Program of Study
Bachelor of Arts in Special Education
College of Education

The Program

The program will center on the Learning Behavior Specialist I special education endorsement on the Type 10 (Pre-K – 12) special certificate. 

This means that individuals graduating from this program will be accredited to teach children with specific learning disabilities, emotional disturbances, cognitive disabilities, autism, physical disabilities, other health impairments, and traumatic brain injury.  In many cases, exceptional students experience more than one disability, and graduates of the Roosevelt program will be prepared to work with this population.

Students enrolled in the Roosevelt program will spend a considerable amount of time on site in kindergarten through 12th grade classrooms, starting with their first semester in the program.  Roosevelt students also will be required to take non-exceptional education courses, enabling them to teach mixed classrooms of exceptional and mainstream students.

Degree Requirements

Professional Education Sequence (24 Semester Hours):

• EDUC 200 Foundation of American Education
• EDUC 210 Child Development
• EDUC 303 Health for Educators
• EDUC 315 Adolescent Development
• ELED 321 Methods of Teaching Mathematics
• READ 320 Methods of Teaching Reading
• SPED 261 Field Experience in Special Education
• SPED 309 Child, Parent, and Community
• SPED 319 Exceptional Children and youth
• SPED 340 Assessment in Special Education
• SPED 342 Characteristics and Methods of Teaching Students with Disabilities: Focus on Cognition
• SPED 343 Characteristics and Methods of Teaching Students with Disabilities: Focus on Behavior Problems
• SPED 345 Characteristics and Methods of Teaching Students with Disabilities: Focus on Physical and Other Health-Related Impairments
• SPED 346 Characteristics and Methods of Teaching Students with Disabilities: Focus on Perception and other Specific Leaning Disabilities
• SPED 361 Internship in Special Education
• SPED 366 Students Teaching in Special Education

Total Semester Hours: 61

General Education Requirements

Students must provide transcripts and credits evaluation for a program advisor to determine courses that are acceptable toward fulfillment of general education requirements.

• Written Communication
• Mathematics
• Biological and Physical Sciences, one course must be a lab course
• Humanities
• Social Sciences
• United States History
• American Government
• One Non-Western, third world studies course
• No grade below a C accepted in general education

In order to qualify for Roosevelt University’s College of Education recommendation for the Learning/Behavior Specialist 1 special education endorsements on the Type 10 (K-12) special certificate, students must meet all requirements before admission to the program. Illinois State Board of Education also requires satisfactory scores on the Illinois Test of Basic Skills.