At Mount Mercy, our job is to give you the tools to become a well-rounded, well-prepared teacher who will help their students succeed in today's diverse classroom. To do this, we offer programs in general education, concentration in a major field of learning, and a sequence of education courses leading to your professional licensure by the State of Iowa.

For education majors, an endorsement represents a competency to teach a given subject at a specific level, for instance history at the secondary level. At Mount Mercy, we offer the following endorsements:

• All Social Sciences
• Art-Education
• Business-General
• Business-Marketing/Management
• English-Language Arts
• History
• Mathematics-Education
• Music-Education
• Biology-Education
• Social Science-American Government
• Social Science-American History
• Social Science-Psychology
• Social Science-Sociology
• Social Science-World History
• Speech Communication-Theater

Mount Mercy also offers the following endorsements as minors for grades 5-12. These differ from original endorsements in that they must accompany an original endorsement:

• English-Language Arts
• Instructional Strategist Level I (5-12) (Special Education)*
• Instructional Strategist Level II (5-12) (Special Education)*
• Mathematics
• Middle School (5-8)*
• Multicategorical Resource Room*
• Science-Chemistry
• Science-General Science
• Social Science-American Government
• Social Science-American History
• Social Science-Economics
• Social Science-Psychology
• Social Science-Sociology
• Social Science-World History
• Speech Communication-Theater

*These endorsements must be paired with a subject area endorsement. Special education endorsements require an original endorsement from the list above.