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3.00 Credits
Research-based literacy assessments, processes, and instructional practices will be studied and then practiced in the field. In addition to a K-6 classroom field placement, a 15-hour assessment and intervention experience with a struggling reader is required. Prerequisite: EDUC 252, 302.
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3.00 Credits
Provides contact with lessons, materials, methods, research, and theory for the elementary teaching in language arts skills and strategies for application in the K-6 classroom. We examine various instructional strategies and adaptations in language arts for all learners through critical text readings, shared experiences, field placement, demonstrations, hands-on activities, and active student inquiry and participation. Students are required to spend twenty clock hours in a field placement. Prerequisite: EDUC 252, 302.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines current directions in how students learn mathematics in order to promote thinking about best practices for teaching K-8 children mathematics. The emphasis is on understanding a variety of instructional practices, assessment strategies, and curriculum development to plan for effective teaching and learning. Students are required to spend twenty clock hours in a field placement. Prerequisites: EDUC 220 and 221.
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1.00 Credits
Students will practice concepts studied in EDUC 363 as they tutor readers in Title I schools on a weekly basis. Co-requisite: EDUC 363
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the breadth of the field of adult education and its historical, sociological, and philosophical foundations. Students will explore their own beliefs, values, and experiences and develop a working philosophy of education. They will deepen their understanding of the historical development of adult education in the US and the differing philosophies that shape contemporary educational policies. The tools of historical, sociological, political, and philosophical analysis will be used to understand current debates in the field.
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3.00 Credits
Focuses on methods and techniques of instructional technology in the classroom or workplace. Includes software applications, webpage construction, exploring the uses of digital video and instructional multimedia presentations.
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore the U.S. juvenile justice system, including its history, philosophical underpinnings, and biases. Through visits to detention facilities, interviews with individuals involved in the justice system and an exploration of comparative systems of youth incarceration and rehabilitation in the U.S and abroad, students will critically analyze and evaluate our current system and make recommendations for reform. This course fulfills the Engaging the World requirement.
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4.00 Credits
This course introduces students to critical media literacy as a means of critically examining the messages they receive from the media, through popular culture, and from the entertainment industry. Students will begin to understand the role these institutions play in maintaining systems of domination and subordination through the often detrimental and deleterious portrayal of marginalized groups in the United States. In order to fully interrogate the impact these messages have on society generally and marginalized groups specifically, students will also be exposed to critical theory. Students will then take the knowledge they have attained in this course and engage in a community media literacy project. This course fulfills the Engaging the World requirement. Prerequisite: Completion of Writing Emphasis course
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4.00 Credits
This course will introduce indigenous knowledge systems, worldviews, and lifeways from various regions of the world. The course will be structured so students experience indigenous ways of learning and social-environmental organization. Students will explore epistemological questions, relationships (economic, social, governance, with nonhuman life forms), and historical and contemporary practices. Students will apply their learning to addressing global crises through their specific discipline(s) and reflect on their own cultural identity, values, and practices. This course fulfills the Engaging the World requirement. Prerequisite: Completion of Writing Emphasis course.
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3.00 Credits
The study of new concepts and modes of art behavior, discovering new ideas of what might constitute secondary education art curricula. Offered Fall Semester.
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