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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

History, Social Studies 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
HI - 200 Making History   
(Satisfies Expanded Literacies: Historical Analysis - 2/6)
3

HI - 262 World History Since 1500  or HI - 214 Modern United States   

3
ED - 109 The Educative Process   3 PO - 103 American Federal Government   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
Controlled Career Prep Elective (1/4)** 3 Expanded Literacies (5/6) 3
ED - 209 Cognition and Learning   3 History Elective (1/6)* 3
SO - 109 Introduction to Sociology   3 HI - 262 World History Since 1500  or HI - 214 Modern United States   3
Free Elective 3 ED - 218 Introduction to Exceptionality   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 1 or 2 (1/2) 3 Lens 1 or 2 (2/2) 3
History Elective (2/6)* 3 Catholicism in Dialogue or Free Elective 3
History Elective (3/6)* 3 Controlled Career Prep Elective (2/4)** 3
ED - 366 Literacy Interventions 4-12   3 History Elective (4/6)* 3
EC - 209 Principles of Macroeconomics  
(Satisfies Expanded Literacies: Social Analysis - (6/6)
3 HI - 401 Seminar in Historical Research  or Free Elective 3-4
TOTAL CREDITS 15 TOTAL CREDITS 15-16

Year Four

Fall Spring
Catholicism in Dialogue or Free Elective 3 Catholicism in Dialogue or Free Elective 3
History Elective (5/6)* or Free Elective 3 HI - 401 Seminar in Historical Research  or Free Elective 3-4
History Elective (6/6)* 3   History Elective (5/6)* or Free Elective 3
Controlled Career Prep Elective (3/4)** 3 Controlled Career Prep Elective** 3
ED - 373 Teaching English Learners   3 Free Elective 3
TOTAL CREDITS 15 TOTAL CREDITS 15-16

TOTAL OVERALL CREDITS: 120

*Controlled History Electives - Students will take (6) History electives with at least (4) courses at the 300-level. Additional courses outside of History that are inter-disciplinary, textually dense, and at the 300-level can satisfy this requirement with the academic advisor’s approval. Additional courses to satisfy this requirement may be approved by the academic advisor. Students who take a course that satisfies Lens #1 or Lens #2 as an elective in the major cannot simultaneously have it count towards the general education requirement.

**Controlled Career Prep Electives - Choose four of the following: AB 217 , AB 272 ; CM 205 , CM 206 , CM 318 ; EN 312 /CM 340 ; MG 100 , MG 201 , MG 220 , BA 226 ; MK 201 ; PL 225 ; UNIV 140 .

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 .