Additional licensure
These programs allow educators who already hold a state teaching license to add additional areas of state teaching licensure.
Program course requirements may be completed as a specific objective or as part of an advanced degree program.
For more information about applying to additional licensure programs, contact the College's office of Student Services, 110 Wulling Hall, 86 Pleasant St. S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455; 612-625-6501; or e-mail: cehdgrad@umn.edu.
To apply to this program, download and complete this application form: Additional Licensure Application [.pdf]
Additional licensure is available in the following fields:
(Additional licensure areas listed below are followed in parentheses by the
grade or age range covered by the license.)
- Accommodation specialist for students with disabilities
- Adult basic education
- Agricultural education (grades 5-12)
- Business education (grades 5-12)
- Communication arts and literature education (grades 5-12)
- Developmental/adapted physical education [DAPE] (grades preK-12)
- English as a second language [ESL] (grades K-12)
- Family and consumer sciences education (grades 5-12)
- Keyboarding (grades K-8)
- Mathematics education (grades 5-12)
- Middle level (grades 5-8): for students with current
elementary teaching license for grades 1-6
- communication arts and literature
- mathematics
- general science
- social studies
- Middle level (grades 5-8): for students with current
secondary teaching license for grades 7-12
- communication arts and literature
- mathematics
- general science
- social studies
- Parent education (parent and family education)
- Reading (grades K-12)
- Science education
- chemistry (grades 9-12)
- earth and space science (grades 9-12)
- general science (grades 5-8)
- life science (grades 9-12)
- physics (grades 9-12)
- Social studies education (grades 5-12)
- Special education: for students with current
special education licenses. Other students
seeking special education licensure must complete
a separate
M.Ed./professional studies program in special education.
- deaf or hard of hearing (birth-grade 12)
- developmental disabilities (grades K-12)
- emotional/behavioral disorder (grades K-12)
- learning disabilities (grades K-12)
- Teacher coordinator of work-based learning
- World languages and cultures (grades K-8 or K-12)
- Arabic
- Chinese
- French
- German
- Hebrew
- Italian
- Japanese
- Latin
- Norwegian
- Ojibwe
- Polish
- Russian
- Spanish
- Swedish
updated January 2007