CHDV 1004: Working with Children During Out-of-School Time
3.00 credits (3.00 lec)
This foundational course introduces students to career opportunities working with school age children (5–12) during out-of-school time. The course will examine the roles of providers for school-age children, basic program elements and regulations, professionalism, and current issues. Students will increase their understanding of national standards and the skills necessary to successfully work with school-age children in an out-of-school-time program. Prerequisites: Placement into READ 1300 or completion of READ 0200 or ESOL 0052.
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each week at a prearranged time based on each student’s schedule. In addition, weekly course lectures and discussion occur online. Students will examine the role of a mentor, the mentoring process, the urban context, developmental assets, bridging differences, boundaries and limit setting, and issues that offer come up in mentoring urban children and youth. No experience with children is necessary. Students will need to complete a thorough application process through Big Brothers Big Sisters prior to the first week of class.
Prerequisite: Placement into READ 0200 or placement into ESOL 0052 or completion of READ 0100 or ESOL 0042 with faculty recommendation into ESOL 0052.
CHDV 1220: Child Safety, Health and Nutrition
3.00 credits (3.00 lec)
This course guides the student in obtaining skills needed to establish and maintain a physically and psychologically safe and healthy learning environment for young children. Topics include preventing illness and accidents; handling emergencies; providing health, safety, and nutritional education experiences; meeting children’s basic nutritional needs; understanding the teachers’ responsibility with respect to therapeutic drugs, which might be prescribed for children in their care; current health-related issues; and recognition and implications of child abuse and neglect. Prerequisites: Placement into READ 0200 or placement into ESOL 0052 or completion of READ 0100 or ESOL 0042 with faculty recommendation into ESOL 0052.
CHDV 1240: Caregiving and Teaching Strategies
3.00 credits (2.00 lec/1.00 lab)
This course examines the role of the teacher in early childhood settings. It applies knowledge of child development as it relates to individual children, communities, curriculum and communication activities. Prerequisites: Placement into READ 1300 or completion of READ 0200 or ESOL 0052. Prerequisites/Corequisites: CHDV 1215 or instructor approval.
CHDV 1244: Creating Environments for School-Age Children
3.00 credits (3.00 lec)
This course provides students with an introduction to arranging the physical environment to meet the developmental needs of school-age children in afterschool and out-of-school-time programs. Students will learn how to arrange furniture, select and organize materials, plan the daily schedule, and manage transitions.
Prerequisites: Placement into READ 1300 or completion of READ 0200 or ESOL 0052.
strategies to establish and maintain open, positive, and collaborative relationships. They will also examine methods to build and maintain collaborative relationships with the teaching team and other professionals within the educational setting.
Prerequisites: Placement into READ 0200 or placement into ESOL 0052 of completion of READ 0100 or ESOL 0042 with faculty recommendation into ESOL 0052.
CHDV 1540: Infant-Toddler Development and Learning Experience
3.00 credits (2.00 lec/1.00 lab)
This course provides an overview of infant/toddler theory and development in home- and center-based settings. Students will integrate knowledge of developmental needs, developmentally appropriate environments, effective caregiving and teaching strategies, and observation methods. Prerequisites: CHDV 1215 or instructor approval; placement into READ 1300 or completion of READ 0200 or ESOL 0052.
CHDV 1545: Learning Experiences
3.00 credits (2.00 lec/1.00 lab)
This course provides an overview of mixed-age theory and development for in-home or center-based settings. Students will integrate knowledge of developmental needs, developmentally appropriate environments, effective caregiving, teaching strategies and observation methods. Prerequisites: CHDV 1240 or instructor approval; placement into READ 1300 or completion of READ 0200 or ESOL 0052.
CHDV 1600: Practicum 1
2.00 credits (2.00 int)
This course provides an opportunity to work with children from diverse backgrounds in an urban early-childhood- education setting. Students will observe and assess children’s development, establish relationships, assist with caregiving routines, facilitate learning through play, plan and implement activities, and maintain professional relationships. Each week, students will spend six hours in an early-childhood classroom.
Prerequisites: Child Development Certificate or instructor approval.
