NOTE: Developmental courses are determined by placement testing and should be taken first. If developmental courses are needed, please follow the sequence above. See the Ramapo College Catalog for a complete list of prerequisites for each course.

Total Credits Required for Graduation: 128

Total Credits in This Plan: 133 [9]

Major GPA Required for Graduation: 2.0

CUM GPA Required for Certification AT TIME OF GRADUATION/DEGREE COMPLETION: 3.0

WI: Writing Intensive – 3 courses required in the major

*General Education courses can be done in any order with the exception of INTD 101, CRWT and MATH. Those three general education courses will need to be done first. First Year Seminar is taken in the first semester. Failure to complete CRWT and MATH will result in a hold when the student hits 64 credits. The following general education courses can be done in any order. For more info on these courses, please visit the General Education program requirements website in the College Catalog:

+W: Students transferring in with 48 or more credits are waived from these general education requirements.

Important Footnotes explaining items [1] – [9] from the tables above:

[1] See the course catalog for prerequisites for Calculus I. One of the ways to enter Calculus I is to place into it via the Accuplacer Calculus placement test called Accuplacer Advanced Algebra and Functions Test  (AAF Test)  at the RCNJ Testing Center. The Testing Center is open all year round. If the placement test results for a given student indicate that developmental courses are required (for instance, Precalculus, or Elementary Algebra Topics followed by Precalculus), such developmental courses may be taken as early as during the summer session(s) preceding the student’s freshman year [Summer Session I (late May – late June) or Summer Session II (mid July – mid August)]. See the RCNJ Testing Center website for more details on the Calculus placement test.

A student who places into Precalculus and takes it freshman fall and wishes to “catch up” with their math sequence, may take Calculus I with Discrete Structures during their freshman spring, and Calculus II during the summer after the freshman year.

[2] Ideally, native Ramapo students should be fully admitted into the Teacher Education (TE) program by the end of their first year at Ramapo.Transfer students should be directed to the TE Program office immediately upon their arrival on campus, and earlier if possible. All students should be directed early to the TE program for admissions requirements.

Students will complete Clinical Experience (CE) and Clinical Practice (CP) courses during the time in the Teacher Education Program.  It is recommended that students complete EDUC 211 and EDUC 222, both of which require CE, in different semesters.

[3] Students planning to take gen ed courses in the summer after their freshman year, should take during their freshman year two gen ed courses that are not offered in the summer, and should save the gen ed courses that are offered online during the summer to take them online in the summer after their freshman year. 

Any of the courses listed in summer sessions on this plan may be taken in any regular academic semester (fall and/or spring), even as an overload, to maximize tuition dollars.  Individual plans for/time to graduation should be developed with your major and TE advisors. It might be possible to take all courses that are listed during the summer sessions above in an online format, for instance, Gen Ed: SOSC 110 and Gen Ed: Global Awareness courses are often offered in an online format during the summer 

[4] Students must be fully admitted into TE program before registering for EDUC 222, which on this plan is presented in the absolute last semester in which a student could take it and expect to complete both the major and certification requirements within 4 years. Please see faculty or staff in the Teacher Education Program for admission requirements and appropriate timing/planning.  This course is a prerequisite to EDUC 360, which is a prerequisite to EDUC 310 and 350, which are co-requisites.

[5] Only offered fall semester. EDUC 310 and EDUC 350 are co-requisites and must be taken the semester prior to Clinical Practice Capstone  to meet state mandates for a full year of Clinical Practice.

[6] Only offered spring semester. No other course may be taken with this course.

Clinical Experience Hours Required:

CE1EDUC 211 – 10 hours

CE2EDUC 222 – 20 hours

CE3EDUC 360 – 60 hours

Clinical Practice Hours Required:

CP1EDUC 310—170 hours

CP2EDUC 350—10 hours

CP3EDUC 4XX—525 hours

PLEASE NOTE:

Transportation to and from off-campus clinical experience and clinical practice placements (in K-12 schools) is the responsibility of individual students.  Please plan accordingly. If transportation is or may be an issue, please visit the TE program offices BEFORE you register for a course which requires a K-12/off campus school placement.

 

[7] Health and Hygiene Test is recommended in lieu of taking  BIOL 101- Intro to Biology. See the Teacher Education program certification officer for the test details.

[8] A student following a Graduation Plan that starts in the fall of an even year (such as Fall 2024, Fall 2026, etc.) wishing to follow a more accelerated schedule of math courses, should start their math course sequence as follows: 

Take Discrete Structures with Calculus I their freshman fall (and move the gen ed course from freshman fall to take it as an online course the summer after the sophomore year), take Linear Algebra with Calculus II their freshman spring, take the 400 level Abstract Algebra with Multivariable Calculus their sophomore fall. Then, in the fall of the senior year there will be only 12 credits to complete (by taking abstract algebra in the fall of the sophomore year), making the senior fall semester a lot easier. 

A student following a Graduation Plan that starts in the fall of an odd year (such as Fall 2025, Fall 2027, etc.) wishing to follow a more accelerated schedule of math courses, should start their math course sequence as follows: 

Take Discrete Structures with Calculus I their freshman fall (and move the gen ed course from freshman fall to take it as an online course the summer after the sophomore year), take Probability with Calculus II their freshman spring, take the 300 level Statistics with Multivariable Calculus their sophomore fall, take Linear Algebra together with Geometry their sophomore spring. Then, in the fall of the senior year there will be only 12 credits to complete (by taking statistics the fall of the sophomore year), making the senior fall semester a lot easier. 

[9] EDUC 395 is not required, but it’s strongly suggested.  It’s a seminar whose role is to support students in CP1 and CP2. Any full time student (i.e. a student taking between 12 and 18 credits in one semester) pays a flat rate “full time” tuition, so students who take EDUC 395 in addition to 4 other 4-credit classes in the same semester will take 18 credits, but will pay the flat rate “full time” tuition that semester. Students who take EDUC 395 will graduate with 135, not 133 credits.