Student ID:__________________________ Student Name:_______________________ Advisor Name:_______________________ Catalog: 2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog Program: Career Tech Workforce Education, Specialization in Business and Marketing Education, BSED
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Career Tech Workforce Education, Specialization in Business and Marketing Education, BSED

A graduate completing a Career Tech Workforce Education major is eligible for a career-technical teaching license providing that he or she has met all program requirements, has successfully completed the state-required assessments, and meets all license requirements. 

Students must complete one of the following two specializations:

Business and Marketing Education (leads to integrated business and marketing licensure) or

Family and Consumer Sciences Education (leads to family and consumer sciences education licensure)

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the baccalaureate degree, students in Career Tech Workforce Education are expected to:

  • Demonstrate understanding of student learning and development and diversity of students;
  • Apply skills in planning and delivering effective instruction, assessing students, creating learning environments, and collaborating and communicating with students, their parents, other educators, administrators and the community to support student learning;
  • Demonstrate understanding of the importance of assuming responsibility for professional growth, performance and involvement as individuals and as members of a learning community;
  • Demonstrate understanding of content for which they will have instructional responsibility as a teacher.

Bachelor of Science in Education; Leads to Integrated Business and Marketing licensure in grades 4 and beyond. This degree program is designed to be completed in 4 years and 1 summer. Changing majors, academic issues or other unforeseen circumstances may require additional semesters for completion.

BG Perspective (BGP) Requirements

Must complete at least 1 course in each of the following:

   English Composition and Oral Communication
   _____________________________    ________

   Quantitative Literacy
   _____________________________    ________

Must Complete at least 2 courses in each of the following:

   Humanities and the Arts
   _____________________________    ________ 
   _____________________________    ________    

   Natural Sciences - at least one Lab Science required
   _____________________________    ________ 
   _____________________________    ________                                                                                      

   Social and Behavioral Sciences
   _____________________________    ________ 
   _____________________________    ________                                                                        

Complete total required BGP credit hours by selecting courses from any of the above categories:

   _____________________________    ________ 
   _____________________________    ________ 
   _____________________________    ________ 
   _____________________________    ________                                                                                    

University Requirements

Designated courses in Humanities and the Arts and the Social and Behavioral Sciences domains may be used to fulfill both the BGP requirement and one of the following university requirements:

Cultural Diversity in the US    ____________
International Perspective       ____________

Composition Requirement:
WRIT 1120                             

Total BGP Credits: Must be at least 36                      

Required Content for Teaching Specialty## (54 Hours)

Course NameTerms TakenGradeCore
EDWF 2400 - Business Problems of the Consumer
EDWF 2620 - Advanced Office Productivity and Educational Technology Applications
VCT 1030 - Introduction to Visual Communication Technology
BA 2030 - Effective Business Communication
ECON 2000 - Introduction to Economics
ESHP 1010 - Entrepreneurship: The Introduction
FIN 2000 - Personal Finance
FIN 3000 - Business Finance
LEGS 3010 - Legal Environment of Business
MGMT 3050 - Principles of Organization and Management
MGMT 3610 - Human Resource Management
MGMT 3900 - Business in the Global Arena
MKT 3000 - Principles of Marketing for Non-Business Majors
MKT 3020 - Consumer Behavior
MKT 3350 - Digital Marketing
MKT 4100 - Marketing Communication and Promotion
COMM 1020 - Introduction to Public Speaking
COOP 50 - Cooperative Internship or Academic Internship

Select One:

Course NameTerms TakenGradeCore
CS 1000 - Understanding Computers
IS 2000 - Introduction to Information Systems

Select One:

Course NameTerms TakenGradeCore
ACCT 2000 - Accounting Concepts for Nonbusiness Students
ACCT 2210 - Accounting and Business Concepts I

Professional Education## (55 Hours)

Years I - II: What does it mean to be a teacher? Who are my students?

