Courses

• SED DE 577: Instructional Strategies and the Deaf Child
  Advanced course designed to provide students with strategies for adapting previously studied curriculum design, innovation, construction, and evaluation procedures. Students adapt and develop materials for teaching reading, mathematics, and other content areas for preschool and elementary-age Deaf children with respect to the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks. 4 cr.
• SED DE 578: Lit Skl Def Chd
  
• SED DE 590: American Sign Language III
  Intermediate course designed for students who have completed a minimum of ASL I and ASL II. Offers a more in-depth discussion of the principles of American Sign Language. Emphasizes receptive and expressive skills. Presents further exposure to more sophisticated dialogue. Prereq: SED DE 571. 4 cr.
• SED DE 591: American Sign Language IV
  In-depth discussion of principles of American Sign Language (ASL). Emphasizes expressive skills. Provides exposure to discourse processes in ASL. Prereq: SED DE 590. 4 cr.
• SED DE 592: American Sign Language V: Academic Language
  Open to teachers and others who have completed two years of ASL or are considered advanced in ASL. Focus is on learning how to translate educational concepts commonly found in content classes such as history, the sciences, mathematics, and literature. How to find common signs for historical figures, creating signs for concepts according to ASL principles, etc. 2 cr.
• SED DE 672: American Sign Language Structure
  Graduate Prerequisites: SED DE 571. Structural linguistic study of specific aspects of phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexicology in ASL. Concepts of language variation, dialect, creolization, and bilingualism. 4 cr.
• SED DE 678: Practicum/Practicum Equivalent: Student-Teaching
  Classroom instruction in either a residential or a day school/day class program (totaling 300 hours). Students are placed with master teachers in a self-contained, resource room, and/or itinerant settings. Prerequisites: SED LS 565; SED DE 571; SED LS 566. Instructor permission. Var cr.
• SED DE 690: Seminar: Practicum
  Designed to provide opportunities to discuss topics relevant to student teaching with Deaf children. Primary focus is on (a) the role of ASL in content areas in addition and (b) the use of effective teaching strategies. (Must also be enrolled in DE 678). Var cr.
• SED DE 691: Advanced Seminar: Learning and the Deaf
  Examination of the current research on a topic pertinent to learning in Deaf children. The goal is to develop a more in depth understanding of research in learning and the Deaf. 2 cr.
• SED DE 693: American Sign Language 6
  Focus on academic ASL in the bilingual teaching of content areas (English, Language Arts, History, Mathematics, Science) paying special attention to concepts vocabulary and terminology that commonly appear in the content areas. 4 cr.
• SED DS 502: Introduction to Adolescent Development
  Develops important understandings of cognitive, social-emotional, and identity developing during adolescence, as well as the role that educators can play in fostering the mindsets, skillsets, character strengths and contexts that adolescents need to grow into healthy and high-performing adults. 2 cr. This course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Social Inquiry I.
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• SED DS 504: Adolescent Development
  Overview of diverse development theories of preadolescence, adolescence, and young adult development. Cognitive, sociomoral, personal, and identity development are examined as well as physical, motor, and fitness development. 3 cr.
• SED DS 600: Culture, Ethnicity and Race: A developmental approach
  Cultural and racial-ethic differences in development and how these differences translate into counseling practices. We consider several topics including: communication, child-rearing, cognitive development, and schooling. 4 cr.
• SED DS 700: Advanced Seminar in Sport and Exercise Psychology
  Emphasis on theory, research, and applied aspects of contemporary sport and exercise psychology. Students develop a research project that involves conceptualizing a problem statement, designing a study, and collecting and analyzing data. 4 cr.
• SED EC 206: Jumpstart: Preschool Service Learning
  This course is designed to provide background information about preschoolers' development, with a focus on literacy and social development. Successful interventions in preschool classrooms. The course also provides information about the overall context of the achievement gap and related issues. Open to Jumpstart corps members only. 2 cr.
• SED EC 305: Child Development and Early Childhood Education
  Analyzes selected aspects of development in young children from birth to middle childhood. Includes both descriptive information (milestones) and theory (processes accounting for development) and stresses application of these to early education. Prereq: CAS PS101. 4 cr.
• SED EC 350: Introduction to Early Childhood Education
  Presents key topics in early childhood education so that students establish basic understandings of the field, including: historical foundations, role of the teacher, nature of the young child and the role of play in early education. This course is designed for students who are majors in Early Childhood Education, or are considering this field of study. 2 or 4 cr.
• SED EC 405: Preschool Curriculum and Fieldwork
  Supervised teaching of 2.93-to-5-year-olds. Emphasis on applying knowledge of development and child observation skills to planning curriculum, guiding behavior, arranging a classroom environment, and adapting teaching to special learners, including English language learners, in a play-based setting. Fldwk w/ seminar. Instructor permission required. 8 cr.
• SED EC 453: Early Childhood Practicum K
  Develops competency in reading and language skills, social studies and science education, basic elements of curriculum design, and the institutional policies and practices of early childhood education. Includes 100 hours of supervised student teaching in a public school kindergarten classroom. Fldwk w/ seminar. Instructor permission required. 8 cr.
• SED EC 506: Current Issues & Early Childhood Education
  Topics pertinent to current educational issues and practices concerning Early Childhood Education. Policy, pedagogical practices, and educational philosophies are among the topics. Course focus varies in response to opportunities such as exhibits and prominent changes in educational research. 2cr.

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