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Elementary and Literacy EducationCredits
This is the first of two courses designed to equip teacher candidates with mathematical knowledge, pedagogical skills, and dispositions for fostering an inclusive classroom environment. This course explores research on how children learn mathematics, effective teaching practices, and equitable approaches. Mathematics topics addressed in this course are number quantity & counting, meaning of the operations, fact fluency, place value, computation strategies, for whole and rational numbers.
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- Education and Training
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This course will explore practical information, assessment tools, instructional ideas and activities for effective implementation of an inquiry-based approach in elementary curriculum. Teacher candidates will focus on developing inquiry-based methods and strategies for improving student learning while linking one or more elementary content areas.
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Understanding classrooms as part of a broader community context, this course explores strategies to collaborate with students in designing curricula. Students will learn to integrate community assets into the classroom and develop partnerships to ensure teaching reflects and engages with the local context.
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- Education and Training
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Special teaching projects of an experiental and creative nature in the students' field of preparations.
This field-based course is designed as the capstone experience for students completing the reading teacher program. The focus is on assessment and intervention experiences with struggling readers.
In this course students learn about and use a variety of developmentally appropriate, motivating techniques and assessments to disrupt predictable patterns of achievement and to advance children's: oral and written language, phonemic awareness, phonics, and concepts about print. Additionally, the interdependent nature of reading, writing, listening, and speaking, stages of spelling development, and role of vocabulary and fluency in comprehension are addressed.
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- Education and Training
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Elementary school teachers must know and understand the fundamental concepts and practices in all domains of science (physical, life, earth and space) and health education so that they can plan and effectively implement meaningful, engaging, and safe inquiry learning experiences that are accessible for all learners in the elementary classroom.
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- Education and Training
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This course is designed to prepare teacher candidates with the understanding and application of concepts related to human diversity and interactions, structures of power, the identity of individuals and communities, and explicitly connects social studies concepts with their influence on educational experiences of diverse learners. The course addresses issues of oppression and social justice related to race/ethnicity, gender, age, class, religion, disability, physical appearance, sexual orientation and nationality.
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The first semester of a year-long student teaching experience that provides an opportunity for teacher candidates to experience fully the role of the professional elementary educator and demonstrate their ability to successfully enter the induction phase of teaching.
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- Education and Training
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Analyze and design instruction and assessment that bridges curriculum with students' cultural, racial, linguistic and community assets and reflects students' diverse experiences.
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Examines, synthesizes, and applies the research base for a problem of practice within elementary level education.
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This field-based course is designed for students working with two-year college students and adults in reading. It provides an opportunity to implement knowledge and skills developed in coursework with this population.
Opportunity for individual study on curriculum or instruction topics under direction of graduate faculty.
The second semester of a year-long student teaching experience that provides an opportunity for teacher candidates to experience fully the role of the professional elementary educator and demonstrate their ability to successfully enter the induction phase of teaching.
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- Education and Training
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Seminar brings together knowledge from a variety of disciplines to help students meet the needs of learners within inclusive settings. Specific attention is given to English language support, special education services, ethical and legal issues in teaching, and the edTPA.
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- Education and Training
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Current research, instructional techniques and materials regarding kindergarten curriculum in language arts, reading, science, mathematics, social studies, psychomotor and creative arts.
For students completing a Master's degree with the alternate plan paper option.
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For students completing a Master's degree with the creative project option.
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For students completing the Master's or Specialist degree using the thesis option.
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EnglishCredits
ENG 100 or Academic Reading and Writing focuses on building students' literacy skills in connection to their field of study.
Students in this course approach writing as a subject of study by investigating how writing works across a variety of contexts.
- Graduation Requirements:
- Goal Area 1A - English Composition
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- Education and Training
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- Automotive Engineering (BS)
- Civil Engineering (BSCE)
- Computer Engineering (BSEC)
- Computer Engineering Technology (BS)
- Computer Information Technology (BS)
- Computer Science (BS)
- Construction Management (BS)
- Dental Hygiene (BS)
- Electrical Engineering (BSEE)
- Electronic Engineering Technology (BS)
- Ethnic Studies (BS) International Community and Human Services
- Exercise Science (BS) General Exercise Science
- Exercise Science (BS) Practitioner
- Health Communication (BS)
- Health Informatics (BS)
- Integrated Engineering (BSE)
- Management Information Systems (BS)
- Manufacturing Engineering (BS)
- Mechanical Engineering (BSME)
- Nursing (BS)
- Robotics Engineering (BSE)
- Software Engineering (BS)
- Sport Management (BS)
Study and analysis of elements of prose, poetry and drama in English from earlier periods through contemporary. Emphasizes critical reading of literature. May include such genres as short story, novel, memoir, nonfiction, biography, autobiography, poem, play, screenplay.
- Graduation Requirements:
- Goal Area 6 - Humanities and the Arts
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- Education and Training
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Study and analysis of prose, poetry, drama, and film from various genres, time periods, and geographies. Emphasizes critical reading of and writing about literature.
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- ENG 101
- Graduation Requirements:
- Goal Area 6 - Humanities and the Arts | Writing Intensive
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- Education and Training
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This course will introduce students to Shakespeare's plays (histories, tragedies, and comedies) and sonnets. Students will read, analyze, and develop interpretations of these works, learning about Shakespeare's language, historical situations, and world views.
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- Goal Area 6 - Humanities and the Arts | Goal Area 8 - Global Perspective
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- Education and Training
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Students analyze and apply rhetorical principles in their writing with new media. As members of a media-saturated culture, we know that print text is only one form of writing, and sometimes it is not the most effective choice. Because all of us make sense of texts and issues in a variety of ways, this course asks students to utilize multimodal (visual, aural, etc.) forms of communication and become more informed, critical consumers of new media writing themselves.
- Prerequisites:
- ENG 101
- Graduation Requirements:
- Goal Area 2 - Critical Thinking | Writing Intensive
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- Education and Training
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