Secondary Licensure in Chemistry
Secondary Licensure in Chemistry*
Student Learning Outcomes
Graduates in Chemistry that leads to Secondary Education Licensure will:
- Complete and meet the student learning outcomes as listed for the B.A. in Chemistry.
- Understand how students learn and develop science concepts and practices. They incorporate disciplinary core ideas, scientific and engineering practices, and crosscutting concepts into instruction.
- Work with students and others to create and manage environments that support learning.
- Demonstrate and implement safety procedures, material safety practices, and the ethical treatment and use of living organisms (appropriate to their area of licensure).
- Provide evidence that students’ understanding of disciplinary core ideas, science and engineering practices, and crosscutting concepts have increased in sophistication as a result of instruction. Candidates provide evidence representative of the entire population they teach.
- Engage in professional development opportunities to continually improve their knowledge and understanding of science content and pedagogy. They conduct themselves as part of the science education community.
- Demonstrates an understanding of concepts and practices of engineering, technology, and the applications of science that can be used in developing instruction for students.
- Understand the structure of matter on the atomic and macroscopic levels, and the relationship between structure and properties of matter, engaging students in using the periodic table as a model to predict the properties of elements based on the patterns of valence electrons as well as facilitating student investigations to gather evidence to compare trends in the periodic table and knowledge of the patterns of chemical properties.
- Engage students in developing models that illustrate the release or absorption of energy from a chemical reaction system as well as investigating reaction rates and equilibrium states.
Major requirements*
- CHEM111 General Chemistry 1 (4 hours)
- CHEM112 General Chemistry 2 (4 hours)
- CHEM221 Organic Chemistry 1 (5 hours)
- CHEM222 Organic Chemistry 2 (5 hours)
- CHEM324 Analytical Chemistry (4 hours)
- CHEM430 Biochemistry (5 hours)
- CHEM461 Seminar in Chemistry (1 hour)
Cognate requirements
- MATH110 College Algebra (3 hours)
- MATH222 Calculus 1 (5 hours)
- PHYS201 College Physics 1 (4 hours) or 211 General Physics 1 (5 hours)
- NSCI 280 History of Science (3 hours)
Teacher Education Licensure Requirements
- EDUC150 Introduction to Education (2 hours)
- EDUC215 Foundations of Education (3 hours)
- EDUC216 Diversity Field Experience (1 hour)
- EDUC220 Educational Technology (3 hours)
- EDUC238S Teaching Science in the Secondary Schools (3 hours)
- EDUC322 Educational Psychology (4 hours)**
- EDUC323 Introduction to Exceptionalities (4 hours)**
- EDUC343 Home, School, and Community (3 hours)
- EDUC344 Content Area Literacy (3 hours)
- EDUC352 Principles of Effective Secondary Instruction (3 hours)
- EDUC439 Secondary School Methods and Management (4 hours)**
- EDUC440 Student Teaching Seminar (1 hour)**
- EDUC449 Observation and Supervised Teaching in the Secondary School (4-12 hours)**
**Taken after formal admittance to the Teacher Education Program.
Cognate requirements
- PSYC112 General Psychology (3 hours)
- PSYC218 Child Psychology (3 hours)
Other requirements
There are other requirements for entry into the teacher education program and for state teacher licensure. Please consult the Southwestern College catalog for these specific requirements.
