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Columns::October 20, 2003

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New dual degree offered for UGA undergraduates

By Michael Childs
mchilds@coe.uga.edu

Two of the university’s largest academic units--the colleges of Education and Arts and Sciences--have teamed up to offer a new opportunity for undergraduate students to earn teacher certification in conjunction with an arts and sciences degree.
The new dual degree programs will open the career path of teaching to many undergraduate students, while helping meet the state of Georgia’s growing need for quality teachers.
“Dual degrees will serve as a recruitment tool for encouraging bright students majoring in arts and sciences to consider teaching in a secondary teaching field,” says Cindy Molloy, director of recruitment for the College of Education.
UGA students will now be able to earn degrees from both colleges with only about nine additional semester hours of coursework.
Dual degrees in mathematics/mathematics education, biology/science education-biology, history/social science education and English/English education have been approved by both colleges and moved through the university approval process.
Implementation of the programs will begin in spring 2004.
“With the promotion and implementation of dual degree programs, it is our belief that a higher level of teacher quality and student achievement can be attained,” says Michael Padilla, professor of science education and director for educator partnerships in the education college. “Dual degrees will accommodate students interested in a variety of career options and provide school systems with teachers possessing expert content backgrounds in subjects of state and national concern, such as mathematics and science.”
The dual degree program is the result of work by faculty and staff in both colleges who are involved in the Georgia Systemic Teacher Education Program, a five-year, statewide program focusing on improving teacher quality funded by a $6.5 million U.S. Department of Education grant.

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