Oregon State University boasts a diverse pre-education program, which has been carefully designed to prepare students for admission into a post-graduate teacher licensing program. Although teacher licensing programs accept students from a variety of majors, including Art, English, Ethnic Studies, History, Psychology, Sociology, Spanish, or Speech Communication, elementary classroom teachers need to be generalists with a broad knowledge of subject matter. Therefore, for those students interested in pursuing a career in elementary education, an interdisciplinary degree in Liberal Studies is strongly recommended.
Students in the Liberal Studies Pre-Education Major have their choice of six different areas in which to focus their studies:
| PSY | Psy 201 and Psy 202 |
6 credits |
| PSY | Upper division coursework | 15 credits |
| SOC 204 | Introduction to Sociology | 3 credits |
| SOC 205 OR SOC 206 | Institutions and Social Change Social Problems and Issues |
3 credits |
| SOC 312 | Sociology of the Family | 3 credits |
| SOC | Upper division coursework | 12 credits |
| Choose at Least One of the Following WIC Courses: | ||
| PSY 440 | Cognition Research | 4 credits |
| PSY 460 | Advanced Social Research Methods | 4 credits |
| PSY 470 | Psychometrics and Psychological Testing | 4 credits |
| PSY 480 | Case Study Methods | 4 credits |
| ANTH 370 | Family, Gender, and Generation | 3 credits |
| LS 428 |
Intersections | 3 credits |
| Total Credits: 45 | ||
| ART 115 | Design I | 4 credits |
| ART 117 | Design II | 4 credits |
| ART 131 | Drawing | 4 credits |
| ART 253 | Ceramic Sculpture I | 4 credits |
| ART 281 | Painting I | 4 credits |
| ART 301 | WIC Requirement | 3 credits |
| ART | Upper division coursework | 21 credits |
| MUED 471 | Fundamentals of Music for Elementary Classroom Teachers | 3 credits |
| TA 121 | Oral Interpretation | 3 credits |
| Total Credits: 48 | ||
| ENG | Any 3 courses from the pre-education core | 9 credits |
| ENG | Upper division coursework | 9 credits |
| ANTH 350 | Language, Culture, and Society | 3 credits |
| WR 224 | Introduction to Fiction Writing | 3 credits |
| WR 324 | Short Story Writing | 3 credits |
| COMM | Upper division coursework | 6 credits |
| TA 121 | Oral Interpretation | 3 credits |
| TA 248 | Fundamentals of Acting | 3 credits |
| TA 321 OR 360 | Advanced Oral Interpretation
Multicultural American Theatre |
3 credits each |
| Choose at Least One of the Following WIC Courses: | ||
| ENG 407 | Seminar | 1-16 credits |
| ENG 445 | Studies in Non-Fiction | 3 credits |
| ENG 452 | Studies in Film | 3 credits |
| ENG 470 | Studies in Poetry | 3 credits |
| WR 411 | The Teaching of Writing |
3 credits |
| WR 493 | The Rhetorical Tradition and the Teaching of Writing | 3 credits |
| WR 495 | Introduction to Literacy Studies | 3 credits |
| Total Credits: 45 | ||
| ANTH 380 | Cultures in Conflict | 3 credits |
| ECON 201 OR 202 | Introduction to Microeconomics Introduction to Macroeconomics |
4 credits each |
| ECON 319, 340, OR 383 |
Economic History and Development of the U.S. International Economics The Economics of Discrimination |
4 credits each |
| PS 201 | Introduction to U.S. Government and Politics | 4 credits |
| PS 331 | State and Local Government and Politics | 4 credits |
| HST | Any 3 courses from the pre-education core | 9 credits |
| HST | Upper division coursework | 15 credits |
| ANTH 370 OR HST 407 | Family, Gender, and Generation Seminar |
3 credits each |
| Total Credits: 47 | ||
| ANTH 313 | Peoples of the World: Latin America | 3 credits |
| ES 212, 213, 216 | Survey of Chicano/A-Latino/A Studies | choose 2 for a total of 6 credits |
| GEO 328 | Geography of Latin America | 3 credits |
| HST 350, 351 | Modern Latin America | 3 credits each |
| PHL 316 | Intellectual Issues of Mexico and Mexican Americans |
4 credits |
| PS 344 | Latin American Politics | 4 credits |
| SPAN 311, 312, 313 | Third-Year Spanish | 9 credits |
| SPAN 317, 318, 319 | Directed Reading in Spanish | choose 2 for a total of 6 credits |
| SPAN 336, 337, 338 | Latin American Culture | 9 credits |
| SPAN 350 AND 351 OR teaching experience in Mexico |
Phonetics and Pronunciation Hispanic Linguistics |
6-8 credits |
| SPAN 438 | Selected Topics in Luso-Hispanic Culture | 3 credits |
| Total Credits: 48-50 | ||