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Course Descriptions

Course # Course Title Credits
EDUC 106 (P/T) Child Development II 3.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Spring

Studies child growth and development from prenatal to toddlerhood. Covers issues such as attachment and separation, sensorimotor learning, infant communication, major theories, and appropriate behavioral expectations.

EDUC 140 (P/T) Intro Early Childhood Education 3.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Fall

Introduces the field of early childhood education, including history, trends of early childhood, state and federal regulations, community resources, social services, and career opportunities.

EDUC 141 (P/T) Child Development I 3.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Winter, Spring

Introduces child development, including theories of growth and development during 0-8 years. Studies children's behaviors from a developmental perspective and implications for care giving of infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. Covers special needs of 0-8 year olds.

EDUC 143 (P/T) Childhood Development III 3.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Offered as needed

Studies physical, social, emotional, language development, and cognitive areas of growth and development for children ages 2 1/2 to adolescence.

EDUC 145 (P/T) Guidance I-Early Childhood Ed 3.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Winter

Familiarize students with the principles of positive guidance for young children.

EDUC 149 (P/T) Infant/Toddler Caregiving 3.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Winter

Presents caregiving techniques for infants and toddlers with special emphasis on group care practices for this age. Studies routines, such as nutrition, feeding, diapering, sleep, and nurturing. Reviews roles of parents, nannies, family daycare provider, and center caregiver provider. Some sections may have a low-cost text book option.

EDUC 150 (P/T) Curriculum I-Early Childhood Ed 3.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Winter, Spring

Introduces appropriate curriculum for young children. Focuses on creative play curriculum and the whole child approach.

EDUC 154 (P/T) Literature and Literacy For Ece 3.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Spring

Studies how emergent literacy and literature develop in young children, including strategies for working with families of diverse learning styles, in order to promote and support literacy in the home.

EDUC 157 (P/T) Math Development For Ece 3.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Spring

Studies developmentally appropriate practices for readiness in math skills. Focuses on color and shape, number recognition, attribution, sorting, organizing, simple problem solving, calendar events, counting, time, and patterns. Uses manipulatives as the major strategy.

EDUC 158 (P/T) Bilingual Education 3.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Fall

Applies theories in first and second language acquisition. Studies cognitive, affective, and social variables influencing language acquisition.

EDUC 162 (P/T) Child Nutrition, Health and Safety 3.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Fall

Prepares early childhood educators to meet the nutritional and health and safety needs of young children of all abilities. Considers the developmental abilities and culture of all children and families. Uses a constructivist philosophy to instruct students to implement developmentally appropriate food experiences such as snack and meal times in inclusive early childhood settings of home environments.

EDUC 200 Intro To Education 4.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring

Surveys the American education system, emphasizing organization, professional practice, technology, governance, law, demographics, effective teaching, philosophies of education, special needs students, covert/overt curriculum, school financing, classroom responsibilities, and rights of teachers, schools, and students. Includes experiences in school teaching, classroom practices, classroom observations, teacher profiles, and professional portfolios.

EDUC 202 (P/T) Educational Technology 4.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Spring

Emphasizes keeping current with effective use of technology in the K-12 classroom. Includes programs, troubleshooting, imaging devices, software, computer support, distance learning, instructional principles, operating systems, evaluations, and human issues in technology learning.

EDUC 210 Theory and Practicum 1.00 Credit

Quarters Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring

Provides school experience working with classroom teacher and students in areas of reading, outdoor activities, mathematics, language acquisition, learning theories, and use of technology in the classroom.Prerequisites: Instructor approval.

EDUC 213 (P/T) School Law 3.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Winter

Studies laws relevant to classroom processes, rights and responsibilities of teachers, schools, students, and families.

EDUC 230 (P/T) Intro To Child Abuse and Neglect 3.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Fall, Spring

Explores the definition, scope, and impact of child abuse and neglect. Assessment of child neglect, risk and protective factors are also studied. Child neglect prevention and intervention also studied.

EDUC 231 (P/T) Children Of Incarcerated Parents 3.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Fall, Spring

Focuses upon working with children of incarcerated parents and the unique issues confronting those children in the classroom setting.

EDUC 232 (P/T) Therapeutic Inter:Child Of Neglect 3.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Winter

Focuses upon combining a theoretical foundation with a practical basis for creating therapeutic intervention for early childhood environments by creating a framework for understanding the emotional lives of young children of neglect. Students will learn how to aid children in integrating experience in affective ways, develop adult-child relationships, develop emotionally based curriculum, and address the needs of families of these children. Some sections may have a low-cost text book option.

EDUC 233 (P/T) Critical Factors In Parent Neglect 3.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Fall, Spring

Focuses upon the study of child neglect, neglectful parents, the forces that have damaged parents, and strategies for teachers working with neglectful parents.

EDUC 240 (P/T) Curriculum II- Early Childhood Ed 3.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Spring

Provides in-depth experiences for students in understanding and creating developmentally appropriate curriculum for young children. Involves student's use of technology as a means of developing curriculum. Familiarizes the student with technology infusion in early childhood education curriculum.

EDUC 241 (P/T) Curriculum III- Early Childhood Ed 3.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Offered as needed

Emphasizes science, nature, cognition, and large group activities. Includes planning of activities that meet the needs of young children.

EDUC 242 Educational Concepts 3.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Winter

Reviews effective teaching, history of education, education philosophies, classroom covert/overt curriculum, school financing, special needs students, classroom responsibilities, career pathways, leadership, and school law. Intended for EOU-bound students.

EDUC 245 (P/T) Guidance II-Early Childhood Ed 3.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Spring

Surveys principles and practices of guidance, emphasizing conflict resolution, self-esteem builders, classroom management, educator's self-esteem, and effective communication with young children.

EDUC 246 (P/T) Family/Community Relations-Ece 3.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Summer, Winter

Emphasizes building and maintaining positive relationships among school, family, and community, including the use of conferences, meetings, and other resources as effective methods for fostering cooperation and parent involvement.

EDUC 247 (P/T) Classroom Management 3.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Fall

Focuses on techniques for program organization in early childhood classrooms, such as supervising and evaluating adults, conflict resolution skills, budgeting and supplies, policies and procedures, and other supervisory responsibilities.

EDUC 248 (P/T) Special Needs and Mainstreaming 3.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Fall

Examines specific areas of special needs in the early childhood classroom and the approaches to mainstreaming those students.

EDUC 250 (P/T) Exceptionality In The Schools 4.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Fall, Spring

Surveys the student's ability and disability in the schools, including characteristics of students with disabilities, legal requirements for educating students with disabilities, and basic educational strategies.

EDUC 258 (P/T) Ethnic Studies For Ece Educators 3.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Summer, Spring

Studies strategies for assisting classroom teachers in implementing appropriate programs for addressing cultural diversity within the classroom.