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2012-2013
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DEGREE: BACHELOR OF ARTS
MAJOR: ECONOMICS EDUCATION


CURRICULUM CREDITS
UNIVERSITY REQUIREMENTS

ENGL 110 Critical Reading and Writing 3
(minimum grade C-)

First Year Experience (FYE) 3

University Breadth Requirement 12

Discovery Learning Experience (DLE) 0-4

Multicultural Course
Three credits in an approved course or courses stressing multi-cultural, ethnic, and/or gender-related course content.
3


MAJOR REQUIREMENTS

Second Writing Requirement: (minimum grade C-) 3
A writing course involving significant writing experience including two papers with a combined minimum of 3,000 words to be submitted for extended faculty critique of both composition and content. This course must be taken after completion of 60 credit hours. See approved second writing courses.

Completion of the intermediate-level course (107 or 112) in a given foreign language. Students with four or more years of high school work in a single foreign language may attempt to fulfill the requirement in that language by taking an exemption examination 3-4.

One of the following: (minimum grade C-) 3-4
MATH 114 College Mathematics and Statistics (for students who do not intend to continue the study of mathematics)
MATH 115 Pre-Calculus (for students who intend to coninue the study of mathematics
MATH 221 Calculus I
MATH 241 Analytic Geometry and Calculus A

BREADTH REQUIRMENTS (See Description)
Creative Arts and Humanities 9
Nine credits representing at least two areas. Can select courses that may simultaneously fufill additional non-busines requirements below.

History and Cultural Change 9
Nine credits representing at least two areas. Can select courses that may simultaneously fulfill additional non-business requirements below.

Social and Behavioral Science 3
 Cannot be satisfied by an Economics course.

Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Technology 7
At least one course must have an associated laboratory.

Minimum C- in all required ECON courses.
ECON 151 Introductory Microeconomics: Prices and Markets 3
ECON 152 Introductory Macroeconomics: National Economy 3
ECON 300 Intermediate Microeconomic Theory 3
or
ECON 301 Quantitative Microeconomic Theory 3
ECON 303 Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory 3

Six Economics courses, at least two of which are at or above the 400 level 18
POSC 150 The American Political System 3
GEOG 120 World Regional Geography 3
HIST 104 World History II 3
HIST 206 United States History since 1865 3

Additional credits as follows 15
6 credits in POSC, 6 credits in GEOG, 3 credits in HIST

EDUC 413 Adolescent Development and Educational Psychology 4
EDUC 414 Teaching Exceptional Adolescents 3
EDUC 419 Diversity in Secondary Education 3
HIST 491 Planning a Course of Instruction 3
HIST 493 Seminar: Problems in Teaching History and Social Sciences 3
EDUC 420 Reading in the Content Areas 1
EDUC 400 Student Teaching 9

Grade of C- or better required in all required major, major related, and professional studies courses.
To be eligible to student teach, Economics Education students must have a GPA of 3.0 in their major and an overall GPA of 2.75. They must also pass a teacher competency test as established by the University Council on Teacher Education. Students must consult with the teacher education program coordinator to obtain the student teaching application and other information concerning student teaching policies.

After required courses are completed, sufficient credits must be taken to meet the minimum credits required for the degree. No more than three credits can be from HESC/BHAN 120.
CREDITS TO TOTAL A MINIMUM OF 120



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