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Pre-Elementary Education

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:


Behavioral Science

PSY Psy 201 and Psy 202
6 credits
PSY Upper division coursework 16 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 4 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
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Fine Arts - See Pre-Ed Advisor

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Language Arts I

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 or 147
Oral Interpretation I
Intoduction to the Theatre
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
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Language Arts II

ENG 253, 254, 255
Survey of American Literature: Colonial to Romantic
Survey of American Literature: Romantic to 1914
Survey of American Literature: World War I to Present
9 credits
ENG 201, 202,
OR 203
Shakespeare 3 credits
ENG 210, 211, 212, 213
Literatures of the World: Asia
Literatures of the World: Africa
Literatures of the World: MESO/South America/Caribbean
Literatures of the World: Middle East
6 credits
ENG Upper division coursework 6 credits
ENG 488 Literature and Pedagogy 3 credits
TA 121 OR 147
Oral Interpretation I
Intoduction to the Theatre
3 credits
WR 224 Introduction to Fiction Writing 3 credits
WR 324 Short Story Writing 3 credits
TA Upper division coursework
3 credits
WR 416
Advanced Composition
3 credits
WIC Course:
WR 411
The Teaching of Writing 3 credits
Total Credits: 48
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Social Studies

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 201, 202, 203
Any 2 courses from the pre-education core 8 credits
HST Upper division coursework 16 credits
ANTH 370 OR HST 407 Family, Gender, and Generation
Seminar
3-4 credits
Total Credits: 46-47
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Spanish Language & Latino(a) Studies

 Choose at Least 18 Credits of the Following Courses:
ANTH 251
   
ANTH 313 Peoples of the World: Latin America  
ENG 212    
ES 212, 213, 214, 216
311, 314, 351
Survey of Chicano/A-Latino/A Studies  
GEO 328 Geography of Latin America  
HST 350, 351, 456
Modern Latin America  
PHL 316 Intellectual Issues of Mexico
and Mexican Americans
 
PS 344, 345
Latin American Politics 18 credits
Internship in Mexico may be used for
6 Credits of the above coursework.
   
SPAN 311, 312, 313 OR
314, 315, 316
Third-Year Spanish 9 credits
SPAN 317, 318, 327, 445
Directed Reading in Spanish choose 2
for a total
of 6 credits
SPAN 336, 337, 339 Latin American Culture choose 2
for a total
of 6 credits
SPAN 350 OR 351
Phonetics and Pronunciation
Hispanic Linguistics
3 credits
WIC (SPAN 438 OR 439, OR
ES 354
Selected Topics in Luso-Hispanic Culture 3 credits
Total Credits: 45
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