I. FOUNDATION COURSES (18 CREDIT HOURS):
• Rhetoric and Composition I and II
• College Mathematics
• Oral Communication
• Modern Language

II. CULTURAL FOUNDATIONS (12 CREDIT HOURS):
• Literature and Human Experience
• American Experience
• American Dilemmas
• History and Evolution of Global Processes

III. MISSION COURSES (15 CREDIT HOURS):
• The Human Experience
• Ethics*
• Religious Studies/Philosophy
• Science in Perspective
• Science in Depth

IV. CORE COURSES (30 CREDIT HOURS):
• Children’s Literature
• Introduction to Creative Writing
• American Grammar
• Introduction to English Linguistics
• Language Acquisition and Second Language Methodology
• Emerging Literacy Methods
• Content Area Literacy
• Literacy Assessment and Diagnosis
• Literacy Methods: Developmental and Corrective

Select 3 hours from the following nine courses:
• Poetry Workshop
• Fiction Workshop
• Playwriting Workshop
• Special Creative Writing Workshops
• Creative Nonfiction Workshop
• Research and Argumentation
• Text and Discourse Analysis
• Revising and Editing
• Information Design

V. SUPPORTING COURSES (24 CREDIT HOURS):
• Arts for Children
• Teaching Mathematics in the Elementary School
• Teaching Science in the Elementary School
• World Geography
• History of Texas
• Health and Physical Education for Children
• Mathematics for Elementary Teachers
• Geometry for Elementary Teachers