Early Childhood Education
Teaching Subject Endorsement Option
Bachelor of Arts in Education
ED BAE 2403
- Minimum General Studies = 45
- including General Studies coursework required by Teacher Education
- English Language minimum = 9
- ENG 101GS, Expository Writing I - 3 hours
- ENG 102GS, Expository Writing II - 3 hours
- SPCH 100GS, Fundamentals of Speech - 3
hours
- Humanities minimum = 12 including:
- Take 1 course from:
- HIST 210GS, Western Civilization - 3 hours
- HIST 211GS, Western Civilization - 3 hours
- HIST 212GS, Non-Western World History - 3 hours
- HIST 215GS, Introduction to Latin America - 3 hours
- Take 1 course from:
- HIST 250GS, American History - 3 hours
- HIST 251GS, American History - 3 hours
- Mathematics, Statistics & Computer Science minimum = 3
- Natural Sciences minimum = 7
- Social and Behavioral Sciences minimum = 9
- Take any Economic Perspective GS course - 3 hours
- Take any Political Perspective GS course - 3 hours
- Take any GS course from:
- Social Perspective,
- Geographical Perspective or
- Behavioral Perspective, - 3 hours
- Personal Development minimum = 3
- PE 160GS, Healthful Living - 3 hours
- Professional Sequence = 30
- PTE 390A-390E Must be in PreK -Grade 3
- Students must apply for admission to all Teacher Education programs.
- Endorsement = 30
This endorsement is only available to students also seeking the Elementary
Education Teaching Field Endorsement
- Second Subject Endorsement, Elementary Education Field = 30
- Should required hours of the second endorsement also meet other requirements, the
total required hours may be reduced.
- Minimum total hours required coursework = 135
- Unrestricted electives in 125 hour program = 0
- Minimum total hours required for BAE in Early Childhood Education-Teaching Subject
Endorsement = 135
- All UNK degrees require a minimum of 125 hours. Forty (40) of the hours required for
all UNK degrees must be upper division hours, which are courses numbered 300 or above
taken at a 4-year college or university.
- Early Childhood Ed Requirements (30 hours required):
- Take all of the following:
- ELED 262, Introduction to Early Childhood Education -
3 hours (Prereq: Concurrent enrollment in PTE 390A-02,
Early Childhood-PreK, or PTE 390C-02, K-3)
- ELED 362, Early Childhood Curriculum Foundations - 3
hours
- ELED 363, Early Childhood Education: Materials and
Methods - 3 hours
- ELED 371, Teaching Elementary School Language Arts - 3
hours
- ELED 375, Emergent Literacy - 3 hours
- ELED 463, Home, School, and Community Relations in
Early Childhood Education - 3 hours
- ELED 467, Administering Early Childhood Education and
Care Programs - 3 hours
- FCSC 250, Infant Development - 3 hours
- FCSC 253, Child Development - 3 hours
- SPED 406, Introduction to Early Childhood Special
Education - 3 hours
16 May 2005
