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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Examines employment opportunities and support services available to citizens with severe disabilities. Involves job inventories in local industry and analysis of the prerequisite skills in such areas as functional academics, language, hygiene, motor skills, interpersonal skills, transportation, and money management. Includes placement and supervision of learners in worksites. Requires fieldwork. Novick, Williams.
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8.00 Credits
4-8 sem. hrs. Prereq: Consent of the department. Involves full-time supervised teaching responsibilities in a public, private or 603 CMR 28.00 approved school with learners with severe disabilities. Requires documentation of successful attainment of Massachusetts licensure requirements.
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8.00 Credits
4-8 sem. hrs. Involves working with learners with moderate disabilities or severe disabilities under the mentorship of a faculty advisor. Explores classroom techniques and procedures using concept papers or a critical review of the literature on a specific topic. Blume.
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8.00 Credits
4-8 sem. hrs. Prereq.: Consent of the department. Involves developing curriculum materials using the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks and demonstrating service to learners with special needs. Requires papers and attendance at seminars. Hardin, Arnold, Villani.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Provides an introduction to reading and writing in a second language. Examines theories of reading both first and second language; relevant differences in first and second reading processes and instruction, particularly with beginning readers; and formal and informal reading assessment. Involves tutoring. Writing theory and practice will be examined and instructional approaches to writing, the writing process, and writing assessment will also be considered. Requires fieldwork. Abraham.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Examines language policy, minority language rights, and linguistic and political issues affecting bilingual education in a multicultural context. Investigates the effects of gender, race, and culture on language use within developmental stages and learning styles of students across grade levels. Emphasizes assessment procedures and the involvement of parents in education. Chumley.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Introduces students to teaching English as a second language. Offers an overview of the history of second language teaching, methodologies, approaches, and techniques and their underlying theories and assumptions. Examines specific classroom techniques - reading and writing processes and instruction and assessment and testing - and their application to curriculum development. Requires fieldwork. Abraham.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Examines the position of women in society and introduces an interdisciplinary approach to the study of women. Analyzes differing theories of women's oppression, considers justifications for current feminist demands, and keeps in mind the relationship between theoretical issues and personal concerns. Resources include articles, interviews, films, and guest speakers. Taylor, Thomas.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Introduces students to the interdisciplinary field of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender studies. Examines LGBT identity, sexuality, gender, politics, and culture from a variety of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives, including history, sociology, philosophy, and science. Trigilio.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem hrs. Introduces the history of women in the U.S. economy and addresses contemporary issues concerning women and work. Focuses on similarities and differences among women's work experiences as inflected by race, ethnicity, and class. Particular attention is paid to ongoing labor-market discrimination and the gender wage gap. Biewener.
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