Bachelors Degree - Early Care and Education

2024 Spring Course Info
Child Development - Ages 4 to 8Professional DevelopmentPracticum II - Curriculum Development and ImplementationAdministration and Supervision in Early Childhood SettingsDiversity in the Lives of Young Children and FamiliesChild Guidance and Classroom EnvironmentsDevelopment of Curriculum for Children Ages 4 to 8Practicum III - Capstone Experience
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Course Information
Child Development - Birth To 3 (Infant/Toddler)
Course Description
This course focuses on development from birth to age three. It covers major theories and research about development including growth patterns, influences of disabilities and risk factors, environmental factors and their effects on attachment styles, language acquisition, brain development, cognitive development, social-emotional development, and perceptual and sensory motor skills.
Contacts
Instructor

Holly Wright
Office: 806-742-3000
holly.d.wright@ttu.edu

Campus Coordinator

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Disability Support Services

To request accommodations for this course, contact the disability support office at your home university. You must register each semester and for each course. Read more about the Great Plains IDEA process for requesting accommodations.

Textbooks

Infant Development: A Topical Approach
Alan Fogel
Edition: 2nd Edition (2015)
ISBN: 978-1-59738-060-7
Publisher: Sloan Publishing

Course Access
 
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Exam Proctor

This course does not require an exam proctor.

Synchronous Components

This course does not include synchronous components.

Comments

This is a very intensive course for summer and has extensive weekly writing requirements in addition to a comprehensive observation of a young child and a two-part paper. The text is required and utilized for the course as well as exams so you will need this text for this course.

Faculty
University Members
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– – Jacy Phillips, Early Care & Education for a Mobile Society Graduate,
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