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3.00 Credits
This course will provide information that will help future elementary teachers to learn all the content that an elementary teacher will be required to teach between the grades of kindergarten through grade 6.The content for this course is broken up into 4 major sections: History (classical civilizations, European, and American); Government and Citizenship; Human and Physical Geography; and Economics. A secondary objective of this course is to prepare students to be successful when they attempt ETS 7815 - Elementary Education: Social Studies - Content Knowledge for Teachers Praxis Exam - which is one of the four assessments required by the State of Delaware in order to achieve a teaching license. Students in this course will also learn test taking strategies to help them take and pass this exam.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the history of the environmental movement in America, with emphasis on key individuals and their contributions, major events, and legislation enacted to protect the environment. By reviewing the history of the environmental movement, students will be better able to understand the complex environmental issues facing the world today.
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3.00 Credits
This course will cover the history of the United States from the voyages of discovery to the complexities of the modern world. It will cover the broad categories of: Discovery and Exploration, Settlement, Forging a New Nation, Growing Pains, Civil War and Reconstruction, the Industrial Revolution, World War I and II, the Great Depression, Cold War, and the Challenges of the Modern World. In dealing with our complex, industrialized, and urbanized society, it is very important for us to realize that it was once more simple, more agrarian and rural in nature. Understanding how and when this transformation took place is necessary for any understanding of contemporary American society.
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3.00 Credits
This is a study of warfare from ancient to modern times. The course focuses on how political, social, and economic conditions shape the battle and the tools that are used in warfare. In addition, the moral and psychological aspects of war will be considered. Geography also plays an important role in shaping warfare, its causes and outcomes. The course will focus secondarily on the geographical aspect.
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3.00 Credits
This course will cover the progress of mankind from the rudimentary beginnings of civilization in the Yellow River Valley of China, the Indus River Valley of India, and the Tigris-Euphrates Valley of Mesopotamia, and Mesoamerica to the present time. Emphasis will be placed on the causes of differences and similarities of cultures, as well as, climate and geography. Each civilization will be examined to ascertain what affect the similarities and differences had on its dealings with its neighboring cultures.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines Delaware history from the period of discovery to the present. Special emphasis is placed on the political, social, economic, and cultural forces that transformed the State as events are placed in context of larger national and global trends.
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3.00 Credits
The focus of this course is to review the facts and attempt to answer the soul-searching questions of the Holocaust in order to provide an interpretation of the past that can help shape the present and the future. How could it have happened? How could a modern state destroy innocent men, women, and children just because of their religion/race? Why did so many people allow themselves to be killed? How could the modern world let this mass execution take place? Can and will history repeat itself? There are no easy answers to these questions, but this course invites students to look deeply at these troubling issues.
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3.00 Credits
Students in this class will explore contemporary global social and political issues as well as the historical events that set the stage for these issues, whether they are conflicts or peaceful. Coverage of the issues will encourage students to think critically about current events, their underlying causes, and their impact on affected populations. Topics will include human rights, poverty, population trends, environmental issues, starvation, resources and scarcity, globalization, human rights, and economic pressures. The capstone project for the class will be completed on a digital platform.
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3.00 Credits
The course provides an overview of the interdisciplinary nature of Healthcare Informatics. Students will have the opportunity to explore informatics concepts such as privacy and security of information, the impact of technology on quality and safety measures in healthcare, and the application of informatics to public and population health. An overview of ongoing and emerging topics in health informatics will be presented.
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3.00 Credits
The course will focus on the database systems that acquire, process, and report clinical and financial information in the healthcare environment. Healthcare applications of databases and their effect on healthcare costs, quality , and access of care will be evaluated.
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