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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Education Major, BS in Education - Elementary Education Concentration (Undergraduate Internship)


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Progression Requirements

Progression to Elementary Education concentration requires a 2.75 cumulative GPA after a minimum of 12 semester hours of coursework. A Board of Admissions will meet once each fall and spring to review applications and conduct interviews with each applicant. Students admitted to the program must maintain a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.75 while in the program. Students must earn a grade of C or better in all teacher education courses. Students with less than a 2.75 GPA for two consecutive semesters will be dropped from the program. Students who fail to meet the standards for professional conduct during the course of their fieldwork will not be retained in the major.

Campus


Knoxville

uTrack Requirements


Universal Tracking (uTrack) is an academic monitoring system designed to help students stay on track for timely graduation. In order to remain on track, students must complete the minimum requirements for each tracking semester, known as milestones. Milestones include successful completion of specified courses and/or attainment of a minimum GPA. uTrack requirements only affect full-time, degree-seeking students.

Term 1


  • 3 Biological Science w/Lab 4 Credit Hours *
  • 4 Quantitative Reasoning (QR)  Elective 3 Credit Hours *
  • Unrestricted Elective 3 Credit Hours

Credit Hours 16


Term 1 Milestone Notes


  • 2.5 GPA

Term 2


Credit Hours 13-14


Term 2 Milestone Notes


  • 2.75 GPA

Term 3


  • Economics Elective 3 Credit Hours
  • Unrestricted Elective 3 Credit Hours

Credit Hours 15


Term 3 Milestone Notes


Credit Hours 15


Term 4 Milestone Notes


Credit Hours 16


Term 5 Milestone Notes


Credit Hours 16


Term 6 Milestone Notes


Credit Hours 14


Term 8 Milestone Notes


  • No milestones

Total Credit Hours 120-121


Footnotes


  1. Three courses from the Written Communication (WC) , First-year composition sequence, 2 courses, 3 credit hours each. Additional approved Written Communication (WC)  course.
  2. One course from approved Arts and Humanities (AH)  courses.
  3. Two courses from approved Natural Sciences (NS)  courses, one must have a laboratory.
  4. Two courses from approved Quantitative Reasoning (QR)  courses. Please note that students must select a math and/or statistics course.
  5. One course from approved Oral Communication (OC)  courses.
  6. One course from approved Social Sciences (SS)  courses.
  7. Two courses from approved Global Citizenship courses: Global Citizenship - International (GCI)  CSE 200 *; Global Citizenship - United States (GCUS)  CSE 300 *.
  8. One coure from approved Applied Oral Communication (AOC)  courses.
  9. Nine credit hours from at least two different subjects from approved Engaged Inquiries (EI)  courses.

* Meets Volunteer Core  Requirement.

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