Middle Grades Education B.S.

Degree Requirements

Areas A through E (See Core section of the Catalog) (42 semester hours)

Area F (18 semester hours)

Professional Pedagogy (12 hours)

EDUC 2110	Invest Crit Cont Issues in Ed	3
EDUC 2120	Exploring Socio-Cultural Persp	3
EDUC 2130	Exploring Learning & Teaching	3
ENGL 2200	Writing About Literature	3

Content Area Courses (6 hours)

Electives

Content Courses

6

Elective Content Courses: Choose six hours in lower division courses to support one content concentration area: mathematics, science, or social sciences.

Academic Major (36 semester hours)

EDMG 3212	FB Dev Lrn: Theory Practice	3
EDIT 3221	Intro Instr Teaching Teachers	1
EDIT 3222	Interm Inst Teaching Teachers	1
EDIT 3223	Adv Instruct Teaching Teachers	1
EDMG 3248	FB Eth, Professionalism,Sc Law	3
EDMG 4243	FB Capstone Experience	3
EDMG 3001	Field Placement and Seminar 1	2
EDMG 3002	Field Placement and Seminar 2	2
EDMG 4001	Field Placement and Seminar 3	2
EDMG 4150	Soc of Mid Schools/Democ Class	3
EDMG 4218	Dev & Assess Logical Thought	3
EDMG 4245	FB Middle Grades Curriculum	3
EDMG 4960	Internship	1 - 15
EDEX 3220	Legal Iss SPED	3

Concentrations in Content Fields (Liberal Arts) (30 semester hours)

All students are required to have an English/Language Arts Concentration. All students also will choose a second concentration from science, social sciences or mathematics.

All students must complete MAED 3100, GEOG 4500, and PHSC 4010.

English/Language Arts Concentration (Required)

ENGL 4448	Adolescent Literature	3
ENGL 4112	Theories of Comp. and Lit.	3
ENGL 4116	Structure of Present-Day Eng	3
EDRD 3150	Lit, Read, & Writ Content Flds	3
EDRD 3214	Reading Instructional Strateg	3

ENGL 4448, ENGL 4112, ENGL 4116, EDRD 3150, EDRD 3214: Fulfills requirement for concentration in reading

Social Studies Concentration

HIST 4415	Georgia: Colony and State	3
GEOG 4500	Comparative Regional Geography	3
EDMG 4950	Special Topics in Mid Grd Curr	1 - 12

GEOG 4500: Fulfills requirement for concentration in reading

Mathematics Concentration

MAED 3100

Mathematical Investigating

3

MAED 3100: Fulfills requirement for concentration in reading

Complete two of the following courses:

MAED 4080	Concepts in Algebra	3
MAED 4510	Concepts in Geometry	3
MAED 4680	Concepts in Discrete Math	3

NOTE: will select 2 of the 4000 courses.

Science Concentration

PHSC 4010	Integrated Physical Science	3
BIOL 4010	Integrated Life Science	3

PHSC 4010: Required courses for all students

AND Select one of the following courses as offered

BIOL 4300	Human Biology Sex & Drugs	3
BIOL 4950	Special Topics	1 - 4

Total Credit Hours: 126

Major Requirements

• A freshman 1-hour orientation course is required by GC.