Offered by: College of Education and Integrative Studies, Education Department
The Bachelor of Arts Degree in Early Childhood Studies is designed to meet the growing need for quality early childhood professionals prepared at the baccalaureate level and to meet the need for students’ preparation for future graduate studies in early childhood. The purpose of the BA in Early Childhood Studies is to prepare students with appropriate knowledge, skills and dispositions that reflect the perspective of equity and fairness in their work with children from birth to age eight and their families. While here at Cal Poly Pomona, students examine related early childhood processes and identify implications of theory for the examination and application of principles and practices within diverse family, program and community contexts.
Students develop and demonstrate skills of culturally competent communication and the ability to engage in reflective practice/supervision in building responsive/reciprocal relationships with children and families. Students also concentrate on the importance of ethical and equitable decision making. Through their understanding that diversity is an asset to be acknowledged, promoted, and cultivated, CPP ECS BA graduates will be poised to lead the early childhood profession with a clear vision of social justice for individual and group of young children and their families.
The program has been designed to incorporate transfer students from community college Child Development/Early Childhood Education programs by providing a track for the approved Early Childhood Education Transfer Model Curriculum (ECE TMC) and/or the approved Curriculum Alignment Project (CAP) courses from the California Community Colleges, as well as to serve native CPP students. Transfer students who have completed the ECE AS-T or AA-T will be able to graduate in two years by completing the 90 quarter units of required coursework at Cal Poly Pomona. Native full-time students will be able to graduate in four years by completing the 180 quarter units of required coursework. The program follows the general Cal Poly Pomona admission requirements.
The baccalaureate program contains a total of 180 quarter units including articulated transfer courses. Students who meet the requirements for general admission to the University can elect ECS as their major. Those students who have completed the lower division core courses (ECS 100, 110, 201/201A, 210/210A, 220, and 230) at Cal Poly Pomona or articulated from another Institution of Higher Education must have a C or better in each of these six lower division core courses in order to enter the major. Students are required to earn a grade of C or better in all major coursework in order to graduate. During the first two years of the program, students can only be admitted into the Early Childhood Studies program during the Fall term (Fall 16 and Fall 17).
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