Courses

• 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 521: Introduction to STEM Education Theory and Practice
  This course provides an introduction to modern learning theory emphasizing inquiry learning in the classroom for science, engineering and mathematics. 2cr, either 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 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.
• SED SE 502: Behavioral and Emotional Problems: Characteristics and Methods
  Behavior disorders of children and youths in educational, clinical, and social settings. Development and implementation of strategies for children and youths with emotional and behavioral problems. Parent counseling, precision teaching and other strategies. 4cr, 2nd sem.
• SED SE 503: Learning Disabilities: Characteristics and Methods
  Theoretical and applied aspects of physiological, social, and educational processes in children with learning disabilities. Includes uses of assessment through observation, recording, and analysis using criterion-referenced and norm-referenced tests, and development and implementation strategies. 4cr, 1st sem.
• SED SE 504: An Introduction to Early Childhood Disabilities
  Introduction to etiology, history, service delivery models, and issues and trends relating to young children with needs and individuals of all ages with disabilities. 2cr, 1st sem.
• SED SE 505: An Introduction to Severe Disabilities
  Introduction to etiology, history, service delivery models, and issues and trends related to individuals with severe disabilities. 2cr, 1st sem.
• SED SE 507: Early Childhood Disabilities/Severe Disabilities: Assessment and Instructional Planning
  Planning, implementation, and evaluation of education programs for individuals with early childhood disabilities and severe disabilities. Includes instructional goal setting, assessment, implementation strategies, and methods for evaluating instructional effectiveness. 4cr, 1st sem.
• SED SE 508: Early Childhood Disabilities/Sever Disabilities: Curriculum and Methods
  Content and methods for teaching young children with special needs and students of all ages with severe handicapping conditions. Includes strategies for facilitating development in motor, communication, social, pre-academic, self-care, vocational, and recreational domains. 4cr, 2nd sem.
• SED SE 510: Special Education: Curriculum and Instruction
  Principles of curriculum and instruction for students with disabilities educated in regular classroom settings. Studies in typical and atypical human development. Introduction to resources appropriate to the instruction of children with special needs. 2cr, either sem, Summer 1

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