Elective Course Offerings
SUMMER 2012
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The non-workshop courses listed below are pre-approved by the Director of Graduate Studies for elective credit in the Curriculum and Instruction Masters Degree offered through the Community of Learning Delivery Model.
H0 indicates course will have some face-to-face meetings with an online component.
W0 indicates course is conducted entirely online.
CSL 688W0 - Crisis Intervention Counseling (2) This course will identify the immediate and long-term impact of crises, disasters, and trauma on individuals and organizations. The principles of risk assessment and management, crisis intervention, and the role of the counselor in emergency management teams will be described. Guidelines for professional, school, and community responses to suicidal threats and completions, violence, bereavement, substance abuse crises, and other trauma will be emphasized. Self-care strategies for counselors working with trauma and crises will also be explored.
EDU 59602 - APL Level 1 Instructional Skills (3) In this course, students will examine and apply researched-based instructional and organizational strategies featured in APL Associates Level I Instructional Skills Training. This content of this course is developed in partnership with and approved by APL Associates of Camillus, New York.
PED 631W0 – Seminar in Sports Management (3) This course will cover the following topics: sport ethics, sport journalism, sport accounting and practices, sport management computer applications, personal selling, funding strategies, public and media relations.
EDU 567W0 & W1 - Human Relations (3) This course provides a critical examination of community and its relationship to the well-being of individuals and groups. Building on students’ experience of differences in learning and culture, course activities will help students develop observation and communication skills, and understand the types of professional relationships that sustain diverse groups in school and community. The course establishes a base of human relations that significantly influence the learning of teaching methods in students’ specialty areas. This course is required and approved by the Nebraska Department of Education for meeting Nebraska certification requirements.
June
BUS 621W0 – Seminar in Business Education Instruction (3) A study of the methods used in teaching courses in the basic business and office occupations/technology areas. Course activities include evaluation and development of teaching materials, study of various teaching methodologies, student/teacher presentations, and discussions of instructional issues in the field of Business Education.
CED 650H0 - Curriculum Development in Career/Technical Education (3) Professional development for educators in the disciplines of Vocational Agriculture, Business and Marketing Education, Cooperative Education, Family & Consumer Science, Guidance & Counseling, Health Occupations, and Industrial Technology Education. A “hybrid” course requiring mandatory registration/attendance at the Nebraska Career Education (NCE) Conference in Kearney, NE. The follow-up online component focuses on current issues, trends and curriculum development in Career and Technical Education, with required participation in online chats and discussion boards. May be repeated one time for an additional three hours of credit.
EDU 56701 & T1 - Human Relations (3) This course originates in Wayne and is Distance Ed at the South Sioux College Center. This course provides a critical examination of community and its relationship to the well-being of individuals and groups. Building on students’ experience of differences in learning and culture, course activities will help students develop observation and communication skills, and understand the types of professional relationships that sustain diverse groups in school and community. The course establishes a base of human relations that significantly influence the learning of teaching methods in students’ specialty areas. This course is required and approved by the Nebraska Department of Education for meeting Nebraska certification requirements
EDU 604W0 - Communication/Language Arts for Children (3) A course designed to enhance instruction and assessment of elementary students’ communication skills to include reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Special emphasis will focus on how messages are facilitated in the classroom through the teacher and students, media and informational technologies.
EDU 614W0 - Mathematical Reasoning and Problem Solving for Children (3) A course designed to enhance instruction and assessment of elementary students understanding of mathematics in a technological society as defined in the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics curriculum, assessment and professional standards documents.
EDU 636W0 - Introduction to Alternative Education (3) This course is an introduction and overview of alternative education in America and provides specific information about at-risk youth: identification and characteristics as well as historical, economic, social and political aspects of alternative education. Plans, programs, and alternative schools will be reviewed. Overall, this course provides experienced teachers with knowledge and skills, needed for the identification of at-risk youth, program planning, and implementation. Each student will be required to develop a local plan of action to identify and assist at-risk youth.
EDU 650W0 – Research Design (3) A course designed to develop knowledge of research, research skills and practical utilization of research information. Graduate students will be expected to use technology effectively and efficiently for any of the following purposes: to conduct literature reviews, to formulate research problems, to develop proposals, to participate in active research problems, and/or to understand and apply basic research tools of both quantitative and qualitative analyses. Research Design has a variable prefix (EDU, ENG, HIS, etc.). Depending on the prefix, the course will be taught by content or education faculty members.
EDU 682W0 - Developing and Integrating Computer Applications in the Classroom (3) Prerequisite: EDU 609 or demonstration of comparable computer proficiency. This is an advanced course in which students will use computers and multimedia applications to develop professional-level classroom presentations and interactive teaching/learning projects. This course is also designed to help participants integrate instructional principles and assessment practices with the use of computers and related technology in the classroom. This course will also touch on distance learning, as well as various electronic communication technologies as educational tools. Students will develop a broader understanding of computer-assisted instruction and assessment and design instructional units that utilize technology in the curriculum of one’s subject area(s) or grade level(s).
EDU 696W0 - Foundations of Literacy (3) The philosophy, history, and components including by not limited to phonics, comprehension, writing, and diverse learners of Pre K-12 literacy.
EDU 696W1 - Practicum Ethics for Educators (3) This course is about the application of ethics to teaching. We will explore various issues that commonly present problems to teachers and others who work in schools. Study will be devoted less to the academic study of ethics and more to the practical application of ethical thinking in the school setting. Case studies will be used along with selected readings.
FCS 520W0 – Infants/Toddlers through Primary Children Birth-8 (4) Study of the processes of human
growth and development from birth through age 8 as determined by heredity, society, and human
interaction. The course will examine physical, social, emotional, cognitive (intellectual), language (communication), and creative development.
ITE 596W0 – Special Course/Computer Aided Design (3) no description for special courses
MUS 496H0 or 596H0 - Special Course/Choral Methods and Materials (3) no description for special
courses.
PED 671W0 – Recent Literature and Research in Education and HHPS (3) Review of pertinent literature
in selected areas to include topics in education, physical education, exercise science, sport
management, and other relevant disciplines areas to include topics in education, physical education, exercise science, sport management, and other relevant disciplines.
CSL 547W0 - Multicultural Counseling (3) This course explores the special issues involved in working with clients and students who are impacted by cultural influences of minority groups in America. Special counseling techniques and adaptations of traditional counseling approaches when working with diverse cultural groups will be studied.
EDU 59601 - Teachers Inquiring, Exploring, & Growing (3) Students will focus on improving their writing skills as educators. Students will complete a survey at the beginning of class that will direct their individualized and small group instruction for the remainder of the course. Students and instructor will complete a contract that outlines the goals and projects for the class. Topics may include genre, audience, clarity, academic discourse, revision, and grammar.
EDU 696H0 - Projects in Literacy (3) This course provides an opportunity for the student to develop knowledge of the Writing Traits. Application of what was learned will be experienced when the student assesses the writing work of students from different ages and grade levels. Meets July 9 + TBA
EDU 696W2 - STEM K-12 Teacher (Science, Technology, Education, and Math) (3) Class goal is to provide opportunities for participants to increase their expertise in planning and implementing experiences to awaken student's curiosity and challenge them to develop analytical and critical thinking skills related to scientific, technological, engineering, and mathematical ideas and processes to satiate their curiosity with explanations, solutions and applications related to challenging ideas.
Refer to Summer 2012 Regional Course Schedule for ESL courses in South Sioux City and Wayne
For further information, contact Lisa Reynolds at 800-228-9972, ext. 7215, or email at lireyno1@wsc.edu
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