Associate Degree
La Trobe's Associate Degree in Early Childhood Education allows early childhood educators to upgrade to an Early Childhood Teacher qualification.
This course is designed to fit with your working life - it's delivered online with no on-campus attendance required, so you can combine your work in early childhood with flexible studies.
This two-year program includes 180 credit points of advanced standing for the Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care and relevant work experience. You will complete a further 60 credit points for the Associate Degree qualification.
Course content is delivered through online learning. The online curriculum makes use of the latest technology to give you the complete experience. It includes virtual classrooms and meeting spaces, video and webinars, online learning modules and mobile learning apps.
The qualification awarded on graduation is recognised in the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) as Level 6 - Associate Degree.
Please note, the following course structure is indicative and subject to change depending on your course location, offer year or how you tailor your course with specialisations, majors, minors and electives. Structures for the following year are not normally finalised until October, so the sample provided is based on the most recently approved structure. For more information, please refer to the La Trobe University Handbook.
To qualify for the award of Associate Degree in Early Childhood Education, students must complete a total of 240 credit points across 2 years.
Students will be awarded 180 Credit Points of Credit for completion of the Diploma of Early Childhood Education and
Care or equivalent (Entry Requirement). Students will need to complete the following four subjects to obtain this award: EDU1CDL, EDU1HPC, EDU2ULD and EDU2LLC.
Year 1 requires the completion of 120 credit points including:
Year 2 requires the completion of 120 credit points including:
Core subjects are required subjects in your course. You need to complete these subjects to attain your degree.
Subject name Subject code Year Credit points ACADEMIC INTEGRITY MODULE LTU0AIM 1 0 WOMINJEKA LA TROBE: INDIGENOUS CULTURAL LITERACY FOR HIGHER EDUCATION ABS0WOM 1 0 ANALYSING CHILDREN'S LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT EDU1ACL 1 15 CHILD DEVELOPMENT: BABY TO TODDLER EDU2CD 1 15 FAMILIES AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS EDU1FCP 1 15 INTRODUCTION TO ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER AUSTRALIA EDU1ATS 1 15 INTRODUCTION TO CURRICULUM EDU1ITC 1 15 LEGAL AND ETHICAL PRACTICE EDU1LEP 1 15 PLAY AND LEARNING EDU1PLL 1 15 RESPONSIVE, RESPECTFUL AND RECIPROCAL RELATIONSHIPS EDU1RRR 1 15 21ST CENTURY DIGITAL LEARNERS EDU1CDL 2 15 EARLY LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS EDU2ELE 2 15 HEALTH, NUTRITION AND WELLBEING FOR CHILDREN EDU2HNW 2 15 HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHIES OF EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION EDU1HPC 2 15 LANGUAGE, LITERACIES AND COMMUNICATION EDU2LLC 2 15 PROFESSIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY EDU2PHS 2 15 PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY EDU2PI 2 15 UNDERSTANDING CULTURALLY DIVERSE LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT EDU2ULD 2 15The Handbook contains detailed course information designed for enrolled students, including course structures, electives and options. The delivery of this course can vary between campuses.
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Graduates will be well placed to find work in early learning centres, kindergartens, preschools and early intervention programs