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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
This course prepares students to be literacy teachers in diverse early childhood classrooms. The course includes methods of literacy instruction and explorations in literature from various cultural perspectives. Students will engage in regular and systematic reflection on their developing knowledge base and apply their knowledge in field-based classroom experiences in diverse settings.
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4.00 Credits
This course includes exploration of social studies content and methods for teaching social studies in early childhood education. From a variety of perspectives, students will examine the types of questions social scientists ask about human experience, institutions and interactions. In the course, prospective teachers will use appropriate methods of inquiry to investigate some of those questions. They will engage in regular and systematic reflection on their developing knowledge base and then apply that knowledge in field-based classroom experiences in diverse settings.
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4.00 Credits
The foundation for this course is that knowing mathematics is doing mathematics; thereby, students will be prepared to teach mathematics well. The focus is mathematics content: number systems, geometry and an additional unit (from probability/statistics, graph theory or another appropriate area). Methods, assessment, technology and historical perspective are integral to this course.
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4.00 Credits
In this course, students will explore nature, content and processes of science while examining current best practices and issues in teaching science to children. Students will understand the role that inquiry plays in the development of scientific knowledge. Students will explore relationships between science, technology and other curriculum areas in a community of diverse elementary learners.
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12.00 Credits
Student teaching, a supervised internship semester in a diverse elementary public school classroom, is the capstone experience in teacher preparation, the point at which theory and practice converge. The course includes 14 weeks of full-time participation and teaching in a public school classroom with weekly seminar meetings for professional development.
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1.00 - 12.00 Credits
Advanced courses are offered to respond to topical needs of the curriculum. Prerequisite; See individual course listing in the current semester class schedule.
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4.00 Credits
This course will examine the literature of the ancient world. Although the primary focus will be on Greek, Roman and Hebrew culture, non-Western materials may also be studied. Works and authors might include: Gilgamesh, Homer, Job and Virgil.
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4.00 Credits
This course will examine the transition of the cultural world of Dante to that of Shakespeare and Milton. Although the primary focus will be Western, non-Western works may also be studied. Texts and authors might include: Chretien, Dante, The Tale of Genji, Chaucer, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Cervantes and Milton.
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4.00 Credits
Authors in this course might include: Defoe, Pope, Basho, Austen, Emerson, Twain and George Eliot.
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4.00 Credits
This course will investigate the literature of the 20th century. Authors might include: T. S. Eliot, Woolf, Lawrence, Frost, Morrison and Marquez.
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