Undergraduate Programs

Special Education
Learning Disabilities, Emotionally Impaired/Behaviorally Disordered

The College of Liberal Arts & Education offers two programs leading to endorsements in

Special Education-Learning Disabilities
Emotionally Impaired/ Behaviorally Disordered.

Learning Disabilities is a field of Special Education which deals with children who have average or above average intelligence but who are not able to learn in conventional ways.

The Emotionally Impaired/Behaviorally Disordered is a field of Special Education which deals with children who have average or above average intelligence but who are unable to learn or to function due to emotional and or behavioral problems. Students completing the requirements for either program earn a Bachelor of Science in Education (B.S.Ed.) degree.

Special Education Program

Students majoring in the field are recommended for an elementary provisional certificate or a secondary provisional certificate. The special education major qualifies students to teach the special education category from kindergarten to grade 12.

Additionally, the state elementary provisional certificate is valid for teaching all subjects in grades K-5, and for teaching K-8 self-contained.

The state secondary provisional certificate is valid for teaching in subject areas in grades 7 to and including grade 12 in which the applicant has completed a major or minor.

Requirements

Course requirements for major programs in special education learning disabilities and emotionally impaired/behaviorally disordered are distributed as follows:

University Core Curriculum as Specified

Professional Education Core (36 cr. minimum)

Students planning to become certified to teach in learning disabilities or the emotionally impaired/behaviorally disordered must complete a minimum of 36 semester credit hours of coursework which include educational foundations, teaching methodology including instructional technology, reading instruction, special education, classroom observation and participation, and student teaching.

Teaching Minor (20-24 cr.)

Minors are chosen from those listed under elementary education program.

Learning Disabilities Major (36 cr.)

  • EDU 431 School and Classroom Management 3 cr.
  • PYC 250 Developmental Psychology 3 cr.
  • PYC 440 Cross-Cultural Socialization 3 cr.
  • SED 357 Special Education Field Experience 3 cr.
  • SED 370 Introduction to Special Education: Learning Disabilities 3 cr.
  • SED 371 Curriculum and Instruction: Learning Disabilities 3 cr.
  • SED 412 Special Education in the Secondary Schools 3 cr.
  • SED 453 Assessment in Special Education 3 cr.
  • SED 467 Strategies for Teaching Mathematics and Language Arts to the Learning Disabled 3 cr.
  • SED 486 Educating Diverse and Special Populations in the Inclusionary Setting 3 cr.
  • SED 474 Directed Student Teaching: Special Education Learning Disabilities 6 cr.

Emotionally Impaired/Behaviorally Disordered Major (39 cr.)

  • EDU 431 School and Classroom Management 3 cr.
  • PYC 250 Developmental Psychology 3 cr.
  • PYC 342 Abnormal Psychology 3 cr.
  • PYC 440 Cross-Cultural Socialization 3 cr.
  • SED 381 Special Education Field Experience 3 cr.
  • SED 380 Introduction to Special Education: Emotionally Impaired/Behaviorally Disordered 3 cr.
  • SED 384 Curriculum and Instruction: Emotionally Impaired/Behaviorally Disordered 3 cr.
  • SED 412 Special Education in the Secondary Schools 3 cr.
  • SED 453 Assessment in Special Education 3 cr.
  • SED 482 Educating Severely Emotionally Impaired/Behaviorally Disordered and Autistic Students 3 cr.
  • SED 484 Directed Student Teaching: Special Education Emotionally Impaired 6 cr.
  • SED 486 Educating Diverse and Special Populations in the Inclusionary Setting 3 cr.requirements.