Course Number and Title

Credits

Foundational Studies Program requirements indicated in bold.

ENGL 101 Introduction to College Writing

3

ENGL 102 Intro to College Writing and Research

3

UF 100 Intellectual Foundations

3

UF 200 Civic and Ethical Foundations

3

DLM MATH 254 Applied Statistics with Computers

3

DLN CHEM 111, 111L General Chemistry I with Lab

4

DLN GEOS 100 or GEOS 101

4

DLV Visual and Performing Arts

3

DLL Literature and Humanities

3-4

DLS ED-CIFS 201 Foundations of Education

3

DLS GEOG 100 or GEOG 102

3

CHEM 112, 112L General Chemistry II with Lab

4

EDTECH 202 Teaching and Learning in a Digital Age

3

ED-CIFS 301* Teaching Experience I

1

ED-CIFS 302* Learning and Instruction

4

ED-CIFS 401* Professional Year Teaching Experience II

2

ED-CIFS 404* Teaching Secondary Science

3

ED-LTCY 444* Content Literacy for Secondary Students

3

ED-SPED 350* Teaching Students with Exceptional Needs at the Secondary Level

3

Teaching Experience III/IV*

16

*You must apply for admission to secondary teacher education in order to enroll in these upper-division education courses.

Completion of all requirements for graduation with a secondary education option may require more than 120 credit hours. See Department of Curriculum, Instruction, and Foundational Studies for more information.

GEOG 213 Meteorology

3

GEOG 331 Climatology or

GEOS 305 Earth's Climate: Past, Present, and Future

3

GEOS 200 Evolution of Western North America

4

GEOS 201 Introduction to Oceanography

3

GEOS 212 Water in the West or

GEOPH 201 Seeing the Unseen: an Intro to Geophysics

4

CID GEOS 242 Communication in the Earth Sciences

3

GEOS 300 Earth Materials

4

FF GEOS 498 Geology Senior Seminar

1

PHYS 104 Planets and Astrobiology or

PHYS 105 Stars and Cosmology

4

PHYS 111-112 General Physics

8

To complete the degree program, the teacher candidate must accumulate credits to earn an endorsement to teach in one or more areas. An Earth Science Secondary Education major may seek a single field endorsement in Earth Science (at least 45 credits) or combine an endorsement in Earth Science (minimum 30 credits) with a teaching endorsement in a second area. The following teaching endorsement minors are strongly recommended for students seeking a dual endorsement: Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Mathematics, or Physics.

Single Field Endorsement in Earth Science (to total 45 content credits)

GEOS 313 Geomorphology

4

GEOS 314 Structural Geology

4

GEOS 315 Sedimentation and Stratigraphy

4

Upper-division Geoscience electives to total 45 earth science-content credits

3

Total

126-128

Major Endorsement (30 credits) in Earth Science with an Endorsement in a Second Field

-

A second field endorsement in math or another science is recommended by the Idaho Department of Education. Courses completed (such as chemistry or physics) for the major endorsement may also be counted towards a second field endorsement. See science teaching endorsement minors in biological sciences, chemistry, mathematics, or physics for details.

15-34

Total

126-147