Early Childhood Education (ECE)

Research, experimental programs, and emerging trends in early childhood education; relationships between educational experiences and later intellectual and emotional development.

Examines human development and cultural factors in planning, designing, and implementing curriculum and instruction in early childhood and childhood education.

Parent-child-teacher relationships, cognitive socialization, and academic attainments; proximal/distal variables: family structure, history, processes, content, community, culture.

Developmental significance of play, processes, and development; role of the adult in child's play; educational practices.

Continuing seminars that consist of a series of individual lectures by faculty, students, or outside speakers.

Creative projects, including nonthesis research, that are supervised on an individual basis and which fall outside the scope of formal courses.

Formal courses given on a topical or special interest subject which may be offered infrequently.