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Course Criteria
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course offers in-depth study selected from areas of general current interest in the educational field. 1-3 credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course will help the teacher candidate learn how to "create a learning environment that encourages appropriate standards of behavior, positive social interaction, active engagement in learning, and self-motivation" (RIBTS #6). The teacher candidate will learn strategies to facilitate the creation of a classroom environment conducive to the learning needs of all students. The development of positive relationships and effective instructional strategies as ways of preventing discipline problems are emphasized. The teacher candidate studies and reflects on a wide variety of discipline models and develops a classroom management plan congruent with his or her personal philosophy of education, instructional skills, and comfort level in the classroom. Classroom field experience is required. Students are concurrently enrolled in SCD341: Practicum in Secondary Education to complete this required field experience. 3 credits.
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3.00 Credits
This workshop format course will provide materials and mentoring to supplement the student teaching experience. It will also help students prepare the portfolio necessary to be recommended to the State of Rhode Island for initial licensure. Prerequisite: Senior standing in the Secondary Education Program. 1 credit.
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3.00 Credits
This 15-week experience is a full-time assignment under the supervision of a cooperating teacher, a university academic supervisor from the student's content area, and an Education Department supervisor. Opportunities are provided for substantial responsibility for the full range of teaching duties on the middle or high school levels. During this time, the experience component continues to be balanced by periods of analysis and evaluation of the teaching-learning process in a weekly seminar, as well as in individualized conferences with the various supervisors. Students will produce a licensure portfolio by the end of the semester and will be interviewed for recommendation for initial licensure. Prerequisite: Acceptance to Student Teaching. 12 credits.
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3.00 Credits
Apart from the practicum experience year and the student teaching experience in the senior year, an internship may be arranged in the field of education, by majors in secondary education, either in or outside the regular two-semester academic year. This internship is coordinated with the Career Development Center. 3 credits.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
This supervised study is intended to permit individual students to examine in depth a subject area of their choice that may not be offered in the regular curriculum. Written proposals for independent study must include goal(s), objectives, outline of the intended study content, means of assessment, and must be submitted in advance, and must receive approval of the department Chair, program coordinator, and supervising teacher. 1-3 credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides sufficient general science background for students to pursue course work in earth science or forensic science. The course includes a discussion of the physical properties of matter and methods for performing organic and inorganic analysis. 3 credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course treats the capabilities, techniques, and limitations of the crime laboratory, including emission spectrometry, chromatography, atomic absorption spectrophotometry, neutron activation analysis, and x-ray diffraction. A discussion of physical optics, especially as related to the microscope, is included. These basic principles are applied to the detection and identification of hair, paint, fibers, and drugs. Forensic serology and fingerprinting are discussed. Applications in the area of firearms and of document and voice examination are included. Prerequisite: SCI103 or SCI104 or SCI105 or BIO111 or CHM113 or PHY201. 3 credits.
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3.00 Credits
Core Complement Course in Natural Sciences This course will vividly demonstrate how one can modify old concepts and build functional models in order to better understand our world. Some of the topics discussed are how science views the world, the physical and chemical atom, electricity and magnetism. 3 credits.
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3.00 Credits
Core Complement Course in Natural Sciences This course is the study of the earth including its origin and development, its place in the universe (basic astronomy), the forces that have shaped it, and those processes that are now or have been at work upon its surface and interior (geology including rocks, minerals, earthquakes, plate tectonics and volcanoes). 3 credits.
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