Undergraduate Courses

What counts as literacy? Who decides? How is language used to make meaning in various disciplines? This course explores the fundamental role of language and literacy practices in learning in today’s linguistically and culturally diverse
classrooms, with a particular focus on the middle and high school levels. Students learn how language and literacy are related, and how they vary in different contexts, and apply this understanding to conceptualize, design, analyze, and refine literacy instruction in their chosen content area.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This course complements the content Mathamatical Proof and Proving course and provides pedagogical aspects of teaching and learning mathematical proof and proving. The focus is on: 1. Students' difficulties in interpreting the meaning of mathematical; 2. Students' understandings of the roles of examples in determining the validity of mathematical statements; 3. The teaching of various forms and methods of mathematical proofs and bridging between informal and formal proof. Special attention is given to developing students' language precision in mathematics and its implications for teaching, in the course of writing and presenting proofs.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This course introduces students to music teaching and learning, focusing on curricular strategies and models that foster creativity and problem solving in the elementary music classroom setting. Themes of constructivism, interdisciplinarity, and culturally responsive teaching will inform our work together. Format will includes a combination of discussion, workshop activities, reading, student presentation, and performance.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Music in the general curriculum. Developing an understanding and perception of the process of musical thought applicable to youth. Students observe in selected schools.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course provides a link between teachers' mathematical knowledge & understanding of the major skills & concepts of algebra & trigonometry to the effective & appropriate teaching of these topics in grades 7 through 12.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Course is designed to introduce students to the pedagogical approaches & practices associated with teaching computer science at the secondary level. Students will learn methods of teaching secondary CS, but also to become practitioner researchers, taking an evidence-based, questioning, design oriented, analytical, & reflective lens on their teaching practices. Topics include developing learning objectives, theories of learning in CS & computational thinking, instructional approaches, lesson design & implementation, & assessment.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This course provides a link between teachers' mathematical knowledge and understanding of the major skills and concepts of pre-calculus mathematics to the effective and appropriate teaching of these topics in grades 7 through 12.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This course provides a link between teachers' mathematical knowledge and understanding of the major skills and concepts of ratios, proportions, percents, decimals and fractions to the effective and appropriate teaching of these topics in grades 5-12.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Developing the skills of classroom planning, management, & implementation for effective instructional practices in grades 7-12. Topics include lesson plan development & implementation, different models of teaching, assessing student understanding & the use of instructional technology. Students also visit schools, observe teachers in the classroom & use these observations as the basis for discussions of effective teaching practice. Allows students enrolled in certification programs to accumulate required pre-student teaching fieldwork hours.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This course focuses on theories, methods, strategies, and available materials in the teaching of school subjects (e.g. mathematics, science, social studies) to second language learners and in developing language proficiency through the learning of content. Included are 15 hours of field experience.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

A practical examination of specific teaching problems and practices as they relate to middle school social studies education. Class sessions are based upon student teaching experiences.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Foundational course that explores the connections among research, theory, and practice in teaching second/world languages. Students explore guiding principles and methodology in approaches to the teaching of language; how additional and world languages are learned, taught, and assessed in different contexts; and theories and practices related to teaching reading, writing, speaking, listening, and grammar in a meaning-based, communicative, and contextual framework. Students develop skills in motivation, teacher-student interaction, and classroom management.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Introduction to foods from various nationality groups through lectures, demonstrations, hands-on food preparation, and field trips.

• Department: Nutrition and Food Studies

A critical examination of music formats, i.e. the ways fans have experienced
recorded music, from the first phonographs through streaming and artificial intelligence. We review and analyze the ways in which innovative technologies disrupt the music industry by enabling new formats to dominate the market and the subsequent impacts on artists, fans, distribution, business models, and copyright law. This course provides an analytical framework that provides insights about the music industry going forward as well as other industries impacted by technological disruptions.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course introduces students to the study of technology and society, examining how technology — mechanical, electronic, analog, and digital — shapes and is shaped by cultural, political, and social values. Readings focus on key concepts and approaches including technological determinism, the social construction of technology, actor-network theory, affordances, infrastructure, and design, exploring how these have been applied to such cases as the clock, the automobile, the telephone, the internet, and a range of contemporary digital media.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

This course offers students the opportunity to discuss trends in technology and learn about the changing nature of work. Students explore the accelerating rate of technological development by doing independent research on forthcoming innovations and sharing their discoveries through class presentations and Socratic discussions. Students analyze how we view work as a society, what work means to us as individuals, and explore possible solutions to mass unemployment and automation. Guest speakers join us for class discussions and all classes are recorded and shared.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This course introduces television history through a broad survey of the medium’s development from radio and early broadcasting through network, cable, and streaming television, dominantly focused on the United States. Students examine television as a cultural form, technology, and industry, with attention to programming, genre, audiences, regulation, public service, advertising, and distribution. The course considers how television has shaped and been shaped by social life, politics, identity, and changing media technologies.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

This course introduces television history through a broad survey of the medium’s development from radio and early broadcasting through network, cable, and streaming television. Students examine television as a cultural form, technology, and industry, with attention to programming, genre, audiences, regulation, public service, advertising, and distribution. The course considers how television has shaped and been shaped by social life, politics, identity, and changing media technologies.

This course examines the economics, marketing, content development process,
consumption patterns, merger & acquisition activity, core companies, technological innovation, and trends driving the podcast industry. Through workshops, discussions, readings, research reports, social media and guest speakers, students gain a deep understanding of the business while learning essential fundamentals that will benefit them within any facet of podcasting and other forms of linear audio storytelling.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Experiential course providing an overview of counseling techniques, focusing on the interview as an interactional process.

• Department: Applied Psychology