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Earth Science Curriculum

BS, Teaching Science, Grades 7-12

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128 Total Credits Required

Liberal Arts Requirements, 28 Credits. Program Requirements, 100 credits.

College Core Curriculum (CORE)

28 Credits

Foreign Language - 4 Credits
Expository Writing - 8 Credits
EXPOS-UA 1
Writing the Essay
4 Credits
ACE-UE 110
The Advanced College Essay: Education and the Professions
4 Credits
Foundations of Contemporary Culture - 12 Credits
CORE-UA 04xx/ST-CORE-UE
Texts and Ideas
4 Credits
CORE-UA 05xx/ST-CORE-UE
Cultures and Contexts
4 Credits
CORE-UA 06xx/ST-CORE-UE
Societies and Social Sciences
4 Credits
Quantitative Reasoning - 4 Credits
MATH-UA 121
Calculus I
4 Credits

Additional Requirements

SAHS-UE 1
New Student Seminar
0 Credits
SAHS-UE WPE
Writing Proficiency Examination
0 Credits

Content Core

50 Credits

CHEM-UA 125
General Chemistry I and Laboratory
5 Credits
CHEM-UA 126
General Chemistry II and Laboratory
5 Credits
BIOL-UA 11
Principles of Biology I
4 Credits
BIOL-UA 12
Principles of Biology II
4 Credits
ENVST-UA 100
Environmental Systems Science
4 Credits
ENVST-UA 340
Earth System Science
4 Credits
PHYS-UA 7
The Universe: Its Nature and History
4 Credits
BIOL-UA 63
Fundamentals of Ecology
4 Credits
Choose ENVST-UA 3xx or PHYS-UA courses for a total of 16 Credits by Advisment

Pedagogical Core

33 Credits

Common Pedagogical Core - 21 Credits
TCHL-UE 1
Inquiries into Teaching and Learning I
4 Credits
TCHL-UE 5
Field Observations in Schools and Other Educational Settings
0 Credits
TCHL-UE 1030
Language Acquisition and Literacy Education in a Multilingual and Multicultural Context
4 Credits
TCHL-UE 1999
Drug and Alcohol Education/Child Abuse Identification and School Violence Prevention/D.A.S.A.: The Social Responsibilities of Teachers
1 Credit
APSY-UE 20
Human Development I
2 Credits
APSY-UE 23
Human Development II: Application for Educators of Early Adolescents
2 Credits
SPCED-UE 1005
Teaching Students with Disabilities in General Education Classrooms
4 Credits
TCHL-UE 41
American Dilemmas: Race, Inequality, and the Unfulfilled Promise of Public Education
4 Credits
Or
SOED-UE 1015
Education as a Social Institution
4 Credits
Or
HSED-UE 610
Education and the American Dream: Historical Perspectives
4 Credits
Specialized Pedagogical Core - 12 Credits
SCIED-UE 1039
Methods I: Teaching of Science in Middle School and High School
3 Credits
SCIED-UE 1040
Teaching Science in the Middle and High Schools II: Methods and Curriculum
3 Credits
SCIED-UE 1911
Supervised Student Teaching of Science in the Middle School
3 Credits
SCIED-UE 1922
Supervised Student Teaching of Science in High School
3 Credits

Unrestricted Electives

17 Credits

Electives by Advisement

The following courses satisfy Liberal Arts and Content Core requirements: BIOL-UA 11/12/63, ENVST-UA 100

 

Teaching and Learning majors matriculating at NYU in Fall 2014 or later are expected to maintain a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.0 in order to make satisfactory academic progress.

While we review all applications individually and holistically, our expectation is that all undergraduate students accepted for transfer into any of the teacher education programs at NYU Steinhardt will have at least a cumulative B average in their coursework.