All students complete 12 credits
of core education courses, 12 credits of science,
and 6 credits of electives, which may be any combination
of education and science.
The Required Core Education
Courses Are:
EDCI 504 Evaluation and Measurement in Education
(3 cr, distance, fall or spring)
EDCI 505 Foundations
of Action Research in Science Teaching and Learning
(3 cr, distance, fall or spring)
EDCI 509 Implementing
Action Research in Teaching and Learning (3
cr, distance, fall only)
EDCI 575 Capstone
Project/Symposium in Science Education (3
cr, campus-final summer)
Teacher Quote
I
chose this program for the science courses,
but I wound up learning a lot more from the
education courses than I anticipated. These
are the first education courses I've taken that
were relevant and meaningful.
Texas
Teacher
The Science Courses Are:
In addition to completing core courses
as described above, each student also develops
interdisciplinary combinations of science content
courses (minimum 12 credits) from offerings in
two or more areas: biology, chemistry, earth science,
health and human development, land resources and
environmental sciences, mathematics, microbiology,
plant sciences, physics, and other related areas.
Some of the science content courses are listed
below. New classes are continually being developed.
 Indicates
a newly developed course.
Biology/Ecology
BIOL
513 Terrestrial
Ecology of Plains and Prairies ( 1 cr,
distance)
BIOL 516 Terrestrial
Ecology of the Northern Rocky Mountains (2
cr, campus)
BIOL 519 Biology
of Riparian Zones and Wetlands (2 cr,
distance)
BIOL 520 Understanding
and Managing Animal Biodiversity in the Greater
Yellowstone Ecosystem (2 cr, campus)
BIOL 522 Birds
of Prey of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
(2 cr, campus)
BIOL 523 Wildlife
Ecology of the Northern Rocky Mountains (2
cr, campus)
BIOL 580 Land
Use Issues in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
(2 cr, campus)
BIOL 580 Ecology
of Trout Streams (2 cr, campus)
Chemistry and Biochemistry
CHEM 500 Science
Lab Safety and Risk Management (1 cr, campus)
CHEM 505 Critical
Concepts in Chemistry (3 cr, campus)
CHEM 506 Enhancing
Laboratory Instruction with Use of Computers (2 cr, campus)
CHEM 580 Environmental
Measurements: Sensors and Electronics (3
cr, distance)
CHEM 580 Exploring Biochemistry for Teachers (3
cr, distance)
CHEM 580 Exploring Chemistry for Middle & High School Teachers (3
cr, distance)
CHEM 580 Exploring Organic Chemistry for Teachers (3
cr, distance)
CHEM 580 Special Topics: Equilibrium, Thermodynamics, Kinetics (3
cr, distance)
Earth Science ESCI 512
Mountains
and Plains Riparian Processes (2 cr,
distance)
ESCI 516 Northern
Rocky Mountain Geology (2 cr, campus)
ESCI 517 Electronic
Hydrology (2 cr, distance)
ESCI 519 Hydrology
of Streams and Lakes (3 cr, distance)
ESCI 500 Seminar:
Field Geology (1 cr, campus)
ESCI 580 Geology of Glacier National Park & Surrounding Areas (2 cr, campus)
GEOL 580 Dinosaur
Paleontology of Hell Creek Formation (2
cr, campus)
GEOL
580 Advanced
Paleontology for Teachers (2 cr, campus)
GEOL 580 Geology
of the Yellowstone Volcanic Center (2 cr,
campus)
Electrical Engineering
EE 580 Computer Microchip Manufacturing (2
cr, campus)
Health and Human Development
HDFN 524 Teaching
Adolescent Nutrition (2
cr, distance)
HDFN 526 Nutrition
for Fitness and Performance (3 cr,
distance)
Land Resources and Environmental Sciences
LRES 580 Water
Quality (3 cr,
distance)
LRES 580 Twelve
Principles of Soil Science (3 cr, distance)
LRES 557 Thermal
Biology in Yellowstone National Park (2
cr, campus)
LRES 569 Ecology
of Invasive Plants in the Greater Yellowstone
Ecosystem (2 cr, campus)
Mathematics MATH 427 Integrating
Mathematics and Science through Modeling (3
cr, distance)
MATH 518 Statistics
for Teachers (2 cr, distance)
MATH 519 Applications
of Statistics in the Mathematics Classroom
(2 cr, distance)
Microbiology
MB 536 Exploring Microbiology (3 cr, campus)
MB 538 Cell
and Molecular Biology (2 cr, campus)
MB 539 Infection and Immunity (3 cr, distance)
MB 540 Environmental Microbiology (3 cr, campus)
MB 541 Microbial
Genetics (3 cr, distance)
MB 580 Biofilms:
the Diversity of Slime (2 cr, campus)
MB 580 Current Topics in Microbiology (3 cr, distance)
Physics
PHYS 401
Physics
by Inquiry I (3 cr, campus)
PHYS 402 Physics
by Inquiry II (3 cr, campus)
PHYS 403 Special
Relativity On-line (3 cr, distance)
PHYS 404 Physics
by Inquiry III (3 cr, campus)
PHYS 480 Conceptual
Physics (3 cr, distance)
PHYS 511 Astronomy
for Teachers (3 cr, distance)
PHYS 512 General
Relativity On-line (3 cr, distance)
PHYS 513 Demystifying
Quantum Mechanics (3 cr, distance)
PHYS 514 Comparative
Planetology (3 cr, distance)
PHYS 580 Particle
Physics for Teachers (3 cr, distance)
PHYS 580 Studying
the Universe with Space Explorations (3
cr, distance)
PHYS 582 Astrobiology
for Teachers (3 cr, distance)
PHYS 583 The
Invisible Universe: The Search for Astronomical
Origins (3 cr, distance)
PHYS 580 Teaching
Mechanics Using Research-Based Curriculum
(2 cr, campus)
PHYS 580 Teaching
Electricity and Magnetism Using Research-Based
Currciulum (2 cr, campus)
Plant Sciences and Plant Pathology
PS
569 Flowering
Plants of Northern Rocky Mountains (2 cr,
campus)
PS 580 Plants,
People, and Health (2 cr, campus)
Range Science
ARNR 480 Yellowstone Range Ecology (2 cr,
campus)
The Electives Courses
are:
The final 6 credits of the 30 credit program
are electives and may include choices from education
or science. New classes appear each year. The
following courses are sample electives:
EDCI 536 Construction
of Curriculum (3 cr, campus and distance)
EDCI 537 Contemporary
Issues in Science Education (2 cr,
campus)
EDCI 580 Teaching
Inquiry in the Science Classroom (2 cr,
campus)
EDCI
580 Master
Teacher Strategies for Science Teachers (2
cr, campus)
MSSE
580 Web Tools for Teachers (3
cr, distance)
How are the on-line
courses taught?
*Campus - course offered on-campus during a summer
session
**Distance - distance delivery course offered
by asynchronous, computer-mediated communication |
