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2025-2026 Undergraduate Bulletin

Special Education (B.S.)

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Department of Teaching and Learning
Location: Claxton Bldg., Room 304
Phone: 931-221-7518
Website: www.apsu.edu/educ/

 

 

Students who major in our K-8 Special Education Interventionist program receive training in working with students with mild/moderate disabilities in today’s schools. This program consists on 125 hours of undergraduate coursework in the general education core, professional education minor and the special education major. Throughout the program, students will engage in over 150 hours of field experiences in addition to a full semester of residency II placements (student teaching).

Possible career options:

  • Classroom special education teacher (inclusion)
  • Special education consultant
  • More positions can be identified when under advisement with your academic advisor

     

Please visit the Special Education handbook for additional program requirements regarding admission, progression, dismissal, and program completion. 

Program CIP Code

08.13.1001.00

Program Modality

  • On-Ground

Program Student Learning Outcomes

K-12 Comprehensive Concentration

  • Students will be able to identify students with severe/profound disabilities in today’s schools and develop effective instructional strategies or interventions to use when teaching this population.
  • Students will be able to evaluate and interpret assessment data and make informed program instructional decisions appropriately.
  • Students will be able to collect observational data, evaluate, and apply research-based instructional strategies to daily instruction for program improvement.

 

6-12 Interventionist Concentration

  • Students will be able to identify students with mild/moderate disabilities in today’s schools and develop effective instructional strategies/interventions to use when teaching this population. 
  • Students will be able to evaluate and interpret assessment data and make informed program instructional decisions appropriately.
  • Students will be able to collect observational data, evaluate, and apply research-based instructional strategies to daily instruction for program improvement.

Curriculum

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