Career and Technical Education (CTE) is an area of public education that focuses on providing students with opportunities in high skill, high demand and high wage areas. Appalachian State University prepares individuals to teach students about these areas at the middle and high school level, at the postsecondary level, in industry and through cooperative extension agencies. Appalachian is the only institution in the state that prepares CTE teachers, and is widely recognized as providing top-quality teachers for the public schools.
Just as young people need to be taught how to read, write or calculate, they also need education in business, marketing and financial literacy, family and consumer sciences literacy and technological literacy. Appalachian prepares future teachers in these areas through five certification tracks within the Career and Technical Education (BS) program:
- Business, Finance and Information Technology Education
- Business, Marketing and Entrepreneurship Education
- Family and Consumer Sciences
- Technology, Engineering and Design Education
- Trade and Industrial Education
In the Career and Technical Education (BS) - Technology, Engineering and Design Education degree, you will explore broad-based technological literacy in the areas of design, engineering, communication, manufacturing, construction and transportation technologies. You will dive deeper into your studies through focused Second Academic Concentrations related to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), graphic communications, sustainable design and technology or materials science.
Transfer students or students who have completed Community College courses related to a specific skill area should contact the program director to determine if these courses can count toward a program of study at Appalachian.