Courses

• SED RS 751: Program Evaluation
  Alternative approaches to evaluation; consideration of stakeholders; specification of multiple outcomes; program monitoring; formative and summative designs; practical guidelines for planning, conducting, reporting, and using evaluations; role of the evaluator; necessary skills; political, ethical, and interpersonal aspects. Applicable to curricular interventions, training programs, social action projects, social policies. Case studies and student proposals are critiqued in seminar. Requires some pilot testing. 4cr, 1st sem.
• SED RS 752: Seminar in Qualitative Research
  Designed for advanced doctoral students who are analyzing and/or interpreting qualitative data to work with other students under the direction of a faculty member. Students in the course will give presentations of their ongoing work, which will be subject to feedback form the entire semester. 4cr, 2nd sem.
• SED SC 507: Student-Teaching Half Practicum: Science, 5-8
  Minimum 150 hours required. Open only to matriculated graduate students who have completed prerequisites. For description, see SED SC 509. 4cr, 2nd sem.
• SED SC 509: Student-Teaching Practicum: Science, 5-8
  Student teaching: a full-time experience in a selected school under joint supervision of a cooperating practitioner and a University representative. Minimum 300 hours required. 8cr, 2nd sem.
• SED SC 510: Student-Teaching Practicum: Science, 8-12
  Student teaching: a full-time experience in a selected secondary school under joint supervision of a cooperating practitioner and a University representative. Minimum 300 hours required. 8cr, 2nd sem.
• SED SC 511: Selection, Curation, and Use of Biological Materials
  Develops teacher competence in selecting, culturing, and using living organisms in a classroom setting. A content-based, intensive analysis of teaching methods. 4cr, 1st sem.
• SED SC 513: Field Studies: Science
  Principles of ecology and geology in a field setting. Emphasis on activities useful for teaching environmental science. Chemical, physical, and biological factors influencing the interrelationship of plants and animals. Field trips, individual project, and laboratory discussion. Variable cr, either sem.
• SED SC 539: Explaining Science: a Philosophical Perspective
  An analysis of science from a philosophical and historial perspective. What distinguishes scientific knowing? What vision has science given us of the universe and humanity's place within it? And how can answers to such questions inform the presentation of science to students and other non-scientists? 4cr, 2nd sem.
• SED SC 571: Science Materials: Principles, Design, and Construction
  Examination of laboratory and display production form science geared toward those studying to become physics or chemistry teachers. A content-based methods course involving work in wood, metal, glass, and electronics. 4cr, 1st sem.
• SED SC 572: Curriculum and Special Methods for Science Education, 5-12
  Review of traditional and recent curriculum materials in science education for middle, junior high, and senior high schools. Analysis of curricular goals, grades 5-12. Development of new teaching materials and classroom techniques for science education. 4cr, 2nd sem.
• SED SC 595: Laboratory Learning in Life Sciences
  Course integrated academic content in basic biology, with instruction in how to learn in laboratory settings, includes analysis preparation, adjusting to variations in experiments, devising suitable pedagogy, and on-suite instructional strategies. Emphasizes student's reflective inquiry. 2cr, either sem.
• SED SC 624: Computer Applications in the High School Science Curriculum
  Development of strategies and curriculum materials which utilize the computer in the teaching of advanced topics and research activities in high school science. Laboratory experiments, data analysis, and computer simulations by research teams in cooperative learning environments, modeling desired classroom strategies. 4cr, Summer Term.
• SED SC 851: Seminar: Science Education
  Analysis of historic and current research on aspects of science education. For doctoral students only. 4cr.
• SED SE 250: Disability, Education, and Public Policy
  Relationships of disability to individual, educational, social, legal, and family structures and processes. Overview of educational structures, processes, and collaboration of regular and special education. Issues of social class, equity, discrimination, institutionalization, and normalization. Family-agency relationships. 4cr, either sem.
• SED SE 251: Special Education and Adolescents
  Educational needs, practices, regulations, and issues in educating adolescents with identified special educational needs. This course is designed for teachers in middle and high school. Emphasis is placed on collaboration with special educators. 2cr, either sem.
• SED SE 315: Field Experience: Special Education: Severe Disabilities
  Designed to provide opportunities for observation and participation with students having disabilities and enrolled in special education programs. 2cr, either sem.
• SED SE 316: Field Work in Special Education: Severe Disabilities
  A second fieldwork course is designed to provide opportunities for undergraduate students for observation and participation with students having severe disabilities and enrolled in special education programs. 2cr, either sem.
• SED SE 401: Special Education: Cognition and Learning
  Not open to students who have taken either SED SE 501 or SE 503. An examination of special education populations through selected topics of learning, cognition, and development. The emphasis will be on persons with "cognitive problems", including groups identified as having learning disabilities, intellectual impairments, and developmental disabilities. 4cr, 1st sem.
• SED SE 480: Teaching Students with Special Needs
  Focuses on methods for teaching students with special needs, including informal assessment, instructional planning, curriculum evaluation and modification, and classroom organization and management. 4cr, 2nd sem.
• SED SE 493: Practicum in Disabilities Studies
  Students are involved in practicum experiences in human services agencies serving individuals with disabilities. Concurrent seminars discuss the nature and processes of service provision, roles and responsibilities, and collaboration. Students work for a minimum of 150 hours in agency for 4cr, and 300 hours for 8cr, 2nd sem.

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