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  • 3.00 Credits

    General Education: AA/AS Area I Course Transferable to CSU Hours: 54 hours LEC This course prepares teachers in early childhood education with strategies for introducing young children to the media and tools of drawing, painting, sculpting, and other visual arts commonly used by young children to represent and understand the world around them. The focus will be on observing children's natural ways of exploring each medium and learning strategies to facilitate and document children's emerging skills and relationship with each medium. Included are strategies for designing early childhood environments that promote children's exploration of visual arts.
  • 3.00 Credits

    General Education: AA/AS Area I Course Transferable to CSU Hours: 54 hours LEC This course focuses on the use of music and movement with children from infancy to age eight in group settings. Theoretical perspectives are reviewed and blended with practical applications that the teacher of young children can use to form a classroom community of learners, manage classroom behavior, and facilitate transitions. It will develop music and movement experience plans and create musical instruments from inexpensive, readily available materials. It will also explore music and movement as ways to involve children with cultural diversity and traditions.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: ECE 312 or PSYC 372 with a grade of "C" or betterCourse Transferable to CSU Hours: 54 hours LEC This course provides a broad overview of the characteristics, assessment techniques, methods of intervention, community and family resources, and current issues of young children (from birth to age eight) with special needs. The focus is to increase the awareness and understanding of children's individual needs in an early childhood setting and to provide practical information to those currently involved with children with special needs. Observations in public or private children's centers, schools, and agencies may be required.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: ECE 404 with a grade of "C" or betterEnrollment Limitation: Current tuberculosis and fi ngerprint clearance. Course Transferable to CSU Hours: 36 hours LEC; 54 hours LAB This course provides supervised experience working with children with special needs in an inclusive school setting. Topics include integration strategies, classroom environments, and individualized instructional strategies for children. Emphasis is placed on providing skills in individualizing programs for communication, modifi cations, adaptations and behavior.
  • 1.00 Credits

    Course Transferable to CSU Hours: 18 hours LEC This course covers health and safety issues in center and home-based early care and education programs. It includes preventative health practices such as control of infectious diseases, injury prevention, nutrition, sanitation, emergency preparedness and evacuation. Along with ECE 414 (HEED 311), fulfi lls Title 22 (CA Department of Social Services) Health and Safety requirements for staff.
  • 1.50 Credits

    Same As: HEED 311 Advisory: ENGWR 102 or 103, and ENGRD 116 with a grade of "C"or better; OR ESLR 320 and ESLW 320 with a grade of "C" or better;OR placement through assessment process. Course Transferable to CSU Hours: 27 hours LEC This course covers emergency life saving and fi rst aid techniques involving infants and children. Respiratory distress, non-breathing, unconsciousness, choking, and other pediatric emergencies are addressed. CPR for adults is another major component of the course. The California Child Care fi rst aid certifi cate examination, the Adult CPR, and the Infant and Child CPR examination are included. ECE 410 and this course fulfi ll Title 22 (California Department of Social Services) Health and Safety requirements for staff. ECE 414/ HEED 311 may be taken four times.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Same As: NUTRI 320 Advisory: ENGWR 102 or 103, and ENGRD 116 with a grade of "C"or better; OR ESLR 320 and ESLW 320 with a grade of "C" or better;OR placement through assessment process. Course Transferable to CSU Hours: 54 hours LEC This course examines basic nutrition, health, and safety needs of children from the prenatal period through school age. Topics include identifi cation of nutrients in foods as they affect a child's physical and mental development and standards for the maintenance of optimal health, safety, and nutrition status of children at home and in group care. Projects relating to children's nutrition, health, and safety are required as part of the course. This course is not open to students who have taken NUTRI 320.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: ECE 300 with a grade of "C" or better; or, one year ofteaching experience documented with verifi cation of experience form. Course Transferable to CSU Hours: 54 hours LEC This is an introductory course in the elements of program planning, budgeting, supervision and personnel administration for schools and private child development centers serving children and families. This course satisfi es the administration requirement of the California Title 22 Health and Safety Code, and satisfi es three of the six units of the administration requirement of the Title 5 Education Code and the California Commission for Teacher Credentialing.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: ECE 420 with a grade of "C" or better.Course Transferable to CSU Hours: 54 hours LEC This is an advanced course in administration and coordination of multi-faceted child development programs. The emphasis of the course is on publicly-funded programs and personnel management. It meets the requirements of the Education Code under Title 5 and the Commission for Teacher Credentialing.
  • 2.00 Credits

    Course Transferable to CSU Hours: 36 hours LEC This course covers principles and strategies for teachers who supervise the work of other teachers in early childhood education. Emphasis is on the role of the mentor teacher working collaboratively to guide a teaching team within a classroom setting. This course satisfi es the adult supervision requirement for the Master Teacher Permit issued by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing.
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