The Education Department offers a minor in secondary education. Students completing this minor will have met all the requirements to be licensed in the high school setting (grades 9-12). The high school program is approved by the Indiana Department of Education Division of Professional Standards and the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education.

Saint Mary’s students planning to complete the secondary education minor must have a major or complete the approved coursework in one of the following: business, English, modern languages (French, Spanish), mathematics, science (science majors must complete licensing requirements in one of the following areas: chemistry or life science), history (history majors must complete additional coursework in political science and one of the following: sociology, psychology, economics), political science (political science majors must complete additional coursework in history and one of the following: sociology, psychology, economics).

Minor in Secondary Education (33 hours)

  • EDUC 201 Foundations for Teaching in a Multicultural Society
  • EDUC 220 Applied Media and Instructional Technology
  • EDUC 345 Curriculum and Assessment in the Middle/High School Setting
  • EDUC 346 Instructional Strategies and Classroom Management in the High School Setting
  • EDUC 350 Educational Psychology: Human Growth and Development of the Adolescent
  • EDUC 356 Educational Psychology: Educating Exceptional Learners in Middle School and High School Classrooms
  • EDUC 475 Student Teaching in High School
  • One of the following:
    • EDUC 443 Teaching Social Studies in the Middle School and High School
    • EDUC 445 Teaching Modern Languages in the Middle School and High School
    • EDUC 447 Teaching English in the Middle School and High School
    • EDUC 448 Teaching Business in the Middle School and High School
    • EDUC 449 Teaching Science in the Middle School and High School
    • EDUC 451 Teaching Mathematics in the Middle School and High School

Certification in Middle School

  • EDUC 342 Teaching in the Middle School Setting
  • EDUC 487 Practicum in the Middle School

Certification in English as a New Language and Bilingual Bicultural Education may also be added.