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Liberal Arts & Sciences
Associate in Arts & Associate in Science

AREA OF INTEREST - Foundations of Education

The Associate in Arts (A.A.) and the Associate in Science (A.S.) Degrees prepare students for transfer to obtain a bachelor's degree at a four year college or university. Students interested in obtaining a N.Y.S. Teaching Certificate can begin here at SUNY Orange by entering an A.A. or A.S. Liberal Arts program and indicating Foundations of Education as their area of academic interest.

The "General Electives" section in the A.A. degree requirements gives students opportunity to select courses related to their education career. Examples of such courses are:

  • EDU 103 - Introduction to Early Childhood/Childhood Education
  • MAT 111 - Foundations of Elementary School Mathematics
  • ENG 216 - Children's Literature
  • PSY 221 - Child Psychology
  • PSY 222 - Psychology of Adolescence
  • EDU 107 - Mandated Training: Identification and Reporting of Child Abuse; Prevention and Intervention of School Violence
  • EDU 207 - Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education in America
  • EDU ___ Certain other courses in this series may be selected. (Not all EDU ___ may transfer.)

Associate in Arts Degree/Humanities and Social Sciences

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Associate in Sciences Degree/Math and Science

**This link should open the College Catalog in your browser window. The catalog file is 2 MB in size, so it may take a few minutes to download completely. (The college catalog has been split into sections, which are online in the form of PDF files. You will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader to view them.) Please manually scroll to page 130. If the link doesn't work, please go to the SUNY Orange catalog web page and click on the link Academic Degrees and Programs, then scroll to page 130.

You can get Adobe Acrobat Reader here. This link will take you away from the SUNY Orange web site. The college cannot be responsible for the content on the external pages linked to here.

Elizabeth Tarvin, Chair 
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