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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course provides students with the foundations necessary for teaching children to read and learn through reading.It emphasizes the role of literature in literacy development and learning across the curriculum from K-12.Students learn to identify the stages in reading development, to select appropriate literary texts for diverse learners at each stage, to analyze adolescent and children's literary texts, and to assess the developing literacy and language development of learners.
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3.00 Credits
During this course, students conduct a comprehensive examination of research-based reading assessment tools.Students use both informal and formal reading assessments to plan and implement data-based instruction and plan for reading interventions.Scientifically-based reading intervention and effective reading program components will be modeled and practiced. A field placement component is required. Prerequisites: EDUC 346
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the use of research based literacy activities in all areas of study.Because of the diverse nature of this class, students create their own portfolio of literacy resources and activities relevant to their particular subject area and grade level.
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4.00 Credits
This is a laboratory course which focuses on methods that can be used by classroom teachers, reading specialists, and other special teachers of reading and language arts.The major emphasis of this course is an extensive and supervised tutoring internship with children who have reading difficulties.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the critical study of religions and to the character of religious traditions as living, dynamic communities of interpretation with textual, ritual, moral, philosophical and practical dimensions.The course considers three different religious traditions through the lens of a topic or problem with which religions are concerned or through which they can be usefully analyzed.The topic and the traditions vary with the expertise and interest of the professor teaching the course, but one eastern tradition and one biblical tradition are always included. Attention is given to the nature and definition of religion and to methodologies in the critical study of religion.
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3.00 Credits
Each of the seminars below undertakes a critical study of a selection of Biblical texts which seeks (a) to locate and understand them in their original historical, cultural, and social contexts and (b) to recognize how they have functioned and continue to function in the construction of Western culture.
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3.00 Credits
Satan and the Existence of Evil undertakes a historical analysis of the evolution of the character of "the Satan" and "the Devil" in the Bible, in the character of Lucifer in the Western tradition, and in contemporary discourse concerning evil.The course critically examines the personification of evil in women, non-Christian religions, Christian minorities, and related "marginal" gro
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3.00 Credits
Theology, Science, and Worldview examines a variety of Biblical texts that deal with creation, cosmos, and the nature of the world, reviews the rise of the scientific method in relation to "ways of thinking about the world," andcritically addresses the political and theological discourse generated by persons and groups who seek to have "creationism" taught in the public schools in science clas ses.RELS 106 Food, Sacrifice, and Communio Food, Sacrifice, and Communion examines a variety of Biblical understandings of food and sacrifice in relation to sacred space, divine presence, and the divine law, reviews the status of food as a religious symbol in the lives of several medieval Christian women, and addresses issues and problems associated with "food" in contemporary American culture.
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3.00 Credits
History, Violence, and the Will of God examines the role of violence in a variety of Biblical texts (violence undertaken as the will of God, violence as an act of God, and violence as a human response to real-life experiences) in an effort to understand the relationship between violence and history, reviews various moments in the history of the church in which violence was used to generate or maintain power, and critically examines the role of violence in contemporary American culture-in films, on television, in music, and in the streets.
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3.00 Credits
Death and the Afterlife is a critical examination of a selection of Biblical texts which deal with death, dying, and the "next life," an exploration of ways Western culture has attempted to address and understand these issues, and a comparative analysis of similar themes in a variety of non-Western traditions.The course examines ways in which various constructions of "heaven" and "hell" reflect social structures, social values, and notions of just
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