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 CL 350: Role of the Child Life Specialist
  Explores ways in which Child Life Specialists developmentally serve children across the life span and from diverse cultural environments. Focuses on the child and family's responses to medical care and the philosophy of family- centered care. Students complete a minimum of 100-hour semester long child life practicum in a health care setting. 4 cr
• SED CL 421: Child Life Methods and Materials
  Explores relationships between child life play activities and child development theories, stressing the acquisition of practical skills needed for child life programming. 4 cr
• SED CL 500: Directed Study
  
• SED CL 520: Child Development and Family in Healthcare
  Introduces research and literature on the psychosocial needs of children and families in health care settings. Focuses on theories of development, play, preparation, coping and delivery of family-centered care in the context of health care. 4 cr
• SED CL 521: Methods and Materials in Child Life
  Explores relationships between child life play activities and child development theories, stressing the acquisition of practical skills needed for child life programming. 4 cr
• SED CL 522: Clinical Issues in Child Development and Child Life
  Provides skills to plan, implement, document, and assess developmentally appropriate child life interventions including coping with medical procedures, family-centered care, ethics, expressive activities, crisis intervention, and pain management. 4 cr
• SED CL 523: Clinical Internship and Seminar I (400 hr)
  Provides a 400-hour internship opportunity under the direct supervision of a certified Child Life Specialist in a hospital setting with focus on developing skills based on the Child Life Competencies. Students participate in weekly process seminar at the college. 8 cr
• SED CL 540: Student-Teaching Practicum: Latin and Classical Studies, 5-12
  Student-teaching under the joint supervision of a cooperating practitioner and a University supervisor. Minimum 300 hours required for initial licensure, 8 cr; for those also enrolling in SED CL 700, minimum of 150 hours required. Open only to matriculated graduate students who have completed prerequisites. 4cr, 2nd sem.
• SED CL 620: Child Life Program Development
  Provides skills to plan, implement, document, and assess Child Life program objectives and strategic planning, including child health systems, alternative settings, grant writing, professional presentations, group dynamics, interdisciplinary collaboration, and supervision. 4 cr
• SED CL 621: Clinical Internship and Seminar II (200 hr)
  Provides a 200-hour internship opportunity under the direct supervision of a certified Child Life Specialist in a community, outpatient, or primary care setting with a focus on developing skills based on the Child Life Competencies. 4 cr
• SED CL 632: Child Fam Hlth
  
• SED CL 670: Clinical Issues
  
• SED CL 671: 400 Hr Intrnshp
  
• SED CL 673: 200 Hr Intrnshp
  
• SED CL 770: Program Devlmnt
  
• SED CL 900: Independent Std
  
• SED CS 614: Prac/Sem B-3
  
• SED CS 650: B-3 Portfolio
  
• SED CT 375: Pre-Practicum in Secondary Schools
  Pre-practicum experience that engages students in observing and assisting in middle and/or high school classrooms. 2cr. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Teamwork/Collaboration.
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  • Teamwork/Collaboration
• SED CT 500: Directed Study
  Prereq: Approval of advisor. Signed plan of study must be submitted in advance of registration on a Directed study form obtained from the SED Office of Records. Student initiated directed study to be completed with faculty member. Var cr.

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