Elementary Education - Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

This major is offered through the College of Arts and Sciences. 

Program reopened to new students effective Spring 2026*

Degree Requirements

Required Courses - Take All

Course NumberCourse TitleCredits
EDUC 251Foundations of Education

3

EDUC 261Human Growth and Development

3

EDUC 271Psychology of Learning

3

EDUC 301Practicum Early Childhood/Elementary Education

1

EDUC 302Practicum in Early Childhood/Elementary Education

1

EDUC 311/EDUC 311Reading and Language Arts in Early Childhood

3

EDUC 312Curriculum and Instruction in Early Childhood and Elementary School

3

EDUC 313Classroom Management Theory and Strategies

3

EDUC 320Teaching Early Childhood & Elementary Social Studies (PreK-6th grade)

3

EDUC 321Teaching Early Childhood and Elementary Science, Health and Physical Education (PreK-6th Grade)

3

EDUC 323Methods & Materials in Modern Early Childhood and Elementary Mathematics

3

EDUC 324Reading and Language Arts in Early Childhood Settings and Elementary Schools

3

EDUC 381Educating Diverse Learners

3

EDUC 400Reflective Teaching Tutorial

2

EDUC 401Student Teaching & Seminar: Early Childhood

3

Theology Course - Take One

Course NumberCourse TitleCredits
TRS 308BRace and Ethnicity in the Bible and Ancient World

3

TRS 325American Catholicism

3

TRS 331Theology and Human Rights in Latin America

3

TRS 338AReligion and Ethics on Film - Italian Style

3

TRS 357A/EDUC 357/TRS 357AJesus the Teacher: Parables, Proverbs and Metaphors

3

TRS 373Theology, Science and Technologies

3

TRS 380AThe Challenge of Religious Pluralism in the American Experience

3

TRS 381Ways of Peace in World Religions

3

TRS 383/SOC 363/TRS 383Race and Religion

3

TRS 485MJWays of Studying Religion

3

U.S. History - Take One

Course NumberCourse TitleCredits
HIST 208Transformative Texts II: Citizenship and Communities

3

HIST 257The Making of America, 1607-1877

3

HIST 258Emerging Superpower: The United States, from 1877-1991

3

HIST 261The Cold War

3

HIST 288/ANTH 208/HIST 288/SOC 207Bootleggers, Smugglers, Traffickers, and Cartels: The History of Crime and Justice on the Border

3

HIST 303African-American Race Relations in the U.S.: Reconstruction to Civil Rights Era

3

HIST 321/ANTH 321/HIST 321Historical Archaeology

3

HIST 324/ANTH 324/HIST 324Cultural Heritage of Native America

3

HIST 335Political Humour

3

HIST 347Introduction to American Cinema

3

HIST 348America and the World

3

HIST 348CVice in America

3

HIST 349/HIST 349/HSLS 354Washington: Symbol and City

3

HIST 349B/HIST 349BDiscovering Medieval DC: A Digital Humanities Approach to Public History

3

HIST 350Myth and Reality on the American Frontier: Violence, Race Democracy and the Forging of America

3

HIST 352Original Sins: Race and Freedom in Early America

3

HIST 353The Era of Civil War and Reconstruction

3

HIST 357Hist of Old South 1607-1865

3

HIST 358Interwar America: 1919-1941

3

HIST 358BPostwar America: 1945-1975

3

HIST 364The Rise and Fall of American Primacy: U.S. Foreign Policy Since The Cold War

3

HIST 375Revolutionary America and the Early Republic

3

HIST 379B/HIST 379BThe Legacy of Political Satire

3

HIST 393/HIST 393History and Public Life in the United States

3

Global History - Take One

Course NumberCourse TitleCredits
HIST 111Western Civilizations from Antiquity to the Renaissance

3

HIST 140Travel and Tourism in Latin America

3

HIST 142The Mongol Empire: Fire and Silk across Eurasia

3

HIST 200Blood Feuds, Bishop-Saints, and a Sea Monster: The Merovingian Kingdoms

3

HIST 202Food: A Global History

3

HIST 205/CLAS 205History of Ancient Greece

3

HIST 206/CLAS 206/CLAS 206R/HIST 206History of Ancient Rome

3

HIST 215Roman Law and its Legacy

3

HIST 215B/ANTH 215/HIST 215B/TRS 301Restoration of Biblical Past

3

HIST 216Beyond the 'Fall' of Rome, 400-800

3

HIST 217The Vikings

3

HIST 222Modern European History, 1789-Present

3

HIST 222A/EURO 203/HIST 222A/HIST 337AGlobal Europe since 1789

3

HIST 224Traveling in time: Germany from the Present to the Past

3

HIST 229Global Migrations to the New World, 1492-present

3

HIST 231World War I to 9/11: The World in the Twentieth Century

3

HIST 231ASoccer: A World History

3

HIST 235Medieval World

3

HIST 236AThe World of the Crusades

3

HIST 240/ANTH 240/HIST 240Politics of the Past: An Introduction to Cultural Heritage Studies

