|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
3.00 Credits
The American Sign Language class is designed to introduce basic vocabulary and simple sentence structure for conversational use. A cultural view is presented to examine traditions and values. A linguistic view is presented to introduce structure, syntax, and manual alphabet. Experiential activities, receptive and expressive exercises, and fluency opportunities are incorporated into the format. This is an introductory class for students with no prior knowledge of American Sign Language.
-
3.00 Credits
There may not be a term in American society as recognized, and yet as misunderstood, as "Civil Rights." Often civil rights are conflated with human rights, even through each are distinct of the other. During the semester, we will trace the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the United States during the 20th century, as well as its lasting impact on American society. We will do so using as many media as possible. Fortunately, we will have the opportunity to study an important part of American history in significant detail. The time span we cover will not be that great, but the issues we investigate challenge the founding principles of American society to its core.
-
3.00 Credits
This course is designed to acquaint students seeking professional training in English with the methods, theories, and pedagogies appropriate for teaching English language arts and composition based on National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and International Reading Association (IRA) standards. Throughout the semester students will engage in an array of writing tasks, including lesson planning, research writing, and other formal and informal writing activities. Most of the writing projects serve as models for the kinds of assignments you might develop and implement in future classrooms.
-
3.00 Credits
A review of literature about "disability", how the "disabled" experience literature, and how to teach literature to the "disabled."
-
3.00 Credits
Close readings of various 20th-century African-American literatures, with foci on how "black subjectivity" is created; the relationship between literature, history, and cultural mythology; the dialectic of freedom and slavery in American rhetoric; the American obsession with race; and the sexual ideology and competing representations of domesticity.
-
3.00 Credits
This course is designed to assist current or prospective teachers of religion/theology at the junior-high and high school levels in the catechesis of adolescents in Catholic schools. The course is also helpful for those anticipating a career in pastoral, and most especially catechetical, ministry with adolescents and young adults. The course is open to Theology students at the undergraduate and graduate levels and to Notre Dame undergraduates with minors in Education, Schooling, and Society. Within class sessions designed to be highly dialogical, interactive, and prayerful, participants explore both theological and practical/pedagogical dimensions of the process of catechesis. Required readings are drawn from the National Directory for Catechesis, the General Directory for Catechesis, and The Catechism of the Catholic Church, as well as from the works of theologians and educational theorists who have contributed significant responses to the two central questions addressed in this course: "What is Catechesis?" and "How Do We Engage in Catechesis in the Context of Catholic Schools?" During this course, participants explore all of the central tasks that constitute the holistic process of catechesis as delineated in the general and national Catholic catechetical directories and other catechetical documents and as adapted for use in Catholic schools: communicating knowledge of the mystery of God's self-revelation; fostering maturity of faith and moral development; sharing and celebrating faith by forming Christian communities of prayerful people; promoting Christian service and social justice; and witnessing to faith through pedagogy and by the example of authentic spiritual lives.
-
3.00 Credits
It might seem a truism that schools have powerful effects on student achievement. Yet beginning with the landmark Equality of Educaitonal Opportunity study in 1966, social scientists have debated the role that schools play in the produciton of student achievement. Does it matter much, which school a student attends? Why are some schools chronically low performing, and what are the characteristisc of more effective schools? Students should have completed coursework in methods and statistics for social research or equivalent coursework before enrolling in this course.
-
3.00 Credits
Demography, the science of population, is concerned with virtually everything that influences, or can be influenced by, population size, distribution, processes, structure, or characteristics. This course pays particular attention to the causes and consequences of population change. Changes in fertility, mortality, migration, technology, lifestyle and culture have dramatically affected the United States and the other nations of the world. These changes have implications for a number of areas: hunger, the spread of illness and disease, environmental degradation, health services, household formation, the labor force, marriage and divorce, care for the elderly, birth control, poverty, urbanization, business marketing strategies, and political power. An understanding of these is important as business, government, and individuals attempt to deal with the demands of the changing population.
-
3.00 Credits
This course is concerned with the association of social inequality with higher education. More specifically, it will examine the gap in enrollment, retention, and completion of college across gender, race, and social classes. Main topics include the study of educational stratification, educational transition to higher education, high school effects on college attendance, college retention, and the effects of going to college on earnings. Most parts of the course are devoted to review and discussion of a variety of theoretical perspectives and empirical studies related to the topics. Also, knowledge and skills in the area of quantitative methodology for research on higher education will be addressed.
-
3.00 Credits
Focuses on adolescent development within various social contexts, including family, peer groups, and the workplace. Special emphasis on normative development at the transition from childhood to adolescence.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
About AcademyOne
Copyright 2006 - 2025 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|