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2.00 Credits
Students have an opportunity to participate at Dean College Children's Center in the classroom with young children. Students will begin planning, implementing, and evaluating open-ended opportunities for the children under close supervision of the classroom teachers and instructing supervisors. Field Placement must be taken after or concurrently with EDU 231. Field participation is for 3.5 hours per week and must be taken concurrently with the one-hour per week seminar, EDU 280. Offered every fall semester and alternate spring semesters.
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1.00 Credits
Student Teaching Practicum opportunities at Dean College Children's Center will be supplemented by the seminar group discussions as well as individual conferences and evaluations of practicum performance. Observations, records of behavior, opportunity lesson plans, and daily participation in the program will be discussed during weekly seminar sessions. Seminars are for one hour and practicum is for 14 hours per week. Prerequisite: C- or better in EDU 280, EDU 281, and approval of Program Director. Students must be concurrently enrolled in EDU 283. Offered every spring semester.
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5.00 Credits
Student teaching assignments at the campus preschool, Dean College Children's Center, will give the ECE career student an experience to actively participate in the day-to-day program. Students will be absorbed in planning, implementing, and evaluating opportunities for the young children in their placement, as well as take part in parent meetings, finding appropriate resources, collecting anecdotes on children, and taking over the head teacher's role on student teacher planning days. This course provides in-depth classroom experience with increasing responsibilities. Frequent supervision from the faculty supervisor and individual conferences with teachers will give constant feedback as to the student's effectiveness in the classroom. Upon completion of this practicum, students will meet the requirements for Teacher Certification from OCCS. Student Teaching Practicum is for 14 hours per week and must be taken concurrently with the one-hour per week practicum seminar, EDU 28 2. Offered every spring semester.
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3.00 Credits
This course addresses a special topic in education, using current theories in education to analyze that topic. Through comprehensive readings, students' ability to think critically about the topic and the discipline will be developed. A research paper or project will be required. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing and completion of an introductory course in the discipline, or permission of the Department Chair. Offered on an as-needed basis.
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0.00 Credits
This course builds a foundation for college-level reading and writing by integrating the fundamental skills required for both. Topics in reading include comprehension, subject-area analysis, reading strategies, retention and critical thinking. Topics in writing include sentence, paragraph and essay structure. Placement will be determined by SAT or ACT scores. Students who place into ENG 097 must enroll in this course in their first semester. Students must successfully complete ENG 097 with a C- or better to place into ENG 111. This course does not count toward graduation. Offered every semester.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to newspaper reporting with hands-on experience in gathering news, interviewing techniques and writing, editing and analyzing basic news, sports, and feature stories. Students are required to write and edit stories using the most appropriate technology. Students will also examine the role and responsibilities of the press and study the legal and ethical problems facing journalists. Offered in the fall semester in odd-numbered years.
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3.00 Credits
This course looks at the changing nature of Post- Modern Literature from “Beat Literature” andMinimalism to Multiculturalism, emphasizing seminal artists in the areas of poetry, the novel, drama and short fiction. Underpinning all our work will be a focus on the efforts of critical theorists to open the literature up to new and radically different avenues of analysis and interpretation. Prerequisite: ENG 112 or permission of instructor. Offered every spring semester. Fulfills general education literature elective requirement.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores contemporary literature with a focus on the social issues of our time. Using literature, the course examines phenomena such as marriage, families, religion, race, war, music, science, technology, and gender. Prerequisite: ENG 112 or permission of instructor. Offered every fall semester. Fulfills general education literature elective requirement.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the further study, development and writing of the literary essay and other essay forms, depending on the instructor. Students will read examples of the literary essay form by such authors as Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, E.B. White, Donald Hall, Jane Kenyon, Annie Dillard, Alice Walker, and David Sedaris. Students will develop their own essay prose style through structured journals, imitation models, and essays of observation and reflection. Prerequisite: ENG 111 or permission of Department Chair. Offered every spring semester.
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3.00 Credits
Students will read works of poetry and short fiction to develop an appreciation of form, figurative technique, and thematic expression in order to develop poetic and fictional pieces of their own in a writing workshop setting. Prerequisite: ENG 111, ENG 112 and permission of instructor. Offered every semester.
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