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Dec 05, 2024
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2024-2025 Catalog
Inclusive Early Childhood Leadership, BI™
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About the Program
The Bachelor of Innovation (BI) in Inclusive Early Childhood Leadership is designed to prepare UCCS students to work with and for all children and their families in agencies and organizations serving children and families or to design and launch their own businesses or educational products. This program integrates knowledge, skills, and dispositions to successfully work in diverse teams, manage complex projects and cases, practice the ethics of care, and advocate for healthy outcomes for children and families.
Inclusive early childhood professionals may have the opportunity to work in case management, family service, intervention programs, run their own business, or invent, design, and market curriculum, technology, and applications. Inclusive early childhood educators will have preparation in the areas of inclusive education and care, innovation, business, and marketing and be able to take ideas developed while working with children and enhance them through business planning and implementation. A Bachelor of Innovation will prepare students to take advantage of the many opportunities that they will encounter throughout their careers.
Focus of Study
In this unique program, students collaborate with other innovative and creative thinkers as well as master interdisciplinary problem-solving and team building. Develop your skills as a visionary entrepreneur and organizational manager while becoming a highly effective inclusive early childhood professional. The program focuses on:
- transdisciplinary teamwork
- leadership
- program administration
- grant writing
- community-based early childhood and family services
Program Requirements
- A minimum of 120 hours must be completed with a cumulative CU grade point average of 2.5; at least 45 of these hours must be at the upper-division level (courses numbered 3000-4999).
- A cumulative CU GPA of 2.0 or above must be maintained to remain in good academic standing in the program.
- Students must complete an IECE Professional Internship course as a student in the College of Education.
- All upper-division (3000+level) College of Education courses must have a grade of B- or better.
Additional course options may be available for the Humanities and Natural Science requirements. Courses numbered below 1000 do not count towards degree completion.
Program Coursework
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IECE Foundation Courses
57 Credit Hours |
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Innovation Core
24 Credit Hours |
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Cross-Disciplinary Core
15 Credit Hours |
- BI Business Core
- BI Creative Communication Core
- BI Engineering Technology Core
- BI Globalization Core
- BI Custom Core
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Composition Courses
3 Credit Hours |
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General Education Courses
21 Credit Hours |
Humanities - choose one of the following:
Natural Science:
Gateway Program Seminar:
Quantitative Reasoning Skills:
General Electives:
- 9 credits of upper-division electives
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