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Students who plan to obtain a teaching certificate must be admitted formally to the Teacher Education Program. Admission to teacher education is dependent on successful completion of an admission test, course prerequisites, and a formal application to the School of Education Undergraduate Program. Application forms and test information are available from the student’s departmental advisor or from the:
A candidate for a senior high/junior high/middle school teacher’s certificate and a bachelor’s degree must satisfy the appropriate degree requirements of the IUPUI School of Science, the departmental requirements, and the School of Education teacher education/certification requirements. The student must, therefore, plan a complete program with a School of Science advisor and a School of Education advisor to ensure that all requirements are satisfied.
A candidate for a senior high/junior high/middle school teacher’s certificate must earn a baccalaureate degree that includes a minimum of 124 credit hours. The student must have a grade point average of 2.5 or above in all university work taken. The student must earn a grade point average of 2.5 in all education courses (with at least a C in each methods course), and a grade point average of 2.5 in all the course work of the teaching major and of the teaching minor if one exists.
For a standard certificate, the state of Indiana sets the following general education, professional education, and subject matter area requirements:
Humanities: a minimum of 18 credit hours chosen from, for example, English, fine arts, folklore, foreign language, music, philosophy, speech, and theatre.
Social and Behavioral Sciences: a minimum of 9 credit hours chosen from, for example, anthropology, economics, geography, history, political science, psychology, and sociology.
Life and Physical Sciences: a minimum of 9 credit hours—subject matter area meets this requirement; some departments specify lab sciences.
Electives as needed for a total of 40 credit hours.
EDUC W200 Microcomputing for Education: An Introduction (3 cr.)
(See a School of Science advisor for possible substitute courses)
EDUC K205 Introduction to Exceptional Children (3 cr.) and Field Experience (1 cr.)
EDUC H340 Education and American Culture (3 cr.)
EDUC M300 Teaching in a Pluralistic Society (3 cr.)
EDUC M314 General Methods for Senior High/Junior High/Middle School Teachers (3 cr.) and Field Experience (1 cr.)
EDUC M464 Methods of Teaching Reading (3 cr.) and Field Experience (1 cr.)
EDUC M440-M480 Methods of teaching (major academic area) (4 cr.)
Note: Admission to the Teacher Education Program is a prerequisite for all professional education courses except for EDUC W200.
All professional education courses must be completed before a student may enroll in the EDUC Student Teaching courses. During the semester of student teaching, the student normally does not enroll in other courses.
All science teaching programs must include courses in nutrition and drug and alcohol education.
Consult a School of Education advisor about any changes in or additions to these requirements.
The following is a list of courses fulfilling prerequisites required for the Master of Physical Therapy program.
Predental and Premedical Programs
Admission to dental and medical schools is highly competitive. The preprofessional student is therefore urged to elect a degree program, rather than to strive for the minimal requirements of these schools. Preprofessional counseling is available from advisors in the departments of biology and chemistry, which also offer preprofessional degree programs. Advisors help students prepare for the professional school admissions process. They can also suggest alternative, rewarding career opportunities should the application to the professional school be unsuccessful. Graduate students holding nonscience degrees who are electing courses in the School of Science to prepare for professional school are also invited to use this advising service.
Preoptometry, Prepharmacy, and Preveterinary Programs
See Department of Biology listings for information on these programs.
Pre-Physical Therapy Program
Students may take any undergraduate program and include a set of core courses needed as prerequisites for a master’s degree in physical therapy at the Indiana University School of Allied Health Sciences. Undergraduate degree programs in biology, chemistry, or psychology in the School of Science may be of interest to the pre-physical therapy student. Advising for the undergraduate degree and planning the requirements for application/admission to the master’s degree program in physical therapy is available in those departments. An academic advisor in the IUPUI School of Allied Health Sciences is also available for consultation. Admission to the master’s degree program in physical therapy is competitive.
| BIOL N217 | Human Physiology (5 cr.) | ||||||
| BIOL N261 | Human Anatomy (5 cr.) | ||||||
| CHEM C105/C125 | Principles of Chemistry I/Lab (5 cr.) | ||||||
| CHEM C106/C126 | Principles of Chemistry II/Lab (5 cr.) | ||||||
| PSY B310 | Life Span Development (3 cr.) | ||||||
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Two courses, 3 credits each, in the Humanities/Social Sciences areas.
The pre-physical therapy student should consult with an academic advisor to plan for including these prerequisite courses in the baccalaureate degree program of study as well as for updates of pre-physical therapy requirements.
To obtain an honors degree in computer science, mathematics, or physics, a student must have a cumulative grade point average of 3.3 and a minimum of 24 credit hours, with a 3.5 average in honors work. Six hours of honors credit must be outside the student’s major field. A senior thesis track is also available. To obtain an honors degree in biology, chemistry, geology or psychology, a student should follow the requirements described below.
In general, students may take no more than 6 credit hours of honors work a semester. Students may earn honors credit by taking special Honors Program courses (H300, H399, H400), by taking specially designated sections of multisection courses, by doing special overseas or internship work, or by contracting for honors credit using an H-Option contract1 in conjunction with regular classes.
