Inclusive Early Childhood Leadership, BI™

About the Program

The Bachelor of Innovation (BI) in Inclusive Early Childhood Leadership is designed to prepare UCCS students to work with and for all children and their families in agencies and organizations serving children and families or to design and launch their own businesses or educational products. This program integrates knowledge, skills, and dispositions to successfully work in diverse teams, manage complex projects and cases, practice the ethics of care, and advocate for healthy outcomes for children and families.

Inclusive early childhood professionals may have the opportunity to work in case management, family service, intervention programs, run their own business, or invent, design, and market curriculum, technology, and applications. Inclusive early childhood educators will have preparation in the areas of inclusive education and care, innovation, business, and marketing and be able to take ideas developed while working with children and enhance them through business planning and implementation. A Bachelor of Innovation will prepare students to take advantage of the many opportunities that they will encounter throughout their careers.

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Focus of Study

In this unique program, students collaborate with other innovative and creative thinkers as well as master interdisciplinary problem-solving and team building. Develop your skills as a visionary entrepreneur and organizational manager while becoming a highly effective inclusive early childhood professional. The program focuses on:

• transdisciplinary teamwork
• leadership
• program administration
• grant writing
• community-based early childhood and family services

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Program Requirements

• A minimum of 120 hours must be completed with a cumulative CU grade point average of 2.5; at least 45 of these hours must be at the upper-division level (courses numbered 3000-4999).
• A cumulative CU GPA of 2.0 or above must be maintained to remain in good academic standing in the program.
• Students must complete an IECE Professional Internship course as a student in the College of Education.
• All upper-division (3000+level) College of Education courses must have a grade of B- or better. 

Additional course options may be available for the Humanities and Natural Science requirements. Courses numbered below 1000 do not count towards degree completion.

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Program Coursework

	Courses
IECE Foundation Courses 57 Credit Hours	COUN 2000 Introduction to Human Services    COUN 3400 Ethics & Values in Human Services    COUN 4500 Wellness, Resilience and Emotional Intelligence    EDUC 2200 Children’s Literature    IECE 1000 Introduction to Inclusive Early Childhood Education    IECE 1010 Inclusive Child Development Birth-8    IECE 1500 Diversity and Anti-Bias Practice in IECE    IECE 2000 Collaborative Partnerships in Inclusive Early Childhood Education    IECE 2100 Social Emotional Learning and Trauma Sensitive Practice    IECE 2500 Relationships, Positive Guidance, and Behavior Supports in IECE    IECE 3000 Observation and Assessment for Inclusive Early Childhood Education    IECE 3010 Early Language Arts and Communication Disorders (Birth-4)    IECE 3500 Young Dual Language Learners and Family Literacy    IECE 3600 Culturally Responsive Leadership and Practices in IECE    IECE 4020 Creating Classroom Communities: Social & Behavioral Supports for Young Children    IECE 4060 Inclusive Early Childhood Education Professional Internship
Innovation Core 24 Credit Hours	INOV 1000 Introduction to Entrepreneurship     INOV 1010 The Innovation Process     INOV 2010 Innovation Team: Analyze and Report    INOV 2100 Technical Writing, Proposals, and Presentations    INOV 2500 Business Law and Innovation     INOV 3010 Innovation Team: Research and Execute     INOV 4010 Innovation Team: Design and Lead   INOV 4500 Innovation Capstone
Cross-Disciplinary Core 15 Credit Hours	BI Business Core  BI Creative Communication Core  BI Engineering Technology Core  BI Globalization Core BI Custom Core
Composition Courses 3 Credit Hours	ENGL 1310 Rhetoric and Writing I    PORT 3000 Writing Portfolio Assessment
General Education Courses 21 Credit Hours	Humanities - choose one of the following: HIST 1510 U.S.: Birth of a Nation, 1607-1789    HIST 1520 U.S.: Expansion and Division, 1789-1877     Natural Science: EDUC 2600 Integrated Science I    Gateway Program Seminar: GPS 1010 Gateway Program Seminar     Quantitative Reasoning Skills: MATH 3010 Mathematics for Elementary Teachers I    General Electives: 9 credits of upper-division electives