Early Childhood Curriculum
UndergraduateLTU-EDU3CC2025
Course information for 2025 intake View information for 2024 course intake
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 7 Sept 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 6 weeks
- Price from
- $578
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Early Childhood Curriculum
About this subject
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Demonstrate research informed understandings of global perspectives of early childhood curriculum which contribute to children's learning and development.
- Demonstrate an understanding of reflective planning cycles and the role of critical reflection in program evaluation to inform curriculum and pedagogy.
- Design curriculum for an early childhood setting which reflects current perspectives on curriculum design, incorporating the EYLF.
- Pedagogy and Education
- Curriculum
- Planning Cycles and the Significance of Reflection
- Connecting to Research
This subject provides a global view of early childhood curriculum theories and pedagogical practices. You will learn to create and critically analyse curriculum using theoretical perspectives to further understand ways in which curriculum is connected to pedagogy, play, learning and assessment.
- Literature review diagnostic task (Approx 400 words). This assessment task will be undertaken within the first 2 weeks of the term. (10%)
- Literature review (Approx 1600 words) (40%)
- Curriculum Design (Approx 2000 words) (50%)
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- 17
- Times Higher Education Ranking 2024:
- 18
Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- LAT-ECE-DEG-2025 - Bachelor of Early Childhood Education
Others
Prerequisites: Students must be admitted in the following course: EBECEO.
Past La Trobe University students who have previously completed EDU2PCP (Pedagogy, Curriculum and Practice) are ineligible to enrol in this subject.
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Bachelor of Early Childhood Education
UndergraduateLAT-ECE-DEG