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EDUC 451 - Welding and Fabrication Technology
Credits:
4.00
Processes and procedures of welding including: Shielded
Metal Arc Welding (SMAW), Oxyacetylene Welding (OAW),
Oxy-Fuel Gas Cutting (OFC-A), Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW),
Plasma Arc Cutting (PAC) and Tungsten Arc Welding
(GTAW). Welding metallurgy and control of distortion.
Special fee. Prereq: permission. 2 lec/2-hr rec.
EDUC 461 - Internal Combustion Engines I
Credits:
4.00
Internal combustion engines (spark-ignited and diesel) and
their subsystems with emphasis on their design, how they
function, preventive maintenance, and troubleshooting.
2 lec/2-hr rec.
EDUC 462 - Internal Combustion Engines II
Credits:
4.00
Advanced engine principles and theory. Detailed major
failure analysis and overhaul techniques. Prereq:
permission, AM 261, AOE 461, or EDUC 461. 2 lec/2 rec.
EDUC 470 - Residential Electricity
Credits:
2.00
Electrical principles, laws, and installation with emphasis
on the National Electrical Code. While modeled at the
residential level, concepts and terminology will be
applicable to the commercial and light industrial sectors as
well. Concepts and methodologies will be supported with
design and when appropriate, hands on application to enhance
the learning environment. 2 lec/2-hr rec. (half semester
course.) No credit earned if credit earned for the second
half of CT 227.
EDUC 475 - Building Science/Residential Construction
Credits:
4.00
The study of the interrelationship of physical principles
that affect the functionality and life span of a building.
The materials and methodologies of residential construction.
3 lec/2-hr lab. Special fee.
EDUC 500 - Exploring Teaching
Credits:
4.00
For students considering a teaching career. In-school
experiences to develop introductory skills in teaching.
On-site seminars for analysis and evaluation. Assessment and
advising related to teaching as a career. Prerequisite for
further work toward teacher licensure. Minimum of 7 hours a
week, plus travel time, required. Prereq: permission. CR/F.
EDUC 506 - Service Learning Experiences in Literacy
Credits:
1.00
Supports students engaged in school-based literacy tutoring
as service learning experiences. Explores tutoring methods
in literacy, community/school service, and contemporary
issues in education. May be repeated to six credits,
one credit per semester. Prereq: permission required. CR/F.
EDUC 507 - Mentoring Adolescents
Credits:
2.00
This seminar is intended for undergraduate men and women
who are mentoring local middle-school students on a weekly
basis. The mentoring involves minimally tutoring the mentees
once a week at their schools. The seminar would meet twice a
month for two hours. Additionally, one tutoring session a
month would be reserved for a focus group discussion
involving the mentors and their mentees at the school site.
EDUC #653 - Humanities and Education: Society and the Formation of Character
Credits:
4.00
Interdisciplinary modular course examines the manner in
which society forms character through custom, laws, and
formal institutions. Works by Plato, Rousseau, and Dewey
explore if and how we can become educated. Students take
three successive 5-week modules during the semester. (Not
offered every year.)
EDUC 694 - Courses in Supervised Teaching
Credits:
8.00
Supervised Teaching of Music. CR/F. Supervised
Teaching of Adult and Occupational Education. CR/F.
Supervised Teaching of Mathematics. CR/F.
EDUC 700 - Educational Structure and Change
Credits:
2.00 or 4.00
Organization, structure, and function of American schools;
historical, political, social and cross-cultural
perspectives; nature and processes of change in education.
A) Educational Structure and Change; B) Education in
America: Backgrounds, Structure, and Function; C) Governance
of American Schools; D) School and Cultural Change;
E) Teacher and Cultural Change; F) Social Perspectives of
Conflict in the Schools; G) Nature and Processes of Change
in Education; H) What is an Elementary School?; I) Schooling
for the Early Adolescent; K) Stress in Educational
Organizations. Candidates for teacher licensure must take
either 4-credit course 700A, or 2 credits each of 700F and
700G. Prereq. for teacher licensure: EDUC 500 and junior
status. Prereq. for students not seeking teacher licensure:
instructor permission.
EDUC 701 - Human Development and Learning: Educational Psychology
Credits:
2.00 or 4.00
Child development through adolescence, learning theory,
cognitive psychology, research in teaching and teacher
effectiveness, cross-cultural variability, and evaluation--
all applied to problems of classroom and individual
teaching and learning. A) Human Development and Learning:
Educational Psychology; B) Human Development: Educational
Psychology; C) Human Learning: Educational Psychology;
D) Developmental Basis of Learning and Emotional Problems;
E) Learning Theory, Modification of Behavior, and Classroom
Management; F) Cognitive and Moral Development;
G) Evaluating Classroom Learning; H) Deliberate
Psychological Education; I) Sex Role Learning and School
Achievement; J) The Development of Thinking. Each semester
2-credit and 4-credit courses are offered. 2-credit courses
emphasize either development or learning. Candidates for
teacher licensure are required to have the 4-credit course
(701A) or 2 credits each of 701B and 701C. Prerequisite for
teacher licensure students: EDUC 500 and junior status.
