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Undergraduate 2019-2020

Special Education B.A. — Early Childhood Special Education Teaching Emphasis - Early Childhood Special Education Endorsement (Ages Birth-8)

College of Education and Behavioral Sciences

Contact: Tess Henkelman, Administrative Assistant II

Location: McKee 29

Telephone: 970.351.2691

Fax: 970.351.1061

Website: www.unco.edu/cebs/sped

Advising Information:

Students must consult with their assigned major advisor each semester prior to registering.

Assigned advisor is available through the Ursa login; ursa.unco.edu; under Student tab Academic Profile channel and is term specific. If no advisor is listed, contact the major program for advisor information.

The program consists of three parts:

  1. Liberal Arts Core (LAC) Credits
  2. Required Major Credits
  3. Professional Teacher Education Program (PTEP) Credits

Program Description:

The curriculum consists of recommended Liberal Arts core requirements, courses in early childhood and early childhood special education theory, practice, and pedagogy and courses in the Professional Teacher Education Program to ensure students have the breadth of knowledge to be an early childhood special education teacher. Strong emphasis is placed on promoting families as partners, collaborative and cross-disciplinary service approaches, recommended intervention practices that are based on research evidence, and appropriate practices for work with children and their families across a range of abilities and cultural experiences. Students are required to take technology courses; and the use of technology is incorporated into the special education coursework. Extensive field based experiences in inclusive settings with children in three age-groups- birth to 2 years, 3- 5 years, and 5-8 years are included. The program meets national and state early childhood special education professional development standards for the promotion of development and learning of young children from birth to age 8 in inclusive settings.

This major allows early childhood special education teachers to learn and apply the roles and responsibilities they must perform on a daily basis:

  • assess young children with disabilities;
  • plan and implement an Individualized family Service Program and Individualized Education program in collaboration with families and professionals under the rules and regulations of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and the Colorado Exceptional Children Education Act.

Program Admission Requirements:

  • Academic Good Standing

Program Requirements:

Students must have a 2.75 GPA at UNC by the time 30 semester hours are completed. First semester transfer students’ GPA will be reviewed at the end of the first semester on campus. Student must have a 3.0 GPA to enroll in EDSE 438.

PTEP Program Requirements:

If you are seeking licensure in your program area, the following items are required to complete your program.

  • Completion of Application for Initial Admission to PTEP

  • Completion of Full Admission to PTEP

  • Completion of Application for Student Teaching

  • Completion of content specific PRAXIS test prior to Student Teaching

  • Candidates may not take extra courses with Student Teaching without prior approval from the Program Coordinator and the STE Director.

  • All PTEP Field Experiences and methods courses need to be successfully completed prior to Student Teaching.

  • Student Teaching outside the supervision of UNC Faculty may or may not be approved.

  • Teacher Candidates will not be placed in a school where they were once students or where they have a close relative attending and/or working.

  • Teacher education and educator preparation licensure programs do not accept Professional Teacher Education Program (PTEP) or field based courses that are more than ten years old. PLEASE NOTE: Teacher Candidates have the right to petition this policy at the discretion of the program coordinator.

Please work with your content advisor to determine when these requirements will be completed throughout your program.

Degree Requirements — 120 Credits

Degree Requirements

1. Required Specific LAC — 24 credits

LAC area 1.a. — Elementary Composition

ENG 122College Composition

3

LAC area 1.b. — Intermediate Composition

ENG 123College Research Paper

3

LAC area 2 — Mathematics

MATH 181Fundamentals of Mathematics I: Number and Operations

3

MATH 182Fundamental Mathematics II: Algebra, Probability and Data Analysis

3

LAC area 4 — History

Choose one of the following courses:

HIST 100Survey of American History from Its Beginnings to 1877

3

HIST 101Survey of American History from 1877 to the Present

3

LAC area 5.a. — Economic and Political Systems or LAC area 5.b. — Geography

Choose one of the following courses:

GEOG 100World Geography

3

GEOG 110Geography of the United States and Canada

3

PSCI 100United States National Government

3

PSCI 105Fundamentals of Politics

3

LAC area 5.c. — Human Behavior and Social Systems

Choose one of the following courses:

ASLS 160Introduction to Human Communication and Its Disorders

3

SOC 120Introduction to Family Studies

3

Remaining LAC — 19 credits

See "Liberal Arts Core."

2. Required Major — 65 credits

Required Major Courses — 39 credits

Take all of the following courses:

EDSE 201Culture of Special Education

3

EDSE 203The Individualized Education Program and the Collaborative Process

3

EDSE 270Field-Based Experience

3

EDSE 331Typical and Atypical Development of Young Children

3

EDSE 332Appropriate Assessment in Early Childhood Special Education

3

EDSE 333Evidence-based Practices for Preschool Learners, 3-5 Years

3

EDSE 334Evidence-based Practices for Young Learners, 5 to 8 Years

3

EDSE 431Introduction to Early Childhood Special Education

3

EDSE 432Evidence-based Practices for Infants and Toddlers, Birth to 3 Years

3

EDSE 434Collaborative Practice with Families and Professionals

3

EDSE 435Young Children with Significant Support Needs

3

EDSE 436Field Experience in Early Childhood Special Education: Birth to 3 Years

3

EDSE 437Field Experience in Early Childhood Special Education: 3-8 Years

3

Additional Required Courses — 26 credits

Take all of the following courses:

ECLD 350Teaching Young Bilingual Children

3

EDEC 205Nutrition, Health, and Safety

3

EDEC 220Curriculum Development: Methods and Techniques

3

EDEC 240Administration of Early Childhood Care and Education Program

3

EDEC 241Administration: Human Relations for Early Childhood

3

EDRD 319Language and Literacy Development of Preschool and Elementary School Children

3

ET 340Integration of Technology into Content and Pedagogy

2

MATH 283Fundamental Mathematics III: Geometry and Measurement

3

PSY 347Educational Psychology for Elementary Teachers

3

3. Required PTEP — 15 credits

EDF 366Conceptions of Schooling: Context and Process

3

EDSE 438Student Teaching in Early Childhood Special Education

9-12

Note: EDSE 438 Take 12 credits.