2021-2022 College Catalog

Feb 01, 2023

2021-2022 College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Special Education & Early Childhood Education, B.A.

AA Teacher Education - 4-Semester Course Sequence

All students should meet with their Advisor regularly to discuss their degree progress and review their academic and educational plans. This course sequence is a guide. Students should check the MEC website for the latest in degree requirements.

Remedial Coursework Completed During Intersession Prior (For Students with Remedial Education Coursework Remaining in Semester 1, Summer/Winter Course-Taking is Highly Advised)

Bachelor of Arts
Early Childhood and Special Education
HEGIS Code:0808.00
CIP Code:13.1015

Fixed/Required Core

Total Credits: 12

Flexible Core

World Cultures and Global Issues

ANTH 201 - The Nature of Culture 3 Credits
ENGL 212 - World Literature: The Evolving Canon 3 Credits

U.S. Experience in its Diversity

HIST 200 - The Growth and Development of the U.S.A. 3 Credits

Creative Expressions

ART 100 - Introduction to World Art 3 Credits
MUS 100 - Introduction to World Music 3 Credits

Individual and Society

ECON 100 - Survey of Economics 3 Credits
ECON 212 - Introduction to Macroeconomics 3 Credits
ECON 213 - Introduction to Microeconomics 3 Credits
PA 103 - Introduction to Public Service and Administration 3 Credits
PA 150 - Introduction to Criminal Law 3 Credits
SSC 101 - Culture, Society, and Social Change 3 Credits
SOC 101 - Introduction to Sociology 3 Credits

Scientific World

BIO 211 - Biotechnology and Society 3 Credits

Total Credits: 18

College Option

(Education degree program specific waiver)

EDUC 307 - Foundations of Educational Psychology 3 Credits
PSYC 209 - Human Development: Infancy and Childhood 3 Credits
OR
EDUC 231 - Child Development 3 Credits

Total Credits: 9

Major Requirements

EDUC 102 - Introduction to the World of the Learner 2 Credits
EDUC 110 - Health, Safety Fitness for Teachers 1 Credits
EDUC 152 - Introduction to Special Education 2 Credits
EDUC 252 - Principles of Early Intervention: Needs of Infants, Toddlers and Children with Developmental Disabilities 2 Credits
EDUC 253 - Assessment, Treatment and Services for Infants, Toddlers and Children with Developmental Disabilities 3 Credits
EDUC 301 - Principles of Early Childhood Education 2 Credits
EDUC 302 - Curriculum and Instruction in Early Childhood Education (Check CF Course Catalog Not in Chancellor Report) 2 Credits
EDUC 310 - Students with Behavior Disorders 2 Credits
EDUC 312 - Teaching Elementary Reading II 3 Credits
EDUC 315 - Teaching Elementary Mathematics 3 Credits
EDUC 350 - Computers in Education 2 Credits
EDUC 355 - Critical Issues in the History of Education 3 Credits
EDUC 381 - Methods and Materials for Teaching Children with Reading Disabilities 3 Credits
EDUC 481 - Clinical Practice Seminar I 1 Credits
EDUC 482 - Clinical Practice Seminar II 1 Credits
EDUC 491 - Clinical Practice I 4 Credits
EDUC 492 - Clinical Practice II 4 Credits
EDUC 494 - Content Specialty Test Seminar 0 Credits
EDUC 495 - Content Specialty Test Students w/Disabilities 0 Credits
EDUC 496 - Critical Reading and Writing Seminar 0 Credits
EDUC 498 - Academic Literacy Skills Test (ALST) Test Prep Seminar 0 Credits
EDUC 499 - Educating All Students Test (EAS) 0 Credits
EDUC 501 - Field Experience Practicum: Shadowing Professionals 0 Credits
EFE: Observing Learners 0 Credits
EFE: Parents/Communities as School Partners 0 Credits
EDUC 504 - Field Experience Practicum: Technology in the Classroom 0 Credits
EDUC 505 - Field Experience Practicum: Working with Individual Learners 0 Credits
EDUC 506 - Field Experience Practicum: Working with Small Groups of Learners 0 Credits
EDUC 507 - Field Experience Practicum: Curriculum Research and Design 0 Credits
EDUC 509 - Field Experience Practicum: Assessment in Education II 0 Credits
ENGL 209 - Children’s Literature 3 Credits
FS 101 - Freshman Seminar I 1 Credits
GEOG 101 - Introduction to Geography 3 Credits
HIST 201 - African-American History and Culture 3 Credits
MTH 231 - Mathematics for Elementary Educators 3 Credits
OR
MTH 220 - Introduction to College Geometry 3 Credits
PSYC 101 - Introductory Psychology 3 Credits
Liberal Arts Concentration 25 Credits

