Educational Studies Without Certification

The Educational Studies major leading to a Bachelor's degree is designed for students who do not intend to teach or apply for teacher certification. This program does not prepare the student for teaching and does not include the University's endorsement for teacher certification. If a student decides to complete certification requirements, all admission and program standards must be met prior to student teaching. Declaration of this major must be made in writing to the Dean of the School of Education.

Students choosing an Educational Studies major must satisfy the University's General Education requirements, the correlated core courses, the professional educational core courses, and area specialization courses. In addition, the students must complete the University's CLAST requirement, satisfactory completion of the senior research paper, and have a minimum grade point average of 2.0.

Students selecting this degree will be required to take all courses in a selected area excluding Pre-student Teaching EDP 499, Student Teaching ED 462, and Student Teaching Seminar EDX 462. [top]

University Requirements

·  Total of at least 124 hours

·  Completion of General Education Program (49 hours)

·  Satisfactory completion of CLAST requirement

·  Satisfactory completion of senior research paper (presentation)

·  A minimum cumulative grade point average of 2.0

·  Satisfactory score on Florida Teacher Certification Exam (Professional Education Test 200)                                                                                                                                                                                             [top]

Major Requirements

·  Correlated core according to major

·  Professional education core

·  Area specialization core [top]

Total Semester Hours

General Education: 49 semester hours

Correlated core: 27 semester hours
CS 132, HI 230, 231, or 232, MA 390, PH 224 PS 236, PS 340, ED 369or ed 370 TSL 370, TSL 440 ( K-6 / ESE Area  of Specification)

Professional Education Core: 18 semester hours
ED 231, ED 351, ED 352, EDA 352, EDB 352, ED 403, ESE 200, EDS 499

Area of Specialization core: 30 semester hours

Electives: at least 2 semester hours

These requirements exclude:
EDP 499 Pre student teaching: 1 semester hour
ED 462 Student teaching: 12 semester hours
EDX 462 Student teaching seminar: 0 semester hours [top]