STEM Education Concentration (12 credits)

An opportunity to engage in a design-rich, educational curriculum with K-12 teaching experience at multiple levels. 

Develop a deeper knowledge of K-12 education without completing a teaching licensure program. 

Students with this concentration still need to complete the required 18 credit hours of H&SS electives outside of these courses.

Required Courses (9 credits)
Course NamesCourse codesCreditsNotes
Designing STEM Learning Environments and ExperiencesEDUC 20353 credits 
Teaching DesignGEEN 44003 credits

Typically offered in spring only.

GEEN 4400 requires the pre-requisite course of GEEN 2400 or GEEN 3400

Knowing and Learning in Mathematics and ScienceEDUC 40503 creditsEDUC 4050 is approved for H&SS credit but cannot be counted both towards H&SS credit and the IDE STEM concentration.
Choose One Additional Course (3 credits)
Course NamesCourse codesCredits
Teaching and Learning Earth SystemsEDUC 48333 credits
Teaching and Learning Physics PHYS 44603 credits
Teaching and Learning Chemistry EDUC 48223 credits
Perspectives on Mathematics EDUC 4317 or EDUC 53173 credits
Teaching and Learning Biology EDUC 4811 or MCDB 48113 credits
Teaching K-12 Mathematics: Probability and Statistics  EDUC 4850

3 credits

 

Teaching K-12 Mathematics: Geometry and Measurement EDUC 4835 3 credits