Professional Studies Department
FACULTY: Kenneth M. Adams, Janet Baker, James Bolton, Gary Connell,
Salene Cowher, Susan Curtin, Tammy Mitten, Susan Norton, Susan Packard,
Andrew Pushchak, Shon Smith, Dawn Snodgrass, Michael Vetere
The Department of Professional Studies provides programs leading to a master of
arts degree in elementary and secondary school counseling, student personnel
services in higher education practice or counseling, rehabilitation counseling, and
community counseling. The School Counseling and Student Personnel Services
(College Counseling or Professional Practice) programs are accredited by the
Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs
(CACREP) and the Rehabilitation Counseling Program is accredited by the
Council on Rehabilitation Education (CORE). The department also offers gradu-
ate programs leading to a masters of education degree in school administration
and non-degree certificate programs in elementary school administration, second-
ary school administration and school supervision as well as graduate level educa-
tion foundation courses.
COUN111
Career Decision Making
COUN211
Peer Counseling
COUN212
Leadership and Helping Skills for College Residence
Assistants
COUN213
Educational Psychology
Secondary Education Department
FACULTY: Kathleen Benson, Dennis E. Buckwalter, Charles W. Cross, Charles
Gallagher, Jo Ann Holtz, Thomas John Roden, Kathleen Ann Stevens
The Department of Secondary Education provides prospective teacher candidates
with the essential professional education courses as well as carefully planned
experiences in the public schools to enable them to successfully enter the world
of professional educators in our public schools.
In addition it helps prospective teachers to become informed concerning the gen-
eral background discipline, including such studies as historical, philosophical,
psychological, methodological and social foundations of education. These studies
affect the teachers' success in meeting the educational needs of their students and
in assisting them in solving the problems of leading a worthwhile life in our con-
temporary society.
Successful applicants for Pennsylvania teaching certification must achieve pass-
ing scores on the:
1. Pre-professional skills reading
2. Pre-professional skills writing
3. Pre-professional skills mathematics
4. Specialty area exam appropriate to the applicants' field of certification.
PROGRAMS IN SECONDARY EDUCATION
The curriculum for the preparation of teachers for secondary school certification
has three components: a representative core of general education courses, a con-
centration of studies in an academic discipline, and designated courses in profes-
sional education.
All students enrolled in the secondary education curriculum complete a profes-
sional concentration focusing on the knowledge and skills associated with teach-
ing in the secondary school.
This concentration emphasizes:
1. Foundational understanding about American education.
2. The cognitive, affective, sensory and psychomotor behaviors consistent with
the growth and development of secondary school youth.
3. Understanding, selecting, and organizing the methods and skills in each of the
academic disciplines that are most appropriate in enabling students to attain
desired behaviors.
4. Measurement and evaluation as a process for analysis and decision making in
the classroom.
5. Those clinical experiences and applications associated with pre-professional
field experiences and student teaching.
Each Secondary Education curriculum includes in its four-year program an area
of specialization in which students can be certified to teach. These are as follows:
Secondary English
Foreign Languages
German
Spanish
Secondary Mathematics
Sciences
Secondary Biology
Secondary Chemistry
Secondary Earth/Space Science
Secondary General Science
Secondary Physics
Secondary Social Studies
A student in Secondary Education must earn at least a grade of C in each course
presented toward fulfillment of the minimum number of hours required for grad-
uation and certification in the student's major academic field and student teach-
ing, including required supporting courses.
Courses in specialization areas may be used, where appropriate, and as defined
below, to meet General Education requirements thus permitting students to com-
plete degrees within or close to the minimum 120 hours required for graduation.
This requires careful planning.
All secondary education majors must complete a three semester hour literature
course in addition to ENGL101 and ENGL102, and a math course at the 100 level
or above in addition to MATH110 to comply with PDE certification requirements.
Bachelor of Science in Education Degree
Area of Certification Secondary English
I. General Education Requirements
48 sem. hrs.
A. Skills
12 sem. hrs.
ENGL101
College Writing Skills (3)
ENGL102
Specialized College Writing and Research Skills (3)
MATH110
Mathematical Reasoning I (3)
SEDU383
Educational Technology and Computer Literacy (3)
B. Core
21 sem. hrs.
Artistic Expression THEA218 (3)
World Civilizations (3)
American Civilizations (3)
Human Behavior PSYC101 (3)
Cultural Diversity and Social Pluralism ENGL205 (3)
Ethics (3)
Natural Science (3)
C. Distribution
12 sem. hrs.
Humanities and Fine Arts (6)
ENGL201
ENGL202
Social and Behavioral Sciences (3)
Natural Sciences and Mathematics (3) (MATH210)
D. Health and Physical Education
3 sem. hrs.
Health (2)
Activity (1)
II. Professional Education
34 sem. hrs.
SEDU271
Education in a Multicultural Society (3)
SPED330
Exceptional Learners in P-12 Inclusive Classrooms (3)
SEDU306
Content Literacy in the Middle and Secondary Schools (2)
SEDU565
Instructional Techniques for English (3)
SEDU575
Secondary Field Experience (3)
SEDU381
Measurement/Evaluation/Middle-Secondary Classroom (2)
SEDU383
Educational Technology and Computer Literacy (3)*
SEDU491
Pro. Perform Mid/Sec (3)
SEDU495 Student
Teaching
(12)
III. Specialization in English
45 sem. hrs.
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