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Program Sample Plan

Program name: Elementary Education B.A.
Sub-plan: 1. Preprimary Education
Sample Plan: Preprimary Endorsement
Total Credits: 126.0
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Year 1 - Fall Semester: 18.0 cr
CMR 1052 - Introduction to Public Speaking : 2.0 cr : E/CR
ECON 1112 - Principles of Macroeconomics : 4.0 cr : SS
MUS 1041 - Introduction to Music : 4.0 cr : FA
Psy 1051 - Introduction to Psychology (prereq for 1061) 4.0 cr
STAT 1601 - Introduction to Statistics : 4.0 cr : M/SR
Year 1 - Spring Semester: 13.0 cr
ED 2121 - Introduction to Education : 4.0 cr : SS
ED 2111 - Tutor-Aide Experience : 1.0 cr
MATH 1001 - Excursions in Mathematics : 4.0 cr : M/SR
PSY 3112 - Cognition : 4.0 cr
Year 2 - Fall Semester: 17.0 cr
HIST 1301 - Introduction to U.S. History : 4.0 cr : HIST
PHYS 1052 - The Solar System : 5.0 cr : SCI-L
PSY 3111 - Sensation and Perception : 4.0 cr
PSY 3401 - Child Development : 4.0 cr
Year 2 - Spring Semester: 18.0 cr
ED 2131 - Foundations of Reading : 2.0 cr
GEOL 1001 - Environmental Geology: Geology in Daily Life : 4.0 cr : SCI
PSY 3402 - Adolescent and Emerging Adult Development : 4.0 cr
SOC 3122 - Sociology of Childhoods : 4.0 cr : HDIV
TH 2111 - Creative Drama with Children : 4.0 cr : ART/P
Year 3 - Fall Semester: 17.0 cr
ELED 3101 - Teaching and Learning Strategies : 3.0 cr
ELED 3102 - Reading Methods: Literacy and Language Instruction in the Elementary School : 4.0 cr
ELED 3103 - Mathematics in the Elementary School : 4.0 cr
ELED 3111 - Field Experience I: Field Experience in the Elementary Classroom : 2.0 cr
ENGL 3021 - Grammar and Language : 4.0 cr : HUM
Year 3 - Spring Semester: 13.0 cr
ELED 3201 - Preprimary Theory: Three-, Four-, and Five-Year-Olds in School : 1.0 cr
ELED 3202 - Middle Level Theory and Methods : 1.0 cr
ELED 3211 - Field Experience II: Field Experience in a Preprimary Setting : 1.0 cr
ELED 3203 - Preprimary Theory and Pedagogy : 4.0 cr
PSY 2581 - Drugs and Human Behavior : 2.0 cr : SS
PSY 3302 - Personality : 4.0 cr
Year 4 - Fall Semester: 13.0 cr
ED 4121 - Strategies for Inclusive Schooling : 2.0 cr
ELED 4102 - Social Studies in the Elementary School : 2.0 cr
ELED 4103 - Science in the Elementary School : 2.0 cr
ELED 4104 - Language Arts and Literature in the Elementary School : 3.0 cr
ELED 4107 - Health and Physical Education in the Elementary School : 1.0 cr
ELED 4111 - Field Experience III: Beginning Student Teaching : 2.0 cr
ELED 4112 - Field Experience IV: Cross-Cultural Experience in the Elementary School : 1.0 cr
Year 4 - Spring Semester: 17.0 cr
ELED 4201 - Directed Student Teaching in Primary and Intermediate Grades : 12.0 cr : HDIV
ELED 4206 - Practicum in Preprimary Classroom : 4.0 cr : HDIV
ED 4901 - The Teacher and Professional Development : 1.0 cr