HDFS Undergraduate Programs
Middle Childhood Development & Education Option
This program option focuses on the nature and process of development from middle childhood through adolescence and provides excellent baccalaureate preparation for students interested in applying for admission to a Master of Education (M.Ed.) or post-baccalaureate licensure program to earn Ohio teacher licensure in middle childhood education (grade 4 through grade 9). Students in this program option choose two of the following subject areas that they wish to teach and complete specific content course work in those areas:
- Mathematics
- Reading & Language Arts
- Science
- Social Studies
In addition to course work in the aforementioned subject areas, other course work in this program option provides students with knowledge of adolescent development, educational psychology, principles of guidance and discipline, approaches to multicultural programming, issues in reading instruction and literacy development, educational practices for working with exceptional learners, and the profession of teaching.
What Can I do With This Degree?
- Provides preparation to attend an M.Ed. or licensure only program to become a licensed teacher (grade 4 through grade 9)
- After School Program Director
- Human Service Worker with Adolescent Youth
- Recreation Center Activities Coordinator
- Youth Program Director
Human Development and Family Science: Middle Childhood specialization will stop admitting students Spring 2012. The last date a student can declare the HDFS: Middle Childhood major is March 30, 2012. To declare the HDFS: Middle Childhood major or pre-major, students should attend an EHE Information session (http://ehe.osu.edu/students/ugss/info-sessions.php), students who have questions about EHE Information sessions should contact Derraya Miller, dmiller@ehe.osu.edu.
Middle Childhood Development & Education Program Sheet (pdf) - Applies to students admitted to the College of Education and Human Ecology from Summer 2010 to Spring 2011.
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