Sample Course Sequence

First Fall

Required Courses
(9 credits for A&H concentration, 11 credits for SEE concentration, 10 credits for EC certification)

Human Development: Focus on Childhood (3)
Integrated Learning: Theory Into Practice (3)
Math Methods (3)
or
Reading/Literacy (3)
Professional Seminar (0)
* Place-Based Education (2)
** Movement & Storytelling (Pre-K) (1)
*** Integrated Arts I (2)

Electives

Building Learning Communities (1)
Music Every Day (1)
Social Inclusion (1)
New England Mammals: Lessons for Teachers (1)
Living Arts (1)
Children's Games (1)
Critical Skills for Critical Times (1)

First Spring

Required Courses
(11 Credits--or 14 credits if Children with Special Needs is taken in spring 2010 instead of summer 2010.
EC students should take Children with Special Needs in summer 2010 so they have 13 credits in spring 2010.)

Conceptual Development (3)
Reading/Literacy (3)
or
Math Methods: Elementary (3)
School Law (1)
Internship & Professional Seminar (4)
Children with Special Needs (take in spring or summer) (3)
** Early Childhood Ed (Pre-K - 3rd) (2)

Electives

Creative Bookbinding (1)
Nature Journaling (1)
Backyard Weather Predicting (1)
Educating Children with ASD (1)
Drama in the Classroom (1)
Real World Learning (1)
Mapmaking (1)
Outside the Box (1)

First Summer

Required Courses
(2 credits (A&H), 3 credits (SEE), or 5 credits (A&H), 6 credits (SEE) if Special Needs is taken in summer)

Children with Special Needs (3)
*Ecology of the Imagination in Childhood (1)
Social Studies (2)

Electives

Social Studies: Cemetary Quest (1)
Social Studies: From Sheep to Shawl (1)
Social Studies: Place-Based Social Studies (1)
Social Studies: Storytelling (1)
Social Studies: Folk Arts of Early America (2)
First Six Weeks of School (1)
Picture Books in the Classroom (1)
Recrafting Curriculum (1)
Circus Dreams (1)
Technology - Choice and Voice (1)

Second Fall

Required Courses(9 credits)

Philosophy of Education (3)
Problem Solving Science (2)
Internship & Professional Seminar (4)

Required Course Credits Total
33 for Arts and Humanities Concentration
36 for Science And Environmental Concentration or Early Childhood Certification students

Elective Credits Total (minimum)
7 for Arts and Humanities Concentration
4 for Science And Environmental Concentration or Early Childhood Certification students

TOTAL CREDITS REQUIRED: 40
* Additional requirements for Science and Environmental Education Concentration students
** Additional requirements for Early Childhood Certification students
*** Additional requirements for Arts and Humanities Concentration students

Last Updated: 8/28/09