Courses

240 hrs., 3–4 periods of daily participation or its equivalent for 15 weeks in a 7–12th grade setting. The course provides undergraduate students in the Art Education program with school-based teaching experience that prepares them to teach at the 7–12th grade level. Students are expected to prepare lesson plans and update and maintain student teaching portfolios.

Students will engage in a variety of field-based experiences, designed to foster their overall socio-pedagogical growth in early childhood classrooms. Students will investigate a wide range of educational theories and practices grounded in highly impactful early childhood pedagogical approaches. Students are required to do a minimum of 35 days of student teaching, all of which will occur in early childhood classrooms.

Students will engage in a variety of field-based experiences, designed to foster their overall socio-pedagogical growth in elementary (grades 1-6) classrooms. Students will investigate a wide range of educational theories and practices grounded in highly impactful childhood pedagogical approaches. Students are required to do a minimum of 55 days of student teaching, all of which will occur in elementary (grades 1-6) classrooms.

Selected topics in American intellectual and social history will be explored historically. The cultural connections between ideas and society will be examined. May be repeated once if topic is different.

This course focuses on the major ideas and selective thinkers of European history in specific periods within the broad range from the twentieth century, e.g., Renaissance humanism, the Enlightenment, nineteenth-century liberalism, socialism, and feminism. May be repeated once if topic is different.

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The topic of the course, announced in advance, varies each semester. The course may be taken for credit more than once if the topic is different.

Studies specific works and narrative techniques in Italian prose represented by Boccaccio and the Italian novella.

Focuses on specific works and poetics of medieval Italian poetry represented by Petrarch and other early poets.

Cross-disciplinary study of authors and dominant themes in Greek literature and culture. The subject will be announced in advance. May be repeated for credit provided the topic changes. Taught either in Greek or in English as announced by the department.