Requirements and Courses

Although a Bachelor of Arts Honours Degree normally requires only 19 full-courses (114 units), your Con Ed requirement is for 20 full-courses (120 units). This is so you can be placed on the correct pay scale when you begin teaching.

Candidates planning to enter Final Year Education at Queen’s in the fall of 2013 must:

• Successfully complete all prerequisites courses by the second Friday in May 2013.
• Graduate in the spring of 2013. Fall is also acceptable with an approved extension.
• If you completed all of your courses at Queen’s, you do not need to send an official transcript from Queen’s to the Concurrent Education Assistant. We will print your Queen’s transcript and verify that you graduated in the spring 2013 convocation from your Arts and Science undergraduate degree.
• If you request an extension and are graduating in the fall, and take summer courses elsewhere with a letter of permission,  you must send in all official transcripts from other universities to the Faculty of Arts and Science for inclusion on your Queen’s transcript by 30 July 2013.

The requirements for each degree are different.

• You are enrolled in two faculties at Queen’s, the Faculty of Education AND the Faculty of Arts and Science.
• You are completing two different degrees at the same time, a Bachelor of Education degree AND a Bachelor of Arts, Science, Music or Computing.
• Your Arts & Science degree consists of your main campus undergrad courses like CHEM 112 or ENGL 100. Your Education degree consists of PROF and PRAC courses in Years 1-3, and in Final Year CURR, FOCI, EDST, FOUN and also PROF and PRAC courses.

• Your divisions (Intermediate-Senior or Primary-Junior) are chosen in the spring after first year.
• Each year we hold a workshop in late March to help you make an informed decision.
• If you choose Intermediate-Senior, you will also choose your two teaching subjects.
• You will make your choices on SOLUS.
• Instructions will be sent to you by email.

PJ students are not certified to teach specific subjects, so they do not have to take courses in those subjects to qualify for the Curriculum courses they will take in Final Year.

• This means they can major in anything offered in the Faculty of Arts & Science as long as it leads to an Honours (4-year) degree.
• PJ students are required to have a half-course in Developmental Psychology (covered by taking PSYC 100 at Queen’s). This is the only required course.
• We RECOMMEND that PJ students take a 3.0-unit course in six different subject areas so they will be better prepared to teach (note these are recommended, not required): English; The Arts (includes music, film, children’s literature, Shakespeare); Geography or Canadian History; Health or Physical Education; Science; Math or Statistics.

We highly recommend that IS students select teaching subjects to match their Arts and Science Plans (Major, Medial, and Minor).

Why?

• conflict-free course timetabling
• easy entry into required courses

Many departments in the Faculty of Arts and Science only allow students who have declared a Plan within their department access to courses during the first Enrolment Appointment period.

You may contact the department to determine if this restriction applies to your chosen subject area.

In some cases, if you do not have a Plan in the department that your teachable is in, you will not be able to get the courses you need for your teaching subject.

• Review the Visual Arts Teaching Subject chart.
• The required Art History (ARTH) courses are still offered at Queen’s (you must take at least one 6.0-unit course (ARTH 120), and can take up to three).
• The problem is that very few of the Fine Art (studio) ARTF courses are still offered. There is only one 3.0-unit course at Queen’s offered in 2013-14.
• In order to meet the requirements (12.0 units of studio classes including painting and drawing) you will have to do the following:
  
  • Find a course somewhere else that has the required number of units and covers painting and drawing. If you have already taken ARTF 102 you will have covered enough drawing, but you will need painting included in at least one of the courses you take elsewhere. The other courses should not overlap with the content of ARTF 102.
  • Check with our office to make sure the institution is accredited (it has to be an accredited university, not a college).
  • Apply to the Faculty of Arts & Science to get a Letter of Permission to take the class as an equivalent of one of the courses on the chart (pay $50 for each letter).
  • If the course you want does not match one of the courses listed (ARTF 100, 101, 102 105, 106 or 110), then you must also show the course description to the Faculty of Education Concurrent Education Assistant to have it approved for content for your Teaching Subject.
  • Apply as a Special Student at the other institution (this will include a fee)
  • When you have taken the course, send the transcript to The Faculty of Arts & Science.
  • When it appears on your Queen’s transcript as an equivalent of one of the Queen’s ARTF courses, or as ARTF UNSP, you will be able to count it towards your teaching subject and your degree.
• Some people have taken these courses and NOT counted them towards their Queen’s degrees. This is a bit different; contact the Concurrent Education Assistant if this is your plan.

In SOLUS, in the ‘other academic’ drop down menu, choose either:

• Course History, or View Unofficial Transcript.
• The University Registrar’s Office website gives the currently available release date for your marks. The Faculty of Education grading system is outlined in the Faculty of Education Calendar.
• The Faculty of Arts and Science follows a grading system that is different from the Faculty of Education.
• You have six years to complete both degrees.
• If you are placed on Academic Probation by Arts & Science, you must suspend your PROF and PRAC courses until you are released from probation in Arts & Science.
• If you are required to withdraw from Arts & Science for one year, you may come back and finish the Con Ed program in enough time, as long as you can still get 120 units in five years.
• If you are required to withdraw for three years, you may not continue in Con Ed because you would take too long to finish both programs.

Concurrent students interested in applying for a place in a Program Track are eligible for consideration in the year immediately preceding their final year.

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