Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies

Grades 4-8 Bilingual Generalist certification option

The minimum number of semester credit hours required for the IDS degree with grades 4-8 generalist certification is 137, at least 39 of which must be at the upper-division level.

Core Curriculum requirements: Students seeking the Bachelor of Arts degree in Interdisciplinary Studies with teacher certification must fulfill University Core Curriculum requirements. The courses listed in the table below satisfy both degree requirements and Core Curriculum requirements. For a complete listing of courses that satisfy the Core Curriculum requirements see pages 9-13 of this catalog.

Courses

Degree Requirements (57 semester credit hours)

A. 20 semester credit hours of required courses:

• IDS 2083 Technology for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
  or
  HTH 2133 Health and Environmental Safety
• IDS 2213 World Civilizations since the Fifteenth Century
• IDS 2713 Modes of Inquiry Across Fields of Study
• IDS 3203 Physical Science
• IDS 3201 Physical Science Laboratory
• IDS 3213 Earth and Life Science
• IDS 3211 Earth and Life Science Laboratory
• IDS 3303 Studies in Exceptionality

B. 31 semester credit hours of required support courses:

• EDP 2113 Development in the Elementary and Middle School Child
• EDU 2103 Education in American Society
• GRG 1023 World Regional Geography
• MAT 1153 Essential Elements of Mathematics I
• MAT 1163 Essential Elements of Mathematics II
• MAT 1093 Pre-Calculus
• MAT 1203 Calculus Concepts and Applications
• RDG 3523 Developmental Reading - Grades 4-8
• RDG 3633 Literature and Other Texts Across the Content Areas - Grades 4-8

Additional 3 SCH in Level I or II Science course in a different discipline from science courses taken for core requirement.
One science course must include a wet laboratory that can be met in core requirement: 1 SCH

C. 6 semester credit hours from the following (at least one course at 3000 level):

• SPN 2103 Oral and Written Expression
• SPN 2513 Spanish for Special Purposes
• SPN 3033 Oral Communication Skills
• SPN 3063 Grammar and Composition

Certification Requirements (38 semester credit hours)

TASP requirements must be satisfied before enrollment in Certification, Professional Education, and Student Teaching coursework.

A. 18 semester credit hours required of Grades 4-8 Bilingual Generalist courses:

• BBL 2243 Bilingual Families, Communities and Schools
• BBL 3053 Foundations of Bilingual Studies
• BBL 3023 Mexican American Culture
  or
  BBL 3033 Mexican Americans in the Southwest
• BBL 3133 Language Development in Bilinguals
• ESL 3053 Literacy in a Second Language
• ESL 3063 Second Language Acquisition in Early Adolescence

B. 20 semester credit hours of Professional Education courses:

• BBL 4033 Assessment, Learning and Motivation in Bilingual Classrooms
• BBL 4063 Bilingual Approaches to Content-Based Learning
• BBL 4073 Language Arts in a Bicultural-Bilingual Program
• C&I 4603 Approaches to Teaching Mathematics and Science (4-8)
• C&I 4502 Mathematics and Science Integrated Laboratory
• C&I 4626 Student Teaching: 4-8 Generalists