RockhuRst univeRsity 2012–2014 catalog

*Co-listed as a 4000-level undergraduate course. Teacher candidates may apply up tonine credit hours of the following co-listed courses to the graduate degree: ED 4010/ED6010, ED 4020/ED 6020, ED 4030/ED 6030. For graduate credit, these courses must betaken at the 6000-level, which requires that those teacher candidates taking the course forgraduate credit, complete additional work at an accelerated level appropriate for graduatecredit, and that the additional work required for graduate credit is reflected in the coursesyllabus. Courses taken at the 4000-level do not apply to the M.Ed. degree. For theM.Ed., the student must take the course at the 6000-level or take another graduate coursein that domain of the M.Ed. core.In addition to the 49 graduate credit hours, teacher candidates are also required tocomplete at least 11 additional credit hours of certification coursework to fulfill the 60credit hour state requirements for certification in elementary education. Typically, these11 hours will be acquired through Rockhurst University general education coursework.Please confer with an Education advisor to ensure compliance.Middle School EducationThe Master of Education degree with initial teacher certification in middle school preparesteacher candidates to teach in grades 5 through 9 in a specific certification area.Certification areas include language arts, mathematics, science, and social science.The required courses are:ED 6030 Technology and Education: Applications and Implications* (3)ED 6050 Middle School Methods of Teaching Reading and Writing Acrossthe Disciplines* (3)ED 6150 Field Experiences and Action Research (3)ED 6450 Foundations of Special Education (3)ED 6770 The Middle School: Foundations, Philosophy, and Structure* (3)ED 7825 Graduate Student Teaching in the Middle School (10)ED 7900 Graduate Integrated Student Teaching Seminar: Classroom Planning,Management, and Assessment (3)ED 7910 The Professional Semester Portfolio (1)An adolescent psychology course taken at the graduate level (3)Middle school education students also take the certification area methods course: (3)ED 6160 Teaching Middle and Secondary School Mathematics*ED 6260 Teaching Middle and Secondary School Science*ED 6360 Teaching Middle and Secondary School Social Studies*ED 6460 Teaching Middle and Secondary School English*Total: 35 graduate credit hoursSecondary EducationThe secondary education major prepares teacher candidates to teach in grades 9-12 in aspecific certification area, and K-12 for foreign languages. The certification areas offeredare biology, business, chemistry, English, French (K-12), mathematics, physics, Spanish(K-12), social science, and unified science (biology, chemistry, and physics).The required courses are:ED 6010 Foundations of Education* (3)ED 6020 Fundamentals of Literacy Learning* (3)ED 6030 Technology and Education: Applications and Implications* (3)ED 6150 Field Experiences and Action Research (3)308