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a direct service and laboratory school housing four
classrooms. It serves an ethnically diverse, international
population of youngsters and eagerly seeks to
serve children with a wide variety of special needs.
Tufts students and faculty, particularly within the
Department of Child Development, can observe,
conduct research, and participate in a variety of
practice teaching experiences. The Special Friends
Program, jointly sponsored and supervised by the
center and the university’s Leonard Carmichael
Society, offers an opportunity for any interested
undergraduate to form a close one-to-one relationship
with a preschool or kindergarten child. Parents
are encouraged to participate in a program tailored
to the needs of working families. For more information,
visit http://ase.tufts.edu/tedcc.
Evelyn G. Pitcher Curriculum Resource Laboratory
Adjoining the department and the children’s school
is the Evelyn G. Pitcher Curriculum Resource
Laboratory, with studio, shop, and audiovisual
spaces. The laboratory allows space for the department’s
multidisciplinary work with mathematics,
science, and technology education—a new initiative
that involves the Eliot-Pearson Department of
Child Development as well as computer science,
engineering, and education departments. Within
the curriculum laboratory, child development
majors can study and develop materials that are
then used with young children in a wide range of
settings, including classrooms, museums, libraries,
clinics, and others. For more information, visit
http://ase.tufts.edu/clab.
Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development
The institute creates programs and projects that
use the framework of applied developmental science
to promote healthy, positive development among
diverse children, adolescents, families, and communities.
For more information, visit
http://ase.tufts.edu/iaryd.
Center for Reading and Language Research
The center offers a variety of research, teaching,
and internship opportunities to students and faculty
and a range of services to the surrounding communities.
For more information, visit
http://ase.tufts.edu/crlr.
UNDERGRADUATE concentrATION
REQUIREMENTS
Major in Child Development
Ten courses, including Child Development 1 (no
substitutes allowed), and an additional course with
a developmental science focus. With departmental
approval, one “related fields” course can be from
outside the department. Students are required to
have at least one applied (e.g., internship) or
research experience as well as three courses from
within one of the Department’s four areas of
specialization or focus (see above). Please see the
Department’s website for complete information on
requirements.
Early Childhood (Pre-K to Grade 2), 4+1,
Joint BA/MAT Program
With a focus on urban education, students choosing
this option will receive a BA in Child Development
(10 credits) and then an MAT after one more
year. During their undergraduate years, the student
will need to take two courses in Child Development
beyond the requirement for the BA. These courses
will be credited towards the MAT degree. The
MAT year includes a significant tuition reduction
as well as the possibility of other financial aid. See
below description of MAT program.
UNDERGRADUATE MINOR ProgrAM
The Department of Child Development offers a
minor in child development. Five courses are
required, two of which are to be chosen from Child
Development 1, 51 or 151, 61 or 161, and 155.
Three additional electives are to be chosen from
other course offerings within the department.
AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE (ASL)
The department offers three levels of American
Sign Language. Undergraduates completing all
three can have ASL fulfill Part I or Part II of the
foreign language (foundation) requirement.
GRADUATE ProgrAM
The Department of Child Development offers the
master of arts degree, a joint master of arts degree
with the Department of Urban and Environmental
Policy and Planning, the master of arts in teaching
(M.A.T.) degree, and the Ph.D. degree. Along with
the standard material sent to the graduate school,
applicants for admission to these graduate programs
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