ALEKSA CHAVEZ – ECS

Originally from San Jose, Aleksa has a passion for educating young children and is currently working towards BA in Early Childhood Studies. She hopes that earning her BA will help towards her goal of becoming a preschool teacher. Let’s give Aleksa our thanks for supporting young children in our community! We’re proud to have you as one of our SOE students this year! 

Dr. Vivian Xiang

LECTURER LYNNE LYLE

SPRING 2022 ELECTIVE FLYER

EDEC 405 (#3173), 3 units

iPlay: Child Development in the Digital Age

Students will study theories and research in child development and early childhood education to answer questions about how adults should use technology with children, how to judge when technology use by children might be inappropriate or harmful, and how to find resources for supporting the use of technology with young children. This course is a Writing Intensive Course (WIC). Students who have completed 60 units at the time of enrollment and pass with a grade of C- or better will not have to take the WEPT.

EDEC 406 (#2248), 3 units

Positive Guidance

Students will study principles and strategies of positive guidance for children with and without special needs from birth to age eight. Topics include: development of pro-social skills, the art of encouragement, understanding and preventing challenging behaviors, bullying prevention, and family involvement. Course taught in face-to-face and hybrid modes.

EDEC 407 (#2202), 3 units

Multicultural Children’s Literature

This course surveys multicultural literature for children (infancy-middle childhood). It addresses the use of literature to promote children’s cognitive, socio-emotional, language, and literacy development in a variety of early childhood settings. Special attention is given to diverse children, including dual language learners. Class open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors only. 

EDEC 490 Section 001 (#2171), 3 units

Promoting Creativity in Early Childhood

Students examine various ways to support creative expression, uses of materials, and problem-solving in early childhood. Students investigate traditional early childhood educational approaches to the arts and creativity, including curriculum inspired by Reggio Emilia pedagogy. Ideas and theories supporting and implementing STEAM curriculum and the maker movement will be explored.

EDEC 490 Section 002 (#3795), 1 unit

Pursuing a Career in Teaching

This course is designed for students who want to pursue a career working with children in classroom settings as teachers. Students will gain knowledge and skills such as understanding how to access information from credential programs, completing an application to a credential program, writing a cover letter, and crafting a professional resume.

EDEC 490 Section 003 (#3796), 1 unit

Pursuing a Career Working with Children and Families

This course is designed for students who want to pursue a career working with children and families in non-educational settings (e.g. early intervention, social work, child life, infant mental health, child psychology). Students will gain knowledge and skills such as researching appropriate programs to pursue after graduating from SSU, completing an application to graduate school, writing a cover letter, and crafting a professional resume.

NEW ADVISING ASSIGNMENTS!

COUN 494, the Community Counseling Experience



Every Spring semester the COUN 494 Community Counseling Experience offers students 10 sessions of counseling for one unit of credit. COUN 494 is run by faculty in the SSU M.A. Clinical Mental Health Counseling (CMHC) program. If you participate, your Counselor Trainee will be a Graduate student in the CMHC program, directly supervised by a clinical faculty member. After you register, during the first week of Spring semester you will be called by your Counselor Trainee to set up a 50-minute weekly meeting time. All sessions are confidential. All sessions must be audio-recorded for client safety and Counselor Trainee learning purposes. This is a great opportunity to reflect on your life experience, to develop goals for the future, and to learn new ways to become more effective. For more than 30 years student feedback has shown that enrolling in Counseling 494 is a valuable experience.

Please read the attached flyer before deciding to participate. The video at this link will also go over the flyer, and will provide additional information about the experience.

Youtube link: https://youtu.be/oDoe2S5mdlQ

COUN 494 FLYER

HD325 Topics in Childhood and Adolescence

This course examines how the experience of childhood is shaped by processes of marginalization, minoritization and racialization, considered particularly in the context of the United States. On the one hand, the class considers how individuals, from infancy through adolescence, come to be socialized into a world characterized by power-laden social difference. Special topics of concern include the forms of social difference salient for children (e.g., race, gender, class, disability) as well as the institutions and forms of mediation that help to make that social difference salient (e.g., schools, medical institutions, new forms of digital media, peer socialization, etc.). On the other hand, the class considers how these processes of socialization result in developmental outcomes of various sorts: deep vulnerabilities (e.g., in health) but also resilience and new ways of flourishing.

HD 325 FLYER

PHYS 107: Introduction to Physical Science for Teachers

It aims to cover the majority of the Physical Science that teachers need for K-8 education, including: the laws of motion, energy, the structure of matter, the states of matter, electricity and magnetism, and light and optics.

PHYS 107 Flyer

The Early Childhood Studies Department is now accepting applications for the Patricia Nourot Early Childhood Scholarship. The scholarship is for $300 and is awarded to a junior/senior in the ECS major or minor or to a graduate student earning an MA with an emphasis in ECE.  

The deadline for applications is November 15, 2021; please note that you will need to leave time to obtain a recommendation.

Download the Application

Download the Recommendation Form

If you have questions after you have read through the application, please contact Dr. Chiara Bacigalupa (bacigalu@sonoma.edu) or Ms. Elizabeth Jones (joneliza@sonoma.edu).

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