Bachelor of Arts in Early Childhood Development

National University was founded in 1971. It consists of five schools and one college, including the Schools of Business and Management, Education, Engineering and Technology, Health and Human Services, and Media and Communications, and the College of Letters and Sciences. National's online programs are interactive, with email links between student, their professor and their virtual classmates. Each program includes weekly online discussion sessions with classmates who participate in your virtual classroom.

This program is designed to meet the national and state requirements for degree programs in early childhood education.

Professional courses are intended to develop knowledge and competence in key areas:

• child development
• curriculum
• family and community
• assessment
• special needs
• health and professionalism

Thus this degree program provides challenging child development in the areas of learning, cognition, language and emotional development.