Chemistry (9-12)
Chemistry Education
Middle/Secondary Education: Chemistry (9-12) + General Science (5-8)
Overview of the Chemistry (9-12) degree
A major in Chemistry Education leads to a degree and teaching license. Students will also complete the middle school (5-8) General Science licensure with this major to be qualified to teach 5-8 science and 9-12 chemistry.
To complete a B.A. in Chemistry, additional coursework is required.
Declaring your major: To declare this major, you should start with Middle/Secondary Education (MSED) and then find Chemistry (9-12). You should also add General Science (5-8) as a concentration when you declare your major.
Majors must complete the following
Core Secondary Education Requirements
Block 1
- EDUC 210 Education: Issues and Policies (4 credits)
Block 2
- EDUC 329 Diversity and Cultural Competence (4 credits)
- EDUC 330 Psychology for Teaching and Learning (4 credits)
- EDUC 332 Field Experience II: Learning & Teaching (0 credit)
Block 3
- EDUC 355 Reading for the 5-12 Teacher (4 credits)
- EDUC 318 Curriculum and Instruction: Science (4 credit)
- EDUC 344 Field Experience III: Science (0 credit)
Block 4
- EDUC 431 Use of Technology for Instruction (4 credits) or EDUC 432 Learning Design with Technology in International Contexts (4 credits)
- EDUC 460 Clinical Practice: Student Teaching and Seminar (10 credits)
Plus:
- CHEM 111 General Chemistry I (4 credits) and CHEM 112 General Chemistry II (4 credits) or CHEM 115 Accelerated General Chemistry (4 credits)
Plus:
- CHEM 201 Organic Chemistry I (4 credits)
- CHEM 202 Organic Chemistry II (4 credits)
- CHEM 300 Quantitative Analysis (4 credits)
- CHEM 331 Chemical Thermodynamics and Reaction Dynamics (4 credits)
- CHEM 481 Seminar (1 credit)
- CHEM 482 Seminar (0 credit)
- CHEM 483 Seminar (0 credit)
- CHEM 484 Seminar (1 credit)
- CHEM 491 Individual Research (2 or 4 credits)
- MATH 113 Calculus I (4 credits)
- MATH 114 Calculus II (4 credits)
- PHYS 211 Introduction to Classical Physics I (4 credits)
- PHYS 212 Introduction to Classical Physics II (4 credits)
General Science (5-8) Concentration
Students have the option of adding the General Science (5-8) licensure
- BIOL 101 or BIOL 207 and 208
- PHYS 101
- CHEM 100 or CHEM 111 and CHEM 112
- PHYS 104 Astronomy
- GEOL 111 or GEOL 115