ELE at Wayne State University

Intro sequences

The shortest canonical route from each entry point to a gateway course.

• 1. ELE 2020Foundations of Early Childhood Education and Clinical Experience Cr. 3
  2. ELE 2035Inclusion, Equity, and Justice in Early Childhood Cr. 3
  3. ELE 6040Intentional and Inclusive Teaching: The Content Areas (PK-K) Cr. 3
• 1. ELE 2000Child Development: Birth-Age 8 Cr. 3
  2. ELE 2035Inclusion, Equity, and Justice in Early Childhood Cr. 3
  3. ELE 6040Intentional and Inclusive Teaching: The Content Areas (PK-K) Cr. 3
• 1. ELE 2035Inclusion, Equity, and Justice in Early Childhood Cr. 3
  2. ELE 2000Child Development: Birth-Age 8 Cr. 3
  3. ELE 6040Intentional and Inclusive Teaching: The Content Areas (PK-K) Cr. 3

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 ELE coursework.

• ELE 6350Mathematics Foundations (PK-6) Cr. 3opens 6 courses (3 directly)
• ELE 6040Intentional and Inclusive Teaching: The Content Areas (PK-K) Cr. 3opens 4 courses (2 directly)
• ELE 6045Intentional and Inclusive Teaching: ECE Clinical Preschool Cr. 1opens 4 courses (0.3 directly)
• ELE 2050Intentional and Inclusive Teaching: Infants and Toddlers Cr. 3opens 3 courses (1 directly)
• ELE 6050Intentional and Inclusive Teaching: Infants and Toddlers Cr. 3opens 3 courses (1 directly)
• ELE 6210Literacy Methods I (PK-3) Cr. 3opens 3 courses (0.8 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 ELE 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 47 ELE and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 10 more ELE 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 ELE. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 6 courses deep, ending at ELE 6080

  1. ELE 6045Intentional and Inclusive Teaching: ECE Clinical Preschool Cr. 1
  2. ELE 6040Intentional and Inclusive Teaching: The Content Areas (PK-K) Cr. 3
  3. ELE 6100Planning and Implementing Preschool Curriculum Cr. 3
  4. TED 6730Early Childhood Preschool Apprenticeship Cr. 6
  5. ELE 6080Intentional and Inclusive Teaching: The Preschool Learning Environment Cr. 3

• 5 courses deep, ending at ELE 6800

  1. ELE 6805Clinical Experience for Integrated Curriculum and Pedagogy (PK-6) Cr. 2
  2. ELE 6800Methods for Integrated Curriculum and Pedagogy (PK-6) Cr. 3

• 4 courses deep, ending at ELE 6375

  1. MAT 1120Mathematics for Elementary School Teachers II Cr. 3
  2. ELE 6350Mathematics Foundations (PK-6) Cr. 3
  3. ELE 6370Mathematics Methods (PK-3) Cr. 3

• 3 courses deep, ending at ELE 2050

  1. ELE 2055Intentional and Inclusive Teaching: Infants and Toddlers Clinical Experience Cr. 1
  2. ELE 2050Intentional and Inclusive Teaching: Infants and Toddlers Cr. 3

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for ELE yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under ELE yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

ELE does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Wayne State campus feed.