Total Credits: 81

Concentrations

English Concentration

Candidates must take all of the following courses:

ENGL 210 - Intermediate Composition 3 Credits
ENGL 208 - Applied Linguistics 3 Credits
ENGL 365 - Applied Literary Theory 3 Credits
ENGL 322 - American Literature I: Beginnings to the Emancipation Proclamation 3 Credits
ENGL 323 - American Literature II: Reconstruction to the Present 3 Credits
ENGL 319 - African American Literature I: 1619-1932 3 Credits
ENGL 320 - African American Literature II: 1932-Present 3 Credits
ENGL 325 - Caribbean Cosmopolitanism 3 Credits
ENGL 327 - Caribbean Literature II: 1970 to the Present 3 Credits

Candidates must choose one (1) additional course from the following:

ENGL 319 - African American Literature I: 1619-1932 3 Credits
ENGL 320 - African American Literature II: 1932-Present 3 Credits
ENGL 315 - British Literature I: 8th - 18th Centuries 3 Credits
ENGL 322 - American Literature I: Beginnings to the Emancipation Proclamation 3 Credits
ENGL 323 - American Literature II: Reconstruction to the Present 3 Credits
ENGL 325 - Caribbean Cosmopolitanism 3 Credits
ENGL 326 - African Literature 3 Credits
ENGL 327 - Caribbean Literature II: 1970 to the Present 3 Credits
ENGL 328 - Latin American Literature 3 Credits
ENGL 330 - Postcolonial Literature 3 Credits
ENGL 332 - Modernist Literature 3 Credits
ENGL 360 - Black Women Writers 3 Credits
ENGL 361 - Shakespeare Without Borders 3 Credits
ENGL 370 - Special Topics in Literature I 3 Credits

Math Concentration

Candidates must take all of the following courses:

Candidates must select 3- 4 of the following courses for a total 12 Credits:

MTH 204 - Calculus III 4 Credits
MTH 205 - Elementary Differential Equations 3 Credits
MTH 206 - Introduction to Mathematical Proof 4 Credits
MTH 207 - Linear Algebra I 3 Credits
MTH 209 - Elementary Statistics 4 Credits
MTH 308 - Abstract Algebra I 3 Credits
MTH 330 - History of Mathematics 3 Credits

Psychology Concentration

Candidates must take all of the following courses:

PSYC 213 - Social Psychology 3 Credits
PSYC 215 - Theories of Personality 3 Credits
PSYC 316 - Psychological Statistics 3 Credits
PSYC 322 - Experimental Psychology 4 Credits

Candidates must select 4 psychology electives chosen from among the specialty areas. 400 level courses should be included:

PSYC 310 - Human Development: Adolescence 3 Credits
PSYC 311 - Human Development: Adulthood and Aging 3 Credits
PSYC 224 - Brain and Behavior 3 Credits
PSYC 305 - Theories of Learning 3 Credits
PSYC 306 - Cognitive Psychology 3 Credits
PSYC 321 - Psychology of Sensation and Perception 3 Credits
PSYC 301 - Abnormal Psychology 3 Credits
PSYC 320 - Psychology of Intervention 3 Credits
PSYC 404 - Psychology of Motivation 3 Credits
PSYC 405 - Techniques of Psychotherapy and Counseling 3 Credits
PSYC 406 - Psychological Tests and Measurements 3 Credits
PSYC 420 - Diagnosis Assessment and Evaluation 3 Credits
PSYC 421 - Sport Psychology 3 Credits

