Program Requirements

To earn a Bachelor of Science Degree in Childhood Education, students complete 132-133 credits, including core, major-sequence and content courses. For more information about courses, please see The School of Education section of our undergraduate bulletin.

Common Core — 27 Credits

Discover New York 3
ENG1000CEnglish3
ENG1100CEnglish3
HIST1000CHistory3
SCI1000CScience3
PHI1000CPhilosophy3
PHI3000CPhilosophy3
THE1000CTheology3
SPE1000CSpeech3

Distributed Core — 18 Credits

    
Foreign Language  6
PHI2200 CPhilosophy3
THE2000 levelTheology3
THE3000 levelTheology3
HIST1302History3

Additional Liberal Arts Courses — 12 Credits

    
MATHPer Advisor 6
BIO1050Biology3
ART or MUS1000Art or MUS3

Major Sequence — 51-52 Credits

EDU101Introduction to Education 1-121
EDU1000 or 1000HFoundations of Education (1-12)3
EDU1001Learning and Development (1-6)3
EDU1003Field Work: Observation Analysis and Creative Activities (1-6)3
EDU1004Language Acquisition and Literacy (1-6)6
EDU1005Planning, Teaching & Assessing Literacy Across the Curriculum (1-6)3
EDU1006Methods of Teaching Mathematics (1-6)3
EDU1007Methods of Teaching Science (1-6)3
EDU1008Special Education Foundations & Accommodating Student Needs (1-12)3
EDU1010Planning, Teaching & Assessing Social Studies (1-6)3
EDU1011Human Relations in Inclusive & Multicultural Settings (1-12)3
EDU1015

Technology and Society: School Community (1-12)

3
EDU1016Art and Music in Inclusive Settings (1-6)3
EDU1021Student Teaching and Seminar/Childhood Education (1-6)12

Content Area — 24 to 30 credits(by advisement)
Students should select one content area from the following in consultation with an advisor: English, Mathematics, Modern Foreign Language, Psychology, Sociology, Science or Social Studies.

(Workshops in fingerprinting, violence prevention, Autism (Special Education majors) and child abuse are also required to obtain NYS certification.)