Early Childhood Development Major, BS

General Education Curriculum: (38-39 Semester Hours)

See General Education Curriculum Requirements  

Teacher Education Majors are required to pass the following courses with a C or higher as part of their major and their General Education Curriculum.

• MA 113 - College Algebra or higher Math including MA 123  (3 semester hours)
• COM 101 - Oral Communication
• PSY 206 - Human Growth and Development

Required Major Courses (54 Semester Hours)

• ED 297 - The Computer and the Classroom
• ED 300 - Education as a Profession
• ED 302 - Art and Science of Teaching
• ED 304 - Principles of Early Childhood Learning
• ED 306 - Introduction to Exceptional Learners
• ED 307 - Children’s Literature in Pre-K Through Grade 3
• ED 309 - Mathematics in K-3
• ED 311 - Elementary Residency 1
• ED 317 - Behaviors in Early Childhood
• ED 319 - Early Childhood Language and Literacy
• ED 320 - Developmentally Appropriate Materials and Methods in Early Childhood Education
• ED 335 - Elementary Residency 3
• ED 360 - Educational Psychology
• ED 361 - Early Literacy Instruction I
• ED 367 - Elementary Residency 2
• ED 404 - Teacher Internship: Early Childhood

Education Elective Courses (Minimum 3 Semester Hours Required) (minimum grade of C or above.)

• ED 294 - Media Literacy Education
• ED 362 - Early Literacy Instruction II
• ED 365 - Content Area Reading
• ED 366 - Reading Assessment and Intervention
• ED 401 - Classroom Management
• ED 404 - Teacher Internship: Early Childhood (course may be repeated for additional 9 credit hours)

Additional Required Course

• PSY 206 - Human Growth and Development

Repeat Coursework:

Each undergraduate education student may repeat an education course or core required course once. Students who do not achieve required minimum grades after two attempts beginning August 2020 will not qualify to continue in the respective program(s) depending upon each program’s minimum grade requirement. This restriction applies to all current and new undergraduate education students either in the Early Childhood Development Major, BS or the Elementary Education Major, BS.

Validation Credit

Transfer students from a Mississippi community college in a “Partnership Pathways” agreement with MUW’s School of Education who have earned an Associate of Applied Science (AAS) degree in early childhood prior to being admitted to MUW may request to have specific community college technical courses considered for validation credit. Validation credit of competencies developed through community college technical coursework will be awarded to each student on a case by case basis for demonstration of corresponding MUW academic competencies through pass/fail testing. Students must submit a request to take validation test(s) during their initial semester at MUW, however validation credit will not be awarded until the transferring student has successfully completed one academic semester as a full-time MUW student with a minimum GPA of 2.5. Qualified students may attempt to pass a validation examination once only. Qualified students interested in validation credit should contact the School of Education’s Navigator or the Education Department Chair for more information.

Re-Admission:

Each undergraduate education student who has previously earned MUW education coursework beginning with the ED prefix more than five years older than the most current published MUW Undergraduate Bulletin will be required to (1) retake the course(s) or (2) as an exception for this purpose may take and must pass the validation credit test corresponding to the course in question, if a validation test is available, to receive credit. Qualified students may attempt to pass a validation examination once only. Qualified students interested to learn more about validation credit should contact the School of Education’s Navigator or the Education Department Chair for more information.

Total degree hours required = 120 semester hours