| Early Childhood Education |
| An Associate of Arts in Teaching Degree Program (Transfer) |
| Application Code 195 | | |
| For Curriculum Information Contact the Social Sciences and Teacher Education Division—Room ST-149—410-772-4832 |
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| This curriculum prepares students to transfer to an Early Childhood Education program at a four-year college or university in the state of Maryland. The Associate of Arts in Teaching (A.A.T.) degree has been articulated with all of the transfer programs in early childhood education in the state of Maryland. Students who receive the A.A.T. degree must have a cumulative G.P.A. of 2.75 and pass the Praxis I exam. Upon completion of the A.A.T. degree, students are eligible to be admitted as an early childhood education major at their Maryland transfer institution. |
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| (General education core credits in excess of 36 will transfer as general electives or courses related to the major. Each student’s total of general education and required courses must equal at least 60 semester hours of credit.) |
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| GENERAL EDUCATION CORE | | Credits |
| Composition | ENGL-121 College Composition I | 3 |
| ENGL-122 College Composition II | 3 |
| Arts & Humanities | FINE-103 Introduction to Creative | |
| Arts | 3 |
| Literature Core Course (see p. 51) | 3 |
| History | HIST-111 or HIST-112 | 3 |
| Social Sciences | GEOG-101 Introduction to World | |
| Geography | 3 |
| PSYC-101 General Psychology | 3 |
| SOCI-101 Introduction to Sociology | 3 |
| Science | BIOL-101 General Biology I | 4 |
| PHYS-107 Physical Science | 4 |
| Mathematics | MATH-127 Concepts of | |
| Mathematics I | 4 |
| Interdisciplinary | Interdisciplinary and Emerging Issues Core |
| Course (see p. 53) | 1 |
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| REQUIRED COURSES RELATED TO MAJOR |
| EDUC-111 | Child Growth and Development | 3 |
| EDUC-112 | Methods and Materials in Early Childhood |
| Education | 3 |
| EDUC-130 | Introduction to Early Childhood | |
| Education | 3 |
| EDUC-200 | Introduction to Special Education | 3 |
| EDUC-201 | Processes and Acquisition of Reading | 3 |
| MATH-128 | Concepts of Mathematics II | 4 |
| MATH-138 | Statistics | 4 |
| PHYS-106 | Earth and Space Science | 4 |
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