Courses

This course introduces students to the basic analytical and evaluative tools of political science through an examination of particular controversies. Each section will focus on a current controversy such as life and death (abortion, the death penalty, etc.), minority rights (affirmative action, homosexual marriage, etc.), and religion and politics, and then explore the wider and more general issues it entails.

Investigation of consumer problems of individuals and families.

An examination of curriculum development and assessment for classroom teaching designed to integrate New York State Learning Standards and required testing, such as the Regents exams, into the curriculum. The course builds on the fundamental pedagogical content knowledge in specific disciplines in SEYS 360. Taught in tandem with the student teaching experience to enrich the student teacher’s understanding of curriculum and assessment issues within a working classroom.

An examination of curriculum development and assessment for classroom teaching designed to integrate New York State Learning Standards and required testing, such as the Regents exams, into the curriculum. The course builds on the fundamental pedagogical content knowledge in specific disciplines in SEYS 361. Taught in tandem with the student teaching experience to enrich the student teacher’s understanding of curriculum and assessment issues within a working classroom.

An examination of curriculum development and assessment for classroom teaching designed to integrate New York State Learning Standards and required testing, such as the Regents exams, into the curriculum. The course builds on the fundamental pedagogical content knowledge in specific disciplines in SEYS 363W. Taught in tandem with the student teaching experience to enrich the student teacher’s understanding of curriculum and assessment issues within a working classroom.

An examination of curriculum development and assessment for classroom teaching designed to integrate New York State Learning Standards and required testing, such as the Regents exams, into the curriculum. The course builds on the fundamental pedagogical content knowledge in specific disciplines in SEYS 364. Taught in tandem with the student teaching experience to enrich the student teacher’s understanding of curriculum and assessment issues within a working classroom.

This course examines developmental, critical, and learning theories on how children between 0 and 6 years grow and learn as individuals in response to the environmental climate and design of early organized care and formal educational experiences away from home, including childcare, preschool, pre-kindergarten, and kindergarten.

This course focuses on pedagogical and instructional issues in planning and implementing a developmentally appropriate curriculum in preschool, pre- kindergarten, and kindergarten classrooms through the lens of culturally responsive and sustaining pedagogy.

Dada and Surrealist art and literature from their origins in World War I to their interwar flowering and later influence. These two movements radicalized our modern understanding of painting, sculpture, collage, photography, and film, and paved the way for many subsequent developments down to Postmodernism. The course traces their philosophical and theoretical sources in idealism, materialism, and psychoanalysis.

Courses in selected areas of dance