexity and intensity as the student moves from pre-candidacy to candidacy.  Field hours are embedded in courses to allow for guided exploration, reflection and discussion.  The Secondary Education model utilizes school partnerships so that teaching candidates have an opportunity to work in diverse school settings and grades.

EDUCATION EXPLORATION