To graduate with a B.A. degree in Education with a concentration in elementary education, students must complete the general requirements for a bachelor’s degree and a concentration of 12 credits of coursework in a licensure area such as literature, mathematics, science, or social science. The requirement for the major is 66 credits of education coursework as follows:

Courses in Educational Foundations (26 credits):

• ED 400 Theory and Practice of Consciousness-Based Education (description)
• ED 407 Stability and Change in American Education (description)
• ED 420 Neurophysiology of Learning and Development (4 credits)
• ED 430 Technology in the Service of Learning (2 credits)
• ED 435 Educational Assessment and Evaluation (4 credits)
• ED 460 Consciousness-Based Curriculum Design (4 credits)
• ED 470 Mastering Classroom Management (2 credits)
• ED 495 Teaching with Learner Differences in Mind (4 credits)

• ED 333 Literature for Children (2 credits)
• ED 369 Teaching Elementary Mathematics (4 credits)
• ED 371 Methods of Teaching Elementary Reading and Language Arts (4 credits)
• ED 370 Teaching Elementary Science (4 credits)
• ED 372 Elementary Art Methods (2 credits)
• ED 373 Elementary Music Methods (2 credits)
• ED 368 Social Studies and the Elementary Curriculum (4 credits)
• ED 494 Student Teaching in the Elementary School (16 credits)*
• ED 497 The Teacher Work Sample (2 credits)