Web Course (Asynchronous)

This course is a study of the effective management and administration of high quality early care and education programs. Students are introduced to a variety of topics related to opening and/or managing an early childhood program, including community needs assessments, program planning, implementation, and evaluation, finance and budget, marketing, and personnel development and management. Licensing and regulation, facilities development and maintenance, parent and community interaction, nutrition, and health and safety issues are also explored.

This course focuses on how to observe, document, and assess the growth and development of young children in early care and education settings. Students learn and practice a variety of appropriate observation techniques, documentation methods, and assessment strategies and tools. Students are introduced to the goals, benefits, and uses of assessment for young children. Confidentiality and assessment partnerships with families and other professionals are also explored.

This course will explore key components of social emotional learning and development in children birth through age eight. Coursework will focus on the study and use of positive techniques to effectively support child behavior in early childhood settings in order to help children build positive self-concepts and individual strengths within the context of appropriate limits. The study includes uses of direct and indirect guidance techniques.

The course will provide a comprehensive introduction to the principles and basic concepts of the development of the child from conception to age three. Emphasis will be placed on physical, emotional, social, and cognitive growth. Students will explore high quality infant/toddler care and the power of caregiving as curriculum.

This course is the study of the role of play as it affects the social, emotional, physical and intellectual growth and development of young children from birth to age three. Students will be introduced to theory and research on play, as well as how to develop activities and materials to foster play in infants and toddlers.

The course is the study of social/emotional development in young children from birth to age three. Students will be introduced to child development theory, as well as how to develop activities and materials to foster social/emotional skills in infants and toddlers.

This is the final course in the series of two capstone project courses. This course will provide the opportunity to implement and evaluate the culminating project to demonstrate achievement of program outcomes.

A first course in research methods for students pursuing data science. The emphasis of this course is on developing the habits of sound critical thinking, especially with regards to larger data sets. The entire research process will be examined, including the formation of a research question, the means of data collection, and the resulting conclusions that can be drawn from the data.

This course is an introduction to using SQL (Structured Query Language) to create, manage, and analyze a basic database, with a focus on finding patterns within data.

A survey course of the core elements of data science: Asking questions, collecting and cleaning data, exploring the data, creating models, and communicating the results. No programming background or statistics background is assumed.