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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: 400;"&gt;The &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: 400;"&gt;Early Childhood through Adolescence&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: 400;"&gt; program gives you the flexibility to focus on &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: 400;"&gt;teaching all ages&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: 400;"&gt;, while gaining subject matter expertise in an area that interests you.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: 400;"&gt;UW-Whitewater offers its &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: 400;"&gt;education majors &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: 400;"&gt;many other advantages, including:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: 400;"&gt;Access to the Wisconsin Instructional Technology Resource Institute, which houses computer labs, virtual reality experiences and more&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: 400;"&gt;An array of program-specific scholarships available to incoming and current students&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: 400;"&gt;UW-Whitewater has a dedicated librarian who specializes in education&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: 400;"&gt;The longest continuously running business education program in the United States&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Depending on your degree emphasis &amp;mdash; in addition to your education and teacher preparation courses &amp;mdash; you&amp;rsquo;ll take subject-matter courses and learn from faculty across the university. Select the following programs to learn more about them:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.uww.edu/coac/academics/art-design"&gt;Art&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.uww.edu/cobe/bachelors/degrees-and-majors/general-business"&gt;Business&lt;/a&gt; (including emphases in &lt;a href="https://www.uww.edu/cls/academics/computer-science"&gt;Computer Science&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="https://www.uww.edu/cobe/bachelors/degrees-and-majors/marketing"&gt;Marketing&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.uww.edu/coac/academics/music"&gt;Music&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.uww.edu/cls/academics/french"&gt;French&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.uww.edu/cls/academics/german"&gt;German&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.uww.edu/cls/academics/spanish"&gt;Spanish&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.uww.edu/coeps/academics/pe"&gt;Physical Education&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.uww.edu/coac/academics/theatre-dance"&gt;Theatre&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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