May 20, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Urban Stem Education Secondary, BS


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Bachelor of Science • UE STEMSC BS

The BS Urban STEM Education Secondary program focuses on training students to become teachers who provide equitable high-quality STEM education in the K-12 setting. Focus is on promoting the teaching methods that support active STEM engagement and teacher self-efficacy in urban settings. By embedding service-learning teaching experiences into the curriculum throughout each of the four program years, students will gain extensive practice in implementing culturally responsive teaching strategies proven to positively impact urban students’ outcomes in STEM. Students will select from one of five concentrations: Integrated Science, Biology, Chemistry, Math or Physics to acquire deep discipline-specific knowledge which yields the required proficiencies to teach in their respective STEM content areas.

Undergraduate Urban Education Core - 22 Credits


Choose one of the following Concentrations:


 
OR
Biology Concentration [BIOC] - 43 Credits 
OR
Chemistry Concentration [CHMC] - 43 Credits 
OR
 
OR
Physics Concentration [PHYC] - 43 Credits  
 

Open Electives - 0-13 Credits


Total Credits: 120-121 Credits


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