Bachelor of Arts in Child and Adolescent Development: Concentration in Elementary Education Teaching Pre-Credential

Program Overview

The Elementary Education Teaching Pre-Credential concentration prepares students for elementary school teaching. It emphasizes social justice, cultural awareness, and professional responsibilities. The program offers a comprehensive curriculum that includes core requirements in child development, language studies, and various subject areas. By completing this concentration, students gain the knowledge and skills necessary to pursue credential programs and become effective elementary school teachers.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

The Elementary Education Teaching Pre-Credential concentration is designed for students who want to become elementary school teachers and plan to enroll in Multiple Subjects Teaching Credential programs or Education Specialist Credentials in special education programs after graduation.

Program Learning Outcomes:

• Promote and advocate for social justice.
• Be culturally aware, sensitive, and responsive in the context of child and adolescent development.
• Understand professional roles and responsibilities in the field of child and adolescent development in various work settings.
• Apply developmental, learning, and cultural theories used in the field.
• Communicate clearly, respectfully, persuasively, coherently, and powerfully when working with children, families, and colleagues.
• Write clearly, cohesively, and persuasively in the child and adolescent development genre, including reports, policy analyses, assessments, and proposals.
• Understand research methods, assessment, evaluation, and data collection, analysis, and reporting; to conduct action research in the context of child and adolescent development.
• Locate and utilize a variety of appropriate and relevant resources and technologies in the context of child and adolescent development.

Other:

• Core Requirements: 24 units
• CAD 210: Introduction to Applied Child and Adolescent Development (3 units)
• CAD 260: Children, Families, and Community: An Ecological Perspective (3 units)
• CAD 300: Professional Roles and Careers in Child and Adolescent Development (3 units)
• CAD 410GW: Applied Developmental Science: Prenatal Through Early Childhood (3 units)
• CAD 411: Applied Developmental Science: Middle Childhood through Emerging Adulthood (3 units)
• CAD 500: Research Methods in Child and Adolescent Development (3 units)
• CAD 625: Children, Youth, and Public Policy (3 units)
• CAD 660: Applied Advanced Developmental Science in Child and Adolescent Development (3 units)
• Language Studies: 3-4 units
• COMM 554: Performance of Children's Literature (4 units)
• ENG 420: Introduction to the Study of Language (3 units)
• SLHS 300: Introduction to Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences (3 units)
• SLHS 655: Language Development (3 units)
• Literature: 3 units
• AA S 512: Asian American Children's/Adolescent Literature (3 units)
• CWL 440: "Typical American": Narratives of Multiculturalism in the Americas from 1492 to the Present (3 units)
• ENG 655: Literature and the Adolescent Reader (3 units)
• Mathematics: 3 units
• MATH 165: Concepts of the Number System (3 units)
• Science: 3 units
• AU/GEOG 301: Bay Area Environments (3 units)
• BIOL 300: Nature Study (3 units)
• BIOL 310: Biology for Today's World (3 units)
• BIOL 318: Our Endangered Planet (3 units)
• ERTH 310: The Violent Earth (3 units)
• ERTH 335: Global Warming (3 units)
• ERTH 365: Extreme Weather in a Warming World (3 units)
• E ED 655: Hands-on Undergraduate Science Education Experience (3 units)
• LS 310: Science and Culture for Future Elementary School Teachers (3 units)
• LS 430: Future of the Forests (3 units)
• History: 3 units
• AIS 410: Perspectives of Native California Indians (3 units)
• AA S 510: Asian Americans in California (3 units)
• HIST 450: History of California (3 units)
• LTNS 315: Latina/os in California (3 units)
• The Arts: 3 units
• AFRS 400: Black Arts and Humanities (3 units)
• AMST 310/HUM 485: The Arts and American Culture (3 units)
• COMM 557/LS 403: Performance and Pedagogy of the Oppressed for Educators (3 units)
• DANC 340: Dance Pedagogy (3 units)
• DANC 350: Dance Aesthetics: Cultural/Historical Perspectives (3 units)
• E ED 450: Art and Learning (3 units)
• LTNS 425: Popular and Traditional Music of the Latinx U.S. (3 units)
• LS 427: Social Movements & the Arts for Future Teachers (3 units)
• MUS 505: Music of the World's Peoples (3 units)
• MUS 601: Music for Children (3 units)
• TH A 451: Storytelling and Folk Literature (3 units)
• Physical Education: 3 units
• KIN 240: Introduction to Teaching Physical Education (3 units)
• KIN 401: Elementary School Physical Education: K-5 (3 units)
• KIN 487: Motor Development (3 units)
• Complementary Studies: 12 units
• This requirement is automatically fulfilled by the Child and Adolescent Development degree, but students may need to take additional units to reach the minimum 120 units for graduation.
• General Education Requirements: A variety of courses in different subject areas to meet the university's general education requirements.