Prerequisite for students not seeking teacher licensure:
instructor permission and junior status.
EDUC 703 - Alternative Teaching Models
Credits:
2.00 or 4.00
Basic teaching models, techniques of implementation, and
relationships to curricula. A) Alternative Teaching Models;
B) Curriculum Planning for Teachers; C) Alternative
Strategies for Maintaining Classroom Control; D) Social
Studies Methods for Middle and High School Teachers;
F) Teaching Elementary School Science; G) Language Arts for
Elementary Teachers; H) Experiential Curriculum; I) Children
with Special Needs; Teaching Strategies for the Classroom
Teacher; K) Writing across the Curriculum; L) Learning
and LOGO; M) Teaching Elementary School Social Studies.
2-credit and 4-credit courses are offered. Teacher education
students should be aware of the specific course(s) required
for their licensure area. EDUC 703F and M are required for
elementary education candidates. EDUC 703D is required for
social studies candidates. EDUC 791 is required for science
candidates. For all other secondary education candidates,
the appropriate methods course in the department of major is
required. See the Schoolhouse Book for specific course
listings. Prerequisite for teacher licensure: EDUC 500 and
junior status. Prerequisite for students not seeking teacher
licensure: instructor permission and junior status.
EDUC 705 - Alternative Perspectives on the Nature of Education
Credits:
2.00 or 4.00
Students formulate, develop, and evaluate their own
educational principles, standards, and priorities.
Alternative philosophies of education; contemporary issues.
A) Contemporary Educational Perspectives; B) Controversial
and Ethical Issues in Education; D) Concepts of Teaching:
Differing Views; E) Curriculum Theory and Development;
F) Readings on Educational Perspectives; G) Philosophy of
Education; I) Education as a Form of Social Control;
K) Schooling and the Rights of Children; L) Education,
Inequality, and the Meritocracy; M) Readings and
Philosophies of Outdoor Education; N) Alternative
Perspectives on the Nature of Education; O) Classrooms:
The Social Context; P) Teaching: The Social Context;
Q) School and Society. 2-credit and 4-credit courses are
offered. Candidates for teacher licensure must chose either
4-credit course 705A, 705B, or 705Q. Prerequisite for
teacher licensure: EDUC 500 and junior status. Prerequisite
for students not seeking teacher licensure: instructor
permission and junior status.
EDUC 706 - Introduction to Reading in the Elementary School
Credits:
4.00
Methods in reading and writing instruction; current
procedures and materials; diagnostic techniques. Course
satisfies reading/language arts requirement for prospective
elementary teachers in the five year teacher education
program. Prereq: EDUC 500 (Exploring Teaching).
EDUC 707 - Teaching Reading through the Content Areas
Credits:
2.00
Approaches and methods for teaching reading through content
materials; coursework includes practical applications
through development of instructional strategies and
materials. Required for candidates seeking certification in
art, biology, chemistry, earth science, general science,
physics, or social science.
EDUC 710 - Youth, Culture, and Society in Comparative Perspective
Credits:
4.00
This course examines lifestyles, social identities, and
subcultures of youth in a variety of sociocultural and
historical settings. Students will develop an understanding
of the conditions that foster the formation of social
identity and the emergence of age-based subcultures. The
course explores the relationship between individual and
social identity, and between youth subcultures and dominant
cultural systems. (Also listed as ANTH 710.)
EDUC 720 - Introduction to Computer Applications for Education
Credits:
4.00
Introduction to Computer Applications for Education Major
issues related to classroom computer applications:
historical development; computer functioning; methods of
instruction, problem solving, educational software
development and evaluation, psychological and sociological
impact of the computer on children and learning. A practical
approach is stressed. Lab.
EDUC 733 - Introduction to the Teaching of Writing
Credits:
4.00
Development of writers, child to adult; ways to respond to
writing; organization of the classroom for the teaching of
writing. Persons taking the course need to have access to
students to carry out course requirements. Prereq:
permission.
EDUC 734 - Children's Literature
Credits:
4.00
Interpretive and critical study of literature for children
in preschool and elementary settings. Methods of using
literature with children.
EDUC 735 - Young Adult Literature
Credits:
4.00
Critical study of the fiction and nonfiction genres that
constitute literature written for the adolescent reader.
Emphasis will be on literary analysis of young adult
literature and its pedagogical uses in middle/junior
high/high school curriculum.
