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3. Creating a Workforce Career Degree Plan
Workforce Career Plan for the Education and Schools
Cluster
You have chosen the Workforce Career pattern of education
in the Education and Schools (EDSCH) career cluster. The Workforce Career Pattern means that
you will be taking mostly Technical Job-focused courses and a few General Education courses for the completion
of your Marketable Skills Achievement Award (MSA), Certificate of Completion and/or Associate in Applied Science
degree at Houston Community College.
Careers related to Early Childhood Paraprofessional, Childcare
Provider, Teacher Certification, Teacher Aide, Librarian, Instructional Technology, Learning Support, School Counselor.
Your educational degree plan will be a Certificate of Completion
or an Associate in Applied Science
- Email your HCC Student ID number to a counselor to let him/her know that you are choosing
one of the degree plans listed below from the EDSCH Career Cluster
- Email contacts:
Workforce Education Awards offered at Houston Community
College:
- AAS indicates Associate in Applied Science degree
(~2 years full-time or 4 years part-time study)
- Certificate indicates Certificate of Completion
(length varies from 1-3 semesters study)
- MSA indicates Marketable Skills Achievement Award
(~1 semester study)
| AAS Child Development
(60 sem. hours) |
| Certificate Child Development - Administration (33 sem. hours) |
| Certificate Child Development - Early Childhood Paraprofessional (33 sem. hours) |
| Certificate Child Development - Childcare Provider/Assistant (33 sem. hours) |
| Certificate Child Development - In-Home Specialist/Nanny (36 sem. hours) |
| MSA Child Development Associate Training (9 sem. hours) |
Note: Each award above is designed to be an exit
point to the world of work enabling the graduate to have the skills for entry level and more advanced occupations.
Each award above is also designed to build upon each other. Thus, a student can achieve a Marketable Skills Achievement
Award (MSA) and then go to work. The MSA Completer can continue his/her education applying the MSA courses toward
a Certificate of Completion in the same field. The Certificate of Completion graduate can continue his/her education
and apply the Certificate courses toward the Associate in Applied Science degree (AAS) in the same field. There
are also many creative and non-traditional accredited universities who will transfer the AAS degree toward a bachelor
degree either in the same field or in a related field. Thus, at each point of completion, the student will possess
skills directly impacting performance in the work world and the student can continue progressing in his/her educational
pathway eventually attaining the associate and the bachelor degree.
The courses in each award above are detailed in
the college catalog in force at the time of your first enrollment at HCC.
Look at the Academic Transfer Pattern
in this Cluster
Choose a different Career Cluster
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