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2010-2011 General Catalog 
    
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Mathematics Education, BA with a Teaching Minor


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Major Requirements


Major and minor requirements in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics vary from time to time. Exact requirements in effect at any given time may be found in the USU online General Catalog. All grades for MATH and STAT courses applied toward a departmental major or minor must be C- or better. Major and minor requirements in effect at the beginning of Fall Semester 2010 are given below.

College of Science Requirements


Every bachelor’s degree candidate in the College of Science must complete the following coursework or its equivalent:

Note:


In some degrees or emphases within degrees, the second semester of calculus may be replaced by STAT 3000 . The substitution will be for specific degree programs, not by student choice.

Mathematics Education Major with a Teaching Minor (73 credits, plus the number of credits required by the teaching minor)


B. Teaching Minor Content Courses (number of credits vary by minor)


Note:


Acceptance to teacher education is required prior to enrolling in SCED 3100 , SCED 3210 , SCED 4200 , or SCED 4210 . This acceptance requires an overall GPA of at least 2.75, successful completion of a speech and hearing test, writing competency test, and passing a criminal background check.

All USU teacher education candidates will be required to take and pass the content exam approved by the Utah State Office of Education in their major content area prior to student teaching.

1 Students with a science teaching minor are required to take two science teaching methods courses (i.e., SCED 3400  and SCED 4400 ), thus raising the total for pedagogy courses to 25 credits.

2 The prefix for this course, numbered 3300, depends on the teaching minor.

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