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Description:
This course focuses on practices for ensuring the health and safety for children from infancy through preschool age under a nanny's care. There is also an emphasis on prevention and the most common risks at various stages of development. Emphasis on arranging spaces and materials to ensure safety while also affording opportunities for optimal development and exploration. Focus on basic knowledge of nutritional needs at various stages of development as well as safe practices in food preparation and mealtimes in collaboration with parents. This course is also supplemented with first aid and infant CPR course.
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Prerequisite:
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Corequisite:
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Advisory:
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Repeatability:
Not Repeatable.
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Hours:
1 hour lecture per week. 12 hours total per quarter.
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Foothill GE Area:English
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Transferability:
CSU
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Transfer GE:
Information regarding how this course is applied toward CSU GE/Breadth or IGETC certification is available at:
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Foothill Transfer GE Guide
Department Note:
For more information on our programs, visit https://foothill.edu/childdevelopment/
