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Middle Grades Education (4-8), B.A.

Middle Grades Education Curriculum Outline

Bachelor of Arts (BA) Degree in Middle Grades Education

Mission: The Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree program in Middle Grades Education prepares graduates to be professional, proactive, reflective, and scholarly middle grades practitioners and leaders in middle grades classrooms.

The Bachelor of Arts Degree in Middle Grades requires a minimum of 120 credit hours as follows:

General Education

Total Credit Hours:46

Piedmont University Requirement

PDMT 1101Intro to University Life and Liberal Arts Tradition

1
Total Credit Hours:1

Students who have not completed a minimum of 24 semester credit hours of college-level coursework upon admission to Piedmont University must meet this college requirement.

Professional Education courses

EDUC 1199Introduction to Education

3
EDUC 2000Introduction to Professional Practice

3
EDUC 2250Media and Technology for Educators

3
EDMG 3331Reading Methods, 4-8

3
EDUC 3337Teaching Reading and Writing in the Content Areas

3
EDMG 3345Teaching in the Middle School

3
EDUC 3355Exceptional Children

3
EDUC 4479Internship I

1
EDUC 4489Internship II

3
EDUC 4495Educational Assessment for All Learners

3
EDUC 3307Learning and Cognition

3
EDUC 4401The Multicultural Classroom

3

Two methods courses of the following four, taken before Internship II

EDMG 3332Language Arts Methods, 4-8

3
EDMG 3334Social Studies Methods, 4-8

3
EDMG 3335Science Methods, 4-8

3
EDMG 3336Math Methods, 4-8

3

Professional Semester – All three taken in last semester

EDUC 4497Classroom Management

3
EDUC 4498Senior Seminar: Reflection and Application

3
EDUC 4499Internship III

6
Total Credit Hours:54

Content courses

Content courses for Middle Grades concentrations.

Total Credit Hours:24

Total Credit Hours: 120

 

Area of Content Courses

Middle grades education majors additionally select two areas of concentration (12-13 hours each) from language arts, mathematics, natural sciences and social sciences. Courses taken in the concentration areas may be used to meet general education requirements, but if so, electives must be chosen to fill up the rest of the 120-hour undergrad requirement.

A. Language Arts

ENGL 4450Seminar in Composition Studies

3
ENGL 4455Survey of English Usage for Teachers

3

Plus select two of the courses below:

ENGL 2210United States Literature to 1865

3
ENGL 2211United States Literature from 1865

3
ENGL 2220Ethnic American Literature

3
ENGL 2221Women Writers

3
ENGL 2225Nature Writers

3
ENGL 3307Short Story

3
ENGL 3308Novel

3
ENGL 3309Poetry

3
ENGL 3311Drama

3
ENGL 3312Non-Fiction

3
ENGL 4427American Romanticism

3
ENGL 4428Twentieth-Century American Literature

3
ENGL 4429Multicultural American Literature

3
ENGL 4430Literature of the American South

3

B. Mathematics

MATH 1000Mathematics for the Liberal Arts

3
 
MATH 1113Precalculus

3
OR
MATH 2450Calculus I

4
 
MATH 1700Geometry for Middle Grades Teachers

3
OR
MATH 3700Geometry

3
 
MATH 1300Elementary Statistics

3
Total Credit Hours:19

C. Natural Sciences - only need one lab science total

BIOL 1101General Biology I

3
 
CHEM 1101General Chemistry I

3
OR
PHYS 1011Physical Science I

4
OR
PHYS 1012Physical Science II

4
 
ERSC 2201Physical and Historical Geology of Georgia

4
OR
ERSC 2202Astronomy and Meteorology

4
OR
GEOL 1101Physical Geology

3
OR
GEOL 1102Historical Geology

3

D. Social Sciences

HIST 3301History of the United States to 1836

3
OR
HIST 3302History of the United States, 1836-1912

3
 
HIST 3330History of Georgia

3
EDUC 3333Geography in the P-12 Classroom

3
POSC 1101American Government

3
Total Credit Hours:15