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Degree Requirements

Special Education: Elementary Certification (BA)

148 Credits Minimum, Including 76 Upper Division (UD)

Elementary Education and the Arts

ART 3546 Art Education (3)
TRE 3800 Theatre Education (3)
MUS 3501 Mus in the Non-Mus Classroom (3)

WKA, UD
WKA, UD
WKA, UD

6

Section Credits Required

6

Integrated Quarter (must be taken concurrently)

EDMA 4100 Math Methods:Tchng K-8 Math

UD, W

3

EDSP 4943 Elmntry Spcl Ed Intrnship A

UD

12

EDU 4205 Supprtng Multilingual Learners

UD

3

Section Credits Required

18

Methods and Skills

MAT 1560 Numerical Reasoning (4)
MAT 2561 Statistical & Algebraic Reasng (4)
MAT 3562 Geometric Reasoning (4)

-
WKQR
UD

12

EDTC 4238 Orientation: Teacher Ed & Tech

UD

1

ENG 3301 Advanced Expository Writing

WRIT, UD, W

5

- OR -

WRI 1000 Academic Inquiry and Writing (5)
WRI 1100 Disciplinary Research&Wrtg Sem (5)

WRIA
WRID

10

Section Credits Required

18

Methods Quarter (must be taken concurrently)

EDRD 4300 Reading & LA Methods: MTSS

UD

3

EDU 3105 Laboratory Experience:Elemntry

UD

2

EDU 3205 Elementary General Methods I

UD, W

3

Section Credits Required

8

Special Education Core

EDSP 3107 Exceptionality in the Classrm

UD

3

EDRD 2000 Reading I:Psychology of Readng

-

3

EDSP 4642 Individual Education Programs

UD, W

3

EDSP 4646 Severe Disabilities

UD

3

EDSP 4648 Tching Studnts w Emot&Behv Dis

UD

3

EDSP 4651 Special Education Assessment

UD

3

EDSP 4652 Disabilities of Learn&Attentio

UD, W

3

EDSP 4653 Teach Rdng to Exceptnl Student

UD, W

3

EDSP 4657 Behavior Management

UD

3

EDSP 4899 Issues in Special Ed -Capstone

UD, W

3

PSY 1180 Gen Psych:Individual in Growth

WKSS

5

PSY 2470 Lifespan Developmental Psych

-

5

Section Credits Required

40

Foundations

EDU 2100 Foundatnl Issues in Education (5)
EDU 2300 Diversity, Equity & Inclusn Ed (3)

WE
CUE

8

Section Credits Required

8

Content Courses for Elementary Education Endorsement

HHP 3510 Teaching Physical Education

UD

5

ENG 3334 US Multi-Ethnic Literature

CUE, UD, WKH

5

BIO 2571 Introduction to Biology

WKFS

5

PHY 2571 Concpts Physcl Sci for Ed I

WKAS

3

PHY 2572 Concpts Physcl Sci for Ed II

WKAS

4

HIS 2502 The United States to 1876

WKSS

5

HIS 3600 History of Pacific Northwest

WE, UD

5

Section Credits Required

32

Internship Quarter (must be taken concurrently)

EDU 4899 Teacher as Person-Capstone

UD, W

2

EDSP 4944 Elementary Spec Ed Internshp B

UD

16

Section Credits Required

18

Minimum Total Credits Required

148

Additional Requirements and Information

OSPI & PESB reqs (tests, fingerprinting, etc.). See SOE.

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