Students completing Liberal Studies Integrated Teacher Preparation B.A. will graduate with both a B.A. and a multiple subjects teaching credential with the additional option of completing a Bilingual Authorization for the state of California.
Students must start this program in their first year and qualify to begin the credential program courses before beginning their third year. By April of spring semester of their second year in the program, students will be admitted to the credential program if they have: attempted the C-BEST exam; completed 45 hours field experience; achieved at least a 2.76 GPA; acquired the CTC certificate of clearance. Transfer students from community colleges may enter the program upon advising. Please see the Liberal Studies ITEP advisor for more information.
Program Learning Outcomes
- Reflect critically on their education and program of study.
- Recognize scholarship on which practice and knowledge in a discipline are based.
- Write critical and/or argument-based papers that can distinguish between different disciplinary methods and perspectives and potentially integrate them.
- Analyze a complex issue, theme or problem by applying multiple perspectives, theories, concepts and modes of inquiry.
- Engage and Support All Students in Learning.
- Create and Maintain Effective Environments for Student Learning.
- Understand and Organize Subject Matter for Student Learning.
- Plan Instruction and Design Learning Experiences for All Students.
- Assess Student Learning.
- Develop as a Professional Educator.
Liberal Studies Integrated Teacher Preparation (B.A.) – minimum 75 units
Interdisciplinary Studies (6 units)
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| LS 300GW | Perspectives on Liberal Studies - GWAR | 3 |
| LS 690 | Liberal Studies Senior Seminar | 3 |
Education Experience (3 units)
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| E ED 250 | Teaching and Learning Beyond the Classroom | 3 |
Communications, Reading, Language, and Literature (6 units)
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| Select Two: | ||
| E ED 681 | Teaching Language and Literature with Elementary and Middle School Students | 3 |
| LS 403/ COMM 557 |
Performance and Pedagogy of the Oppressed for Educators | 3 |
| LS 450 | Banned! Contested Protest Literature in Schools | 3 |
Integrated Social Science (6 units)
Select Two:
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| Select Two: | ||
| HIST 450 | History of California | 3 |
| LS/AMST 200 | Self, Place, and Knowing: Introduction to Interdisciplinary Inquiry | 3 |
| LS 401 | International Development and Resource Justice | 3 |
| LS 402 | Introduction to Human Rights Education for Teachers and Local Communities | 3 |
Mathematics (6 units)
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| MATH 165 | Concepts of the Number System | 3 |
| MATH 565 | Concepts of Geometry, Measurement, and Probability | 3 |
Interdisciplinary Science (6 units)
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| Select one: | ||
| Biology for Today's World | 3 | |
| Future of the Forests | 3 | |
| Select one: | ||
| Physical Sciences for Elementary School Teachers | 3 | |
| Science and Culture for Future Elementary School Teachers | 3 | |
| Hands-on Undergraduate Science Education Experience | 3 |
Visual and Performing Arts (3 units)
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| Select one: | ||
| CMX 326 | Comics in Education | 3 |
| E ED 450 | Art and Learning | 3 |
| LS 427 | Social Movements & the Arts for Future Teachers | 3 |
Physical Education and Human Development (3 units)
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| Select One: | ||
| CAD 210 | Introduction to Applied Child and Adolescent Development | 3 |
| KIN 401 | Elementary School Physical Education: K-5 | 3 |
| RPT 280 | Developmental Play Processes | 3 |
Elementary Education and Credential (36-39 units)
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| E ED 687 | Seminar: Field Experience | 3 |
| Select One: | ||
| Bilingual Education in the U.S.: A History of Struggle, Resistance, and Achievement | 3 | |
| Social, Cultural, and Historical Foundations of Education | 3 | |
| Select One (Required only of candidates in the bilingual authorization): | 0-3 | |
| Chinese Heritage Language for the Bilingual Teacher Candidates | ||
| Spanish Heritage Language for the Bilingual Teacher: I | ||
| Select One: | 3 | |
| Teaching Reading and Language Arts - Chinese Bilingual | ||
| Teaching Reading and Language Arts: K-5 | ||
| E ED 737 | Teaching Social Studies, Social Justice, and Literacy: Grades 3-6 | 3 |
| E ED 747 | Teaching Practicum Phase II | 3 |
| E ED 748 | Teaching Practicum Phase III | 3 |
| E ED 756 | Teaching Practicum Seminar Phase I | 3 |
| E ED 758 | Teaching Practicum Seminar Phase III | 3 |
| E ED 777 | Curriculum and Instruction in Science | 3 |
| E ED 784 | Curriculum and Instruction in Mathematics (CLAD Emphasis) | 3 |
| E ED 786 | Seminar in Developmental Teaching and Learning | 3 |
| ITEC 711 | Instructional Computing in Elementary Schools | 3 |