Course NameTerms TakenGradeCore
EDIS 2310 - Introduction to Educating Students with Disabilities
EDTL 2010 - Introduction to Education
EDTL 2020 - Teaching Adolescents
EDWF 2000 - Introduction to Career Tech Workforce Education
EDFI 3020 - Educational Psychology

Year III: How do I teach so all students can learn?

Course NameTerms TakenGradeCore
EDFI 2980 - Schools, Society, and Cultural Diversity
EDFI 2990 - Field Experience in Cultural and Community Contexts

 

Methods Block One (Spring only)

EDTL 3400 - Instruction and Differentiation in Middle and High School Classrooms
EDTL 4200 - Disciplinary Literacy 4-12

Year IV: The Professional Year: “Who am I as a teacher?”

Course NameTerms TakenGradeCore

Methods Block Two (Fall only)

EDWF 4670 - Teaching and Learning in Career Tech Workforce Education
EDWF 4690 - Program and Laboratory-based Management
EDWF 4770 - Internship for Advanced Methods of Teaching and Learning
EDFI 4020 - Assessment and Evaluation in Education
EDL 4090 - Teaching as a Profession: Organization, Administration, and Policy in Schools

 

Student Teaching (Spring only)

EDWF 4960 - Advanced Seminar in Career Tech Workforce Education
EDTL 4970 - Teaching Internship

 

 

## All courses under Content for Teaching Specialty & Professional Education must be taken for a letter grade (not S/U) except EDTL 4970

Note:

IMPORTANT CHECKLISTS

  1. Application for the Methods Block One and Student Teaching is made at a sign up meeting held the Fall of the junior year. The Methods Block One is offered Spring semester only, Methods Block Two is offered Fall semester only, and Student Teaching is offered Spring semester only.
  2. Methods Block One Eligibility
    • ​A cumulative BGSU GPA of at least 2.8
    • A content specialty GPA of at least 3.0
  3. ​​Methods Block Two Eligibility
    • Attainment of 60 semester hours
    • A cumulative BGSU GPA of at least 3.0
    • Completion of the following courses with a grade of “C” or better:
      • COMM 1020
      • EDFI 3020
      • EDIS 2310
      • EDTL 2010
      • EDTL 3400
      • EDWF 2000
      • WRIT 1120   
  4. Prerequisites for Student Teaching (EDWF 4960 and EDTL 4970)
    • Completion of 90 semester hours
    • A cumulative GPA of at least 3.0
    • Completion of the following courses with a grade of “C” or better:
      • EDWF 4670 
      • EDWF 4690 
      • EDWF 4770 
      • EDFI 4020 
      • EDL 4090 

     ______ Passing score on required OAEs (see #7 in “Reminders”)

REMlNDERS:

  1. PSYC 1010 is a prerequisite to EDFI 3020, a required education course, and can be used as a social and behavioral science elective.
  2. ECON 2000 is a required course and can be used as social science electives and as an additional BG perspectives course.
  3. You may wish to choose a course that meets one of the Arts and Humanities elective requirements that are approved as an International Perspective course requirement.
  4. Meet with your advisor at least twice each year. The name of your advisor appears in the MyBGSU web page, click  on “MyAdvisor”
  5. BCI/FBI background checks must be renewed annually and send directly to the Office of Student Experience and Support by July 1. 
  6. SENIOR YEAR: You must apply for graduation online prior to the term deadline; complete applications for licensure during your student teaching semester (you will receive instructions for doing so during a required meeting that precedes student teaching).
  7. A passing score on all required Ohio Assessments for Educators (OAE) as determined each year by the Department of Education is required to be eligible for the Professional Year Internship (student teaching). (Note: OAE test requirements are subject to change, so continue to check with your program and the Ohio Department of Education for updates).
  8. Complete at least 30 hours of coursework at BGSU.
  9. From the MyBGSU web page, click on “My Degree Audit” link to access your degree audit.

NOTE: Undergraduate students and degree holders seeking licensure must meet all specified requirements, including successful completion of all state required assessments to qualify for the Integrated Business and the Marketing licensure. Those holding an undergraduate degree should consider the graduate-level licensure program in Integrated Business and Marketing (contact 419-372-2904).

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