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2016-2017 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2016-2017 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Education and Human Development, Early Childhood Education BA


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Introduction

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The School of Education & Human Development (SEHD) offers a number of exciting and innovative undergraduate programs that prepare professionals to work with children, families and communities. SEHD prepares highly successful teachers within an innovative, rigorous and highly supported teacher education program. CU Denver prepares teachers to have deep content knowledge and a strong sense of connection to children and families in diverse communities; and, we provide our students with teaching tools drawn from cutting-edge research in teaching and learning.

Program Delivery

  • This is an on-campus program with a variety of delivery options for many of our courses including hybrid, evening, weekend and online courses.

Declaring This Major

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General Requirements

To earn a degree, students must satisfy all requirements in each of the three areas below, in addition to their individual major requirements.

Program Requirements


  1. Students must complete a total of 126 semester hours for the EDHD - Early Childhood Education Track
  2. Students must take the PLACE Exam during their Junior year to complete licensure requirements.
  3. Application to the Senior professional year is required.
  4. A minimum GPA of 3.0 is required for all courses applying to EDHD-Early Childhood Education requirements.
  5. Students must complete and maintain a 3.0 minimum grade point average in Licensure coursework to complete licensure requirements. Please see an advisor for more information on this requirement.
  6. Transfer courses must be approved by faculty and/or advisor to apply to the major.
  7. An application process is required to continue into your last professional year (last year of your program).

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