SearchPhysics (M.S.)/Teaching Certificate Program
COMBINED M.S. (PHYSICS)/TEACHING CERTIFICATE PROGRAM
[Consult with physics advisor and secondary education advisor.]
Summer I (50% Tuition)
EDU 503 | American Education and the Interactive Process | 3 hrs. |
EDU 510 | Child and Adolescent Development (35 hours of aiding experience at local high school) | 3 |
EDU 583 | Management kPractices for Classroom Teachers | 3 |
Fall I (tuition remission)
EDU 551 | Methods of Instruction for Secondary School Teaching | 3 hrs. |
EDU 552 | Technology Instruction for Secondary School Teaching | 1 |
PHY 585 | Teaching of Physics (50 hours of teaching load at local high school withi AP Physics Course) | 3 |
PHY 631 | Electromagnetic Theory (20 hours/week teaching related work at Creighton University Physics Department) | 3 |
Spring I (tuition remission)
EDU 525 | Procedures for Including Students with Mild/Moderate Disabilities in the Regular Classroom (15 hours of teaching load at local high school - special education) | 3 |
PHY 641 | Statistical Mechanics | 3 |
PHY 791 | Graduate Seminar | 1 |
PHY 797 | Directed Independent Research (20 hours/week teaching related work at Creighton University Physics Department) | 1 |
Summer II (50% tuition remission)
Students who do not have a background in science other than physics will be required to take up to 12 additional hours of undergraduate courses to meet Nebraska requirements for the physics teaching endorsement. (Students may work as Teaching Assistants.) |
Fall II (tuition remission)
EDU 548 | Teaching Reading in Content Areas in Middle and Secondary Schools | 3 |
PHY 631 | Quantum Mechanics I (meets with PHY 531) | 3 |
PHY 611 | Classical Mechanics (20 hrs./week teaching related work at Creighton University Physics Department) | 3 |
Spring II (tuition remission)
EDU 785 | Practicum in Teaching (EDU 591) | 3-7 |
EDU 592 | Advanced Secondary School Observation and Student Teaching | 3-7 |
EDU 593 | Seminar in Secondary School Observation and Student Teaching | 1 |
Specified Support Courses
BIO 211 | General Biology: Molecular & Cellular | 4 |
CHM 203 | General Chemistry I | 3 |
CHM 204 | General Chemistry Laboratory I | 1 |
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ATS/EVS 443 OR | 4 |