Curriculum

Description: This option provides students with the skills, knowledge, dispositions and experience to work with children ages birth to eight. The culminating course requires students to complete 60 hours in an ELC setting and apply what they have been learning in all of their courses as they interact with children and families under the supervision of a mentor teacher and faculty member.

Highlights: Practicum experience in a classroom setting for children ages birth to twelve.

Career Opportunites: Teacher for children ages birth to eight

Sub Core Courses: ECS 3200, ECS 3250, ECS 3320, ECS 3750, ECS 3600, ECS 3700, ECS 3900, ECS 4200, ECS 4100/A

Description: Provides students with the competencies to work with young children and families in diverse contexts based on their career goals and interest (i.e., social work, child life, school psychology, counseling etc.). This pathway will provide students with the ability to choose courses within our department to strengthen their desired career path. A capstone course will be completed in which students apply what they are learning via an internship or project. 

Highlights: Capstone Course: Final Project that includes field work.

Career Opportunities: Advocacy for Children and Families, Foster Care, Child Protective Services, Juvenile Probation. 

Graduate/Additional Postbaccalaureate Education: Social Worker, School Psychologist, Child Life Specialist, Behavioral Specialist, Speech Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Family Law 

Sub Core Courses: EWS 2900, EWS 3300, EWS 3600, EMCS 4950

Description: Provides students with the opportunity to become multilingual educators for young children. California is a culturally and linguistically diverse state with a growing desire to have a strong multilingual early learning and care workforce. Students will be expected to specialize in a language (such as Spanish) so that they can become dual language educators (courses in the English and Modern Languages department and Ethnic and Women Studies Department will be taken to strengthen students language and cultural understanding).  The culminating course requires students to complete 60 hours in a dual immersion early learning and care setting and apply what they have been learning in all of their courses as they interact with children and families under the supervision of a mentor teacher and faculty member. The ECS department is one of the very few programs in Higher Education to offer this unique preparation that is responsive to the growing need for multilingual teacher experts.

Highlights: Practicum experience in a dual immersion or multilingual classroom for children ages birth to twelve.

Career Opportunities: Teacher for children ages birth to eight

Sub Core Courses: ECS 3250, ECS 3320, ECS 3600, ECS 3700, ECS 4200, ECS 3750, ECS 4100/A

Description: Provides students the opportunity to get their BA in ECS and credentials in Special Education in 4 years. This option is specifically for students interested in working with special education children in mild to moderate classrooms. This is an intense program that students apply to using this link:

Highlights: Experience in a mild to moderate special education classroom. *Intensive 4-year program

Career Opportunities: Mild to Moderate special education teachers in preschool- 12^th grade 

Sub Core Courses: ECS 3600, ECS 3800, ECS 4200

Description: Provides students the opportunity to get their BA in ECS and credentials in Special Education in 4 years. This is specifically for students interested in working with special education children in extensive support classrooms. 

Highlights: Experience in an extensively support special education classroom. *Intensive 4-year program

Career Opportunities: Extensive support special education teachers in preschool- 12^th grade

Sub Core Courses: ECS 3600, ECS 3800, ECS 4200

Description: This is specifically for ADT elementary teacher education transfers.  This option provides transfer students to obtain the competencies to become transitional kindergarten (TK) teachers. Students receive a combination of teacher preparation (e.g., ADT in elementary teacher education) and early childhood development coursework.  The culminating course requires students to complete 60 hours in a transitional kindergarten classroom where they can apply what they have been learning in all of their courses as they interact with children and families under the supervision of a mentor teacher and faculty member.

Highlights: Practicum experience in a classroom setting for ages 4-12. These teachers receive a combination of teacher preparation (e.g., ADT in elementary teacher education) and early childhood development coursework.

Career Opportunities: TK- 5^th grade Elementary Teacher

Sub Core Courses: ECS 3200, ECS 3600, ECS 3800, ECS 4100/A, ECS 4200