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Technical Program - Child and Family Services - Lake Land College, Mattoon, IL
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Technical Program

Child and Family Services (AAS.CFS)

Associate Degree in Applied Science

The primary objective of the Child & Family Services program is to provide students who are interested in a career working with children and/or the family sector with the appropriate academic background and practical experience needed to successfully gain employment in a variety of job opportunities associated with this specific background. Employment opportunities include the following: parent advocate, parental model trainer, subsidy specialist, child care specialist, and family aide specialist. In addition, the program was designed and created to be a transferable option to achieve a bachelor of science degree in family and consumer sciences with a focus in family service. Contact an academic advisor regarding transferability options.

ECE 120 and 125 must be taken the same semester.


Program requirements may change over time. Specific degree/graduation requirements are determined by the student's degree audit.


For more information contact:
Teresa Lang
217-234-5426
tlang@lakeland.cc.il.us

* There are prerequisites or course requisites for this course
** Electives must be approved by Program Coordinator or Division Chair
one cross Course only offered fall semester
Footnote 2 Course only offered spring and summer semester
Footnote 3 Course only offered spring semester
Footnote 4 Courses offered in odd numbered years only
Footnote 5 Courses offered in even numbered years only
Footnote 6 SOS 050 Human Relations and PSY 271 Introduction to Psychology cannot be used as a social science elective
Footnote 7 Consult Academic Advisor for appropriate course
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First Year
First Semester
ENG 120
Students will study the writing process by reading essays that illustrate a variety of rhetorical strategies, analyzing writing tasks and texts, and writing, revising, and editing short essays.


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 Composition I *
3
PSY 279
Study of theories and research findings in physical, cognitive, and social-emotional development from conception through death.


Prerequisites: PSY 271


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 Human Development/Life Span
3
ECE 100
This course focuses on an overview of early childhood care and education that includes basic values, professional disposition, program operation, historical influences, assessment, and structure. Includes 20 hours of practicum.

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 Intro to Early Childhood Education
3
ECE 110
This course focuses on the use of positive redirective techniques in shaping behavior so children can learn self discipline and self control. Observation of discipline problems and analyzation of procedures are required of the student.

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 Child Behavior and Management
3
SPE 111
Focuses on the fundamental principles and methods of selection, analyzing, organizing, developing and communicating information, evidence, and points of view to audiences.

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 Introduction to Speech Communication
3
SOC 280
Study of human interaction focusing on social influences shaping personality, structure and dynamics of human society. Topics include: sociological perspective, culture, society, social interaction; social change in global perspective; socialization; families; social class; and social stratification; race and ethnicity; and deviance.

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 Introduction to Sociology
3
  Total Semester Hours:
18
 
Second Semester
HSP 120
An introduction to generalist practice: Historical origins, values and ethics, practice methods, research considerations, and policy issues in social work. Examination of diverse and at-risk populations; the wide variety of problems workers confront, knowledge and skills of the worker.

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 Introduction to Social Work
3
HSP 101
Study of dynamics of Domestic Violence, focusing on program philosophy, cultural diversity, direct relation of substance abuse, crisis intervention, understand IL Domestic Violence Act, criminal aspects, battering treatment & how Domestic Violence affects children & our society.

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 		or
Dynamics of Domestic Violence 		 
PSY 274
Study of theories and methods used to study development, from conception to adolescence. Topics include physical, sensory and perceptual, cognitive, language, emotional, social, and gender development, as well as family, peer, and institutional influences on development.

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 Child Development
3
ENG 121
Students will learn how to find, use, assess and document research sources, producing an extended writing project based primarily on library research.


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 Composition II
3
ART 165
A comprehensive overview of vocabulary and theories involving the elements and principles of design used in creating visual art with a studio experience geared to students pursuing a child care or elementary education degree.

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 Fundamentals of Art
3
ART 250
A survey of the visual arts from Ancient to contemporary times, an understanding the major cultural and historical relationships to the art forms.

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 		or
Understanding Art 		 
MUS 229
A general humanities course studying various types and forms of music and the historical development of the art form. Surveys music literature from Middle Ages to present.

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 or
Understanding Music 		 
PSY 271
Focuses on psychology as a science, introducing concepts and research in a variety of subfields, including neuroscience, sensation and perception, consciousness, learning and memory, cognition, motivation and emotion, development, personality, disorders and therapy, and social psychology.

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 Introduction to Psychology
3
  Total Semester Hours:
15
 

Second Year
First Semester
BIO 100
An introduction to the fundamental processes and structures common to all living things.

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Course Objective


 		Biological Science
4
ECE 102
This course focuses on the health, safety, and nutritional needs of children in group settings as well as the personal health of the individual. Emphasis is placed on preventive health through education and the development of healthy habits.

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 		Health/Safety/Nutrition Young Child
3
ECE 095
This course provides students an understanding of the value of and practical experience in preparing creative activities and experiences for children. The student is given many opportunities to explore, develop, and appreciate various types of creative media for preschool children.

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 		Creative Activities For Children
4
ECE 051
This courses emphasizes the characteristics of high quality infant/toddler caregivers, curriculum, indoor/outdoor space and play equipment/toys vital for developmental learning. Course requirements include 20 hours of hands-on practicum in a community setting.

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 		Infant/Toddler Environment
3
PSY 278
Examines how intimate relationships are formed and maintained and why they sometimes fail. Theory and research on attraction, social cognition, communication, interdependency, friendship, love, sexuality, conflict, power, and violence are areas of focus.

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 		Family Relations
3
  Total Semester Hours:
17
 
Second Semester
ECE 087
This course focuses on state rules and regulations for operating a licensed child care facility. Room layout of an efficient facility, arrangement of outside playground areas, and the selection of furniture and equipment will also be discussed.

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 		Organization/Management of Pre-Schools
3
ECE 083
This course enables students to do total program planning consistent with the developmental needs of children.

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 		Instructional Methods
3
ECE 120
This course prepares the student for the Field Experience practicum (ECE125) and includes preparation of credentials for seeking employment.


Prerequisites: Mod prior to ECE 125 or approval of program coordinator


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 		Field Experience Seminar
1
EDU 210
This course is a study of how schooling is shaped by and ought to respond to the social contexts in which it occurs, particularly in multicultural and global contexts.

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 		Diversity In Schools and Societies
3
HED 178
The purpose of the American Red Cross Responding to Emergency course is to provide the citizen responder with the knowledge and skills necessary in an emergency to help sustain life.

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 		Responding to Emergencies
2
ECE 125
Supervised practicum designed for Early Childhood and Child & Family Services and Paraprofessional Education majors to provide on-the-job experience. Practicum will include application of: program and classroom management skills, managing daily routines, curriculum development, agency policies and regulations, and enhancement of family involvement.


Prerequisites: Enrolled in ECE 120 and approval by program coordinator. A "C" average in ECE and EDU prefix courses is required.


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 		Field Experience
2
  Total Semester Hours:
14
 


Total Program Hours: 64

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