Physical Education Major - Teaching

Required Core - 42 semester hours

• HLTH 251 - First Aid & CPR
• HLTH 420 - K-12 Methods of Health Instruction

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• HLTH 321 - K-8 Methods of Teaching Health

• and 1 of the following Coaching Methods

• PE 470 - Coaching Basketball
• PE 471 - Coaching Football
• PE 473 - Coaching Track & Field/Cross Country
• PE 474 - Coaching Wrestling
• PE 475 - Coaching Volleyball

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• HLTH 422 - Nutrition
• PE 121 - Intermediate Swimming (level 4)
• PE 180 - Foundations of HPER
• PE 181 - Fundamentals of Elementary PE
• PE 181L - Fundamentals of Elementary PE Lab
• PE 201 - Professional Preparation: Gymnastics
• PE 204 - Professional Preparation: Rhythm & Dance
• PE 250 - Human Anatomy & Physiology
• PE 250L - Human Anatomy & Physiology Lab
• PE 263 - Physical Education Outdoors
• PE 341 - Curriculum Development & Evaluation
• PE 352 - Adapted Physical Education
• PE 353 - Kinesiology
• PE 354 - Prevention & Care of Athletic Injuries
• PE 363 - Skills Concepts
• PE 363L - Skills Concepts Lab
• PE 481 - PE Methods & Evaluation

Pre-Professional Teaching Core - 21 semester hours

• EDFN 295 - Practicum: Pre-Admission
• EDFN 338 - Foundations of American Education
• EDFN 475 - Human Relations
• EPSY 302 - Educational Psychology
• EPSY 428 - Child & Adolescent Development
• INED 411 - South Dakota Indian Studies
• PSYC 101 - General Psychology
• SPED 405 - Educating Secondary Students with Disabilities

Professional K-12 Teaching Core - 21 semester hours

• ED 444 - K-12 Student Teaching
• EDFN 365 - Computer-Based Technology & Learning
• MLED 480 - Middle Level Methods
• SEED 450 - 7-12 Reading and Content Literacy
• SEED 495 - Practicum

Gen Ed Requirements - 36 semester hours

• MATH - Gen Ed - Mathematics - 3 semester hours
• Gen Ed - Social Science - 6 semester hours
  (See footnote * below)
• Gen Ed - Arts & Humanities - 12 semester hours
  (See footnote * below)
• Gen Ed - Natural Science & Lab - 4 semester hours

• ENGL 101 - Composition I
• ENGL 201 - Composition II

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• SPCM 101 - Fundamentals of Speech

• or

• SPCM 215 - Public Speaking

• or

• SPCM 222 - Argumentation and Debate

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• WEL 100 - Wellness for Life
• WEL 100L - Wellness Lab

Notes

* Global Requirement: depending on your selection, this requirement will satisfy 3 hours of either Social Science or Arts & Humanities requirements. Take 1 course from AIS/HIST 257, ANTH 210, ARTH 211/212/251, ENGL 211/212, GEOG 210, HIST 121/122/153, HUM 100, MCOM 151, POLS 141/250

A minor is NOT required with this major but electives are required to total 128 hours. Students are encouraged to pursue a minor, but in order to teach in that subject area, a content praxis exam must be passed in both the major & minor areas of study.