|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
4.00 Credits
In this course students will observe in a public school classroom before and after the student teaching experience, taking part in intensive and rigorous class work designed to prepare participants for the student teaching experience. They will learn to incorporate social justice themes and pedagogies into classroom management, unit design, lesson planning and student assessment. Note: This course is designed to be taken in conjunction with Education 457. Prerequisite: Education 223 and 300; Human Development 225, 307. Offered both semesters. S. Grande, C. Cocores
-
4.00 Credits
The department will arrange teaching in an area school. This course allows students to put into practice the department's conceptual framework of teaching for social justice. Students will observe and student-teach in the classroom for eleven weeks and take part in a biweekly seminar class. Prerequisite: Education 223 and 300; Human Development 225 and 307. Offered both semesters. Eight hours credit. S. Grande, C. Cocores
-
4.00 Credits
This course examines classic and contemporary conceptualizations of gender, power, and leadership, the interactions among them and the implications of these interactions for the practice of leadership in education, and other fields of student interest. Prerequisite: Course 223 or a course in Gender and Women's Studies or Sociology. Enrollment limited to 15 students. Staff
-
4.00 Credits
Individual Study
-
4.00 Credits
A study of major American novels from the late nineteenth and twentieth century that dissent from dominant cultural perspectives and values. Attention given to issues of gender, race, class and ethnicity in an exploration of how identity is shaped by and resistant to cultural norms of different eras. Authors include James, Mark Twain, Sinclair, Faulkner, Petry, Silko, and Morrison. Open to freshmen and sophomores. Enrollment limited to 40 students. Staff
-
4.00 Credits
Fantasy and science fiction as diametrically opposed genres of popular literature that arise at the same time and in the same place, Britain during the 1880s and 90s. Fantasy writers range from Dunsany to Shinn; science fiction writers, from Wells to Card. Open to freshmen and to others with permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 40 students. P. Ray
-
4.00 Credits
An examination of some of the major political and social movements of the 1960s and their effects on the present. Enrollment limited to 40 students. T. Ammirati
-
4.00 Credits
This course examines the ways 20th century literature from the mainstream and margins of American life focuses on and explodes the myth of the melting pot through its presentation of issues of race, class, gender and ethnicity, and provides new perspectives on the meaning of the American dream. Enrollment limited to 25 students in the Freshman Focus program. T. Ammirati
-
4.00 Credits
Many spaces have been designed to restrict the movement and integration of racially-marked bodies. This course will examine the narratives of people of African descent that reveal identity to be contingent upon space and place. We will look at the literature, film, and art of black people "on the move."Open to freshmen and sophomores. Enrollment limited to 40 students. C. Baker
-
4.00 Credits
An introduction to how literature develops our ethical, psychological and political imaginations. Discussions focus on fundamental questions about literature, including how texts have voice, tell stories, and address audiences; how formal elements like syntax, diction, and figurative language shape meaning; and how historical and cultural contexts affect textual production and reception. Although specific readings will vary from section to section, students in all sections will read poetry, prose fiction and some literary criticism. All sections will emphasize close reading and pay close attention to student writing. Open to freshmen and sophomores. Enrollment limited to 16 students in each section. Offered both semesters. Staff
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
About AcademyOne
Copyright 2006 - 2024 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|