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Honors College students who are majoring in education follow specially-designed plans in order to complete both the Honors College requirements and the requirements for their major. Students pursuing the Bachelor of Science in Education—either at the elementary level (K–6) or the high-school level (7–12)—will be able to complete their Honors College requirements and the pre-education requirements in their first two years before jumping into their education requirements in their last two years.

If you are interested in the Honors College and want to pursue a degree in classical Christian education, consider pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Classical Christian Education alongside your Honors College studies. Honors College students who are Classical Christian Education majors follow the standard three-year Honors College pathway to graduation.

Regardless of which education program you pursue at HCU, there is an Honors College degree plan and pathway to graduation for you.

Degree Plans and Pathways

Below you'll find links to the PDF with the Honors College core requirements (the list of courses and requirements you will need to complete in order to complete the core as an education major) as well as tables of the pathways (the semester-by-semester sequences in which you will complete your degree plan). For the sake of simplicity, these pathways list only the courses required for the Honors College core.

 

Year Fall Spring
First Year HNRS 1410 Honors Chronology: Ancient
HNRS 1300 Story & History
HNRS 1020 Honors Writing I
HNRS 1030 Honors Lecture I
HNRS 2100 Honors Reading
FYS 1300 Freshman Year Seminar
HNRS 1440 Honors Chronology: Medieval
HNRS 1380 Faith, Reason & Romance
HNRS 1050 Honors Writing II
HNRS 1060 Honors Lecture II
CHEM 1411 Chemistry of Our World
MATH 1305 Math for Critical Thinking
Second Year HNRS 2410 Honors Chronology: Early Modern
HNRS 2020 Honors Writing III
HNRS 2030 Honors Lecture III
PSYC 1313 General Psychology

HNRS 2100 Honors Readings
or HNRS 2150 Honors Art

HNRS 2440 Honors Chronology: The Last 300 Years
HNRS 3640 The Story of Scripture
HNRS 2050 Honors Writing IV
HNRS 2060 Honors Lecture IV
Three credit-hours of upper-division humanities

Education Majors Honors College Core Requirements

Year Fall Spring
First Year HNRS 1410 Honors Chronology: Ancient
HNRS 1300 Story & History
HNRS 1020 Honors Writing I
HNRS 1030 Honors Lecture I
FYS 1300 Freshman Year Seminar
HNRS 1440 Honors Chronology: Medieval
HNRS 1380 Faith, Reason & Romance
HNRS 1050 Honors Writing II
HNRS 1060 Honors Lecture II
MATH 1305 Math for Critical Thinking
Second Year HNRS 2410 Honors Chronology: Early Modern
HNRS 2020 Honors Writing III
HNRS 2030 Honors Lecture III
PSYC 1313 General Psychology
Natural Science & Lab
HNRS 2440 Honors Chronology: The Last 300 Years
HNRS 3640 The Story of Scripture
HNRS 2050 Honors Writing IV
HNRS 2060 Honors Lecture IV
HNRS 2100 Honors Reading
Three credit-hours of upper-division humanities
Third Year HNRS 2100 Honors Readings
or HNRS 2150 Honors Art
N/A

Education Majors Honors College Core Requirements