Courses

A practical examination of teaching problems and practices as they relate to actual classroom teaching of social studies in secondary school. Class sessions are based on student teaching experiences.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Develops insights into the nature of narratives. Explores stories, autobiographical and fictional, as ways of organizing,understanding, and coming to terms with our own experiences and as a means of imagining alternative realities.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This course focuses on theories and pedagogical approaches in content and language integration for students across educational contexts, including emergent bilingual students in content classrooms and language learners in ESL/EFL classrooms. Students develop an understanding of theoretical foundations for language and content integration, and learn to apply them in practice through observing multilingual learners’ use of languages in school, analyzing the linguistic demands of content texts and instruction, and designing content and language integrated lesson plans.

• 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

This course explores how a variety of technological tools can promote and support effective second language acquisition that relies on a student-centered approach. Students learn how to use technology to provide models of second language use in context and to increase opportunities for authentic interaction. Students acquire the skills to develop instructional units employing technologies adapted to the needs and interests of particular learning communities.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Foundation method course for students who are learning to teach English as Second/Foreign Language. Course contents include: guiding principles and methodology in a variety of approaches to the teaching of second languages, specifically in developing auditory comprehension and oral production, teaching reading and writing; impact of culture, heritage, socioeconomic level and educational background on language and literacy development as well as human development processes and variations. Also included are skills in motivation, communication, and classroom management.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Explores theory and practice of effective teaching in middle and secondary school settings with specific attention paid to the socio-behavioral needs of early adolescent and adolescent students. Through observation, practice, and evaluation of models, students will consider various strategies to: organize a course; conceptualize a unit; prepare lesson plans; implement effective and varied, including technology-based teaching practices; devise and evaluate assessments; and reach students of varying levels, abilities, and intelligence in an interactive, dynamic, team-oriented environment. Offers integrated instruction on how to teach literacy skills to middle and secondary level students.

• 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

University-supervised student teaching in special and inclusive settings for students (grades 9-12) with disabilities.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

University-supervised student teaching in special and inclusive settings for students (grades 6-8) with disabilities.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This course provides an essential foundation upon which to build a drama-in-education practice. It introduces students to many drama-in-education strategies; critiques the educational rationale which supports them; and analyzes the process of structuring drama work as a medium for learning across the curriculum and beyond. Students will gain practical hands-on experience of working with young people (from the CAT Youth Theatre) using the main dramatic conventions of the drama-in-education canon; they will experiment with ways in which to sequence these conventions; and will become critically acquainted with the pedagogical principles which delineate the teaching terrain of the drama-in-education practitioner. Students will be required to read a prescribed text, keep a journal, and write a sequence of session plans.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

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

This course focuses on practices for elementary school world language classrooms in light of the ACTFL National Foreign Language Standards, child development and cognitive stages. Through discussion, practice and development of thematic units, participants become familiar with curriculum, lesson planning, instruction and assessment. Multiple modes of learning, methods, instructional strategies, language and literacy development, and resources for teaching world languages to elementary school children are addressed.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

The first method course for world language education majors. Course contents include guiding principles and methodology in a variety of approaches to the teaching of world languages, specifically in developing auditory comprehension and oral production; teaching, reading and writing, impact of culture; heritage, socioeconomic level, and educational background on language and literacy development as well as human development processes and variations. Also included are skills in motivation, communication, and classroom management.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This course explores how approaches to teaching writing and supporting developing
writers can and should evolve in order to keep pace with evolving technologies such as AI and social media. Students investigate what it means to cultivate writers’
understanding of linguistic resources for writing, as well as their critical awareness of the institutional and political power of discourse norms. Through a workshop approach, students further develop their own writing as a way to understand the application of designs for learning and instruction.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Explores multiple materials & methods - including technology - for involving students in purposeful reading, writing, speaking & listening. Considers innovative approaches for organizing the classroom to address a range of abilities & disabilities & diverse cultural perspectives. Emphasizes the process whereby individual talent contributes to the building of democratic communities. Develops the capacity for formal & informal assessment of literacy development over time.

• 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

Introduction to foods from various nationality groups through lectures, demonstrations, and field trips.

• Department: Nutrition and Food Studies

This course prepared clinicians in art therapy to perform as supervisors of students and less experienced art therapists. Methods and theoretical issues are examined. Class participation includes a close study of case examples from students' experience.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

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