This page is intended to provide academic advisors with some recommendations on what to tell your students about the Bachelor of Science / Master of Arts in Teaching program that we are developing with National Louis University. There are some curricular requirements or recommendations that we can describe here, and you can pass them on to your advisees. If your students want to earn licensure as high school mathematics or science teachers in Illinois, there are requirements within your own major that you need to tell the students about; and for advisors in science departments, there are "deficiency course" requirements that you need to consider as well. These are the courses outside of a student's major that provide a cursory familiarity with other scientific disciplines. These may, in some cases, be trickier than the requirements within your own major.
Illinois does expect that a high school math, biology, chemistry, or physics teacher will have taken certain core courses in their own discipline. Anyone earning a BS in Applied Mathematics will have taken all of the state's required courses, except a History of Mathematics course. IIT doesn't currently offer a History of Mathematics course, and the History of Computing and History of Technology courses that are offered from our Humanities program don't satisfy the state's requirements: I checked. I have discussed the possibility of developing a History of Mathematics course with Chun Liu, chair of the Applied Mathematics Department; Michael Pelsmajer, Associate Chair; and Gorjana Popovic, lecturer in Applied Mathematics and former faculty member in IIT's now-closed Mathematics & Science Education Department. So there is a possibility that a course will be available in-house in the future. Meanwhile, there are options at National Louis and elsewhere.
As far as I can tell, the state's requirements within the disciplines for Biology, Chemistry, and Physics are fully satisfied by students majoring in those subjects.
Illinois expects that high school science teachers will have some familiarity with subject areas outside their primary discipline. This would enable those teachers to teach courses outside their discipline when called upon. These breadth requirements are in five areas: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Earth & Space Science, and Environmental Science. IIT has ample course-work in the first three areas. We're now discussing with the curricular experts at National Louis what the options are in the other two areas.
Biology: Non-biology majors can satisfy the biology breadth requirement by taking Biology 105, Biology 107, Biology 114, or Biology 115.
Chemistry: Non-chemistry majors can satisfy the chemistry breadth requirement with Chemistry 122 or 124. Biology and physics majors need to take one of those courses anyway, so that imposes no additional requirements on advisors.
Physics: Non-physics majors can satisfy the breadth requirement with Physics 123. Biology and chemistry majors need to take Physics 123 anyway, so that imposes no additional requirements on advisors.
Earth & Space Science: All science majors can satisfy the breadth requirements by taking Physics 360, Introduction to Astrophysics. The curricular experts at National Louis have confirmed that this course satisfies the requirement. This course requires Physics 221 (and therefore 123) as a prerequisite, but chemistry and biology majors have to take 221 anyway, so this is only a scheduling issue for advisors.
Environmental Science: The Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering Department offers a course called Introduction to Environmental Engineering, CAE/ENVE 402. The curricular expert at National Louis has confirmed that it satisfies Environmental Science requirement. CAEE intends to offer this course each spring, and it has no prerequisites.
Mathematics: I believe there is a mathematics requirement for science teachers, but I'm fairly confident that any biology, chemistry, or physics BS graduate will have taken considerably more mathematics than the state requires. I will confirm that soon.