Degree Programs

Bachelor of Arts - Elementary Education
(K-9 Certification)
Summary of Required Courses

Application & Matriculation Requirements
Four Year Suggested Plan

Basic Skills Core (9 hours required)

  • ENG 111 Composition & Rhetoric (3 Hrs.)
  • ENG 112 Composition & Research (3 Hrs.)
  • SPH 110 Fundamentals of Speech (3 Hrs.)
  • Math is satisfied by elementary education major core requirements.

Common Core (12 hours required)

  • HUM 250 The Contemporary World (3Hrs.)
  • American History (3 Hrs.)

Arts & Humanities Core (12 hours required)

  • Must include a literature course

Natural Sciences Core (12 hours required)

  • Must include biological & physical science courses
  • Must include one lab course

Social Science Core (9 hours required)

  • PLSC 102 American Government (3 Hrs.)
  • EDUC 210 Educational Psychology (3 Hrs.)
  • Economics, Anthropology, Political Science, Psychology, or Sociology (3 Hrs.)

Multi-Cultural/Non-Western Culture (3 hours required)

  • May be a history or literature course or another area that satisfies guidelines

Elementary Education Major Core

  • MATH 112 Math for Elementary Teachers I (4 Hrs.)
  • MATH 222 Math for Elementary Teachers II (4 Hrs.)
  • EDUC 200 Preclinical Experience (1 Hr.)
  • EDUC 205 Hist. & Phil. Of Education (3 Hrs.)
  • EDUC 215 Technology for Teachers (3 Hrs.)
  • EDUC 240 Reading & Language Arts (3 Hrs.)
  • EDUC 260 Survey of Excep. Child (3 Hrs.)
  • EDUC 310 Measurement & Eval (3 Hrs.)
  • EDUC 312 Methods of Teach Soc Sci (3 Hrs.)
  • EDUC 315 Methods of Teach Math (3 Hrs.)
  • EDUC 316 Preclinical Exp Elem Math (0 Hrs.)
  • EDUC 318 Methods of Teach Sci (3 Hrs.)
  • EDUC 320 Literacy & Assessment (3 Hrs.)
  • EDUC 321 Preclinical Exp Reading (0 Hrs.)
  • Professional Elective (3 Hrs.)
  • PHED 257 Wellnes (2 Hrs.)
  • EDUC 370 Student Teaching (12 Hrs.)

Note - Course EDUC 206 is required (Transfer Introduction to Education Seminar) during the first semester at Benedictine University. (0 Credit)

 

 

Forms and Handbooks

Application for Preclinical Placement
Preclinical Handbook

Student Teaching Application
Student Teaching Handbook

Professional Portfolio Handbook

Teacher Education Handbook

 

Laine Tadlock, Ph.D
Education Program Director
Ext. 289

Maureen Lavin
Assistant Program Director
Ext. 293

Kathy Wolken
Administrative Assistant
Ext. 265

Elementary Education
Faculty

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