• School of Education

K-12 Licenses: Physical Education 

The required courses for a teaching license in physical education 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
• EDU 5710 Teaching Literacy in the Middle and Secondary Schools (5-12)
• EDU 5720 Exceptionality
• EDU 5750 Teaching in Secondary Schools
• EDU 5900 Student Teaching Seminar
• EDU 5960 Student Teaching (K-12)

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

Related courses

• HLTH 1170 Personal and Community Health
• HLTH 1520 First Aid and Personal Safety
• HLTH 3630 Prevention and Management of Athletic Injuries
• BIOL 1120 Biology of Human Function
• PSY 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 Algebra-Based Physics
         w/lab: Algebra-Based Physics
• CHEM 1100 Chem-Energetics
• CHEM 1130 General Chemistry I

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

Interested in physical education AND health? Hamline offers a K-12 teaching license in physical education and health.