Bachelor’s in Early Childhood Education with STEAM

B.A. Early Childhood Education: STEAM Specialization Sample Courses

Integration of Science and Technology

This ECE course will focus on instruction and integration of emergent and developing STEAM principles. Students will research, plan, implement, and evaluate developmentally appropriate practices integrating strategies and skills to develop integrated science and technology experiences for children. Candidates will explore activities in magnetism, cause and effect, shadows/light, motion, patterns, measuring speed and distance, color and light, and nature.

Thinking, Reasoning, and Discovering Mathematics

This Early Childhood Education STEAM Specialization course will focus on designing, implementing and evaluating appropriate activities and environments for children with a focus on mathematics, thinking and reasoning blocks, math, woodworking, and engineering with art concepts integrated with an emphasis on current research in early childhood education. Participants will broaden their own creativity and imagination through exploring learning activities that can be applied to actual early childhood settings. Students will design age-appropriate classroom and outdoor learning environments that meet state regulations.

Integration of Engineering and Simple Robotics

This course is an exploration of recent learning of science, technology, and simple robotics. Students will examine developmentally appropriate practices with robotics and the construction of simple robotics with robotic manipulatives, Legos, TECHNIC I, Unit blocks, Lincoln Logs, and simple pulleys to provide learning in an engaging and interdisciplinary exploration and personal connections as a powerful learning tool for young children. Candidates will engage in in-depth design instruction in early childhood settings in biology, ecology, nature study, and environmental science with a focus on developmentally appropriate learning environments centered on the use of robotics as manipulatives.

Undergraduate Admission Requirements

• Completed Application for Admission
• Application fee
• Personal statement
• Identification verification
• Proof of academic history
• Work or Volunteer Experience Summary showing three or more years of significant professional or life experience or an official transcript confirming 24 transferable credits from an institutionally accredited institution with a grade of C or better
• Demonstrated commitment to the mission and values of Pacific Oaks College
• Any degree specific requirements

Applicants with less than 24 credits of transferrable college coursework who do not demonstrate three years of significant professional or life experience outlined on their Work or Volunteer Experience Summary, are required to submit additional documentation:

• One letter of support from someone (a non-relative) familiar with your ability to be successful in this program
• An additional essay (500-750 words). In your essay, please answer the following questions:
  • What life and professional experience do you possess that would enable you to be successful in the Pacific Oaks classroom focused on the application of experience to the course content?
  • Why it is important to you to study this discipline at a school that emphasizes social justice, cultural humility, and respect for every individual? (Please refer to the mission and vision statements of Pacific Oaks College).
• Interview with a member of the Admissions Committee

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