2009-2010 - Bowie State University

Child and Adolescent Studies and the Sociology major offer either a B.A. or B.S. degree. The B.A. degree
requires 12 semester hours of a foreign language, while the B.S. does not. The Sociology with Criminal
Justice Concentration major and the Technology Criminal Justice/Law Enforcement major offer B.S.
degrees. The Technology Criminal Justice/Law Enforcement Track is limited to transfer students who
enter Bowie State University with an associate’s degree (60 semester hours) in a technology curriculum
and who therefore need only 60 more of 120 semester hours towards completing a bachelor’s degree.
The department also offers minors in Sociology, Criminal Justice and Child and Adolescent Studies.
THE CHILD AND ADOLESCENT STUDIES MAJOR
This major introduces students to the scientific study of the life, development, and socialization of
children and adolescents. The Child and Adolescent Studies Program is an interdisciplinary
undergraduate program that prepares the student for a wide range of research, assessment, evaluation
and management opportunities in institutions and agencies serving children and adolescents, such as:
juvenile correctional institutions, Head Start administration and programs, counseling centers, children’s
hospitals and hospices, daycare centers, schools, social welfare agencies, adoption agencies, youth
centers, clinical settings, street outreach, transitional living, entrepreneurship, and more.
Majors are required to earn at least a “C” in all courses in their major. Seniors also are required to
perform a year of field placement. After completing ENGL 101 and ENGL 102, Expository Writing and
Argument and Research, students must take and successfully pass the Bowie State University English
Proficiency Examination. Transfer students who complete their English composition requirements must
take the English Proficiency Examination during the first semester of enrollment at the University.
Exceptions to, or substitutions for, the following major requirements are considered only through a
formal process of departmental recommendations. To receive a degree in Child & Adolescent Studies,
the student must complete 120 hours.
The Child and Adolescent Studies Program provides:
1. Small classes
2. Integration of learning to experience
3. Day, evening, and summer classes
4. Courses to enhance parenting and professional skills
5. Counseling and training services for students, incarcerated mothers and welfare to work
mothers, and others
6. Cultural pedagogical models
7. Cultural coping strategies
8. Indigenous storytelling
CORE REQUIREMENTS IN CHILD STUDIES (42 semester hours) Sem. Hrs.
PEDO 101 Introduction to Child and Adolescent Studies 3
PEDO 250 Child and Family Life Skills Development 3
PEDO 260 Child Abuse and Neglect 3
PEDO 270 Sociological Issues in Child Socialization 3
PEDO 306 Intro. to Field Observation and Experience 3
PEDO 314 Regulations, Policies and the Administration
of Children and Adolescents 3
PEDO 350 Sign Language 3
PEDO 354 Legal and Ethical Standards of the Human
Service Profession 3
PEDO 360 Art, Music, Dance and Play Therapy 3
PEDO 412 Therapy and Diagnosis w/Child. and Adol. 3
Bowie State University 289