Department of Special Education

Bachelor of Science in Special Education

The major in special education requires a minimum of 128 semester hours of college credit.  An average GPA of 2.75 or higher is required for entering the program, and a GPA of at least 3.0 in the major is required for entering student teaching.  The following listing includes general education requirements (GenEd), major requirements, and Maryland State Certification requirements.

Academic Content
Courses taken before formal admission to the professional education sequence .

I.          ENGLISH  (9 units)
(I.A)     ENGL 102 Writing for a Liberal Education (3)
(II.C.3) Choose an English course from II.C.3 (3)
             ENGL  elective    (3)

II.        SOCIAL STUDIES (9 units)
(II.D)    GEOG 102 World Regional Geography (3) or
             GEOG 105 Geog of International Affairs (3)
(II.B.1)  HIST 145 Hist.of US to Mid-19th Century (3)  or
              HIST 146 Hist.of US since Mid-19th Cent. (3)
(II.B.2)  SOCI 101 Intro to Sociology  (3)

III.        SCIENCE  (8 units)
(II.A.1)  BIOL  115 Biological Science I (4)
(II.A.1)  PHSC 101 Physical Science I  (4)

IV.       MATHEMATICS (12 units)
             MATH 204  Math Concepts & Structures I (4)
(I.C)     MATH 205  Math Concepts & Structures II (4)
             MATH 251 Elements of Geometry  (4)

V.         ART    (Choose One)  (3 units)
(I.E)     Choose one ART course for non-Art majors (3)

VI.       MUSIC    (3 units)
(II.C.1) MUSC 101 Intro to Music Western Heritage (3)

VII.      PSYCHOLOGY  (6 units)
 II.C.2   PSYC 101 Introduction of Psychology (3)
             PSYC 201 Educational Psychology  (3)

VIII.     Additional Required Courses (15 units)
(I.B)      ISTC 201 Using Info Effec. in Educ  (3)
             ISTC 301 Util. of Instructional Media (3)
(II.B.3)  COMM 131 Fundamentals of Speech Comm (3)

        or  DFST 101 Intro to Deaf Culture (3)
(I.D)      EDUC 301 Writing & Comm. Skls. Tchrs. (3) 
              ECED 201: Intervention & the Young Ch (3)

              SPED 301: Introduction to Special Education

Refer to the explanation of the General Education requirements in the university catalog.

FIRST SEMESTER  (15 units)
ECED 321   Found. Rdg & Lang. Arts  (3)
SPED 425    Formal T& M Stds. w/Dis K-12 (3)

ECED 315    Infant Intervention  (3)
SPED 428    Working w/Fam Stds. w/Dis (3)

SPED 441    Curr/Meth Instr. Stds w/Dis (3)

SECOND SEMESTER  (15 units)
ECED 360   Early Literacy Practice & Materials (3)

SPED 430   Informal T & M Stds. w/Dis K-12 (3)

SCIE 371    Tchg Science Early Chd.  (2)

MUED 304  Meths of Tchg. Music ECED (2)

ARED 373   Art for Early Childhood Educ (2)

SPED 413    Assistive Technology  (3)

THIRD SEMESTER  (15 units)
SPED 497    Internship: Std w/Dis Inf/Prim (3)

SPED 429    Curr/Meth Class Mgmt   (3)

ECED 361    Tchg Reading Primary Grades (3)

ECED 429    Principles & Practices of Rdg (3)

MATH 321    Tchg. Math Early Chd.  (3)

TEACHER CANDIDATE (15 units)
SPED 498    Student Teaching: SPED  (12)
SPED 493    Student Teaching Seminar  (3)

Minimum total of 128 hours needed to graduate.  All courses must be completed prior to student teaching.