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3.00 Credits
This course serves as the middle school professional education capstone experience. Emphasis is placed on effective, proactive classroom discipline and management strategies. Additional significant course topics include constructing and analyzing student assessments, crafting higher order thinking experiences, developing appropriate professional dispositions and creating differentiated instructional strategies. Candidates utilize conceptual, strategic, evaluative and communicative knowledge as they prepare to help all students learn and close the achievement gap. The Kentucky and University teacher standards and KERA initiatives are an integral part of the course content. Thirty hours of field experience are required. Prerequisite: Formal admission to Teacher Education. Credit, 3 hours. Offered Fall and Spring semesters.
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3.00 Credits
Actual classroom teaching under supervision in the middle school. Assignments shall provide for student teaching in each of the fields in which the student has prepared. Conferences are held with the supervising teacher, college coordinator, and the student. Prerequisite: Formal application to student teaching and final vote of the Teacher Education/Admission Committee. Seminars are held at appropriate times during the semester. (ELMS 491is taken for six (6) hours if SPED 499 is taken during the same semester.) Fee: $200. Credit, 12 hours. Offered Fall and Spring semesters.
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3.00 Credits
This course prepares students for the challenges of academic reading and writing. It provides practice in organizing ideas, writing paragraphs and editing for accuracy of grammar, punctuation, and spelling. Students also gain experience in the analysis of both expository and literary materials, as well as gain practice in the writing process leading to the five-paragraph essay. Credit, 3 hours. Offered as needed.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to various critical approaches to the study of literature. Students in this course will practice the application of different critical principles to literary texts. Ideally English majors should take this course during their sophomore year to help prepare for the reading and writing tasks in other courses. Prerequisite: ENGL 131, 132. Credit, 3 hours. Offered every fall semester.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers an introduction to the principles and practice of effective professional writing with the new media. Students study the differences between writing in a traditional print medium and writing with the new media. Particular attention is given to the stylistic and organizational conventions of effective hypertext composition as well as to the rhetorical opportunities of hypertext. With this conceptual background, students develop their communication skills through a variety of individual and small-group projects that anticipate writing tasks they may face in future careers. This course is open to English majors and minors pursuing the writing track or to other students by consent of the department chair. Prerequisite: ENGL 131, 132; CIS 121. Credit, 3 hours. Offered spring semester of even years.
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3.00 Credits
This course fosters an appreciation of literature and its place in culture, as well as nurtures critical thinking skills through reading and writing. It may focus on a particular theme, genre, author or literary group drawn from the traditional literary canon or from popular culture. This course may count as an elective in the English major. Prerequisite: ENGL 131, ENGL 132. Credit, 3 hours. Offered every semester.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an overall view of English literature from earliest times through the early seventeenth century. The course introduces students to major writers and literary texts, as well as to the cultural background that defines the Old English, late Medieval, and Renaissance eras. Prerequisite: ENGL 131, 132. Credit, 3 hours. Offered every fall semester.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an overall view of English literature from the later seventeenth century through the early nineteenth century. The course introduces students to major writers and literary texts, as well as to the cultural background that defines the Restoration, Augustan, and Romantic eras. Prerequisite: ENGL 131, 132. Credit, 3 hours. Offered every spring semester.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an overall view of English literature from 1830 to the present. The course introduces students to major writers and literary texts, as well as to the cultural background that defines the Victorian, Modern, or Post-Modern milieu. Prerequisite: ENGL 131, 132. Credit, 3 hours. Offered every fall semester.
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3.00 Credits
This literary survey begins with the first literary glimmerings among the discoverers, Puritans, and Federalists, and traces the search for a unique, new literature through the writings of the authors of the American Renaissance. Prerequisite: ENGL 131, 132. Credit, 3 hours. Offered every fall semester.
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