Core
The core courses provide students with an opportunity to examine teaching and learning through an interdisciplinary lens. These courses delve into early childhood education from psychological, sociological, philosophical, pedagogical, and various other standpoints. Students will cultivate essential competencies requisite for professional practice,  including problem-solving, critical analysis, creativity, effective communication, interpersonal dynamics, ethical discernment, and a global outlook.

The core courses are:

1	ECE3011 Child Health, Safety and Welfare
2	ECE4203 Teaching Chinese Language to Non-Chinese-Speaking Children
3	ECE4013 Children in Transition
4	ECE4197 Educational Reform and International Perspectives: Rethinking Policy and Practice for Young Children
5	ECE4200 Resources Management in Early Childhood Sector
6	ECE4007 Emergent Literacy
7	ECE4198 Effective Leadership for Early Childhood Education
8	ECE4199 Leadership for Engaging Diversity in Early Years
9	ECE4201 Constructing a Facilitative Home-School Collaboration for Non-Cantonese Speaking Children
10	ECE4202 Multiculturalism, Multilingualism: Developing International Mindedness in Early Childhood Education