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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

Early Childhood and Elementary Education (ECEE) (BA) Sample Plan


Year One - Pre-Professional Phase

Fall Spring
EN - 103 Composition and Rhetoric I   3 EN - 104 Composition and Rhetoric II   3
PL - 109 Philosophical Thinking  or Expanded Literacies (1/6)                                           3 PL - 109 Philosophical Thinking  or Expanded Literacies (1/6)                               3
UNIV - 101 First-Year Experience   3 Expanded Literacies (2/6) 3
ED - 109 The Educative Process   3 EE - 201 Foundations in Early Education   3
    MA - 107 Mathematics for Teachers I 
(Satisfies Expanded Literacies: Mathematical Reasoning - 3/6)
3
TOTAL CREDITS 12 TOTAL CREDITS 15

Year Two - Pre-Professional Phase

Fall Spring
TH - 109 Catholic Theology  or Expanded Literacies (4/6) 3 TH - 109 Catholic Theology  or Expanded Literacies (4/6) 3
Expanded Literacies (5/6) 3 Lens 3 3
ED - 209 Cognition and Learning 
(Satisfies Expanded Literacies: SocialAnalysis - 6/6)
3 ED - 211 Family, School and Community   3
ED - 313 Literature for Children and Youth 
(Satisfies Lens 1)                           
3 ED - 218 Introduction to Exceptionality   3
MA - 108 Mathematics for Teachers II   3 EE - 335 Designing Instruction E.C.E.   3
UNIV - 110 Being Well  or FN - 100 Financial Literacy   1 UNIV - 110 Being Well  or FN - 100 Financial Literacy   1
TOTAL CREDITS 16 TOTAL CREDITS 16

Year Three - Professional Phase

Fall Spring
EE - 310 Emergent Language and Literacy - E.C.E.   3 Lens 2 (ED 375 recommended) 3
EE - 343 Integrating Arts and Physical Education - E.C.E.   3 EE - 314 Literacy for Early Elementary E.C.E.   3
EE - 346 Mathematics Methods E.C.E.   3 EE - 315 Social Studies Methods E.C.E.   3
ED - 364 The Inclusive Classroom   3 EE - 336 Science Content and Methods E.C.E.   3
ED - 366 Literacy Interventions 4-12   3 ED - 354 Assessment: Diverse Learners   3
EE - 190 Clinical One: Diverse Learning   3 EE - 290 Clinical Two: Engagement   3
TOTAL CREDITS 18 TOTAL CREDITS 18

Year Four - Professional Phase

Fall Spring
Catholicism in Dialogue                                                                                         3 EE - 430 Early Childhood Education Student Teaching: Planning and Preparation   3
EE - 326 STEM in the Elementary Class   3 EE - 432 Early Childhood Education Student Teaching: Classroom Environment   3
ED - 373 Teaching English Learners   3 EE - 434 Early Childhood Education Student Teaching: Instructional Delivery   3
EE - 390 Clinical Three: Effectiveness   3 EE - 436 Early Childhood Education Student Teaching: Professionalism   3
EE - 409 Advanced Designing Instruction   3    
TOTAL CREDITS 15 TOTAL CREDITS 12

TOTAL OVERALL CREDITS: 122

For more information about the requirements in our general education Connections Curriculum, which are included in the sample plan above, please see I. General Education (Connections Curriculum), which can be found in The Undergraduate Program