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  • 3.00 Credits

    One to Si hours Employment eperience in a computer-related function in a business or government agency. Must be approved by the lead professor of CS. Prerequisites: Must be at least a junior with a minimum overall average of 2.75 and 3.00 in CS. (Limited to si total hours with a maimum of three hours per semester.)
  • 3.00 Credits

    Three hours Orientation to key components, issues, current trends, careers, and opportunities in the early childhood profession. Eamines significant theoretical and historical developments impacting practices. Defines the role of early childhood educator including professionalism, ethics, professional standards, and advocacy. Emphasis on professional development and self-evaluation. Topics include observation; regulations; accreditation; and quality initiatives. Reflects on personal dispositions for working with young children and their families. Initiates professional portfolio and entrance into early childhood degree program. Includes overview of departmental framework and program requirements and epectations. Required: ten hours of field eperience observing various age levels and types of early childhood programs.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Three hours Develops an understanding of components and skills necessary for creating, maintaining, and evaluating healthy and safe environments for young children. Designed to help students become aware of techniques for promoting general health care and safety standards in children's programs and available community health resources. Eamines child and family reactions and adjustment to illness and disability. Prepares students to provide immediate and temporary care in emergency situations involving accidents or sudden illness. Required: Three hours of field eperience in a Healthy Start program, child life department of a hospital, or other health agency that serves young children.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Three hours Eamines the interdisciplinary field of human growth and development. An in-depth study of developmental processes from conception through infancy and toddlerhood with emphasis on the biological and environmental aspects of physical, cognitive, language, social, emotional, and personality development. Processes are discussed within the framework of historical and contemporary theories and current research. Includes strategies for documenting individual children's development and learning. Required: si hours of field eperience.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Three hours Eplores positive guidance strategies for young children in order to create safe, respectful environments where unconditional acceptance is practiced and membership in the group is never threatened. Promotes the encouragement of children instead of discouragement. Focuses on the teaching, modeling, and practicing of democratic life skills so that children can solve problems in non-hurtful ways. Emphasis on developing relationships with children, parents, and other professionals will be addressed. Observation and assessment will be used to evaluate teachers and programs and suggest ways to improve the guidance of young children. Required: si hours of field eperience.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Three hours Overview of philosophical, historical, and legal foundations of special education. Studies characteristics of children with various eceptionalities and service delivery options. Eamples include processes of identification, referrals, eligibility, diagnostic, treatment, and educational procedures. Topics include development of individual service plans, litigation, inclusion strategies, gifted, advocacy, assistive technology, home-based intervention, and rights and responsibilities of professionals working with families of children with disabilities. Required: 16 hours field eperience working in a program that serves children with special needs. Prerequisite or Corequisite: ECE 230
  • 3.00 Credits

    Three hours Applies the basic principles and theories of growth and development to eamine children from two years of age through the years of middle childhood. In-depth study of developmental processes with emphasis on the biological and environmental aspects of physical, cognitive, language, moral, social, emotional, and personality development. Investigates the current research on the brain and individual development with implications for educational practice. Includes strategies for documenting individual children's development and learning. Required: si hours of field eperience. Prerequisite: ECE 130
  • 3.00 Credits

    Three hours Investigates the value and importance of comple characteristics of children's families and communities. Eplores the dynamics of family life including courtship, marriage, intimacy, and relationships. Eamines community programs that focus on forming partnerships with families to support child development and family well-being. Builds an awareness of family in contet of a diverse society and uses understanding to create respectful, reciprocal relationships that support and empower families in their child's development and learning. Studies public policies regarding the young child. Required: si hours of field eperience in communitybased family involvement programs such as Family resource and youth services center, PACE, parents as teachers, parent educator programs, etc.
  • 4.00 Credits

    Four hours comprehensive introduction to observation and assessment program evaluation tools and links results to planning, guidance, and instruction. Overviews diagnostic process and implications of evaluation. Other topics include play-based and arena assessment, transdisciplinary approach, and role of the family in the process. Required: 20 hours of field eperience. Prerequisite or Corequisite: ECE 230.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Three hours Introduces the student to the history of early childhood education and the theoretical perspectives of curriculum development in early childhood programs. Teaches the design of curriculum and allows for practice in developing curriculum units. Introduces Kentucky Early Childhood Standards and uses as a framework in the development of curriculum. Promotes teaching methods that work best to develop concepts and encourage learning with young children. Eamines societal factors that impact programming. High Scope, Montessori and Reggio Emilia curriculum approaches will be eplored. Prerequisite or Corequisite: ECE 111, 230.
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