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2.00 Credits
Prerequisites: EDU 375 or EDU 376This course is designed to complement the student teachingexperience and is a required component of that experience. Studentsreflect on their practice in relation to the continuum of teacherdevelopment and the Rhode Island Professional Teaching Standards(RIPTS).
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: EDU 200, 202, 314 and senior standingFulfills a requirement in the major.The purpose of this required applied internship course for theEducational Studies majors is two-fold: (1) for students to workand be supervised within an educational site congruent with theirdesired professional goals; and, (2) for students to attend a weeklyclassroom seminar designed to provide deep understanding of situatedlearning and communities of practice. This internship experience andcompanion seminar is intended to be vocational in nature, affordingstudents an opportunity to immerse themselves in a potential careerfield.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Senior standingFulfills a requirement in the major.The purpose of this thesis seminar course is to help EducationalStudies majors design, conduct, write up and present an independentresearch project in fifteen weeks. Your project may investigate anytopic related to educational studies, but it must focus on an originalresearchable question using primary sources and appropriate researchmethods.
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3.00 Credits
Focuses on strengthening and improving listening and speakingskills needed for full participation in college-level academic courses.Enhances the ability to listen, take notes, conduct interviews,participate in discussion, and give presentations. Vocabularydevelopment and pronunciation are addressed.
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3.00 Credits
Provides reading practice and applies strategies for efficientreading and writing including vocabulary development, drawingon the content of an Interdisciplinary Core course. Extensivereading including course assignments and discussion build fluency,reinforce conceptual learning, and build confidence with academictexts.
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3.00 Credits
Focuses on strengthening and improving skills in using complexEnglish grammar and college-level writing. Vocabulary development,critical thinking skills, and learning to build sound arguments areaddressed through selected reading and discussion. Intensive in-classcomposition practice and individual work with the instructor andtutors provides additional feedback.
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3.00 Credits
Fulfills a course requirement in the English Literature Core ConcentrationPrerequisite: Enrollment in or successful completion of WTNG 102Through the study of poetry, short fiction, novel, drama, creativenonfiction, and film, students identify literary elements includingplot, character, theme, imagery, and acquire critical vocabulary.This introductory course emphasizes active, responsive reading;close, attentive textual analysis; and lively class discussion.Because the course also emphasizes the importance of writingas an extension of reading, students learn how writing deepensunderstanding and how both reading and writing are part of acoherent, rich experience.
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3.00 Credits
Fulfills a course requirement in the English Literature Core ConcentrationHow did we get to this point? What is the genesis of our currentrelationship with the environment? Has our current situation alwaysreflected that relationship? Using the natural world as a point ofdeparture, students learn the universal language of symbols fromancient cultures to the present as they document and assess theevolution of the relation between human beings and the naturalworld, once perceived as reciprocal and interdependent, now distinctand isolated. Students analyze interdisciplinary and cross-culturalliterary and visual works that address environment and place andthe evolution of the relations between the human and non-humanboth directly (in non-fiction and natural history) and indirectly (inliterature and film). In investigating both visual and written artifacts,students also learn the historical context for the shifts in literaryattitudes toward the environment from around the world and acrosstime.
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1.00 Credits
Does not fulfill a course requirement for the English Major, Minor orCore ConcentrationThis course affords students of all majors the opportunity to receiveacademic credit for reading, discussing, and writing about literarytexts selected for the annual John Howard Birss Memorial Lecture.Previously selected texts include Jack Kerouac's On the Road, ElieWiesel's Night, Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,and Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. This course will includea discussion of the text in its historical context and will requirecompletion of an end of semester project that may be entered inthe annual FCAS Birss Memorial Lecture. Essay/Creative Projectcompetition. This is a variable topics course. The course, but not thetopic, may be repeated for credit.
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3.00 Credits
Fulfills a course requirement in the English Literature Core ConcentrationPrerequisite: WTNG 102Students begin by identifying archetypes, including the heroic ideal,found in folk tales and fairy tales from around the world. Studentsinvestigate how and why many of the same universal concernsinform and are interpreted by the famous epic narratives the ancientscalled "Wisdom Literature;" the Iliad and the Odyssey; and classicalmythology. The other readings may include Tolkien's The Hobbit orportions of The Lord of the Rings, the ancient Mesopotamian TheEpic of Gilgamesh, or Virgil's Aeneid.
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