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EDUC 516 - Teaching Social Studies, Grades 6-12
This course will analyze and evaluate methods, techniques, and problems of teaching the social studies on the secondary level. Students will explore and apply various teaching methods and techniques while in their professional internship.
Credit Hours: 2
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EDUC 517 - Teaching English, Grades 6-12
This course will analyze and evaluate the selection, development, organization of materials as related to the teaching of literature and language arts in secondary schools. Students will explore and apply various methods and techniques which are theoretically grounded and practically effective for teaching English to individuals, groups, and classrooms.
Credit Hours: 2
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EDUC 518 - Teaching Languages, Grades 6-12
This course will analyze and evaluate the selection, development, organization of materials as related to the teaching of foreign languages in secondary schools. Students will explore and apply various methods and techniques which are theoretically grounded and practically effective for teaching English to individuals, groups, and classrooms.
Credit Hours: 2
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EDUC 519 - Teaching Mathematics, Grades 6-12
This course explores and evaluates the major theories and practices of instruction in American secondary schools; aims, materials, teaching methods, learner activities, and evaluation procedures in the mathematics discipline; how these relate to the program of the school.
Credit Hours: 2
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EDUC 520 - Teaching Science, Grades 6-12
This course explores and evaluates the major theories and practices of instruction in American secondary schools; aims, materials, teaching methods, learner activities, and evaluation procedures in the science disciplines; how these relate to the program of the school.
Credit Hours: 2
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EDUC 554 - Early Childhood Methods: Numeracy and Literacy
This course explores effective methods and materials for teaching and promoting developmentally appropriate skills for young children.
Credit Hours: 2
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EDUC 561 - Multicultural Education
This course is designed to help students develop the strategies to be effective teaching professional in multicultural settings. They will evaluate current programs and will be encouraged to evaluate their own approaches to dealing with students from a variety of cultural backgrounds including ethnic, economic, religious and regional.
Credit Hours: 2
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EDUC 562 - Inclusion and Diversity in the Classroom
This course examines the contemporary classroom and the task of the teacher in facilitating the education of students with divergent abilities, needs, interests, as well as cultural and ethnic backgrounds. This course focuses on inclusion in accordance with the mandate from IDEA for the least restrictive environment. This course is required for M.Ed. programs.
Credit Hours: 3
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EDUC 563 - Assessment of Student Learning
This course addresses traditional and current trends in educational testing and measurement.
Credit Hours: 3
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EDUC 565 - Introduction to School Law
This is an introductory course which examines fundamental issues of law and ethics as they are applied to the teaching profession. Areas to be studied include educational structure and governance, church/state relations, students’ rights, teachers’ rights and responsibilities, as well as tort liability.
Credit Hours: 3
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EDUC 566 - Law and Ethics for School Guidance Counselors
This is an introductory course that examines fundamental issues of law and ethics as they are applied to professional school guidance counselors. Areas to be studied include educational structure and governance, negligence, special education, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, confidentiality, sexual harrassment, bullying, and child abuse.
Credit Hours: 3
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EDUC 568 - General Methods
Effective teaching research and practice will be presented in this course. This course is designed to equip students in the Master of Arts in Teaching program with the methods, skills and strategies for successful classroom teaching.
Credit Hours: 3
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EDUC 569 - Teaching Math, Science, and Social Studies in Elementary
Effective methods and materials for teaching math, science, and social studies in the elementary classroom will be presented in this course. Required for elementary and special education licensure.
Credit Hours: 3
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EDUC 570 - Current Issues and Strategies in Education
This course examines current and emerging instructional strategies, popular curricular approaches, and issues in education. Students will apply skills in critical thinking and creative problem solving as they examine a variety of current topics and evaluate the underlying assumptions of each.
Credit Hours: 3
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EDUC 571 - Arts Across the Curriculum
This course focuses on the multiple roles of the arts as languages of learning and methods for teaching in the multicultural and multilingual classroom.
Credit Hours: 3
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EDUC 572 - Middle Grades Foundations
This course is designed to give the prospective teacher an overview of the theoretical models of middle level education and to provide a broad overview of the historical, sociological, and philosophical foundations of the American education system. Students will explore preadolescent and young adolescent characteristics, middle grades teaching, student learning, and organizational characterisitics of a middle level school.
Credit Hours: 2
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EDUC 575 - Technology in the Classroom
An introduction to various technologies used in classrooms with emphasis on microcomputer-based systems.
Credit Hours: 1
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EDUC 576 - Multimedia Design and Production in Education
This course will comprehensively examine the multimedia production process as a tool for instructional presentations. It will introduce, analyze, and review the hardware and software products necessary for success in multimedia production in educational settings. A strong emphasis will be placed on a team approach in order to simulate the collaborative efforts necessary for success in the wider learning community.
Prerequisites
EDUC-575 or equivalent experience/competency.
Credit Hours: 3
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EDUC 580 - Teaching Reading Skills
This course is designed to provide graduate students with research based methods and materials for reading instruction, along with principles to help them choose among these options for their specific students and situations.
