The Middle Grades Education program requires students to choose a content area for licensure. CUC’s approved content areas for Middle Grades are listed below:

Literacy Education Coursework (27 hours) 

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Required Courses
EDMG-3000	Middle Grades: Development and Philosophy	3
EDMG-4900	Content and Methods for Middle Grades Literacy	3
Select remaining 21 hours from the following:
COM-1100	Speech Communication (Included in Gen Ed or program requirement) 1
EDEL-3500	Content and Methods for Elementary Literacy
EDMG-4220	Literacy Instruction in the Content Areas (Included in Gen Ed or program requirement) 1
EDSC-4602	Content and Methods of Middle/Secondary English
EDUC-2300	Theoretical Foundations of Teaching ESL Students
EDUC-2400	Literature for Children, Adolescents and Young Adults (This may satisfy a Gen Ed requirement)
EDUC-2500	Foundations of Literacy (Included in Gen Ed or program requirement)) 1
EDUC-2700	Linguistics and Language Development for Diverse Learners
ENG-1100	English Composition (Included in Gen Ed or program requirement)) 1
ENG-2000	Writing About Literature (Included in Gen Ed or program requirement)) 1
ENG-2100	Linguistics
ENG-2200	Non-Western Literature (Meets Global Emphasis requirement)
ENG-2220	U.S. Latina/o Literature(s)
ENG-2300	Greek & Roman Mythology
ENG-2400	African American Literature
ENG-2500	Classical World Literature
ENG-2600	Modern World Literature
ENG-3100	British Literature to 1785
ENG-3300	Major American Authors
ENG-4000	Literary Theory & Criticism (Recommended Course)
ENG-4150	Literature/Related Media for Adolescents (Included in Gen Ed or program requirement)) 1,3
ENG-4370	Shakespeare
ENG-4520	Twentieth Century American Fiction
ENG-4530	Twentieth Century Poetry
Total Hours		27

¹

Included in General Education or program requirements above.

²

Required for Literacy Content Area or ENG-4150 Literature/Related Media for Adolescents.

³

Required for Literacy Content Area or EDUC-2400 Literature for Children, Adolescents and Young Adults.

 Mathematics Education Coursework (27-30 Hours)

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
EDMG-3000	Middle Grades: Development and Philosophy	3
EDMG-4905	Content and Methods for Middle Grades Math	3
MAT-1411	Mathematics for Teachers: Number and Measurement (prerequisites and required) 1	3
MAT-1820	Pre-Calculus (prerequisites and required, but may be satisfied by placement) 1	3
MAT-2000	Statistics	3
MAT-2400	Calculus for Business and Life Sciences	3
or MAT-2500	Calculus I
MAT-3700	College Geometry	3
Select two additional Math courses from the list below (select a third if MAT-1820 is waived		6-9
MAT-2100	Discrete Mathematics
MAT-2300	Problem Solving with Number Theory
MAT-2600	Calculus II
MAT-3100	Calculus III
MAT-3200	Differential Equations
MAT-3300	History of Mathematics
MAT-3500	Mathematical Proof
MAT-3600	Linear Algebra
MAT-4300	Number Theory
MAT-4610	Group Theory
MAT-4730	Probability Theory
MAT-4740	Mathematical Statistics
MAT-4810	Real Analysis
MAT-4820	Complex Analysis
Total Hours		27-30

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Courses are Prerequisites for methods.

Science Education (STEM Emphasis) Coursework (27 hours)

Prerequisite: EDUC-3400 Integrated Sciences – STEM

Integrated Sciences: STEM (Required for Middle Grades Science majors. Recommended for Secondary Biology.) Must include physical science, life science AND earth/space science. General Education and pre-requisite courses may be applied. 

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Required Courses
EDMG-3000	Middle Grades: Development and Philosophy	3
EDSC-4618	Content and Methods of Middle/Secondary Science	3
Select remaining 21 hours from the following		21
EDUC-3400	Integrated Sciences – STEM (prerequisites and required)
BIO-1201	Biology in the World Today (With Lab)
BIO-2011	General Biology I (With Lab)
BIO-2012	General Biology II (With Lab)
BIO-3215	Microbiology (With Lab)
BIO-3310	General Ecology (With Lab)
CHE-1110	Consumer Chemistry (With Lab)
CHE-2200	Fundamentals of Chemistry (With Lab)
CHE-2211	General Chemistry I (With Lab)
CHE-2300	Introduction to Organic and Biological Chemistry (With Lab)
EAS-1105	Elements of Earth Science (With Lab)
PHY-1110	Physics of Things We Use (With Lab)
PHY-2121	Elementary Physics I (With Lab)
PHY-2122	Elementary Physics II (With Lab)
Electives
As needed to meet the 120-hour degree requirement
Total Hours		27

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Courses are prerequisites and required.

²

CHE-2300 Introduction to Organic and Biological Chemistry (With Lab) must be taken if CHE-2200 Fundamentals of Chemistry (With Lab) is selected above.

 Social Sciences Coursework  (27 hours)

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Required Courses
EDMG-3000	Middle Grades: Development and Philosophy (Pre-requisites and Required course)	3
EDSC-4619	Content and Methods of Middle/Secondary Social Science (Pre-requisites and Required course)	3
GEO-1200	World Geography: Culture Patterns (Pre-requisites and Required course)	3
HIS-1200	History of the American People to 1877 (Pre-requisites and Required course)	3
HIS-1250	History of the American People since 1877 (Pre-requisites and Required course)	3
HIS-2800	A History of Illinois (Pre-requisites and Required course)	3
9 Additional hours from the categories of: Economics, Geography, History, and/or Civics/Government in relation to Illinois , United States, and/or the world.		9
ATH-2020	Introduction to Cultural Anthropology	3
EAS-1105	Elements of Earth Science (With Lab)	4
GEO-1100	Geography of North America	3
GEO-1300	The Developing World	3
HIS-1415	Survey of World History to 1500	3
HIS-1425	Survey of the World Since 1500	3
HIS-2100	Seminar in Writing and Researching History	3
HIS-4125	African History	3
HIS-4130	The Age of Reform, 1400-1650	3
HIS-4150	Europe In Our Time: 1918-Present	3
HIS-4155	Rise and Decline of Modern Europe: 1799-1918	3
HIS-4225	Antebellum America	3
HIS-4240	Contemporary America	3
HIS-4250	The American Religious Experience	3
HIS-4300	Twentieth Century World History	3
HIS-4310	Non-Western Historical Studies	3
NSCI-1981	Introduction to Sustainability (With Lab)	4
POS-1100	American Government and Politics (Total Hours )	3
Total Hours		27