CHDV 1610: Professional Relations Seminar
2.00 credits (2.00 lec)
This course helps early-childhood staff develop the skills to be successful employees and members of a teaching team. Students will examine interpersonal communication, group dynamics, group decision-making, conflict resolution, wage issues, job stress, workplace diversity and job-seeking skills. Prerequisites: Placement into READ 1300 or completion of READ 0200 or ESOL 0052.
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This course provides an overview of language- and literacy- learning experiences in either home- or center-based settings. Students will integrate knowledge of child development, learning environments, and teaching methods to promote literacy skills in speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Prerequisites: Placement into READ 0200 or ESOL 0052 or completion of READ 0100 or ESOL 0042 and faculty recommendation into ESOL 0052.
CHDV 1641: Seeds of Emerging Literacy
1.00 credit (1.00 lec)
This course is intended to introduce the concept of “emergent literacy” to paraprofessionals in the public schools and to childcare providers. It provides information about implementing a literacy-rich classroom for young children. Students are expected to think critically about the impact of curriculum experiences, classroom organization and the role of the teacher as the “architect” of learning opportunities on the emergent literacy skills of children.
Prerequisites: Placement into READ 0200 or ESOL 0052 or completion of READ 0100 or ESOL 0042 and faculty recommendation into ESOL 0052.
CHDV 1642: Social, Emotional and Moral Development Experiences
3.00 credits (3.00 lec)
This course provides an overview of social, emotional, and moral learning experiences in home- and center-based settings. Students will integrate knowledge of child development, learning environments, and teaching methods to promote children’s emotional development, moral development, self- concept, self-esteem, social skills, diversity awareness, social studies, altruism, and moral responsibility.
Prerequisites: Placement into READ 0200 or ESOL 0052 or completion of READ 0100 or ESOL 0042 and faculty recommendation into ESOL 0052.
CHDV 1644: Creative Development Experiences
3.00 credits (3.00 lec)
This course provides an overview of creative/aesthetic learning experiences in home- and center-based settings. Students will integrate knowledge of child development, learning environments, and teaching methods to promote children’s artistic, musical, movement, and dramatic abilities. Prerequisites: Placement into READ 0200 or ESOL 0052 or completion of READ 0100 or ESOL 0042 and faculty recommendation into ESOL 0052.
CHDV 1650: Peaceful Classroom
3.00 credits (3.00 lec)
This course provides an overview of the effects of violence on the development and behavior of young children. Students will explore elements to be incorporated into a peaceful classroom and identify behavioral intervention. They also address challenging behaviors and create activities and materials to foster peacemaking skills in children. Prerequisites: Placement into READ 0200 or ESOL 0052 or completion of READ 0100 or ESOL 0042 and faculty recommendation into ESOL 0052.
This course provides an overview of sensory-motor learning experiences in either home- or center-based settings. Students will integrate knowledge of child development, learning environments, and teaching methods to promote children’s sensory, fine motor, gross motor, perceptual-motor, and self- care skill development.
Prerequisites: Placement into READ 0200 or ESOL 0052 or completion of READ 0100 or ESOL 0042 and faculty recommendation into ESOL 0052.
CHDV 1654: Math, Science and Technology for Early Childhood
3.00 credits (3.00 lec)
This course provides an overview of cognitive and multimedia learning experiences in home- and center-based settings. Students will integrate knowledge of child development, learning environments, and teaching methods to promote children’s curiosity, attention, perception, memory, problem- solving, logical thinking, and media literacy.
Prerequisites: Placement into READ 0200 or ESOL 0052 or completion of READ 0100 or ESOL 0042 and faculty recommendation into ESOL 0052.
CHDV 1656: Culturally Relevant/Antibias Education
3.00 credits (3.00 lec)
This course provides an overview of culturally relevant and antibias education in early childhood settings. Students will examine the major approaches to culturally relevant/antibias education, evaluate and make teaching materials, plan and implement culturally relevant/antibias learning experiences, and plan culturally relevant/antibias curriculum. This course is also taught online.
Prerequisites: Placement into READ 0200 or placement into ESOL 0052 or completion of READ 0100 or ESOL 0042 with faculty recommendation into ESOL 0052.
