The Junior College Plus (JC Plus) is an integrated program with two distinct phases and milestones. The first two years is the Junior College (JC) Program. It is a senior high school designed as a college preparatory course steeped in Liberal Arts education. The remaining three or four years lead to a bachelor’s degree that is at least 18 units less than the standalone four-year program.

The Bachelor of Early Childhood Education specialization forms early childhood educators and specialists who can effectively blend theory and practice to create positive learning opportunities and experiences that promote the total development of young children. Undergraduates attend two field study courses intended to provide them with practical learning experiences related to different components of teaching-learning processes in actual school settings. The experiences begin with field observation and gradually build up toward Practice Teaching in early childhood education (preschool setting and the primary grades).

The program also prepares students to be eligible to take the Professional Licensure Examination for Teachers and pursue a master’s degree in related fields such as Special Education, Reading, Developmental Psychology, Early Childhood Education, and Family Life and Child Development.