30 courses with the subject EDU, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
EDU 114Intro to Family Childcare 4 (4-0) Spring
Prerequisites: Corequisites: The course introduces the foundational principles, strategies, and best practices for planning and implementing meaningful, developmentally appropriate learning experiences while managing a professional and sustainable family child care setting. Emphasis is placed on addressing the unique challenges of mixed-age group care, supporting diverse developmental needs, building positive family and community partnerships, maintaining professionalism, integrating sound business practices, and promoting self-care for providers to sustain long-term success. Upon completion, students should be able to design, adapt, and implement inclusive activities for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and school-age children while effectively managing a sustainable family child care business with a focus on professionalism, self-care, and strong family-community collaboration. (2025 FA)
EDU 119Intro to Early Child Education 4 (4-0) Fall
Prerequisites: Corequisites: This course introduces the foundations of culturally responsive, equitable and inclusive early childhood education, planning intentional developmentally appropriate experiences, learning activities, and teaching strategies for indoor and outdoor environments for all young children, guidance techniques, and professionalism. Topics include theoretical foundations, national early learning standards, NC Foundations for Early Learning and Development, state regulations, program types, career options, professionalism, ethical conduct, quality inclusive environments, guidance techniques, and curriculum responsive to the needs of each child/family. Upon completion, students should be able to implement developmentally appropriate environments, guidance techniques, schedules, and teaching strategies across developmental domains to support culturally, linguistically, and ability diverse children and their families in inclusive settings, and design a personal career/professional development plan. (2022 FA)
Prerequisites: Corequisites: This course includes the theories of child development, observation and assessment, milestones, and factors that influence development, from preschool through middle childhood. Emphasis is placed on knowledge, observation and assessment of developmental sequences in approaches to play/learning, emotional/social, health/physical, language/communication and cognitive domains. Upon completion, students should be able to compare/contrast typical/ atypical developmental characteristics, explain biological and environmental factors that impact development, and identify evidence-based strategies for enhancing development for children that are culturally, linguistically, and ability diverse. (2020 FA) This course has been approved to satisfy the following requirement(s): | Premajor and/or Elective course for A.A. and A.S.
*** Additional Gen Ed Courses 7 Credit Hours 6 0 13 Total Required Minimum Semester Hours Credit 60 **At least one math UGETC course must be a 200-level course.
EDU 270Effective Instructional Enviro 2 (2-0) Spring
Prerequisites: Corequisites: This course is designed to provide learners with the knowledge and skills to create, manage, and assess effective instructional environments, learning attitudes, and behaviors for today's diverse learning population. Topics include organizing the learning environment, fostering positive learning attitudes, supporting healthy stakeholder partnerships, engaging students using effective differentiated instruction, guiding, and managing student behaviors, and assessing student progress. Upon completion of this course, learners will demonstrate effective dispositions of the professional educator that include managing schedules, spaces, and resources, promoting supportive learning mindsets, engaging students with diverse instructional strategies, guiding student behaviors to maximize both the instructional and social climate, and analyzing and effectively responding to student progress. (2022 FA)
Prerequisites: Corequisites: This course introduces the appropriate and ethical use of technology that is inclusive of digital and analog materials/tools to enhance teaching and learning in all educational settings. Emphasis is placed on the developmentally appropriate use of technology with children, ethical issues, digital citizenship, instructional strategies, assistive technology, and the use of technology for professional development and communication with families. Upon completion, student should be able to demonstrate professional and ethical implementation of various modes of technology in culturally responsive and equitable ways to support diverse children, families and communities. (2022 FA)
Prerequisites: Corequisites: This course is designed to provide learners with the content knowledge, instructional methods/materials, and assessment techniques needed to provide research-based math and science K - 12 instruction. Topics include essential math and science concepts and skills, developmentally appropriate pedagogy, culturally responsive instruction, standards-based outcomes, technology enhanced lesson planning, formative/summative assessments, research-based interventions, authentic learning experiences, and reflective practice. Upon completion, learners will be able to plan, implement, assess, and reflect on developmentally appropriate math and science instruction aligned to the NC Standard Course of Study, other professional and national standards. (2022 FA)
EDU 283Educator Preparation Practicum 3 (2-3) Spring
Prerequisites: Corequisites: This course is designed to allow learners to demonstrate acquired skills and competencies in a developmentally appropriate learning environment. Topics include dispositions of effective teachers, portfolio assessment development, reflective practice, teaching methods, assessment strategies, and professional practices based on state and national Teaching Standards. Upon completion, learners should be able to provide a portfolio assessment with evidence of ethical/professional standards, respect for a diverse population in learning environments, content knowledge, appropriate guidance intervention, and grade- level technology enhanced lesson planning/assessments through practices in the classroom environment. (2022 FA)