CHDV 1744: School-Age Activities
4.00 credits (4.00 lec)
This course provides students with an overview of activities for school-age children in out-of-school-time settings, integrating their understanding of developmentally effective approaches to teaching and learning by designing, implementing, and evaluating activities that promote positive development of the whole child.
Prerequisites: Placement into READ 1300 or completion of READ 0200 or ESOL 0052.
CHDV 1749: Topics in Parenting
1.00 credit
Prerequisites:Placement into READ 1300 or completion of READ 0200 or ESOL 0052.
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reading skills of children in a public school setting.
Prerequisites: Placement into READ 1300 or completion of READ 0200 or ESOL 0052.
CHDV 1777: Supporting Writing Skills in School-Age Children
1.00 credit (1.00 lec)
This course provides an overview of the developmental progression of writing skills in young children. Students will have the opportunity to explore strategies and materials that may be used by paraprofessionals to support and extend the writing skills of children in a public school setting.
Prerequisites: Placement into READ 1300 or completion of READ 0200 or ESOL 0052.
CHDV 1779: Supporting Math Skills in School-Age Children
1.00 credit (1.00 lec)
This course provides an overview of the developmental progression of math skills in young children. Students will have the opportunity to explore strategies and materials that may be used by paraprofessionals to support and extend the math skills of children in a public school setting. Prerequisites: Placement into READ 1300 or completion of READ 0200 or ESOL 0052.
CHDV 2444: School-Age Program Planning
3.00 credits (3.00 lec)
This course examines the curriculum of quality school-age and out-of-school-time programs. Students will explore many forms of program planning and will develop the tools they need to organize and evaluate yearly, seasonal, monthly, and long-term activity plans.
Prerequisites: Placement into READ 1300 or completion of READ 0200 or ESOL 0052.
CHDV 2500: Professional Leadership
3.00 credits (3.00 lec)
This course prepares students to take an active/advocate role in the child-development profession by examining the history, current trends, and future of childcare and early childhood education.
Prerequisites: Child Development Diploma or instructor approval.
CHDV 2545: Curriculum Planning
3.00 credits (3.00 lec)
This course provides an advanced level exploration of curriculum planning for teachers of young children. Emphasis is on organizing, implementing, and evaluating a quality, comprehensive, integrated, and inclusive early childhood program.
Prerequisites: Child Development Diploma or instructor approval.
will spend nine hours in an early childhood classroom. Prerequisites: Child Development Diploma or instructor approval.
CHDV 2998: Directed Study
Prerequisites: One course in CHDV and instructor approval.
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CHIN 1000: Beginning Chinese 1
5.00 credits (5.00 lec)
This course is a comprehensive introduction to Mandarin Chinese. Students will learn the pronunciation system, character writing and basic skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing; master standard pronunciation, the four tones, basic grammatical patterns, and vocabulary that is highly relevant to a beginning Chinese learner; lay a firm foundation for their future study of Chinese and be able to function in a Chinese-speaking environment. Students will accomplish these goals not only with the language skills, but also with Chinese cultural awareness.
Prerequisites: Placement into READ 0200 or placement into ESOL 0052 or completion of READ 0100 or ESOL 0042 with faculty recommendation into ESOL 0052; placement into ENGL 1110 or completion of ENGL 0900 or ESOL 0051.
Fulfills MnTC Goal Area 8.
CHIN 1100: Beginning Chinese 2
5.00 credits (5.00 lec)
This course is a continuation of Chinese 1000. Students will further develop standard pronunciation, the four tones, basic grammatical patterns and practical vocabulary; have a better and deeper understanding of the language and the culture; be able to recognize and write about 600 Chinese characters, write short essays, and have conversations with native Chinese speakers about yourself, your family, and other everyday topics; and be ready for intermediate study in Chinese.
Prerequisites: CHIN 1000; placement into READ 0200 or placement into ESOL 0052 or completion of READ 0100 or ESOL 0042 with faculty recommendation into ESOL 0052; placement into ENGL 1110 or completion of ENGL 0900 or ESOL 0051. Fulfills MnTC Goal Area 8.