ECEC at College of DuPage

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate ECEC coursework.

• ECEC 2251Curriculum Planning for the Young Childopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• ECEC 1116Care Infant Toddler & Two-Year Child Iopens 1 course (0.5 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate ECEC work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 22 ECEC and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 19 more ECEC courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in ECEC. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 3 courses deep, ending at ECEC 1117

  1. ECEC 1100Intro to the Early Childhood Profession
  2. ECEC 1116Care Infant Toddler & Two-Year Child I
  3. ECEC 1117Care Infant, Toddler & Two-Year Child II

• 3 courses deep, ending at ECEC 1130

  1. ECEC 1100Intro to the Early Childhood Profession
  2. ECEC 2251Curriculum Planning for the Young Child
  3. ECEC 1130Methods: Discovery & the Physical World

• 2 courses deep, ending at ECEC 2210

  1. ECEC 1101Growth & Development of the Young Child
  2. ECEC 2210The Young Child With Special Needs

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for ECEC yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under ECEC yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

ECEC does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the College of DuPage campus feed.