EDUC 741 - Exploring Mathematics with Young Children
Credits:
4.00
a laboratory course offering those who teach young children
mathematics, and who are interested in children's discovery
learning and creative thinking, an opportunity to
experience exploratory activities with concrete materials.
It offers, on the adult level, mathematical investigations
through which one may develop the ability to provide
children with a mathematically rich environment, to become
adept at asking problem-posing questions, and to establish
a rationale for doing so.
EDUC 750 - Introduction to Exceptionality
Credits:
4.00
A life span perspective of the social, psychological, and
physical characteristics of individuals with
exceptionalities including intellectual, sensory, motor,
health, and communication impairments. Includes implications
for educational and human service delivery.
EDUC 751A - Educating Exceptional Learners: Elementary
Credits:
4.00
Foundations of special education and an introduction to a
variety of service delivery models with an emphasis on
educating all learners in heterogeneous classrooms.
Instructional strategies and supports for all students,
particularly those with mild and moderate diabilities, will
be the primary focus.
EDUC 751B - Educating Exceptional Learners: Secondary
Credits:
4.00
Foundations of special education and an introduction to a
variety of service delivery models with an emphasis on
educating all learners in heterogeneous classrooms.
Instructional strategies and supports for all students,
particularly those with mild and moderate diabilities, will
be the primary focus.
EDUC 752 - Contemporary Issues in Learning Disabilities
Credits:
4.00
Critical analysis of current and historical conceptions of
learning disability in the areas of definition, supporting
theories, assessment practice, and teaching methodologies.
Focus will be on contemporary issues in the field that
relate to working with students labeled as learning disabled
at both elementary and secondary levels.
EDUC 753 - Contemporary Issues in Behavioral Disabilities
Credits:
4.00
Nature and scope of emotional and behavioral disabilities in
students for elementary through secondary levels.
Theoretical perspectives, characteristics, assessment and
educational intervention strategies will be included.
EDUC 754 - Contemporary Issues in Developmental Disabilities
Credits:
4.00
The causal factors, physical and psychological
characteristics, and educational and therapeutic
implications of mental retardation, cerebral palsy,
epilepsy, autism, and related conditions. A life span
perspective will be included, with major emphasis on the
school-age population.
EDUC 755 - Fostering Social Relationships for Students who Experience Significant Disabilities
Credits:
1.00
This course will focus on the supports students with
significant disabilities need in order to have a wide
variety of satisfying social relationships. Students will
learn to identify and facilitate the factors essential to
the development of friendships such as: full inclusion;
valued membership and belonging; shared experiences; an
effective means of communication understood by everyone; and
access to typical school, extracurricular, and community
environments and activities. Additionally, students will
learn to identify and mitigate the barriers to friendships,
such as: low expectations; devaluing of differences;
such as pull-out and separate special education programs.
Students will learn about appropriate relationship supports,
especially relating to the facilitation of communicative
interactions.
EDUC 760 - Introduction to Young Children with Special Needs
Credits:
4.00
Needs of children (birth to eight years) with developmental
delays or who are at risk for disabilities. Strengths and
special needs of such children; causes, identification, and
treatment; current legislation; parent and family concerns;
program models.
EDUC 776 - Reading for Learners with Special Needs
Credits:
4.00
Techniques and procedures for teaching reading to learners
with special needs. Emphasis is placed on providing reading
instruction in the least restrictive alternative.
EDUC 781 - Introduction to Statistics: Inquiry, Analysis, and Decision Making
Credits:
4.00
An applied statistics course that covers introductory level
approaches to examining quantitative information. Students
spend about half of class time in the computer lab analyzing
real data from the behavioral and social sciences. An
emphasis is placed on the role of statistics in making
empirically based policy decisions.
EDUC 785 - Educational Assessment
Credits:
4.00
Theory and practice of educational evaluation; uses of test
results in classroom teaching and student counseling;
introductory statistical techniques.
EDUC 791 - Methods of Teaching Secondary Science
Credits:
4.00
Application of theory and research findings in science
education to classroom teaching with emphasis on inquiry
learning, developmental levels of children, societal issues,
integration of technology, critical evaluation of texts and
materials for science teaching, and planning for
instruction. Lab.
EDUC 795 - Independent Study
Credits:
2.00 or 4.00
Juniors and seniors only, with approval by appropriate
faculty member. Neither course may be repeated.
EDUC 796 - Independent Study
Credits:
2.00 or 4.00
See description for EDUC 795.
EDUC 797 - Seminar in Contemporary Educational Problems
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Issues and problems of special contemporary significance,
usually on a subject of recent special study by faculty
member(s). Prereq: permission. May be repeated for
different topics.