Program: Early Childhood Education/Childhood Education (Birth-6) [DEC] - SUNY Cortland - Modern Campus Catalog™

2006-2007 Undergraduate Catalog

Apr 06, 2025

This major prepares students to have dual certification in early childhood education and childhood education for teaching from birth through grade 6.

A. College-wide and General Education Courses: 44 credit hours [CHD]

Foreign Language (six credit hours)

COR 101 - The Cortland Experience: A First Year Seminar (1 cr. hr.)
CPN 100 - Academic Writing I (3 cr. hr.)
or
CPN 102 - Academic Writing in the Community I (4 cr. hr.)
MAT 101 - Concepts of Elementary School Mathematics I (3 cr. hr.)

Select Either:

CPN 101 - Academic Writing II (3 cr. hr.)
or
CPN 103 - Academic Writing in the Community II (4 cr. hr.)

General Education Program

GE 1:

ECO 105 - Political Economy and Social Thought (3 cr. hr.)
or
POL 100 - Introduction to American Government and Politics (3 cr. hr.)

GE 2: Any GE 2 course

Recommended:

FSA 103 - Gender, Race and Class Issues in Education (3 cr. hr.)
or
GRY 221 - Social Geography (3 cr. hr.)

GE 3:

ANT 102 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (3 cr. hr.)
or
GRY 120 - Cultural Geography (3 cr. hr.)
or
GRY 125 - Human Geography and Global Development (3 cr. hr.)

GE 4: Any GE 4 course

GE 5: Any GE 5 course

Recommended:

HIS 101 - The World Since 1500

GE 6:

ENG 200 - Introduction to Literature (3 cr. hr.)
or
ENG 202 - Introduction to Fiction (3 cr. hr.)
or
ENG 203 - Introduction to Poetry (3 cr. hr.)
or
ENG 204 - Introduction to Drama (3 cr. hr.)

GE 7: Any GE 7 course

Recommended:

GRY 370 - Will the World Provide? A Research Experience for Students (3 cr. hr.)
or
SCI 320 - Science, Technology And Culture (3 cr. hr.)

GE 8:

SCI 141 - Integrated Earth Science and Biology (4 cr. hr.).
SCI 142 - Integrated Physics and Chemistry (3 cr. hr.)

B. Content Core: 31 credit hours

ECE 270 - Introduction to Early Childhood Education (3 cr. hr.)
ECO 105 - Political Economy and Social Thought (3 cr. hr.)
or
MAT 102 - Concepts of Elementary School Mathematics II (3 cr. hr.)
POL 100 - Introduction to American Government and Politics (3 cr. hr.)
(whichever is not taken as GE 1)
PSY 101 - General Psychology I (3 cr. hr.)
PSY 231 - Child Psychology (3 cr. hr.)
SCI 141 - Integrated Earth Science and Biology (4 cr. hr.).
and
SCI 142 - Integrated Physics and Chemistry (3 cr. hr.)
(if not previously taken as GE 8a and 8b)
SPE 270 - Introduction to Special Education (3 cr. hr.)

And Select:

ENG 302 - Writing About Literature (3 cr. hr.)
or
ENG 306 - Advanced Writing Workshop (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 200 - The United States to 1877 (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 201 - The United States Since 1877 (3 cr. hr.)
HLH 265 - Health and the Child (3 cr. hr.)
PED 245 - Activities for Children (1 cr. hr.)

C. Pedagogy Courses: 50 or more credit hours

ECE 330 - Observation and Assessment of Young Children (3 cr. hr.)
ECE 331 - Curriculum Development I (3 cr. hr.)
ECE 332 - Pre-School Practicum (1 cr. hr.)
ECE 333 - Children, Families, and Their Community (3 cr. hr.)
ECE 435 - Children’s Literacy Across the Curriculum (3 cr. hr.)
ECE 490 - Student Teaching I (6 cr. hr.)
ECE 491 - Student Teaching II (6 cr. hr.)
ECE 492 - Seminar in Student Teaching (1 cr. hr.)
EDU 314 - Teaching With Computers in Elementary and Middle School (2 cr. hr.)
EDU 373 - Teaching Elementary School Mathematics (3 cr. hr.)
EDU 374 - Teaching Elementary School Science (3 cr. hr.)
EDU 375 - Teaching Elementary School Social Studies (3 cr. hr.)
EDU 477 - Elementary School Practicum (1 cr. hr.)
EDU 478 - Classroom Discipline for Personal and Social Responsibility (3 cr. hr)
FSA 400 - Foundations of Education: The School in American Society (3 cr. hr.)
LIT 371 - Teaching Elementary School Reading and Language Arts I (3 cr. hr.)
LIT 372 - Teaching Elementary School Reading and Language Arts II (3 cr. hr.)

D. Concentration in an Approved Liberal Arts Area:

30-33 credit hours with a minimum of 18 credit hours at the 300 and 400 level.

Credit hours vary depending on area chosen. Requirements in General Education and content core may reduce the number of credit hours in a concentration. Approved concentration requirements are listed in the Chemistry and Childhood/Early Childhood Education programs.

Total Credit Hours Required for graduation From the College: 128

Total Credit Hrs Required for Childhood and Early Childhood Dual Cert. with Concentrations: 140-150