The Undergraduate Childhood Education Program leads to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Education (BSEd) and a recommendation for New York State initial certification as a teacher of grades one through six (ages 6-11). Depending upon transfer credits and/or content studies, students complete 120 credits in three main curricular areas within this program: liberal arts core requirements, co-major (or interdisciplinary concentration), and required education courses. Students may take certain education courses while completing core requirements in the liberal arts and courses in their co-major (or interdisciplinary concentration). Click on the following link for information on the undergraduate courses that you can take in Childhood Education. 

Leads to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Education (BSEd) and a recommendation for New York State initial certification as a teacher of grades one through six (ages 6-11).  As with other programs within the School of Education, the Childhood Education Undergraduate Program is registered by the New York State Department of Education and is fully accredited by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE).

Depending upon transfer credits and/or content studies, students complete 120 credits in three main curricular areas within this program: liberal arts core requirements, co-major (or interdisciplinary concentration), and required education courses. Students may take certain education courses while completing core requirements in the liberal arts and courses in their co-major (or interdisciplinary concentration). Click on the following link for information on the undergraduate courses that you can take in Childhood Education.

The Undergraduate Childhood Education program and its courses reflect a faculty-generated Conceptual Framework that includes key themes and dispositions:

• Developing in-depth knowledge about the world
• Becoming skillful, reflective practitioners
• Educating for and about diversity
• Nurturing leadership for learning
• Building caring communities
• Dispositions (e.g., believing that all students can learn, treating students fairly, in a caring environment, with ethics and values, where differences are respected)

If you are an undergraduate and interested in teaching in elementary schools (grades 1 - 6), go to the Admissions link above.  Once admitted and for help in planning your program, please make an appointment to meet with an advisor in the Office of Student Services (North Academic Center, Room 3/223A) or click on the Advisement icon.

The Graduate Childhood Education Program leads to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Education (BSEd) and a recommendation for New York State initial certification as a teacher of grades one through six (ages 6-11). There are five Paths or Tracks in the Graduate CE program from which you can choose, all of which are based on the above conceptual framework.