COURSE MAP: For commencing students 2011
3708 BACHELOR OF EARLY CHILDHOOD STUDIES
Locations: Peninsula OR; City cohorts [or Singapore campus]
For Peninsula students commencing 2011:
Year
Level
Sem
Placement
days up to
1st
Year
Units
Units
EQUIVALENT TO 48 POINTS BASED ON PREVIOUS STUDIES
2
1
3rd
Year
Units
ADVANCED STANDING **
1
2nd
Year
Units
2
20
Days
20
Days
15
Days
25
Days
*EDF3323
EDF1307
Early literacy
and numeracy 1
(6pts)
EDF1321
ECE: Movement,
environment and
community
(6 pts)
EDF3321
Assessment in the
ECE curriculum
(6 pts)
EDF1322
ECE: Science
and technology
(6 pts)
EDF1324
ECE: Creative arts
(6 pts)
*EDF3322
Inquiry in professional
practice: infants and
toddlers (6 pts)
[20 days placement]
EDF3324
Contexts for child
development: the
developing child
(6 pts)
EDF4321
Health and
wellbeing in
early childhood
settings
(6 pts)
EDF4323
Leadership and
management in
ECE
(6 pts)
*EDF4325
The early childhood
curriculum
(6 pts)
[15 days]
EDF4327
Practice informing
research
(6 pts)
EDF4322
Issues in child
development
(6 pts)
EDF4324
Professional
engagement:
entering the ECE
profession (6 pts)
*EDF4326
Early childhood field
studies (6 pts)
[20 days placement]
EDF4328
Play and pedagogy
(6 pts)
Inquiry in
professional practice:
child care (6 pts)
[20 days placement}
Notes:
i.
To be eligible to graduate from the course students must have completed a minimum of up to 80 days of
satisfactory teaching practice.
ii.
Units marked with an asterisk (*) - Applicants with significant work history in the field would be eligible to apply for
up to a further 6 months of advanced standing based on recognition of prior learning for this experience and
would not be required to complete these units.
For City/Rural (part-time students) commencing 2011:
YEAR 1 (2011)
Term 1: EDF4327 Practice informing research (6 pts)
Term 3: EDF1307 Early literacy and numeracy 1 (6pts)
Term 2: EDF3321 Assessment in the ECE curriculum (6 pts)
Term 4: EDF1321 ECE: Movement, environment and
community (6 pts)
YEAR 2 (2012)
Term 1: EDF4324 Professional engagement: entering the
ECE profession (6 pts)
Term 2: EDF1322 ECE: Science and technology (6 pts)
Term 3: EDF4328 Play and pedagogy (6 pts)
Term 4: EDF1321 ECE: Movement, environment and
community (6 pts)
For Singapore students commencing in 2011, please see linkage from our Off-shore website:
http://www.education.monash.edu.au/courses/offshore/
This is a conceptual outline only. Any queries regarding the course structure should be directed to the Course
Adviser or to the Student Services Office, at your relevant campus.