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  • 3.00 Credits

    This course explores formal and informal diagnostic assessment procedures used with reading difficulties, and explores different instructional strategies that reinforce the learner's strengths, as well as eliminate their weaknesses. in-depth examination of descriptive, narrative, and expository writing techniques. Designed to help students attain a level of proficiency in non-fiction prose beyond that attained in the freshman composition sequence.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course focuses on strategies and methods classroom teachers use to enhance their students' communication abilities in the areas of listening, speaking, reading, writing and aesthetic viewing. Relationships among these communication skills will be examined to identify strategies for developing balanced language arts skills in all curriculum areas. Standards of appropriate learned societies relating to communication skills will be analyzed for applicability across curricula areas while meeting subject area standards.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Focuses on improving college reading skills, with an emphasis on literal and critical comprehension and vocabulary develop-ment. Institutional credit.
  • 1.00 Credits

    This course fosters the development of critical reading and thinking skills needed for success in college courses; students will learn to read, discuss, interpret, document and summarize professional articles and materials. Can be taken concurrently with ENG101 or other courses that require article summaries. * Placement by examination
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course expands critical reading, thinking, and writing skills needed for success in college courses through in-depth attention to reading and writing strategies and extended practice. Can be taken as an upper division elective only with permission of major advisor.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Preservice teachers examine classroom management and instructional techniques in a secondary school environment working with teachers in their content specialization. Preservice teachers develop and teach a five-day teaching unit in their area of specialization during this field experience. Preservice teachers spend a minimum of 60 hours in an eleventh or twelfth grade secondary school classroom and participate in a seminar once a week. SEC429/529 10 hours Student Teaching Preservice teachers participate full-time in a secondary school for a minimum of twelve weeks with a minimum of 5 weeks of full-time teaching in their area of specialization. The preservice teacher must complete all coursework prior to student teaching. SEC430/530 (2 hours) Student Teaching Seminar Corequisite: SEC429. Areview and discussion of the skills and knowledge required in the teaching profession with reference to the secondary school. SEC450/550 (3 hours) Teaching English in the Secondary School This course provides the teacher candidate with the neces- sary knowledge and skills to teach language arts in the sec- ondary grades. Emphasis will be placed on literature and the development of the communications skills of listening, speaking, reading, writing and critical thinking. SEC460/560 (3 hours) Teaching Social Studies in the Secondary School This course provides the teacher candidate with the necessary knowledge and skills to teach social studies in the secondary grades. The development of an issues-based social studies teaching unit using the NCSSthemes is the focus of the course. The emphasis is on social issues, effective citizenship, decision making, and concept teaching. SEC470/570 (3 hours) Teaching Mathematics in the Secondary School Prerequisite: MTH160. This course provides the teacher candidate with the necessary skills to teach and assess math ematics in the secondary grades. of vocational rehabilitation services. The vocational implications of disability, employer practices regarding return to work issues, and job modification and structuring techniques will be explored. Current labor market and occupational information from a variety of sources, employer-based disability prevention and management options will be explored along with ways to provide services to employer organizations.
  • 3.00 Credits

    An introduction to the field of sociology involving how society and its component parts are structured, including an analysis of the development and function of social institutions: government, economy, education, family, and religion.
  • 3.00 Credits

    An introduction to speech, covering the principles and practice of interpersonal and public communications.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course will help students develop their ability to communicate effectively in a variety of contexts by enabling them to understand differences between individual dialects and General American Dialect and thus develop skills in switching between community and general dialects.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite for SPN101: "C" or better in ENG101 or consent of the instructor. Prerequisite for SPN102: "C" or better in SPN101 or consent of instructor. Prerequisite for SPN103: "C" or better in SPN102 or consent of the instructor. An introduction to, and the development of, the fundamentals of Spanish grammar and composition, including reading, writing, speaking, and listeni
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