Updated 2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog | 20255

Health Education. B.S. major
(Teacher Licensure)

Required Credits: 70
Required GPA: 2.50

I REQUIRED COURSES

Select 1 of the following courses:

• BIOL 1110 Human Biology (4 credits)
• BIOL 1400 Cellular Principles (4 credits)

Complete the following courses:

• BIOL 1111 Anatomy and Physiology for Allied Health I (4 credits)
• HLTH 2100 First Aid and CPR/AED (1 credit)
• HLTH 3150 Theoretical and Ethical Foundations of Health (3 credits)
• HLTH 3200 Personal and Consumer Health (3 credits)
• HLTH 3300 Nutrition (3 credits)
• HLTH 3500 Community Health (3 credits)
• HLTH 3710 Disease Prevention and Epidemiology (3 credits)
• HLTH 4206 Secondary School Health (2 credits)
• HLTH 4410 Health Programming (3 credits)
• PHED 3300 Physiology of Exercise and Nutrition (3 credits)
• PHED 4309 Legal Aspects of Sport, Health, and Fitness (3 credits)

Complete the following course:

• HLTH 4920 Directed Group Study: Health Seminar (1 credit)

Complete the following course:

• HLTH 4870 Practicum in Health Teaching (1 credit)

REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION COURSES

Complete the following courses with a minimum 2.50 GPA:

• ED 3100 Introduction to the Foundations of Public School Education (3 credits)
• ED 3110 Educational Psychology (3 credits)
• ED 3140 Human Relations In Education (3 credits)
• ED 3350 Pedagogy: Planning for Instruction (3 credits)
• ED 3780 Adaptation and Management: Designing the Learning Environment (3 credits)
• ED 4737 Content Area Reading (3 credits)
• ED 4799 The Professional Teacher (1 credit)

Complete the following course:

• HLTH 3400 Health and Drugs in Society (2 credits)

Complete 12 credits of student teaching:

• ED 4830 Student Teaching - Secondary (1-12 credits)

Program Learning Outcomes | Health Education, B.S. (Teacher Licensure)

1.  Prevent Accidents and Reduce the Risk: A teacher of health understands behaviors and factors that prevent or reduce the risk of accidents, sudden illness, and violent injuries; including prevention or reducing the risk of tobacco use, or alcohol and other drug abuse.

2. Philosophy of Health Promotion: A teacher of health understands concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention including: the need for and role of a philosophy of health, health education, and health promotion.

3. Individual Responsibility: A teacher of health understands health-enhancing behaviors that reduce health risks including: the importance of individual responsibility for health.

4. Effects of Media on Behavior: A teacher of health understands the effects of advertising, media, technology, and social norms on health behaviors.

5. A teacher of health understands how to use interpersonal skills to enhance health including: Models and strategies for teaching communication skills for expressing needs, wants and feelings, communication, care, consideration, and respect for self and others; conflict resolution, and refusal skills.

6. A teacher of health demonstrates an understanding of the teaching of health that integrates: Understand and apply research base for and the best practices of middle and high school education.

7. Health Pedagogy: A teacher of health demonstrates an understanding of the teaching of health pedagogy, students, learning, classroom management, and professional development.

Suggested Semester Schedule | Health Education, B.S. (Teacher Licensure)

The following is a list of required Health Education Major, B.S. courses arranged by year. This schedule is intended to help students plan their courses in an orderly fashion; however, these are only suggestions and this schedule is flexible.
Freshman
•    BIOL1110
      or BIOL1400
•    HLTH2100
•    Core Curriculum requirements

Sophomore
•    BIOL1111
•    HLTH3150
•    HLTH3200
•    Complete Core Curriculum requirements
•    Take the Minnesota Teacher Licensure Exam (MTLE) Basic Skills test

Junior
•    Begin Professional Education Standards of Effective Practice (SEP) courses
•    HLTH3300
•    PHED3300
•    HLTH3500
•    HLTH3710
•    HLTH4206
•    HLTH4970

Senior
•    HLTH4410
•    HLTH4920
•    PHED4309
•    Complete Professional Education Standards of Effective Practice (SEP) courses
•    Student teaching