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General Education

You are here: Programs » B.S. Technology Education » Current Students » Advisement Information » General Education

On this page:

• Communication Skills
• Health and Physical Education
• Analytic Reasoning
• Humanities and the Arts
• Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Natural Sciences
• Technology
• General Education Electives

Approximately one-third of any baccalaureate degree program is general education. The primary purpose of this segment is to provide students a broad intellectual foundation for appreciating life, processing ideas, and solving problems. During this portion of the program students need to study English, speech, mathematics, physical education, literature, fine arts, psychology, government, physical science, and life science to fulfill graduation and certification requirements.

The following list of courses was developed to assist technology education students in planning their program of study. More specifically, this guide was developed to help students select courses that will meet UW-Stout's general education requirements as well as the teacher certification requirements mandated by the Department of Public Instruction.

Communication Skills

All technology education students are required to complete eight credits of course work under the auspices of communication skills. This means taking two basic English courses and one speech course. However, to meet Department of Public Instruction certification requirements, all education majors must earn at least a "C" in these courses.

• ENGL-101: Freshman English--Composition (3 credits)
  
• ENGL-102: Freshman English--Reading and Related Writing (3 credits)
  
• SPCOM-101: Fundamentals of Speech (2 credits)

Health and Physical Education

All the students at UW-Stout are required to complete at least two credits of course work in the area of health or physical education. Most of the students enrolled in the technology education program take two, 1-credit physical education courses to fulfill this requirement. Is it very important to note that these courses need to be introductory courses that involve physical activity. Students generally select courses that are consistent with their personal interests or coaching plans (e.g., bow hunting, archery, basketball, weight training). However, it is also important to note that specific coaching, sports officiating, and first aid classes will not fulfill this general education requirement.

• 466-101: Discovering Wellness (1 credit) and/or
• Any approved 467-1XX (100 level) physical activity course(s)

Analytic Reasoning

In addition to communication skills, all students must complete at least six credits of course work under the heading of "Analytic Reasoning." Most of the students in the Technology Education Program at UW-Stout fulfill this requirement by taking an algebra course and a statistics course. In some cases, students take a more advanced mathematics course and a computer science course to fulfill this requirement. However, to meet DPI requirements for teacher certification, at least one course under Analytic Reasoning Skills must specifically address the study of mathematics (e.g., statistics, algebra, trigonometry, calculus). See the table below for popular course sequences that can be used to complete this program requirement.

Humanities and the Arts

To graduate from UW-Stout, every student must complete nine credits of course work in at least three different subject areas under the auspices of the humanities. The Department of Public Instruction has mandates for future teachers that makes meeting this requirement simple. More specifically, DPI requires all aspiring teachers to take a literature course and a fine arts course. Furthermore, to meet DPI certification rule PI 4.08 (3,g), students need to take HIST-210: Modern World History (3 credit) in the Humanities component or ANTH-220: Cultural Anthropology (3 credits) in the Social and Behavioral Science component (see the next section).

Social and Behavioral Sciences

Just like the humanities requirement, every student must complete at least nine credits of course work in at least three different areas under the heading of social science. However, once again, DPI certification requirements make this requirement relatively straightforward. Technology education majors must take a basic psychology course and a basic government course to fulfill graduation and teacher certification requirements. If a student does not want to take the World History course at UW-Stout, he or she will need to take a class in Cultural Anthropology (see the list below). If one completes "Modern World History", a student can take any social science course as long as it is not a government or psychology course. Most of the technology education majors at UW-Stout take a basic sociology course to bring closure to their social science requirement.

• Scenario 1: Any Approved Social and Behavioral Sciences Course (3 credits)
• Scenario 2: ANTH-220: Cultural Anthropology (3 credits)
• Scenario 3: Any Approved Social and Behavioral Sciences Course (3 credits)

Natural Sciences

Students at UW-Stout are required to take at least four credits of science. Furthermore, the science course in question must include a laboratory component. To complicate matters further, the Department of Public Instruction requires all aspiring teachers to take a physical science course as well as a life science course. Therefore, most of the technology education majors at UW-Stout take either physics or chemistry to fulfill the physical science and laboratory science requirement. To fulfill the life science requirement, most of the technology education majors take an environmental science course.

Technology

Like some liberal arts colleges and major universities, UW-Stout requires all students to take a broad course in technology as an integral part of one's general education. Most of the courses approved to fulfill this requirement are already a part of the technical course work required to become a technology teacher. Therefore, students will automatically fulfill this requirement when they transfer to UW-Stout.

• Scenario 1: TECH-230 Exploring Technology (2 credits)
• Scenario 2: MEDIA-103: Comm. & Info. Tech. (3 credits)

General Education Elective (2 credits minimum)

To meet Department of Public Instruction teacher certification requirements you need to complete a life science course. Therefore, you can take any approved life science course (2 or more credits). Most technology education majors take BI-150: Environmental Science (2 credits) to fulfill this requirements.