Computer Science Endorsement

The Computer Science endorsement coursework provides current teachers with computer application understanding, such as hardware, software, networking, and use of computers in education.  Completion of requirements may lead to a subsequent endorsement from the Illinois State Board of Education. 

Computer Science Endorsement Scholarship

With funding provided by State Farm, employed and licensed 6th - 8th, 6th -12th, and 9th-12th grade teachers from McLean County should apply.

Degree Opportunity

Add the endorsement courses to a Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education, Middle Grades, or a Secondary Education program to earn this as a subsequent endorsement in addition to the teaching license. Current undergraduates students can add endorsement to their program of study.

Coursework enables students to:

• Explore the fundamental concepts of cybersecurity, be informed of cybersecurity vulnerabilities and threats, and practice techniques and gain tools for detecting and defending against cyber-attack.
• Examine file organizations and file access methods, as well as data redundancy.
• Study various data models including relational, heretical, network, and object-oriented.
• Cover topics such as number systems, sets, logic, functions and relations, combinations, permutations, probability, statistics, and discrete structures that are relevant to computer science.
• Learn structured programming techniques, the fundamentals concepts of computer networking with practical applications, and how to model threats to computer systems.
• Gain knowledge in the areas of data communications, networking technologies, OSI model, LAN, WAN, TCP/IP layers and protocols, Internet architecture.
• Meet ISBE’s requirement for earning a subsequent teaching endorsement in computer science.

Required Courses

To reflect the updated requirements for the ISBE Computer Science endorsements, the UIS catalog will be updated for 2024-2025.