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Course Criteria
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7.00 Credits
7 credit hours Prerequisite: Application; formal approval by the TEC; minimum 2.75 cumulative GPA; completion of all elementary concentration, MLC Teacher Education Major, and subject endorsement requirements. This experience provides 10 weeks supervised, full-time teaching within a selected early childhood setting. Upon completion of this experience students will be able to develop a curriculum, demonstrate classroom organization and management skills, and select developmentally appropriate materials and lessons to meet diverse learner needs and support children and families. Satisfactory participation in student teaching seminar scheduled by the department is required.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours See course description under Education.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
1-3 credit hours Prerequisite: Junior standing, permission by application. This experience allows students the opportunity to intern in a professional education setting. Upon completion of this experience students will be able to discuss professional literature related to the area of direct experience and show growth in classroom instruction/management skills. This capstone experience does not satisfy the Nebraska Department of Education student teaching requirement for certification. Application forms are available from the Registrar's Office.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours This appreciation course provides a general background in the various genres of literature, including poetry, short story, drama and the novel, and equips the students with the basic tools and vocabulary for reading and interpreting literature independently. The students read a variety of works reflecting the past contributions of the literary imagination in preparation for lifelong sensitive and informed reading. Recommended for majors in the first year.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours This appreciation course uses the short story form to explore the art of fiction. The students develop critical awareness of several aspects of fiction, including plot, point of view, characterization, setting, tone, style, irony, theme and symbolism. The students read a wide range of stories, write one analytical paper and produce one creative project in order to gain aesthetic sensitivity to the short story form and to be able to continue to comprehend and evaluate past artistic achievement as well as their own works.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours This American heritage course focuses upon the diverse literary voices found in the Plains region (for example, Cather, Neihardt, Erdrich, Eisley) as well as responses to the Plains geography by those from other areas Both fiction and non-fiction will be studied. The course will foster an understanding of Plains history, who lives here, and how the region affects who we are.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours This course in moral responsibility, which uses the medium of film for the presentation of ethical issues, is concerned both with how an individual recognizes and confronts moral issues as they arise in the normal course of living and how one becomes virtuous. Among the ethical positions presented are utilitarianism, egoism, Kantian deontology, and relativism. Attention is given to the unique nature of Christian morality and its applicability to daily life. The situations presented in the films confront the students with case studies which are used to recognize and analyze ethical situations. The course is meant to encourage moral behavior in the individual student as imperative to responsible living.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours This course in moral responsibility, which uses literature for the presentation of ethical issues, is concerned with how an individual recognizes and confronts moral issues as they arise in the normal course of living. Various ethical positions are clarified so that the students are aware of methodology in ethics. Specific emphasis is given to the unique nature of Christian morality and its applicability in daily life. The situations presented in the literary works confront the students with case studies which are used to recognize and analyze ethical situations, to demonstrate the significance of individual moral responsibility and its social consequences, and to encourage moral responsibility in the individual student. The students also come to understand how to approach and analyze a literary text.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours This American heritage course investigates the formation and the transformation of American literature from the writings of largely British expatriates to what we now call American writing and literature. It is a survey of American literatures from the Colonial Period to the Civil War Era, focusing on Puritan and Quaker writings, captivity narratives, American Romanticism, Transcendentalism, and the burgeoning Women's Suffrage and Abolition movements. Students examine a variety of authors such as Bradstreet, Rowlandson, Mather, Emerson, Poe, Hawthorne, Fern, Melville, Dickinson, Jacobs, and others. These readings expose students to a diverse body of authors, traditions, and cultural perspectives as we seek to identify and define the complexities of the American experience through its literary endeavors.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours This course surveys the diversity of American heritage as recorded in literature from the Civil War to the present. Students read a variety of authors such as Whitman, Twain, James, Gilman, Faulkner, Porter, Ellison, and Morrison. The literary periods studied include Realism, Naturalism, Modernism, and Post-Modernism. These periods illustrate the unique vitality, diversity and multiple traditions which continue to define the American identity. Exposure to them provides the students with greater respect for and appreciation of the diversity of that identity.
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