Career and Technical Education, BS

The Career and Technical Education B.S. degree, a non-licensure program, prepares subject matter experts to become teachers, trainers, and educational leaders within occupation-specific business, technical, trade, or industry career clusters that influence and serve students in modern educational and workplace settings.

Career and Technical Education B.S. Program Vision: To create an effective and efficient workforce.

Career and Technical Education B.S. Program Mission Statement: To provide subject matter experts with opportunities to develop course content guided by pedagogical and technological approaches based on FL state and national CTE teaching standards.

Successful completion of this program affords career opportunities as CTE degreed teachers (e.g. Agriculture, Business Ed, Engineering & Technology Ed, Family & Consumer Science, and Marketing), non-degreed CTE teachers (trade and industry), CTE program coordinators, CTE curriculum specialists, workforce/corporate development trainers, and career development counselors and career advising specialists, etc.

Degree Requirements

• Achieve a minimum overall 2.0 GPA within the major.
• Achieve a minimum 2.0 GPA in education core coursework.
• Achieve a minimum 2.0 GPA in technical specialization coursework.
• Achieve a minimum overall 2.0 GPA

The program is offered as an online track and a traditional modality track. It may be completed fully online, although not all elective course options or program prerequisites may be offered online. For more information, please review UCF Online. This degree is not an initial teacher certification at the state level.

Degree Requirements

Core Requirements

• Complete all of the following
  Basic Level
  • Complete all of the following
    • A minimum letter grade of "C" (2.0) or better is required in all core coursework.
    • Complete the following:
      • ECT2002 - Introduction to Career and Technical Teaching and Training (3)
  Advanced Level
  • Complete the following:
    • ECT3062 - Professional Roles of the Career & Technical Teacher (3)
    • ECT3365 - General Methods/Testing Evaluation in Career & Technical Education (3)
    • ECT3367 - Evaluation of Career & Technical Education Instruction (3)
    • ECW3564 - Special Populations in Career & Technical Education (3)
    • ECT4004 - Principles and Practices of Technical Education (3)
    • ECT4184 - Curriculum Development Techniques for Industry Training (3)
    • ADE4382 - Teaching Adult Learners in Technical Programs (3)
    • ECT4815 - Safety in the Technical Education Classroom and Laboratory (3)
    • ECT4384 - Advanced Teaching Techniques for Career Education (3)

Course Construction

• Complete all of the following
  • A minimum letter grade of "C" (2.0) or better is required
  • Complete at least 1 of the following:
    • BTE4410 - Course Construction in Business Education (3)
    • ECW3312 - Course Construction in Health Occupations Education (3)
    • ECT3371 - Course Construction in Industrial Education (3)

Technical Specialization

• Complete all of the following
  • A minimum letter grade of "C" (2.0) or better is required in all technical specialization coursework.
  • Earn at least 6 credits from the following types of courses: Students must complete an area of specialization through occupation-specific courses approved by advisor. *May need additional elective courses to meet 120 undergraduate credit hours per the university minimum exit requirements. See advisor for more information.

Restricted Electives

• Complete all of the following
  Upper Division Electives
  • Complete all of the following
    • Earn at least 9 credits from the following types of courses: Upper Division Electives with advisor's approval
    • A minimum letter grade of "C" (2.0) or better is required in all upper division elective coursework.
  Directed Field Experience
  • Earn at least 12 credits from the following types of courses: Directed Field Experience/Internship The Technical Specialization must be satisfied, and all courses must be completed prior to registering, through your advisor, for the Directed Field Experience. This supervised internship may be completed in an educational or industrial setting, or with the UCF program faculty assisting in teaching web-based courses. The internship course has a S/U grading policy. An internship application and other requirements are necessary before admission into the internship course.

Grand Total Credits: 60

Minors

Minors may be selected for a technical specialization area. See advisor for more information.

Foreign Language Requirements

State University System foreign language admission requirement: two years in high school or one year of college instruction in a single foreign language. (This requirement applies to those students admitted to the University without the required two units of foreign language in high school.)

Departmental Exit Requirements

• Achieve a minimum 2.0 GPA in all courses within the major.
• Achieve a minimum 2.0 GPA in the specialization coursework.
• Achieve a minimum 2.0 GPA in the education core advanced level coursework.
• Achieve a minimum overall 2.0 GPA

University Minimum Exit Requirements

• A 2.0 UCF GPA
• 42 semester hours of upper division credit completed
• 30 of the last 39 hours of course work must be completed in residency at UCF.
• A maximum of 45 hours of extension, correspondence, CLEP, Credit by Exam, and Armed Forces credits permitted.
• Complete the General Education Program, the State Writing and Math Requirement, and nine hours of summer credit.

Total Undergraduate Credit Hours Required: 120

• Earn a minimum of 120 unduplicated credit hours with at least a "C" average (2.0 GPA) for all UCF course work attempted.
• See Department Exit Requirements for minimum GPA in all courses within the major.
• See UCF catalog for more information.

Additional Information

Program Academic Learning Compacts

• Program Academic Learning Compacts (student learning outcomes) for undergraduate programs are located at: https://oeas.ucf.edu/about/studentlearningoutcomes/