Science Concentration

Candidates must take all of the following courses:

BIO 201 - General Biology I 3 Credits
BIO 202 - General Biology II 3 Credits
CHM 112 - Basic Chemistry 3 Credits
CHML 201 - General Chemistry I Lab 1 Credits
CHML 202 - General Chemistry II Lab 1 Credits

Options

Candidates must select one (1) of the following options and take two courses in either Option 1 or 2:

Option 1

BIO 302 - Genetics 3 Credits
BIO 340 - Plant Science/Botany 3 Credits
BIO 373 - Invertebrate Zoology 3 Credits
BIO 375 - Chordate Morphology 3 Credits
BIO 376 - Chordate Development 3 Credits
BIO 403 - Microbiology 3 Credits
BIO 461 - Molecular Biology 3 Credits
BIO 481 - Human Physiology 3 Credits
BIO 491 - Cell Biology 4 Credits

Option 2

BIO 370 - Principles of Environmental Science 3 Credits
ENVS 203 - Environmental and Occupational Laws 3 Credits
ENVS 400 - Natural Resource, Conservation and Management 3 Credits
ENVS 200 - Environmental Health Issues 3 Credits
ENVS 301 - Air, Water Pollution 3 Credits
ENVS 313 - Waste Management 3 Credits
ENVS 405 - Pollution Control and Prevention 3 Credits

Social Science Concentration

Candidates must take all of the following courses:

POL 101 - Introduction to Political Science 3 Credits
SSC 303 - Statistics for the Social Sciences 3 Credits
SSC 304 - Social Science Research Methods 3 Credits

Candidates must choose three (3) courses from the following:

HIST 230 - History of Africa to 1800 3 Credits
HIST 231 - History of Africa Since 1800 3 Credits
HIST 242 - History of the Caribbean 3 Credits
HIST 250 - Selected Topics in the History of Medieval Europe 3 Credits
HIST 251 - Selected Problems in the History of Modern Europe 3 Credits
HIST 260 - The City in History 3 Credits
HIST 333 - The History of Black Civil Rights Movement in America 3 Credits
HIST 340 - History of Political and Social Movements in America 3 Credits
HIST 410 - Comparative History of Slavery in the Americas 3 Credits

Candidates must select 1 of the following courses:

POL 216 - State and Local Government 3 Credits
POL 300 - The American Presidency 3 Credits
POL 336 - Constitutional Law 3 Credits

Grand Total Credits: 120

Students must complete 30 or more credits as part of an associate program before admission to this program. As a result, only 9 College Option credits are required. This program has a waiver to specify courses students must take in the College Option.

Special Education & Early Childhood Education, B.A.

Fixed/Required Core

English Composition

Mathematics and Quantitative Reasoning

Life and Physical Sciences

Total Credits: 12

Flexible Core

World Cultures and Global Issues

U.S. Experience in its Diversity

Creative Expressions

Individual and Society

Scientific World

Total Credits: 18

College Option

Total Credits: 9

Major Requirements

Total Credits: 81

Concentrations

English Concentration

Candidates must choose one (1) additional course from the following:

Math Concentration

Candidates must select 3- 4 of the following courses for a total 12 Credits:

Psychology Concentration

Candidates must select 4 psychology electives chosen from among the specialty areas. 400 level courses should be included:

Science Concentration

Options

Option 1

Option 2

Social Science Concentration

Candidates must take all of the following courses:

Candidates must choose three (3) courses from the following:

Candidates must select 1 of the following courses:

Grand Total Credits: 120