Oct 04, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Middle Level Education (Grades 6-8, Math), B.S.


Elementary and Special Education  
615-898-2680
Stacy Fields, program coordinator
Stacy.Fields@mtsu.edu
 

The major in Middle Level Education, grades 6-8, is designed to prepare teachers for middle schools. It requires True Blue Core, major, professional education, and residency courses.

This program leads to initial teacher licensure in middle level education (grades 6-8).

Academic Map


Following is a printable, suggested four-year schedule of courses:

Middle Level Education (Grades 6-8, Math), B.S., Academic Map   

Degree Requirements


True Blue Core (TBC) 41 hours
Major Requirements 42 hours*
Professional Education 43 hours
TOTAL 120-126 hours

*This program requires courses that can also fulfill requirements of the True Blue Core curriculum. If courses for this program are also used to fulfill True Blue Core requirements, the program of study may be completed in 120 hours.

True Blue Core (41 hours)


True Blue Core (TBC)  requirements (shown in curricular listings below) include courses in the Foundational Skills areas of Written Communication (WC), Information Literacy (Info Lit), Non-Written Communication (NWC), and Quantitative Literacy (Quant Lit). Knowledge Domains include Human Society and Social Relationships (HSSR), Scientific Literacy (Sci Lit), Creativity and Cultural Expression (CCE), and History and Civic Learning (HCL), which include Discovery and Explorations categories. Students must choose at least one course from each Discovery category.

The following courses required by the program meet True Blue Core requirements:

Student Teaching (12 hours)


Curriculum: Middle Level Education (Grades 6-8, Math)


Freshman


Subtotal: 33 Hours


Sophomore


Subtotal: 31 Hours


Subtotal: 29 Hours


Subtotal: 27 Hours