• School of Education

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.

Contact an Undergraduate Teacher Education faculty adviser for the licensure requirements associated with this license.

Education courses

• EDU 1150 Schools and Society
• EDU 1150 Schools and Society - LAB
• EDU 1250 Educational Psychology
• EDU 3500 Diversity and Education
• EDU 3500 Diversity and Education - LAB 
• EDU 3260 Theory to Practice
• EDU 5710 Teaching Literacy in the Middle and Secondary Schools (5-12)
• EDU 3620 Exceptionality
• EDU 3620 Exceptionality - LAB
• EDU 5700 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

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.