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Human Development and Family Science BSFCS/Special Education MAT(Birth through Kindergarten)(non-thesis)

Sample Program of Study

  • Year 1 - Fall

    ENGL 1101, 3
    MATH 1101, 3
    COMM 1110 or COMM 1500, 3
    Physical or Life Sciences, 3
    POLS 1101, 3
    FACS 2000, 1

  • Year 1 - Spring

    ENGL 1102, 3
    World Languages and Global Cultures, 3
    HIST 2111 or HIST 2112, 3
    HDFS 2100, 3
    FHCE 2100, 3
    FYOS 1001, 1

  • Year 1 - Summer

    N/A

  • Year 2 - Fall

    HDFS 2950-2950L, 3
    World Languages and Global Cultures, 3
    Physical or Life Sciences w/ lab, 4
    HDFS 2200, 3
    HDFS 2300, 3

  • Year 2 - Spring

    Social Sciences, 3
    World Languages and Global Cultures, 3
    MATH 1060 or STAT 2000, 3-4
    NUTR 2100, 3
    SPED 2000, 3

  • Year 2 - Summer

    N/A

  • Year 3 - Fall

    HDFS 3920, 3
    HDFS Major Elective, 3
    HDFS 3710, 3
    LLED 4010, 3
    SPED 3050, 3

  • Year 3 - Spring

    HDFS 4330, 3
    HDFS 4860, 3
    HDFS 3900 (Major Elective), 3
    HDFS Major Elective, 3
    PEDB, 1

  • Year 3 - Summer

    SPED 7170*, 3

  • Year 4 - Fall

    HDFS 3700, 3
    HDFS 3110, 3
    SPED 4440 (Practicum A), 3
    SPED 7100*, 3

  • Year 4 - Spring

    HDFS 5910, 6-9
    SPED 4440 (Practicum B), 3
    SPED 7160*, 3
    SPED 7200*, 3

  • Year 4 - Summer

    ERSH 6200E, 3
    Graduate Elective I, 3

  • Year 5 - Fall

    SPED 7230 or SPED 7050E, 3
    SPED 7180, 3
    Graduate Elective II, 3
    Research Course or Elective, 3
    SPED 7440, 3

  • Year 5 - Spring

    SPED 7650, 3
    SPED 7460, 9

Notes:

*Courses with an asterisk are graduate courses used to satisfy graduate and undergraduate degree program requirements.

Birth Through Kindergarten students must complete 3 practica (SPED 7440) and a final full-time classroom internship (SPED 7460) to be eligible for teacher certification. Students must gain experience across all of the following age bands: (a) infant-toddler, (b) preschool-age, and (c) kindergarten. Students' internships must take place in a Pre-K or Kindergarten placement in order to meet requirements of the edTPA certification exam. However, students have opportunities to be placed in private childcare centers and lab schools (CDL at McPhaul), Head Start, Early Head Start, ECSE classrooms, collaborative classrooms, and Babies Can't Wait (Part C) home-based placements as part of their earlier field placements. Graduate-level electives and research requirement could be HDFS courses.