Students completing honors work or an honors degree will, upon request, receive an honors course record, listing all honors work, to be included with official university grade transcripts.
For additional information, contact the:
1H-Options are the most popular and frequent way that students earn honors credit. An H-Option requires that a student work out with the instructor of a course a specific contract for a paper, field project, oral presentation, etc., early in the semester. All the necessary signatures of approval, including that of the director of the Honors Program, must be submitted to the Honors Program office before consent to begin research will be given.
A student may qualify for transcript certification of completion of the Undergraduate Research Program. The School of Science Research Committee, which certifies the student’s right to the certification, requires a Research Portfolio. This portfolio is to be presented to the Committee for approval by April 1 for May graduation, by July 1 for August graduation and by November 1 for December graduation in the semester in which the student expects to graduate. Upon approval of the portfolio the Committee forwards its recommendation of certification to the registrar. Certification is awarded concurrently with the degree.
Students may participate in all or part of this program. To receive transcript certification, the student must fulfill all of the following requirements:
Further information, including how to prepare the Research Portfolio, may be obtained from the program director:
Honors Program
The IUPUI Honors Program is open to students in both the Purdue and Indiana University degree programs. Students with an overall grade point average (GPA) of 3.0 after their first full semester of work, entering freshmen with a combined recentered SAT score of 1180, or those who graduated in the top 15 percent of their high school class are invited to participate in the Honors Program. Students with a GPA of less than 3.0 may be permitted to take honors courses. They should, however, discuss the matter with their academic advisor and the honors advisor before doing so.
Biology
Students with a GPA of 3.3 and 12 hours of credit, or entering high school students with a minimum SAT score of 1180, or who are graduating in the top 10 percent of their high school class, qualify for the Biology Honors Program. Students wishing to participate in the Biology Honors Program must first receive approval from the Department of Biology. Students may choose from two tracks. In Track 1 (honors with thesis), students must complete 21 credit hours of honors work including 6 hours outside of biology and 15 hours in biology. These biology hours are to include 4 hours of BIOL K101/K103 honors sections of lab/recitation, 6 hours in honors sections of BIOL K493, and 5 hours in H-Option1 biology courses and/or 500–600-level biology courses. In Track 2 (honors without thesis), students must complete 24 credit hours of honors work. These hours are to include 6 hours outside of biology, 4 hours of BIOL K101/K103 honors sections of lab/recitation, and 14 hours in H-Option biology courses and/or 500–600-level biology courses.
Chemistry
Students with a minimum GPA of 3.0 may be admitted into the Chemistry Honors Program with approval of the Honors Program and the Department of Chemistry. After entering the program, maintenance of a GPA of 3.3 in all courses and of 3.5 in honors courses is necessary. The Curriculum Committee of the chemistry department will approve any honors Bachelor of Science degrees awarded in chemistry. In addition to meeting general honors requirements, students who intend to graduate with honors in chemistry must complete 24 honors credit hours, consisting of 1 credit hour in the C301 or C302 Chemistry Seminar, 6 hours in C409 Chemical Research, 5 hours of H-Options1 in undergraduate courses and/or graduate chemistry courses, and 12 hours of honors credit in courses outside of chemistry.
Geology
For the Bachelor of Science degree, honors students must complete 24 credit hours of honors work, 18 in geology and 6 in other approved honors courses. For the Bachelor of Arts degree, the requirements are 15 credit hours in geology and 9 credit hours outside geology in other approved honors courses. The following upper-division geology courses are approved for H-Option contracts1: G323 Structural Geology, G334 Principles of Sedimentation and Stratigraphy, G403 Optical Mineralogy and Petrography, G404 Geobiology (3 cr.), plus G410 Undergraduate Research in Geology (1 cr.), G406 Introduction to Geochemistry, G413 Introduction to Geophysics, G415 Principles of Geomorphology, G416 Economic Geology, G430 Principles of Hydrology, and G499 Honors Research in Geology. The student must complete 3 credit hours in G499 Honors Research in Geology to satisfy the requirements for the honors component. The overall grade point average must be 3.3 with a 4.0 in all honors work.
Psychology
To graduate with honors, students may choose one of two tracks. Track 1: The student must earn at least 24 hours of honors credit, 6 of which must be in psychology and 6 of which must be outside of psychology (the remaining 12 can be either). At least 3 hours of this credit must be for PSY B499 Honors Research, which should culminate in an honors thesis. Track 2: The student must earn at least 21 hours of honors credit, 6 of which must be in psychology and 6 of which must be outside of psychology (the remaining hours can be from either). At least 6 hours of the credit must be for a research project culminating in a psychology thesis. In this track the university honors council must approve the project proposal. In both tracks only grades of A or B will count for honors credit. To graduate with honors, the student must have an overall GPA of 3.3 with at least a 3.5 in honors and psychology courses.
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School of Science Undergraduate Research Program
The School of Science has established a school-wide undergraduate research program to encourage and recognize undergraduates who participate in research projects with faculty in the school.
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