Political Science, Social Science Teacher Certification Track (BA) Sample Plan

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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	PO - 109 Government, Law, and Society (Satisfies Expanded Literacies: Social Analysis - 2/6)	3
EC - 209 Principles of Macroeconomics	3	Controlled Political Science Elective*	3
PO - 103 American Federal Government	3	Free Elective	3
TOTAL CREDITS	15	TOTAL CREDITS	15
Year Two
Fall		Spring
TH - 109 Catholic Theology or Expanded Literacies (3/6)	3	TH - 109 Catholic Theology or Expanded Literacies (3/6)	3
Expanded Literacies (4/6) or Controlled Political Science Elective*	3	Expanded Literacies (4/6) or Controlled Political Science Elective*	3
ED - 109 The Educative Process	3	ED - 218 Introduction to Exceptionality	3
PO - 201 Classical Political Thought (Satisfies Expanded Literacies: Historical Analysis - 5/6)	3	PO - 202 Modern Political Thought	3
PO - 255 President and Congress	3	PO - 256 Social Justice Policy	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, 2, or 3 (1/3)	3	Lens 1, 2, or 3 (2/3)	3
Expanded Literacies (6/6) or Free Elective	3	Expanded Literacies (6/6) or Free Elective	3
Controlled Political Science Elective*	3	PO - 108 International Relations	3
ED - 209 Cognition and Learning	3	Controlled Political Science Elective*	3
ED - 366 Literacy Interventions 4-12	3	Free Elective	3
TOTAL CREDITS	15	TOTAL CREDITS	15
Year Four
Fall		Spring
Catholicism in Dialogue or Lens 1, 2, or 3 (3/3)	3	Catholicism in Dialogue or Lens 1, 2, or 3 (3/3)	3
Controlled Political Science Elective*	3	Controlled Political Science Elective*	3
ED - 373 Teaching English Learners	3	Free Elective	3
PO - 362 Senior Seminar: Public Policy and Law	3	Free Elective	3
Free Elective	3	Free Elective	1
TOTAL CREDITS	15	TOTAL CREDITS	13
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
For Controlled Political Science Electives - Choose one* of: PO 107 or PO 215 . Choose two of: PO 313 , PO 315W , or PO 317 . Choose two of: PO 270 , PO 280 , PO 330 , or PO 475 . Choose one of: CJ 350 ; CS 105 ; MA 111 ; or PS 205 .

**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 Biology 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 .