Courses

The listing of a course description here does not guarantee a course’s being offered in a particular semester. Please refer to the published schedule of classes on the Student Link for confirmation a class is actually being taught and for specific course meeting dates and times.

• SED CF 240: Helping Children Cope with Grief and Loss
  Explores developmental understandings of death and how children cope with grief and loss. Prepares students to help children with life-threatening conditions and to facilitate the bereavement needs of children who experience the death of a sibling, parent, relative, or friend. 4 cr
• SED CF 340: Intro Hum Serv
  
• SED CF 504: Assess Dev B-3
  
• SED CF 510: Child and Adolescent Mental Health
  Provides an introduction to psychopathology. 4 cr
• SED CF 617: Bereavement Care
  Examines theories about loss and bereavement and individual responses to various types of losses. Prepares students to provide bereavement interventions for individuals and groups. 4 cr
• SED CF 618: Iss Ch & Fam St
  
• SED CF 632: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Grief
  Examines cultural/global responses to illness and death including beliefs about death, religious rituals, and care of the bereaved in the community. 4 cr
• SED CF 737: Working with Parents
  Examines principles for organizing individual and group parenting education that builds on parental knowledge and responds to parental needs. Examines supportive, therapeutic, and educational models, materials, and resources. Develops communication skills and leadership capacities to work with parents in school, healthcare, family support, and home settings. 4 cr
• SED CH 300: Methods of Instruction: Elementary 1-6
  Develops pre-service teachers' understandings of the content and methods of instruction in the language arts, social studies, and science. The course focuses on elements of curriculum design; teaching strategies, and institutional policies and practices at the elementary level. Attention is given to providing effective instruction across the curriculum to culturally and linguistically diverse learners. Instructor permission required. Seminar with fieldwork. 10 cr.
• SED CH 515: Curriculum Methods, 1-6
  Examines theories of and develops specific competencies in reading and language arts, social studies and science education; general teaching strategies; basic elements of curriculum design; and institutional policies and practices of elementary education. Develops competency in providing effective instruction across the curriculum to culturally and linguistically diverse learners. Includes application of these competencies in field settings. Application of these competencies in field settings. Instructor permission required. Seminar with fieldwork. 10 cr.
• SED CH 516: Elem Ela Method
  
• SED CH 517: Elem Sci Method
  
• SED CH 518: Elem Soc Method
  
• SED CH 553: Erly Chld St/Tc
  
• SED CH 555: Student-Teaching Practicum: Elementary 1-6
  Supervised student teaching in a classroom for grades 1-6. Includes curriculum development, methods of instruction, and evaluation of the learner. Open only to degree candidates who have completed CH300. Fldwk w/ seminar. 10 cr.
• SED CH 655: Student-Teaching Practicum: Elementary 1-6
  Supervised student teaching in a classroom for grades 1-6. Includes curriculum development, methods of instruction, and evaluation of the learner. Open only to degree candidates who have completed CH515. Fldwk w/ seminar. 8 cr.
• SED CL 210: Child and Family Health Systems
  Introduces students to the history and development of the U.S. health care system from a family-centered care perspective, including identification of the organizations and professional disciplines serving children and their families. Focuses on the psychosocial, financial and emotional costs of health care and introduces students to the profession of Child Life. 4 cr
• SED CL 225: Child SP Hlthcr
  
• SED CL 255: Children with Specialized Healthcare Needs
  Examines the impact of acute and chronic illness on development of children with special healthcare needs. Studies neurological, genetic, metabolic, orthopedic, and developmental disorders of children with special healthcare needs. 4 cr
• SED CL 257: Family Centered Healthcare
  Examines the values, attitudes, and approaches of family-centered care for pediatric patients. Studies quality and innovation in family-centered policy, programs, practice, and design. Students will learn the essential elements of building partnerships among physicians, staff, patients and families to create a mutually beneficial outcome. 4 cr

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