Childhood Education Program Requirements

Childhood Major Requirements

Note: The following specific courses are required for the Childhood Education major. Grades in all of the following credit-bearing courses are used to calculate the grade point average in the major.

Pre-block Education Courses

• ITED 210: Survey of American Cultural Institutions (Includes a field experience.) (3)
• EDUC 230: Human Exceptionalities (Includes a field experience.) (3)
• EDUC/PSYC 227C: P3 Child and Adolescent Development (3)
• MSTI 131: Introduction to Educational Technology (3)

Block I Courses

• *EDUC 190: Field Experience I: Childhood (0)
• *EDUC 225: Children's Literature (3)
• *EDUC 312: Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment in Social Studies (3)
• PHIL 230D: CC Philosophy of Education (3)

Block II Courses

• *EDUC 290: Field Experience II: Childhood (0)
• *EDUC 313: Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment in Primary Literacy (3)
• *EDUC 350: Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment in Mathematics, Science and Technology I (3)

Block III Courses

• *EDUC 351: Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment in Mathematics, Science and Technology II (3)
• *EDUC 356: Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment in Intermediate Literacy (3)
• *EDUC 390: Field Experience III: Childhood (0)
• ITED 422P: Diversity in American Society (3)

Block IV Courses

• *EDUC 101: Issues in Student Health and Safety (0)
• *EDUC 485: Student Teaching Seminar: Childhood (1)
• *EDUC 490: Student Teaching: Childhood (12)

*Any courses within a block that are marked with an asterisk must be taken concurrently.

If also majoring in Special Education, see Special Education Major, Grades 1-6 Requirements, and note section entitled "Block IV Childhood/Special Education Student Teaching Experience."