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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

Early Childhood and Elementary Education, Career Track (BA) Sample Plan


Year One 

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
Free Elective 3 MA - 107 Mathematics for Teachers I 
(Satisfies Expanded Literacies: Mathematical Reasoning - 3/6)
3
TOTAL CREDITS 15 TOTAL CREDITS 15

Year Two

Fall Spring
TH - 109 Catholic Theology  or Expanded Literacies (4/6) 3 TH - 109 Catholic Theology  or Expanded Literacies (4/6) 3
Expanded Literacies: Historical Analysis (5/6) or Free Elective 3 Expanded Literacies: Historical Analysis (5/6) or Free Elective 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

Fall Spring
EE - 310 Emergent Language and Literacy - 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 - 366 Literacy Interventions 4-12   3 EE - 336 Science Content and Methods E.C.E.   3
Lens 3 3 Free Elective 3
Free Elective 3 Free Elective 3
TOTAL CREDITS 15 TOTAL CREDITS 15

Year Four

Fall Spring
EE - 326 STEM in the Elementary Class                                                                        3 Lens 2 (ED 375 Recommended) 3
EE - 343 Integrating Arts and Physical Education - E.C.E.   3 Catholicism in Dialogue 3
Free Elective 3 ED - 495 Internship in Education   3
Free Elective  3 Free Elective 3
Free Elective 3 Free Elective 3
TOTAL CREDITS 15 TOTAL CREDITS 15

TOTAL OVERALL CREDITS: 120

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