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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

Early Childhood Elementary Education (PreK-4) and Special Education (PreK-12) Dual Certification (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 TH - 109 Catholic Theology  or Expanded Literacies (3/6) 3
ED - 109 The Educative Process   3 ED - 218 Introduction to Exceptionality   3
ED - 209 Cognition and Learning 
(Satisfies Expanded Literacies: SocialAnalysis - 2/6)
3 MA - 107 Mathematics for Teachers I  
(Satisfies Expanded Literacies: Mathematical Reasoning - 4/6)
3
TOTAL CREDITS 15 TOTAL CREDITS 15

Year Two - Pre-Professional Phase

Fall Spring
TH - 109 Catholic Theology  or Expanded Literacies (3/6) 3 Catholicism in Dialogue 3
Expanded Literacies (5/6) 3 Lens 2 (ED 375 recommended) 3
Expanded Literacies: (6/6) 3 Lens 3 3
ED - 364 The Inclusive Classroom    3 EE - 335 Designing Instruction E.C.E.   3
MA - 108 Mathematics for Teachers II   3 SE - 304 Curricula and Strategies for Moderate to Severe   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
ED - 313 Literature for Children and Youth 
(Satisfies Lens 1)  
3 EE - 314 Literacy for Early Elementary E.C.E.   3
ED - 366 Literacy Interventions 4-12   3 EE - 315 Social Studies Methods E.C.E.   3
EE - 310 Emergent Language and Literacy - E.C.E.   3 EE - 336 Science Content and Methods E.C.E.   3
EE - 343 Integrating Arts and Physical Education - E.C.E.   3 SE - 312 Technology in Special Education   3
EE - 346 Mathematics Methods E.C.E.   3 SE - 318 Positive Behavior Management   3
SE - 190 Clinical Field Experience 1: Diverse Learning   3 SE - 290 Clinical Field Experience 2: Engagement     3
TOTAL CREDITS 18 TOTAL CREDITS 18

Year Four - Professional Phase

Fall Spring
ED - 373 Teaching English Learners                                       3 SE - 430 Planning and Preparation   3
EE - 409 Advanced Designing Instruction   3 SE - 432 Classroom Management   3
SE - 308 Collaboration and Transition   3 SE - 434 Instructional Delivery   3
SE - 316 Curricula and Strategies for Mild Disabilities   3 SE - 436 Professionalism   3
SE - 323 Assessment and IEP Development   3    
SE - 390 Clinical Field Experience 3: Effectiveness   3    
TOTAL CREDITS 18 TOTAL CREDITS 12

TOTAL OVERALL CREDITS: 128

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