Early Childhood Education:


undergraduate

The Early Childhood Education Program prepares students for licensure in preschool/kindergarten-3rd grade.  Students major in Interdisciplinary Liberal Studies (IDLS) and minor in Early Childhood Education.  The minor is a four-semester undergraduate program that typically begins in the junior year.  In addition to education courses, students take 6-9 hours of IDLS coursework during each of the first three ECED semesters in order to complete both programs (refer to the following chart).  The ECED program is only available for students graduating by spring 2012.

PROGRAM SEQUENCE

SEM                        ECED Program Courses          IDLS
  1

ECED 372 (3) Introduction to ECED
ECED 442 (3) The Young Child
EDUC 360 (3) Foundations of American Education
ECED 371 (1) Practicum in ECED
ECED 441 (1) Practicum in Child Development

      6-9 hours
  2

READ 366 (3) Early Literacy Development & Acquisition
ECED 412 (3) Science & Social Studies for Young Children
ECED 401D (3) Diversity & Differentiation
ECED 443 (1) Practicum in Primary Grades
Service Learning Experience

      6-9 hours

  3

ECED 444 (3) Children & Math
READ 436 (3) Literacy Learning in Elementary Grades
ECED 461 (3) Integrated Day Practicum Grades 1-3

  6 hours including
    IDLS 400 if
  Humanities/SS
   concentration

  4

ECED 481 (2) Seminar in Family & Community
ECED 480 (16) Student Teaching Grades PK & 1-3

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