Middle School Education, BSE-Mathematics, or Social Studies
Middle school education (grades 4 - 8) is designed for students who want to teach in a specific content area (mathematics, or social studies) in upper elementary and middle school settings.
Total Semester Hours Required for Degree: 120
TCU Core Curriculum: 39 hours
Prior to Entry into College of Education: 9 hours
Critical Investigation: Teaching and Learning | 3 | |
Schools, Curriculum, and Society | 3 | |
Developmental Psychology of Adolescence | 3 | |
OR | ||
Child and Adolescent Development | 3 |
Junior Year: 14 hours
Digital Literacy, Learning, and Citizenship in Education | 3 | |
Educational Psychology | 3 | |
Study of Exceptional Students | 3 | |
Field Experience in Education | 1 | |
Field Experience in Education | 1 | |
Promoting Literacy Across the Content Areas | 3 |
Senior Year/Semester 1: 8 hours
Professional Practice Seminar | 1 | |
Motivating and Managing Students in the Classroom | 3 | |
OR | ||
Motivating and Managing Students in the Classroom | 3 | |
Assessment | 3 | |
OR | ||
Educational Assessment | 3 |
Senior Year/Semester 2: 6 hours
Student Teaching in the Middle School | 6 | |
OR | ||
Advanced Clinical Teaching | 1-6 |
Content Area Course Requirements
Mathematics (33-35 hours) Track 1
Methods for Teaching Middle School Mathematics I | 3 | |
Methods for Teaching Middle School Mathematics II | 3 | |
Mathematics for Teachers of Early Childhood through Eighth Grade | 3 | |
Elementary Statistics | 3 | |
Discrete Mathematics I | 3 | |
Topics in Mathematics | 3 | |
Precalculus with Trigonometry | 3 | |
OR | ||
Applied Precalculus | 3 | |
Applied Calculus | 3 | |
PHYS | Any PHYS course | 3 |
ECON | Any ECON course | 3 |
Introduction to Programming | 3 | |
OR | ||
Introduction to Python for Data Analysis | 3 |
Mathematics (38-40 hours) Track 2
Precalculus with Trigonometry* *if required | 3 | |
Methods for Teaching Middle School Mathematics I | 3 | |
Methods for Teaching Middle School Mathematics II | 3 | |
Mathematics for Teachers of Early Childhood through Eighth Grade | 3 | |
Calculus I | 4 | |
Calculus II | 4 | |
Elementary Statistics | 3 | |
Students must take two of the following: | ||
Topics in Mathematics | 3 | |
OR | ||
Probability | 3 | |
OR | ||
Discrete Mathematics II | 3 | |
OR | ||
Linear Algebra | 3 | |
OR | ||
Upper-division MATH course | 3-4 | |
Discrete Mathematics I | 3 | |
History of Mathematics | 3 |
Social Studies (36 Hours)
Origins of Western Civilization: Europe to 1348 | 3 | |
The World Expanded: Europe 1348-1789 | 3 | |
Modernization and its Discontents: Europe 1789 to the Present | 3 | |
United States History: Survey to 1877 | 3 | |
United States History: Survey from 1877 | 3 | |
History of Texas | 3 | |
American and Texas Government | 3 | |
Introductory Macroeconomics | 3 | |
World Regional Geography | 3 | |
Introductory Sociology | 3 | |
Methods for Teaching Middle School Social Studies | 3 | |
Diversity in American Education | 3 |