(1) An applicant for initial licensure as an LBA shall show completion of an approved education program with a minimum of 225 classroom hours of instruction in behavior analysis content areas as follows:

(a) Fifteen hours of ethical considerations;

(b) Forty-five hours of definitions and characteristics and principles, processes, and concepts;

(c) Twenty hours of measurement of behavior and displaying and interpreting behavioral data;

(d) Twenty hours of experimental evaluation of interventions;

(e) Thirty-five hours of behavioral assessment and selecting intervention outcomes and strategies;

(f) Forty-five hours of behavior change procedures and systems support; and

(g) Forty-five hours in behavior analysis content on a discretionary basis.

(2) Classroom hours under this section may be taken in addition to the applicant's degree program if the hours are part of an accepted course sequence.