Courses

This course covers multiple aspects of fine arts education in elementary education including the use of content, functions, and achievements of the performing arts (dance, music, theatre) and visual arts as primary media for communication, inquiry, and engagement among elementary students.

This course is designed to help students develop the skills required to coach and direct student actors, focusing on best practices in teaching the fundamentals of directing, including various assessment rubrics and adapting activities to different age groups. The course emphasizes learning by doing.

This Course provides the student with a complete understanding and utilization of the knowledge and skills needed to teach theatre in early education settings.

Course provides the student with a complete understanding and utilization of the knowledge and skills needed to teach theatre at the secondary school level.

This course prepares teachers to make classroom and instructional accommodations to meet the needs of the bilingual child. It also addresses facilitating home-school partnerships with families of bilingual children.

Problems of the disadvantaged adult with emphasis on the unique sociological, psychological, and physiological factors that influence learning and participation in remedial learning activities.

Examines special education laws and methodology used in teaching special education students. Focus is primarily on those students with mild learning disabilities. Also examines requirements needed in the regular classroom for special teachers. Intensive field experience required.

Focuses on the individual differences and modifications that are necessary in the educational practices of the exceptional learner. Incorporates an additional 10-hour 0-credit, pre-professional, supervised, field-based experience. Together with this experience, a portfolio and field experience reflective journal are required of all students.

Focuses on learners with exceptionalities with emphasis on factors relating to current practices, identification, characteristics, and educational adaptations in special education preschool to 21 (P-21). Course topics include issues related to mild disabilities, severe disabilities, emotional and behavioral disorders, intellectual disabilities, and gifted and talented.

Focuses on learners with exceptionalities with emphasis on factors relating to current practices, identification, characteristics, and educational adaptations in special education preschool to 21 (P-21). Course topics include issues related to mild disabilities, severe disabilities, emotional and behavioral disorders, intellectual disabilities, and gifted and talented.