As a post bachelor student, your completion of the licensure program (and needed content area courses) will lead to a teacher licensure and not a master’s degree.
The Educator Licensing Program at Colorado State offers these teaching endorsement areas for Post Bachelor students:
Pre-K – Grade 3
- Early Childhood Education
Kindergarten – Grade 12
- Art
- Foreign Languages
- Music
- Secondary
Secondary
- Agricultural Education
- Business Education
- Consumer and Family Studies
- English
- Marketing Education
- Mathematics
- Science
- Social Studies
- Technology Education
- Trade and Industry Education
For more information on teaching areas (endorsements), please go to this website
Along the left side, click on Teaching Areas...go down this page until you see an area of endorsement that might closely fit your area in which you wish to teach. The third page of these documents lists the content area courses that are needed. You would have the adviser for that area evaluate your transcript to see which content area courses you would need for licensure. (There is an adviser(s) for each content area that would look at transcripts and help determine which content courses you need to take. Start by calling the adviser(s) listed on the website here, to see which content area courses you will need.)
Teacher Licensure and Masters of Education.
If you have questions for the ECE and Post Bachelor licensure, please contact the Teacher Licensure Office by e-mail teachinfo@cahs.colostate.edu or by phone 970.491.5292.
Undergraduate students applying for admission to the Teacher Licensure Program must be seeking a bachelor’s degree at CSU in a major approved for educator licensing. Candidates will earn a bachelor’s degree in their content area (B.A., B.S., or B.M.) in addition to an institutional recommendation for a teaching license in their content area.
The program is designed to complement degree programs rather than add to them so that the student can complete their Colorado State experience in 4 years.
The Educator Licensing Program at Colorado State offers these teaching endorsement areas for undergraduate students:
Pre-K – Grade 3
- Early Childhood Education
Kindergarten – Grade 12
- Art
- Foreign Languages
- Music
Secondary
- Agricultural Education
- Business Education
- Consumer and Family Studies
- English
- Marketing Education
- Mathematics
- Science
- Social Studies
- Technology Education
- Trade and Industry Education
Undergraduate students will meet with a content area advisor to evaluate their transcript to confirm which content area courses are needed for licensure. Information regarding content advisors.
If you have questions for the ECE and Undergraduate licensure, please contact the Teacher Licensure Office by e-mail teachinfo@cahs.colostate.edu or by phone 970.491.5292.
NOTE: Colorado State University does not offer a teaching endorsement in elementary education (grades K-6).
Schools offering Elementary Education Options
The following is a listing of other universities/colleges in Colorado that provide an elementary education program:
- Adams State College
- Colorado Christian Univ.
- Colorado College
- Ft. Lewis College
- Mesa State College
- Metropolitan State College of Denver
- Regis University
- University of Colorado - Boulder
- University of Colorado - CO Springs
- University of Colorado - Denver
- University of Denver
- University of Northern Colorado
- University of Southern Colorado
- Western State College
The Teacher Licensure Program model for the secondary and K-12 teaching areas is below. The four-phase program was implemented to meet Colorado, NCATE, and other reform movements in teacher education. The implementation of the new Performance Based Standards for Colorado Teachers (CDE-2000) are evident throughout the new program design. NOTE: The courses listed apply to the Secondary and K-12 Programs. Courses for Early Childhood Education will vary from this listing. Information about these programs may be found by clicking on the specific program title.
Secondary and K-12 Endorsement Program Model (PDF file)
Candidates completing this professional Early Childhood Education (ECE) program are licensed in grades pre-kindergarten through third (ages 0-8) in Colorado. The ECE model is similar to the secondary and K-12 model; however, candidates enroll in a different set of education courses in Phase II and III for ECE. Field experiences are also organized in the P-3rd grade settings. Finally, admission to the ECE program is required before enrollment in Phase I education courses.
Early Childhood Education Program Model (PDF file)
2009 Early Childhood Education Application
