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Bachelor of Education as a Second Degree
Secondary Teaching Minor
This minor enables secondary PDP, PLP and AHCOTE students to explore a range of curriculum and teaching areas that are applicable to the secondary school program.
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Upper Division Requirements
Students complete 15 units of upper division education course work as listed below, including at least one of:
EDUC 412W - Designs for Learning: Secondary Language Arts (4)
EDUC 414 - Designs for Learning: Secondary Social Studies (4)
Designs for Learning: Secondary Social Studies
EDUC 414
Focuses on teaching secondary school social studies and addresses aspects of the theory and practice of social studies education. Students examine their own thinking about social studies education through critical reflection, work with the prescribed curriculum, and explore various ways to develop engaging learning experiences for young adults within a consistent framework using appropriate instructional materials and methods. Prerequisite: EDUC 401/402 or corequisite EDUC 403.
EDUC 416 - Designs for Learning: Secondary Science (4)
Designs for Learning: Secondary Science
EDUC 416
Focuses on teaching secondary school science. Students explore the sciences and aspects of learning science; examine their own scientific thinking; work with the prescribed curriculum; and plan science learning experiences within a consistent framework using appropriate instructional materials and methods. Prerequisite: EDUC 401/402 or corequisite EDUC 403.
EDUC 430 - Designs for Learning: Dance (4)
EDUC 457 - Drama and Education (4)
EDUC 459 - Instructional Activities in Physical Education (4)
EDUC 473W - Designs for Learning: Reading (4)
EDUC 477 - Designs for Learning: Art (4)
EDUC 478 - Designs for Learning: Music (4)
EDUC 480 - Designs for Learning: French as a Second Language (4)
EDUC 481 - Designs for Learning: French Immersion Programs and Francophone Schools (4)
EDUC 482 - Designs for Learning: Information Technology (4)
And at least one of the following Q option courses:
EDUC 313 - Numeracy and Society (3)
EDUC 375 - Struggle with Mathematics: Sources and Recovery (3)
EDUC 415 - Designs for Learning: Secondary Mathematics (4)
EDUC 454 - Quantitative Approaches to Environmental Education (4)
And at least one of:
EDUC 311 - Foundations in Indigenous Education, Language, and Culture (3)
EDUC 325 - Assessment for Classroom Teaching (3)
EDUC 326 - Creating Positive Learning Communities (3)
Creating Positive Learning Communities
EDUC 326
Prepares student teachers to design positive learning environments in K-12 classrooms. The focus will be on practical approaches to creating a space in which students and teachers can work successfully together toward common goals. Prerequisite: One of EDUC 100, 220, 230, or 240; or EDUC 401/402, or corequisite EDUC 403.
EDUC 341 - Literacy, Education and Culture (3)
Literacy, Education and Culture
EDUC 341
What counts as literacy and whose literacies are valued? What does this mean for the organization of societies, and for teaching and learning? How is literacy implicated in projects of social ordering, colonialism, oppression and empowerment? This course explores these questions through case studies, histories, policies and place-based investigations of literacy education across the life course and inside and outside formal schooling. Prerequisite: 60 units including three units in EDUC courses. Breadth-Humanities.
EDUC 371W - School Health Education (4)
EDUC 422 - Learning Disabilities (4)
EDUC 426 - Teaching Children and Youth with Special Needs (4)
EDUC 428W - Nature and Nurture of Gifted Students (4)
EDUC 435 - Infusing Global Perspectives into Curriculum (4)
EDUC 437 - Ethical Issues in Education (4)
EDUC 441 - Multicultural and Anti-racist Education (4)
EDUC 446 - Law for the Classroom Teacher (4)
Law for the Classroom Teacher
EDUC 446
Provides a fundamental knowledge of law to teach law-related content in the BC curriculum: social studies, science, personal planning, language arts, P.E., social responsibility, and business. Topics: Canadian legal system, legal history, legal reasoning, dispute resolution strategies, the role of the courts, and family, environmental, property and contract laws. Prerequisite: 60 units.
EDUC 448 - Teaching about Justice, Law and Citizenship (4)
EDUC 467 - Curriculum and Instruction in Teaching English as an Additional Language (4)
Curriculum and Instruction in Teaching English as an Additional Language
EDUC 467
Designed for prospective and beginning teachers to learn more about theory, research, and practice in teaching English as an additional language (EAL) in today's multilingual classrooms. Exploring an integrated approach working with learners to develop language skills through designing and delivering curriculum, instruction and assessment. Prerequisite: 60 units plus one of the following: six units of EDUC course work; or completion of EDUC 401/402; or admission to the Certificate in Teaching ESL program, or co-requisite EDUC 403.
EDUC 471 - Curriculum Development: Theory and Practice (4)
Curriculum Development: Theory and Practice
EDUC 471
Explorations of curriculum theory and processes of development with applications at different levels and in several subject areas. Prerequisite: 60 units.
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