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A course designed to upgrade the qualifications of persons on-the-job.

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Course provides workplace experience under the direction of an on-site supervisor.

Advanced independent study.

A course designed to upgrade the qualifications of persons on-the-job.

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Review and interpretation of a body of research.

Thesis research.

Advanced independent reading on topics in the discipline.

Varied topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering. May be repeated as topics change.

Thesis preparation.

This course explores the historical foundations of education and the impact they have had on inequitable opportunities, experiences, and outcomes for learners. Students in this course will gain an understanding of educational principles relevant to the physical, social, emotional, moral and cognitive development of children. The roles and responsibilities of teachers, schools, and students will be examined within a field experience.

Areas of Interest:

Education and Training

Programs:

• Elementary Education (BS)

This course provides education in self-awareness and skills that are essential for living and working in a democratic and socially just society. The course addresses issues of oppression and social justice related to race/ethnicity, gender, age, class, religion, disability, physical appearance, sexual orientation, and nationality. The course addresses groups that have historically been excluded from western power and decision-making. Participants will examine mainstream and alternative viewpoints for values, validity, and outcomes using investigative and critical thinking skills.

Graduation Requirements:

Goal Area 7A - Human Diversity | Diverse Cultures - Gold | Writing Intensive

Areas of Interest:

Education and Training

Programs:

• Corrections (BS)
• Criminal Justice (BS)
• Elementary Education (BS)
• Policing Studies (BS)

To research an area related to education to provide understanding and experience with scholarly inquiry. Students will discover content and practice skills related to scholarly inquiry and their academic subjects.

The middle school concept, curriculum, and teaching methods.

For teachers of students whose dominant language is other than English.

Teacher candidates will think critically about the context in which all students learn and will learn about historical and current patterns of inequitable education that marginalize students who have been minoritized according to race, culture, language, or ability. The course will focus on research-based practices that teacher candidates can use to create identity-safe classrooms and how they can work with families and communities using an asset lens.

Prerequisites:

Admission to Professional Education and the Elementary Education program.

Areas of Interest:

Education and Training

In this course students learn to use a variety of developmentally appropriate, evidence-based instructional practices 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.

Prerequisites:

Admission into Professional Education and the Elementary Education program

Areas of Interest:

Education and Training

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.

Prerequisites:

Admission into Professional Education and the Elementary Education program

Areas of Interest:

Education and Training

This course introduces elementary teacher candidates to areas of exceptionality in learning. Teacher candidates within the course will analyze elementary instruction within the general education classroom and learn to develop antiracist instruction that builds on students' assets and cultural capital with consideration of individual differences.

Prerequisites:

Admission into Professional Education and the Elementary Education program

Areas of Interest:

Education and Training

The focus of this course will be providing teacher candidates with strategies and tools in providing daily instruction for diverse learners in terms of race, gender, ethnicity, nationality, language, religion, sexuality, social economic status and class. The course will focus on learners with complex and multiple disabilities that requires a variety of materials, strategies, and differentiation. The teacher candidates will have an opportunity to implement their plans in the classroom during field experience while closely working with a classroom mentor teacher and university mentor.

Prerequisites:

Admission into Professional Education and the Elementary Education program

Areas of Interest:

Education and Training

This course will engage teacher candidates in critically analyzing children's texts. Teacher candidates will learn how to integrate diverse literature across the elementary curriculum and meet objectives and standards in math, literacy, social studies, science, and the arts. Teacher candidates will learn how to guide students in developing their literacy identities in order to promote reading engagement and students as independent and collaborative readers.

Prerequisites:

Admission into Professional Education and the Elementary Education program

Areas of Interest:

Education and Training

This course is centered around three goals to help prepare teacher candidates to enact practices that develop learners' mathematical proficiency. The first goal is to explicitly teach skills for disrupting patterns of injustices and inequities that often get reproduced within the context of elementary mathematics classrooms. The second goal is to develop professional skills for the high-leverage practices of eliciting and interpreting students' thinking and leading a group discussion. The third goal is to gain the mathematical knowledge needed for engaging learners in inquiry-based instruction for number sense & operations, place value, computation, and rational number concepts in grades K-6.

Prerequisites:

Admission into Professional Education and the Elementary Education program

Areas of Interest:

Education and Training