Advising Guides for Teacher Licensure
The following Advising Guides provide guidance for the sequence of courses you can take to complete your bachelor’s degree in Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics or Computer Science and earn teacher licensure for secondary grades.
Please note that these are unofficial advising guides, and you should meet with the advisor in your college for an official degree plan.
Students who are not majoring in one of the subjects below can still earn a teaching license in these five content areas by taking the required content courses (Google Drive doc) along with the STEM Education courses for Teacher Licensure (Google Drive doc).
Advising Guides by Major in a Teacher Licensure Subject
For the 2024-25 academic term, the following guides (all PDFs) will be updated this summer. Please check with a STEM Education advisor.
- Biology, Bachelor of Arts
- Biology, Bachelor of Science
- Chemistry, B.A.
- Chemistry, B.S.
- Physics, B.A.
- Physics, B.S.
For more undergraduate information, please contact:
- Peggy Ward, pdward@uark.edu — Science teaching advisor
- Kim McComas, kmccomas@uark.edu — Math and Computer Science teaching advisor
- Michelle Childress, mjc1219@uark.edu — STEM Education certificate and minor advisor
- Suzanne Wyatt, suzanneh@uark.edu — General STEM Education Advising for Fulbright majors
M.A.T. in Secondary Education
Students who cannot fit the STEM Education program into their undergraduate degree but would like to become a secondary math or science teacher should consider the one-year Master of Arts in Teaching in which a student earns a master's degree and teaching license.
- For science teaching, contact Stephen Burgin, Ph.D.
- For math teaching, contact Laura Kent, Ph.D.