Bachelor of Early Childhood Education and Care (Birth-5)(075653J) - Ultimo

There is a strong, applied learning focus to this degree so that when students graduate, they'll be prepared to work with children in a variety of settings, including long day care, preschool, integrated child and family services and early intervention services.

The academic and theoretical content is supplemented by work experience, which will allow students to apply what they've learned in a real world environment.

Students will study child development and pedagogical practices, ethics, diversity and social justice. During their work placement, they will have the opportunity to test their theoretical understanding in a real workplace.

The four-year degree offers:

The degree is structured over eight semesters, with full-time students required to complete five subjects per semester in the following sequence.

The Work Placement built into this degree gives students a greater understanding of work based practices.

There is a total of 840 Work Placement hours over the 4 years of the degree.

In the first 2.5 years there are 96 work placement hours each semester (12 days per semester) and from Year 3 Semester 2 onwards, there are 120 work placement hours each semester (15 days per semester).