General Education Requirements for TCP (English) and Undergraduate Majors in English/Secondary Education

Recall you are on the English department’s English/Secondary Education page.  Advising for GenEd requirements is the responsibility of your advisor in the College of Education (see contacts), but in order to keep your traveling to a minimum, we provide here some useful information about GenEd requirements from the current NEIU catalog.  These requirements can and do change between printings of the catalog, but these lists give our best information to date.

Which GenEd courses are required?

This depends if you are a TCP student or an undergraduate. 

For TCP students, your BA degree should satisfy the regular list of GenEd requirements, but you STILL NEED to take several SPECIAL GENERAL EDUCATION courses required of ALL teachers in Illinois (yes, including Math).

For undergraduates pursuing a degree in English/Secondary Ed, you need to complete BOTH the regular list of Gen Ed requirements AND the SPECIAL GENERAL EDUCATION requirements required of ALL teachers in Illinois (yes, including Math).

·       Regular GenEd Courses Required of ALL students at NEIU (undergraduates only)

          Fine Arts and Humanities: total 15 credit hours

·   English (3 credits)

·   Other (12 credits) (make sure to see the LIMITED LIST of offerings every term: (see the Secondary Education Page for     details on this extra pain in the patootie).

          Behavioral and Social Sciences: total 12 credit hours

·   HIST 214 (US History 1607-1877) or HIST 215 (US History 1877 to the present) (3 credits)

·   PSCI-AMER-216 American National Government (also satisfies Constitution exam requirement and the HB0094 requirement,                so take it)(3 credits)

·   Non-Western or Third World Cultures Course (HIST 111C or 107 or 111D or ANTH 212) (3 credits)

·   Elective (3 credits)

          Biological and Physical Sciences: total 12 credit hours

·   coursework must include one lab course

·       Special GenEd Courses Required of all Certified Teachers (TCP and undergraduates)

        Written Communication (6 credits)

·   ENGL 101

·   ENGL 102 (both with grade of "C" or better)

Oral Communication (3 credits)

·  Speech 101 or 102 (with grade of "C" or better)

Mathematics (3 credits)

          SEE YOUR EDUCATION ADVISOR ABOUT YOUR PARTICULAR MATH REQUIREMENT (it seems to change DAILY)

Health/Physical Education (2 credits)

·   HPER/HLED 107 or Physical Education Activity Course approved by your EDUCATION advisor