This two-year curriculum is designed to prepare individuals to teach students with moderate and severe disabilities. A minimum of 124 hours of credit, excluding basic military science, is required for graduation. To allow completion of degree requirements within two years, applicants must have earned 60 hours and must have fulfilled all or most of the following general education and preferably some of the professional education requirements prior to enrollment.
Admission is made by formal application during the spring semester of the sophomore year.
For teacher education certification requirements applicable to all curricula, see the Council on Teacher Education section elsewhere in this catalog. All courses must appear on the Council on Teacher Education list of approved courses. To yield this total 1. Applicants may contact the Department of Special Education for further information, if needed, on the prior experience requirement. At least one science course must be a laboratory course.