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Programs

Initial Lincensure Programs

Art Education

The Art Education area is a vibrant and growing part of the Department of Art. It gives students knowledge and experience to both understand and work with children in many contexts, including P-12 schools and has a critical mission within the context of the Aims of a BYU education.

Biological Science Education

This is a major designed to produce teachers equipped to facilitate student learning in biology. It involves formal training in the field of biology as well as preparation of students as professional educators.

Chemistry Education

Program graduates will have demonstrate a solid conceptual understanding of the structure and reactivity of matter and will firmly grasp the key ideas and practices in analytical, organic and physical chemistry.

Dance Education

The highly esteemed Dance Education K-12 (BA) program is designed to prepare students for the rigors of the teaching profession. Students receive a teaching license in secondary education and an elementary education endorsement in dance.

Early Childhood Education

This major is designed to prepare students to teach PreK-3 in public schools. In order to graduate with this major, students are required to complete Utah State Board of Education licensing requirements.

Earth & Space Science Education

Students graduating with a B.S. in Earth and Space Science Education will have completed a degree that involves two academic components: 1) formal training in the Earth and space sciences and 2) formal training in education.

Elementary Education

This major is designed to prepare students to teach grades K-6 in public schools. In order to graduate with this major, students are required to complete Utah State Board of Education licensing requirements.

English Teaching

English Teaching graduates will be able to design and implement several weeks of instruction, write complete lesson plans for delivering that instruction, and reflect in writing on the effectiveness of their plans and delivered instruction.

Family and Consumer Sciences Education

This interdisciplinary education program prepares graduates for a secondary teacher license in Family and Consumer Sciences.

French Teaching

Candidates are proficient at the advanced level in French (as defined by the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines) and understand underlying linguistic elements of French. Understand basic language acquisition theory, create supportive learning environments, and use a variety of instructional techniques.

German Teaching

Students will be able to engage with and cogently discuss a variety of culturally significant German-language literary, historical, artistic, filmic and musical texts and artifacts from all major periods.

History Teaching

Candidates can identify the core concepts, tools of inquiry, and standards associated with the history curricula taught in secondary classrooms and can create learning experiences that make these concepts meaningful for students.

Mathematics Education

BYU is the only university in the United States with a Department of Mathematics Education. At many universities, students learn to teach mathematics by taking mathematics classes, education classes and then one or two classes that integrate mathematics and education.

Music Education Choral

This is a limited-enrollment program requiring departmental admissions approval. A degree in music education prepares the student for K-12 licensure as a public school music teacher with a choral emphasis.

Music Education Instrumental

This is a limited-enrollment program requiring departmental admissions approval. A degree in music education prepares the student for K-12 licensure as a public school music teacher with an instrumental emphasis.

Music Education General Music

This is a limited-enrollment program requiring departmental admissions approval. A degree in music education prepares the student for K-12 licensure as a public school music teacher with a general music emphasis.

Physical Education Teacher Education

The Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) major is designed to provide each student with the necessary content knowledge and instructional skills to become a certified physical educator and coach.

Physical Science Education

Students will obtain a broad, basic knowledge of physical sciences. Students will be able to design individual lectures reflecting the curriculum and informed by best practices in pedagogy and technology.

Physics Teaching

The Physics Teaching degree is designed for those who plan to teach physics at the secondary level. It includes courses for teacher certification as well as a substantial array of physics courses designed to provide fundamental understanding of the discipline and perspective on science and its role in the modern world.

Spanish Teaching

Students will speak, listen, read, and write Spanish at the ACTFL Advanced level or higher. Students will identify cultural practices (e.g., customs and traditions) and cultural products (e.g., literatures, arts, institutions, and individuals) from the Spanish-speaking world, place them in their historical, political, and social contexts, and interpret the unique perspectives on human experience that they reveal.

Social Science Teaching

Candidates can identify the core concepts and standards associated with the social science curricula taught in secondary classrooms (subject areas: history, political science, geography, psychology) and can create learning experiences that make these concepts meaningful for students.

Special Education: Mild/Moderate Disabilities

We identify and nurture the life potential of individuals with disabilities through effective teacher practice. We accomplish this by supporting the Mission and Aims of a BYU education as we integrate teaching, research, and service.

Special Education: Severe Disabilities

We identify and nurture the life potential of individuals with disabilities through effective teacher practice. We accomplish this by supporting the Mission and Aims of a BYU education as we integrate teaching, research, and service.

Technology & Engineering Education: Teaching

The primary purpose of the Technology and Engineering Education (TEE) program is to prepare men and women of sound character to teach technology and engineering in grades 6-12.

Theatre and Media Arts Education

Due to the number of applicants and demands on department resources, a limited number of students are accepted into the theatre education program each year.

Second Language and Teaching (SLaT)

Undegraduate Minors

Art Education - Minor

Chemistry Education - Minor

Chinese Teaching - Minor

Dual Language Immersion - Minor

English Teaching - Minor

French Teaching - Minor

Geography Teaching - Minor

Geology Teaching - Minor

German Teaching - Minor

History Teaching - Minor

Japanese Teaching - Minor

Latin Teaching - Minor

Middle School Mathematics Teaching - Minor

PE Teaching/Coaching - Minor

Physics Education - Minor

Portuguese Teaching - Minor

Russian Teaching - Minor

School Health Education - Minor

Spanish Teaching - Minor

TESOL K-12 - Minor

Advanced Programs

Educational Leadership - EdD

The Education Doctorate (EdD) program will prepare moral leaders who use research and best practices to improve learning, social equity, and other education outcomes in schools and communities.

Educational Leadership - MEd

EPP Education Requirements and Social Foundations (EPSF) is a rigorous two-year emphasis in the MEd Education Leadership and Foundations program, preparing professionals to contribute to education change, policy and research on a local, national, and global scale.

School Psychology - EDS

Our School Psychology program is ranked the number one specialist-level school psychology program for scholarly productivity. This ranking is based on findings from a study that examined scholarly works published between 2002 and 2011 by 136 specialist-level only programs.