Illinois Laborers' and Contractors/Joint Apprenticeship & Training Program

WED 460-3 Occupational Analysis and Curriculum Development
WED 461-3 Workforce Education Needs Assessment
WED 462-3 Instructional Methods and Materials
WED 463-3 Assessment of Learner Performance
WED 466-3 Foundations of Work Education
WED 469-3 Training Systems Management
WED 474-3 Individualized Training
WED 486-3 Adult Learning
WED 495-6 Instructional Internship

WED 496-6 Professional Internship

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Program Requirements

University Core Curriculum (UCC Requirements)¹	41
Requirements for major in Workforce Education and Development.	80
Core Requirement: WED 466.	3
Professional Sequence: WED 460, 461, 462, 463, 469, 474, 486, 495 and/or 496.	27
Technical/Professional Training: WED 259 Satisfied through occupationally related A.A.S. technical coursework, apprenticeship, or other documented professional training.	35
Work Experience: WED 258 Satisfied through one of the following: 1) Two years of documented full-time work experience occupationally related to technical/professional training; 2) One year of WED 395 - Supervised field experience; or 3) Combination of WED 258 and 395.	15
Total	121
¹Capstone reduces UCC requirement from 41 hours to 30 semester hours. Capstone option requires a minimum of 46 semester hours of Technical/Professional Training to account for the 11 semester hour difference in UCC requirements.

Technical/Professional Training

Technical/professional training includes all formalized instruction beyond high school in preparing for employment in an occupation. The credit can have been earned at SIU, credit transferred from other accredited institutions, formal training from other than accredited educational institutions, i.e. corporate, military, apprenticeship and so forth, or a combination thereof.

Work Experience

Work experience credit can be awarded for current employment, past employment or a combination thereof. ETD students are required to have a minimum of 15 semester hours of work experience credit as a part of the specialization. Up to 30 semester hours of credit can be earned by documenting four years of full time work experience.

To satisfy the ETD requirement, a student’s work experience and technical/professional training must be complementary.

Capstone Component

The 41 semester hour University Core Curriculum requirement of the ETD Regular option and the 30 semester hour total of the Capstone option results in a difference of 11 semester hours. This difference needs to be accounted for to meet the 121 semester hour total for graduation.

The difference may be satisfied in one of two ways: 1) add an additional 11 semester hours of work experience credit to the minimum 15 semester hour requirement of the student’s program, or 2) recognize an additional 11 semester hours of technical-professional training credit to the required 35 semester hours.