Education Program, Early Childhood Education Option, A.A.
This option prepares students for transfer to four-year institutions to pursue Preschool through Third Grade P-3 teaching certification. In addition, many courses prove relevant to the needs of parents and professionals from other fields. Students in this option take courses in education with required field experience, coupled with general education studies required for successful transfer. Students are introduced to: the variety of early childhood education programs and constructs, inclusion education, teaching the exceptional child, emergent and early academic literacies, mathematics literacies and practices, diversity in early childhood education, play-based instruction, and professional
Courses
- BIOL105 — Life Sciences
- COMP129 — Information Technology
- EDEC105 — Early Education Foundations
- EDEC199 — Early Education Field Exper
- EDEC200 — Math Literacy and Development
- EDUC125 — Global Competency in Education
- EDUC217 — Inclusive & Special Education
- EDUC225 — Literacy Develop/Instruct
- ENGL121 — English Comp: Writing Process
- ENGL122 — Engl Comp: Writing & Research
- ENGL245 — American Literature I
- GEOG115 — Human Geography
- HIST105 — World Civilization I
- HIST106 — World Civilization II
- HIST107 — Contemporary World History
- HIST135 — American Civilization I
- MATH131 — Statistics
- PHIL115 — Introduction to Philosophy
- PSYC105 — Intro to Psychology I
- PSYC206 — Human Growth and Development I
- SPCH115 — Public Speaking