康卡迪亞大學(xué)

Enrich a child’s life through activities that engage and inspire them. This program gives you a strong foundation for working with children while offering the flexibility to bring your passion for other fields such as art, music, drama, exercise science, or second languages into an educational or community milieu.

In a curriculum that combines theory and fieldwork, you’ll follow a core education curriculum and choose among three areas of concentration: Administration in Childhood Settings, Exceptional Children in Childhood Settings, or Children and Technology.

As a Child Studies major, you’ll observe children interacting with experienced teachers and:

• Learn to consider children’s roles in family, community and cultural contexts
• Study the physical, emotional and psychological development in children two to 12 years of age
• Study educational psychology and philosophy
• After graduation, you’ll leave with the knowledge, skill and passion to succeed in early childhood education, work as an administrator or pursue graduate studies.

A Bachelor of Arts degree takes a minimum of three or four years (90 – 120 credits) of full-time study, depending on your academic background.

Concentration:

Major in Child Studies (45 credits)

The 3-year BA in Child Studies explores many facets of child development, socialization, and education, focusing primarily on children from age’s two to 12. The program is designed to accommodate career objectives for two different groups of students: people who intend to eventually pursue graduate studies to do research in Child Study or Educational Psychology or those who intend to work with children in settings such as daycare, hospitals and after-school care.

Graduates are prepared to take on challenging positions as educators and administrators in daycares, hospitals and after-school programs. Others pursue graduate studies to do research in child studies or educational psychology.