Aug 27, 2025  
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

English, Teacher Certification 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 (3/6)  3
EN - 115 An Introduction to Fiction  
(Satisfies Expanded Literacies:Literary Analysis - 2/6)
3 EN - 110 An Introduction to Poetry  or EN - 112 An Introduction to Drama   3
ED - 109 The Educative Process   3 Free Elective 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 (5/6) or Free Elective 3 Expanded Literacies (5/6) or Free Elective 3
ED - 209 Cognition and Learning  
(Satisfies Expanded Literacies: Social Analysis -6/6)
3 EN - 250 American Romanticism   3
EN - 255 British Romanticism  or EN - 260 The Victorian Age   3 ED - 218 Introduction to Exceptionality   3
EN - 265 American Realism and Naturalism  or EN - 375 Topics in American Literature   3 Free Elective 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  
Lens 2 or 3 (1/3) or EN - 345 Literature of the Middle Ages   3 Lens 2 or 3 (1/3) or EN - 345 Literature of the Middle Ages   3
EN - 358 Shakespeare I  or EN - 359 Shakespeare II  (Satisfies Lens 1 - 2/3)   3 EN - 107 The Art of Creative Writing  or EN 212  or EN 312   3
Controlled Elective* 3 ED - 373 Teaching English Learners   3
ED - 366 Literacy Interventions 4-12   3 Free Elective 3
Free Elective 3 Free Elective 3
TOTAL CREDITS 15 TOTAL CREDITS 15

Year Four

Fall Spring
EN - 285 Contemporary Literature  or EN 376W  or EN 380   3 Catholicism in Dialogue or Lens 2 or 3 (3/3) 3
EN - 382 Women Writers  or EN - 384 African American Literature   3 Lens 2 or 3 (3/3) 3
EN - 485 Research Seminar   4 EN - 350 Topics in English Renaissance Literature  or EN 365  or EN 370     3
EN - 372 Literary Monsters  or EN 373  or EN 386  or EN 388   3 Free Elective 3
Free Elective 3    
TOTAL CREDITS 16 TOTAL CREDITS 12

TOTAL OVERALL CREDITS: 120

Year Five - Graduate M.Ed. Phase* **

Summer Fall
SC 518 3 SC 525 3
SC 519 3 SE 522 3
SC 524 3    
SC 522 3    
Spring Summer
SC 551 3 ED 600 3

TOTAL POST-BACHELOR’S CREDITS: 24

*Admission Requirements for Graduate M.Ed. Phase: (1) Satisfactory completion of ED 109, ED 209, ED 218, ED 366, and ED 373; (2) cumulative GPA of 3.0; and (3) passing score on PRAXIS English test.
**Additional tuition based on current M.Ed. Rates.

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