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Current Course Offerings

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Early Childhood Studies (MA)

Classes in the Fall and Winter terms meet for three hours a week for 12 weeks. Day classes run between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m., while evening classes run from 6 to 9 p.m., Monday to Friday.

Classes in the Spring and Summer meet twice a week (each class is three hours) and run for six weeks. Day classes run between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m., while evening classes run from 6 to 9 p.m., Monday to Friday.

Please note, while there are 22 MAECS electives listed in the YSGS calendar, in graduate school not all electives are offered every year. The program offers 12 courses each academic year, which includes the two required courses. The required courses alternate every fall so that one of the two required courses is always offered in the evening. Electives will vary somewhat each year.

Required Courses

CS8901 Research Design for ECS

Professor: Kathryn Underwood

Time: 6 p.m.-9 p.m.

CS8904 Theoretical Frameworks for ECS

Professor: Rachel Berman

Time: Day

Elective Courses

CS8938 Cross-Cultural Development

Professor: Judith Bernhard

Time: Day

CS8940 - Indigenous Childhood Studies

Professor: Nicole Ineese-Nash

Time: 6 p.m.-9 p.m.

CS8942 – Children’s Health

Professor: Donna Koller

Time: Day

Elective Courses

CS8902 Pedagogy and Curriculum

Professor: Nicole Land

Time: 6 p.m.-9 p.m.

CS8923 Social Justice and Childhood

Professor: Janelle Brady
 
Time: Day

CS8934 – Special Topics in ECS: Early Childhood Racial Equity

Professor: Rachel Berman

Time: 6 p.m.-9 p.m.

CS8941: Internship

Professor: Sejal Patel

Time: Day

The MA ECS program has two sessions in the Spring/Summer Term. Each course runs twice a week for six weeks vs a regular full term where each course runs once a week for 12 weeks.

Spring (April to June)

CS8929 Minority-Language Children

Professor: Kristin Snoddon

Time: 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

CS8937 – Queering Education

Professor: Dawn Onishenko

Time: Day

Summer (June to July)

CS8932 – Children and Play

Professor: TBA

Time: 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.