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Elementary Endorsements

Students seeking the elementary education endorsement may select a major in any of our disciplines in the Arts and Sciences. For example, majors in art, history, literature, mathematics, music, psychology, and science are all appropriate for pursuing this endorsement. Students do not major in elementary education at Ramapo College. This means that the curriculum for teacher certification is a very ambitious academic program. Students are completing the equivalent of a double major in terms of course requirements.

Subject Course # Title
ELEMENTARY EDUCATON

FOUNDATIONAL COURSES
Block One:
EDUC 221 SOCIAL CONTEXT OF EDUCATION
EDUC 222 TEACHING:PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES
Field Placement is mandatory
PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION COURSES
Block Two:
EDUC 344 METHODS OF TEACHING ELEMENTARY
EDUCATION/LANGUAGE ARTS/SOCIAL SCIENCES AND ART
Field Placement is mandatory
EDUC 345 METHODS OF TEACHING ELEMENTARY
EDUCATION/MATHEMATICS/SCIENCE
Field Placement is mandatory
EDUC 346 READING-THEORY AND PRACTICE
Field Placement is mandatory
EDUC 341 TECHNOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOM or
EDUC 340 SYSTEMS THINKING
Block Three:
EDUC 491 STUDENT TEACHING
GENERAL EDUCATION
ENGL 180 COLLEGE ENGLISH
Math (One course)
MATH 101 MATH WITH APPLICATIONS
MATH 104 MATH FOR THE MODERN WORLD
MATH 106 INTRODUCTION OT MATH MODELING
MATH 108 ELEMENTARY PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS
MATH 110 PRECALCULUS
MATH 121 CALCULUS I
SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE (All required)
SOSC 101 SOCIAL ISSUES
PSYC 101 INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY
PSYC 215 LEARNING, COGNITION AND TEACHING
PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE (One course from list)
BIOL 101 INTRODUCTION TO BIOLOGY
BIOL 110 FUNDAMENTALS OF BIOLOGY I LECTURE/LAB
BIOL 213 ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY I LECTURE/LAB
PSYC 326 LOVE AND SEXUALITY
BIOL 240 NUTRITION
BIOL 345 NUTRITION AND HUMAN METABOLISM
PSYC 251 SUBSTANCE ABUSE
SPEECH COMMUNICATION (One course from list)
COMM 101 EFFECTIVE SPEAKING
THEA 115 BASIC ACTING FOR NON-MAJORS
THEA 221 BASIC ACTING
COMM 222 PUBLIC SPEAKING
THEA 260 VOICE AND MOVEMENT

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