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Program Sample Plan

Program name: Early Childhood Education: Foundations B.S. (Program focus: Non-Licensure Option)
Sample Plan: Early Childhood: Foundations
Total Credits: 116.5
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Year 1 - Fall Semester: 15.0 cr
PSY 1001 - Introduction to Psychology : 4.0 cr : SOCS
PSTL 1131 - Principles of Biological Science : 4.0 cr : BIOL
Freshman Composition :4.0 cr
LE (LE Requirement) :3.0 cr
Year 1 - Spring Semester: 14.0 cr
Literature course : 3.0 cr
MATH 1031 - College Algebra and Probability : 3.0 cr : MATH
PHYS 1001W - Energy and the Environment : 4.0 cr : PHYS, ENV, WI
HIST 1302W - Global America: U.S. History Since 1865 : 4.0 cr : HIS, DSJ, WI
Year 2 - Fall Semester: 15.0 cr
CPSY 2301 - Introduction to Developmental Psychology : 4.0 cr : SOCS : Preferred Course
LING 3001 - Introduction to Linguistics : 4.0 cr : SOCS
AST 1001 - Exploring the Universe : 4.0 cr : PHYS, ENV
GEOG 3381W - Population in an Interacting World : 3.0 cr : SOCS, GP, WI
Year 2 - Spring Semester: 16.0 cr
PSTL 1204 - Ways of Knowing in the Social Sciences : 4.0 cr : SOCS, DSJ
LE (Technology and Society) :3.0 cr
LE (Civic Life and Ethics, Writing Intensive - Upper Division) :3.0 cr
LE (Arts/Humanities) :3.0 cr
Elective :3.0 cr
Year 3 - Fall Semester: 12.0 cr
CPSY 4331 - Social and Personality Development : 3.0 cr
CPSY 4343 - Cognitive Development : 3.0 cr
CPSY 5241 - Field Experience in Early Childhood Education : 3.0 cr
OLPD 5009 - Human Relations: Applied Skills for School and Society : 1.0 cr
PUBH 3003 - Fundamentals of Alcohol and Drug Abuse : 2.0 cr
Year 3 - Spring Semester: 14.5 cr
CI 5413 - Foundations of Reading : 3.0 cr
CI 5414 - Field Experience: Working with Developing Readers : 2.0 cr
CI 3401W - Diversity in Children's Literature : 3.0 cr : WI
CI 5307 - Technology for Teaching and Learning : 1.5 cr
CPSY 5252 - Facilitating Social and Emotional Learning in Early Childhood Education : 3.0 cr
CPSY 5254 - Facilitating Creative and Motor Learning in Early Childhood Education : 2.0 cr
Year 4 - Fall Semester: 16.0 cr
CI 3211 - Introduction to Elementary Teaching : 3.0 cr
CI 3212 - Field Experience: Elementary Teaching : 2.0 cr
CPSY 5251W - Social and Philosophical Foundations of Early Childhood Education : 3.0 cr : WI
CPSY 5253 - Facilitating Cognitive and Language Learning in Early Childhood Education : 3.0 cr
EPSY 5625 - Education of Infants, Toddlers, and Preschool Children with Disabilities: Introduction : 2.0 cr
Elective :3.0 cr
Year 4 - Spring Semester: 14.0 cr
CPSY 5281 - Student Teaching in Early Childhood Education : 6.0 cr
EPSY 5681 - Educating Preschoolers with Disabilities: Specialized Approaches and Interventions : 3.0 cr
Elective :5.0 cr