Secondary Licenses: Life Science
The required courses for a 9-12 teaching license in life science 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.
An optional general science 5-8 extension may be earned in combination with the life science license.
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 5740 Teaching Science in the Middle and High Schools
EDU 5780 Teaching in Secondary Schools
EDU 5900 Student Teaching Seminar
EDU 5930 Secondary Student Teaching (9-12)
Biology courses:
BIOL 1800 Principles of Ecology and Evolution
BIOL 1820 Principles of Plant/Animal Physiology
BIOL 3050 Principles of Genetics
BIOL 3060 Principles of Cell Biology
BIOL 5950 Biology Seminar (4 semesters during junior and senior years)
Four 3000 or 5000 level biology electives
Biology Research Experience—Biology elective with a Q or an independent study lab project or a collaborative research project
Related courses:
CHEM 1130 General Chemistry I
CHEM 1140 General Chemistry II
1 approved statistics course (MATH 1200, M&E 1230, or PSY 1340)
Two additional courses from the following list:
PHYS 1150/1230 Physics I
PHYS 1160/1240 Physics II
MATH 1170 Calculus I
MATH 1180 Calculus II
CHEM 3450 Organic Chemistry I
CHEM 3460 Organic Chemistry II
Additional courses for optional 5-8 general science license:
PHYS 1150/1230 Physics I
PHYS 1160/1240 Physics II
PHYS 101 Astronomy (taken at Augsburg)
GEOL 150 Dynamic Earth and Global Change (taken at Macalester)
See the secondary life science licensure requirements form for a full description of the required courses and tests. | 
