Early Childhood Policy (ECP) Certificate
What is the Early Childhood Policy (ECP) Certificate?
The ECP Certificate program is an additional certificate contained within the Ph.D. in Education program. This certificate program provides more in-depth disciplinary training where students will use the extant education policy curriculum as the programmatic foundation, and draw on the training and ECP content coverage afforded by the learning community of the Early Childhood Policy Lab.
Aligning with the Early Childhood Policy in Institutions of Higher Education (ECPIHE) emphasis on policy analysis, the UCI ECP Certificate will be awarded only for Ph.D. students following the Educational Policy and Social Context (EPSC) area curriculum and participating in the ECP Lab.
The ECP Certificate program is an additional certificate contained within the Ph.D. in Education program. This certificate program provides more in-depth disciplinary training where students will use the extant education policy curriculum as the programmatic foundation, and draw on the training and ECP content coverage afforded by the learning community of the Early Childhood Policy Lab.
Aligning with the Early Childhood Policy in Institutions of Higher Education (ECPIHE) emphasis on policy analysis, the UCI ECP Certificate will be awarded only for Ph.D. students following the Educational Policy and Social Context (EPSC) area curriculum and participating in the ECP Lab.
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Early Childhood Policy Faculty
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Early Childhood Policy PhD Students
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Certificate Requirements
Students will be eligible for the ECP Certificate when they complete required courses and participate in the ECP lab.
Courses.
Over the course of their five years in training, Ph.D. students are expected to take twelve 4-unit courses prior to advancement to candidacy, which typically, is achieved by the fall quarter of one’s fourth year in the program. Below we describe how these 12 courses are structured for students in the EPSC area, and the specific courses needed from each category to meet the requirements of the ECP Certificate:
Five required research methods courses:
Five EPSC area courses:
One course from the Teaching, Learning, and Education Improvement area:
ECP Lab Participation.
The ECP lab meets bi-weekly during the academic year, alternating between in-person meetings and hybrid format meetings. These meetings are either (1) informal mentorship discussions, with share-outs from each member on a recent success, upcoming goals, problem to work through, or current events in the field of research; or (2) research presentations where a member presents in-progress research for feedback, or a practice presentation for a conference talk or a proposal defense; or (3) Journal article study of topics from the ECPIHE Syllabi that is not covered in the foundational curriculum.
Students will be eligible for the ECP Certificate when they complete required courses and participate in the ECP lab.
Courses.
Over the course of their five years in training, Ph.D. students are expected to take twelve 4-unit courses prior to advancement to candidacy, which typically, is achieved by the fall quarter of one’s fourth year in the program. Below we describe how these 12 courses are structured for students in the EPSC area, and the specific courses needed from each category to meet the requirements of the ECP Certificate:
Five required research methods courses:
- Research Epistemologies & Methodologies (EDUC 222);
- Educational, Social, & Behavioral Statistics (EDUC 288A);
- Applied Regression (EDUC 265);
- Qualitative Research Methods in Education I (EDUC283A);
- Qualitative Research Methods in Education II (EDUC 283.
Five EPSC area courses:
- Economic Foundations of Education and Social Policy (EDUC 264);
- Educational Policy and Politics (EDUC 251);
For students in the ECP certificate training, they would be further required to select - Early Childhood Education Policy (EDUC 276).
and either - Social and Cultural Foundations of Education (EDUC 261) OR Social Organization of Schools and Classrooms (EDUC 252).
- The remaining policy area course will be selected by the student.
- ECP certificate students will be required to take Foundations of Human Development (EDUC 229) in fulfillment of this requirement.
One course from the Teaching, Learning, and Education Improvement area:
- ECP students will be encouraged to take Interrogating Race and Education (EDUC 226) in fulfillment of this requirement.
ECP Lab Participation.
The ECP lab meets bi-weekly during the academic year, alternating between in-person meetings and hybrid format meetings. These meetings are either (1) informal mentorship discussions, with share-outs from each member on a recent success, upcoming goals, problem to work through, or current events in the field of research; or (2) research presentations where a member presents in-progress research for feedback, or a practice presentation for a conference talk or a proposal defense; or (3) Journal article study of topics from the ECPIHE Syllabi that is not covered in the foundational curriculum.
