Badge Requirements

• Urban Nature-Based Early Childhood Education 
  Four-week course, three credits*
  Offered in August
  Instructor: Matt Flower, Urban Ecology Center
  Cost: $400 per registrant
  Discounted rate for organizations sending three or more educators: $300 per registrant

Certificate Requirements

• Urban Nature-Based Early Childhood Education
  Four-week course, three credits*
  This course will next be offered in August 2022. To plan ahead, please contact us!
  
  
• Natural History of North America
  15-week course, three credits (four credits with lab component)*
  September 1–December 8, 2021
  
  
• Understanding the Young Child
  15-week course, three credits*
  Spring 2022 (Dates TBD)
  
  Cost: $2,000 per registrant
  Discounted rate for organizations sending three or more educators: $1,500 per registrant

* The above course options can be taken at the rate listed for no academic credit. Alternatively, participants may register for the three-credit courses at a rate of $800 per credit (educators receive a 50% discount and pay $400 per credit). Please contact 414-382-6370 or registrar@alverno.edu to register for credit.