3

HIST 261The Cold War

3

HIST 282Modern Latin America

3

HIST 286/HIST 286/SPAN 286Mexico and Mexican America

3

HIST 301/CLAS 220/HIST 301Alexander 'the Great': From Myth to Man

3

HIST 308History of Byzantium and the Creation of the Orthodox World

3

HIST 308ANapoleon to Bin Laden: The Modern Middle East

3

HIST 308BModern Islam: Crisis, Defeat, and a Search for Order

3

HIST 309The Rise of Islam

3

HIST 309B/SEM 702/HIST 309BHistory of Ancient Israel

3

HIST 309CMuslims, Christians and Jews in the Mediterranean World

3

HIST 312Medieval Japan

3

HIST 312AEuropean Law from Antiquity to Napoleon

3

HIST 315/CLAS 207/HIST 315The Fall of Rome

3

HIST 316England After the Black Death

3

HIST 320Conquest and Resistance: The Normans, English, and Celts in Medieval Britain

3

HIST 321A/HIST 321A/TRS 321AThe Church in Africa

3

HIST 322Tudor England: Tyrants and Vagabonds

3

HIST 323The Renaissance, 1300-1530

3

HIST 325Europe in the Reformation Era, 1500-1648

3

HIST 328A/ENG 305/HIST 328AFrom Shakespeare to Sheridan: The Irish in the Theatre, 1600-1775

3

HIST 328BLondon's Modern Historical Geography

3

HIST 328CThe Culture and Performance Traditions of 17th-Century Rome

3

HIST 330BThe Crusades: Holy War and Jihad

3

HIST 331B/HIST 531B/HIST 331BFashion and Society Since 1500

3

HIST 337CRussia Since 1900

3

HIST 337DHistory of the Present: Introduction to Global History

3

HIST 338A/HIST 538A/HIST 338AThe Idea of Europe. European Integration since 1914

3

HIST 339British History, 1600-1800: Four Nations, One State

3

HIST 340A/HIST 639A/HIST 340AMapping History

3

HIST 345The Catholic Response to Protestant Reformation in the 16th Century

3

HIST 346Triumph and Catastrophe: The Habsburg Empire (1792-1920).

3

HIST 355/SOC 395B/POL 395B/TRS 395B/HIST 355The Holocaust, Judaism, and Israel

3

HIST 359Medieval Christianities

3

HIST 367Empires, Indians, and Colonists in America, 1492-1763

3

HIST 371AColonial Latin America

3

HIST 371BNew Nations and Revolutions: Modern Latin America, 1800-present

3

HIST 373AAmerican Religious History

3

HIST 380AMedieval Ireland to 1607

3

HIST 380D/HIST 380DIreland, 1541-1800: Kingdom, Colony, Province (and Nation?)

3

HIST 382CLatin America, Past and Present

3

HIST 392History of Latin American Religions

3

Social Science - Take One

Course NumberCourse TitleCredits
ANTH 202Sex & Culture in Modern World

3

ANTH 240/ANTH 240/HIST 240Politics of the Past: An Introduction to Cultural Heritage Studies

3

ANTH 264/ANTH 264/AFRI 264Public Heritage and the Africana Experience

3

ANTH 324Cultural Heritage of Native America

3

ANTH 355Latinos and Latinas in the U.S.

3

ANTH 366Identity & Community in America

3

SOC 110/AFRI 101/SOC 110Introduction to Africana Studies

3

SOC 203/ANTH 203/SOC 203Race and Ethnicity: Social Science Perspectives

3

SOC 307Education and Society

3

SOC 323Race Relations in Multicultural Societies

3

SOC 324Race and Ethnic Relations

3

SOC 326/SOC 326/SSS 326Diversity in a Multicultural Society

3

SOC 351/ANTH 303/SOC 351Inequality: The Intersection of Race, Class, and Gender

3

SOC 373Cross Cultural Gender Studies

3

SOC 383Disability Policies

3

SSS 326/SOC 326/SSS 326Diversity in a Multicultural Society

3

Probability and Statistics - Take One

Course NumberCourse TitleCredits
MATH 114Probability and Statistics

3

Natural Science - Take One

Course NumberCourse TitleCredits
BIOL 103Human Biology: What makes us human

3

Natural Science - Take One

Course NumberCourse TitleCredits
PHYS 10120th Century Physics I

3

PHYS 103/PHYS 103/SUMR 180Astronomy

3

PHYS 122Sound and Light in Nature, Arts and Technology

3

Geography - Take One

Course NumberCourse TitleCredits
ANTH 264/ANTH 264/AFRI 264Public Heritage and the Africana Experience

3

ANTH 353/ANTH 353Geographic Information Systems

3

ANTH 354Archaeology of Settlements & Landscapes

3

English - Take One

Course NumberCourse TitleCredits
ENG 325Contemporary English Grammar

3

ENG 326Workshop: Writing Improvement

3