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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Program Coordinator approval; successful completion of ECE* K290. The purpose of this practicum is to enable students to apply child development theory, teaching methodologies, and teaching competencies in a learning environment with children age's birth to 8 years. Students will demonstrate the ability to manage a classroom independently, to plan, organize, implement, and evaluate classroom activities. Students will complete a minimum of 125 hours of student teaching, and 20 hours of contact time devoted to issues in Early Childhood. Students will complete a Senior Portfolio relevant to their student teaching experiences and current research. Students must fulfill specific health requirements mandated by CT State Licensing, including fingerprinting. These expenses must be assumed by the student.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENG* K101; ECE* K101 and ECE* K182 recommended. The course introduces students to language and literacy development in the young child from birth to eight years old. Students will explore the early childhood language arts curriculum including speaking, listening, writing, and reading skills. An emphasis will be on the influence of child development milestones on an emerging literacy development. This course will also include experience in the creation of a literacy-rich environment that engages children in developmentally-appropriate language areas.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Placement test score indicating ENG* K101 or completion of ENG* K100 with a "C" grade or better. This course offers students an opportunity to explore an abstract principles type course in a different way. The emphasis will be on learning styles, writing short papers, taking tests, and reading for an essay exam rather than a body of knowledge. Perspectives courses are most appropriate for degree students enrolled in any of the career programs; however, Liberal Arts or General Studies students are eligible. All students must have successfully completed developmental courses or attained a placement score indicating placement in Reading/Writing Connection (ENG* K100). This "Perspectives" course is open only to students who are recommended by their current developmental instructor or placement advisor. This course is not open to students who have completed ECN* K101 or ECN* K102.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Placement test score indicating ENG* K101 or completion of ENG* K100 with a "C" grade or better. This course introduces students to the basic concepts of the economic system. The first semester is primarily macroeconomics, with the emphasis on the economic thought process. Discussion of money and banking, national income, fiscal measures, and stabilizing the economy are all included.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Placement test score indicating ENG* K101 or completion of ENG* K100 with a "C" grade or better. This course introduces students to microeconomics theory, with a focus on understanding how business, social, and policy decisions are made. The basic theories of distribution of income, international economics, labor, and comparative economic systems are studied.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: MAT* K137 or higher. In this course, students will do an investigative and analytical study of the major theoretical and applied issues of environmental economics and resource management. Topics will include the role of market failure, uncertainties, long run versus short run environmental concerns, incentive-based control strategies, and resource utilization of a finite globe. Applications will come from a host of issues, including clean water and air legislation, acid rain, auto emissions, energy, hazardous waste, CO2, chlorofluorocarbons, and global warming. A course in Environmental Studies or Environmental Science is recommended but not required.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Placement test score indicating ENG* K101 or completion of ENG* K100 with a "C" or better, and ECN* K101. This course examines the role that money, interest rates and financial intermediaries (in particular, the banking system) play in the operation of the U.S. economy. The aim of this course is to give students an overview of the U.S. financial system and an understanding of the theory and practice of monetary policy in the United States.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: At least two prior courses in economics and/or permission of the instructor. In this assistantship, students will assist a faculty member in conducting an academic course offered in the field of economics. Students may lead discussion groups, work with individual students, organize field trips, make presentations, and/or do other work (to be arranged by faculty member).
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: High School Algebra or MAT* K095. Co-requisites: EET* K106 and MAT* K137 This course provides an introduction to the basic concepts of DC and AC electric circuits. Voltage, current, resistance, energy, and power relationships are introduced. Circuit analysis of basic series and parallel circuits is covered. Instruments and techniques of electrical measurement for both DC and AC circuits are also discussed.
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisite: High School Algebra or MAT* K095. Co-requisites: EET* K105 This lab course will supplement the course Electric Circuits & Systems. Students will apply the concepts learned in the classroom and gain practical hands-on experience making electrical measurements using a variety of test instruments.
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