Middle Childhood Education Major and Minor Requirements

Requirements for the Major in Middle Childhood Education

The requirements listed below reflect Mount Union’s new curriculum for the 2012-2013 Academic Year.  For information regarding major or minor requirements for current students, please refer to the University Catalogue of your entering year.

Required Courses

• Introduction to the Teaching Profession-Middle Childhood
• Foundations of Middle Childhood Education
• Content Area Literacy in the Middle School*
• Middle Childhood Pre-clinical Practice: Professional Practices, Research and Reflective Teaching
• Middle Childhood Assessment and Literacy Practices*
• Multicultural Education
• Phonics, Process and the Structures of Language Acquisition*

Choose two of the following:

• Teaching Social Studies in the Middle School
• Teaching Mathematics in the Middle School
• Teaching Reading and Writing in the Middle School
• Teaching Science in the Middle School

*12 hour reading requirement through Ohio Department of Education

Additional coursework is necessary for licensure.

Requirements for the Minor in Middle Childhood Education

Required Courses

• Introduction to the Teaching Profession-Middle Childhood
• Foundations of Middle Childhood Education
• Content Area Literacy in the Middle School
• Phonics, Process and the Structures of Language Acquisition

Choose two of the following:

• Teaching Social Studies in the Middle School
• Teaching Mathematics in the Middle School
• Teaching Reading and Writing in the Middle School
• Teaching Science in the Middle School