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Secondary Education

Program Information

The B.S. in Education with a secondary focus is intended to prepare students for successful careers as teachers of children in junior high and high school classroom settings. With additional course work and field experiences, students may also add additional content and grade level teaching specialty areas to their license. Upon satisfactory completion of the program, students are eligible to apply for an Indiana teaching license through the Indiana State Department of Education.

Teaching majors are available in the following subjects: language arts, French, German, Spanish, mathematics, life science, chemistry, earth space science, physics, mathematics, physical science, and social studies (select three or more areas: economics, government and citizenship, psychology, historical perspectives, sociology). Students are encouraged to add teaching minors in any of the above categories.

Students focusing on a teaching major in mathematics, biology, chemistry, or physics receive degrees from Purdue University and should contact these departments directly for advisement. All other teaching major areas receive degrees from Indiana University and are advised by the School of Education.

A M.S.Ed. in Secondary Education is available and is designed to prepare candidates to be master teachers.