K-12 Licenses: Physical Education and Health

The requirements for a K-12 teaching license in physical education and health are listed below. All teaching candidates are advised that completion of the program within a four-year time frame requires careful planning. If you seek a license to teach, please seek early advising from the School of Education to plan your program.

The Licensure Requirements Form lists a full description of the required courses and tests.

Education courses:
EDU 3150 Schools and Society
EDU 3250 Educational Psychology
EDU 5620 Education and Cultural Diversity
EDU 5640 Families, Schools, and Communities
EDU 5690 Theory to Practice 5-8
EDU 5710 Teaching Literacy in the Middle and High Schools
EDU 5720 Exceptionality
EDU 5750 Teaching in Secondary Schools
EDU 5900 Student Teaching Seminar
EDU 5960 K-12 Student Teaching

Physical education courses:
PHED 1400 Fundamental Concepts of Physical Education
PHED 1540 Individual Activities
PHED 1550 Rhythms
PHED 1570 Lifetime Sports
PHED 1650 Team Sports
PHED 3350 W.S.I. Teaching Aquatics
EXSS 335 Kinesiology/Biomechanics (taken at College of St. Catherine)
PHED 5620 Adaptive/Developmental Physical Education
PHED 5640 Physiology of Exercise
PHED 5850 Physical Education in the Elementary School
PHED 5910 Scientific Base for Physical Education
PHED 5920 Programming and Evaluation in Physical Education
PHED 5940 Management of Physical Education and Athletics

Health education courses:
EDU 3370 Teaching Health in the Elementary School
HLTH 1170 Personal and Community Health
HLTH 1520 First Aid and Personal Safety
HLTH 3630 Prevention and Management of Athletic Injuries
HLTH 3700 Critical Issues in Health Education
HLTH 5890 School Health Programs

Related courses:
BIO 1120 Biology of Human Function
PSYC 1330 General Psychology

Choose one of the following:
SOC 1110 Introduction to Sociological Thinking
ANTH 1160 Introduction to Anthropology

Choose one of the following:
PHYS 1130 Physics for Poets
PHYS 1150 General Physics
CHEM 1100 Chem-Energetics
CHEM 1130 General Chemistry I 

See the K-12 physical education and health licensure requirements form to a full description of the required courses and tests.

Only interested in a teaching license in physical education? Hamline offers a K-12 teaching license in physical education without the health component.