Academic
Catalog August 2009 - August 2010 Undergraduate
and Graduate
College of Education
Department of Educational Specialties
Eastburn Education Center, room 106
NAU, PO Box 5774, Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5774
928-523-5342 (fax 928-523-9284)
Department Chair
Lawrence D. Gallagher
You may pursue the following undergraduate academic plans through the College of Education’s Special Education program:
B.S.Ed. in special education and elementary education (dual major)
B.S.Ed. in special education and secondary education (dual major)
(for the B.S.Ed. in elementary education)
We offer these plans to prepare you to become a certified teacher of children and youth who have disabilities as well as those who do not. The courses included in each program of study are designed to address the Professional Standards for the Council for Exceptional Children as well as the Professional Standards for the Council for Exceptional Children as well as the Professional Standards for Arizona Teachers, adopted by the Arizona Department of Education. These cross-categorical plans prepare you to teach students with mild to moderate emotional or learning disabilities, mental retardation, and orthopedic and other health impairments. Courses in low incidence disabilities prepare you to teach students with a variety of severe/profound disabilities.
In both major plans, you student teach for one term, with your time divided between special education and elementary or secondary education. When you complete your degree, you will have earned state teaching certification in special education (grades K-12) and either state elementary education (K-8) or state secondary education (7-12) certification.
Please note that you may also pursue a single major in elementary education with a content emphasis in special education. This 18-unit special education content emphasis does not require student teaching, nor does it meet all special education plan requirements. See the heading Teaching and Learning within this Education section for more information.
In this section, we describe the requirements for each of our academic plans individually. Then we explain our special education program options.
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You may pursue the following graduate academic plans through the College of Education’s Special Education program:
M.Ed. in special education with certification: Cross-Categorical High Incidence
M.Ed. in special education with certification: Severe/Profound Low Incidence
M.Ed. in special education: cross-categorical (noncertified)
with emphases in cross-categorical high incidence special education and severe/profound special education
In addition, the College of Education offers an Ed.D. in Curriculum and Instruction for professionals in a school setting, a community college, or a governmental or other agency; see the Teaching and Learning section for more information.
Graduates of our program are prepared to work with children or young adults who are identified as having a disability, to effectively include students in the general classroom who are identified as exceptional, and to teach in a variety of settings with teachers and other personnel.
Our graduate courses are available during summer sessions, although courses are also occasionally offered face to face during fall and spring terms. Many, but not all of our courses are also available on line.
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