Credit Hours: 3
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EDUC 581 - Writing Across the Curriculum
This course will help professional teachers develop strategies for ways to use writing activities as a tool of learning within their specific classroom settings. Required for elementary licensure only.
Credit Hours: 2
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EDUC 582 - Teaching Reading in the Content Areas
This course is designed to provide graduate students with research based methods and materials for helping students in grades 6-12 read to learn in the content areas.
Credit Hours: 3
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EDUC 591 - Directed Research
This course enables the student to pursue topics of interest in greater depth than is done in the regular curriculum. The course may be repeated. The Pass/Fail grade scale will be used. Approval by the Director of Graduate Studies in Education is needed.
Credit Hours: 1
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EDUC 592 - Directed Research
This course enables the student to pursue topics of interest in greater depth than is done in the regular curriculum. The course may be repeated. The Pass/Fail grade scale will be used. Approval by the Director of Graduate Studies in Education is needed.
Credit Hours: 2
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EDUC 593 - Directed Research
This course enables the student to pursue topics of interest in greater depth than is done in the regular curriculum. The course may be repeated. The Pass/Fail grade scale will be used. Approval by the Director of Graduate Studies in Education is needed.
Credit Hours: 3
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EDUC 595 - Thesis Seminar
This course will provide the structure, the format, the support, and the encouragement for the student to complete the thesis and present it to colleagues.
Prerequisites
Passing of mid-program evaluation.
Credit Hours: 3
Notes
In some programs, the student may be able to select an approved elective in lieu of EDUC-595, but this varies depending on the degree program in which the student is enrolled. Students should work closely with the advisor or program director to ensure that they select the appropriate option for their individual program of study.
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EDUC 596 - Internship I
This internship will provide a broad, general perspective of an area school to the M.A.T. student. Interns will experience the multiple roles of the classroom teacher, as well as the organization and operation of the elementary, middle, or high school.
Credit Hours: 3
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EDUC 597 - Internship II
The internship will provide extensive instructional experiences to the M.A.T. student. The intern at this level will, under the direction of a cooperating teacher and principal, assume responsibility for instructional planning, implementation and evaluation.
Prerequisites
EDUC-568, and the appropriate specialty methods class depending upon licensure and discipline.
Credit Hours: 6
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EDUC 601 - Advanced Educational Research
In this course, students will critically engage educational research as an expression of the scientific method and reflect on this process as it relates to the educator’s role. Graduate students will be challenged to know and comprehend paradigms of educational research; apply and analyze, statistical methodologies in current and proposed research, and finally synthesize and evaluate professional contributions in research. These experiences should prepare the candidate to develop and critically assess professional teaching and learning activities and then reflect on the process in a paper suitable for professional publication.
Prerequisites
EDUC 501 or equivalent
Credit Hours: 3
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EDUC 675 - Multimedia Design and Production in Education
This course will comprehensively examine the multimedia production process as a tool for instructional presentations. It will introduce, analyze, and review the hardware and software products necessary for success in multimedia production in educational settings. A strong emphasis will be placed on a team approach in order to simulate the collaborative efforts necessary for success in the wider learning community.
Prerequisites
EDUC 575 or equivalent knowledge
Credit Hours: 3
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EDUC 683 - Instructional Leadership and Coaching
This core course will focus on that which makes a school successful. During the course of instruction, students will investigate the nature of instruction, curriculum, assessment, and professional development. A secondary focus will be on using assessment and professional development to improve measured outcomes. The course will also explore leadership, change, and school culture as tools in improving the quality of instruction.
Credit Hours: 3
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EDUC 684 - Curriculum Theory: Design and Assessment
This course examines historical approaches, current theories, types of planning, and acceptable evaluative techniques in regard to curriculum and curriculum development. Guidelines for the use of assessment data and implementation issues related to accountability will also be studied.
Credit Hours: 3
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EDUC 686 - Establishing and Maintaining Learning Communities
This course examines the ways to connect schools and the various publics served by them in both a macro and micro perspective. Connections between community institutions and their roles and responsibilities to the school and family will be explored through class lectures, video presentations, field trips, observations, guest speakers, group discussions, and group activities.
Credit Hours: 3
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EDUC 687 - Managing the Learning Environment
This course is designed for practicing professionals (regular and special educators, school psychologists and counselors) as well those in leadership roles who function as advisors to teachers who serve children and youth that present behavioral challenges in the school or community. Using a case study approach it will revisit the theoretical models of human behavior and examine ways to analyze, identify, change, and maintain positive behavior in the classroom or community. An emphasis will be placed on the student’s leadership role as reflective practitioner who, as an agent of change, can advise in the establishment of class and school wide policies to effectively manage the learning environment.
Credit Hours: 3
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ENGL 530 - Seminar: Appalachian Literature
This course will provide an overview of Appalachian history and culture, emphasizing the way in which the history of the region has impacted its art, music and literature, as well as the ways in which the culture of the Appalachian region has significantly affected Amercian culture.
Credit Hours: 3
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ECED 315 - Foundations of Early Childhood Education
A course designed to give the prospective teacher an overview of the theoretical models of early childhood education and to provide a broad overview of the historical, sociological and philosophical foundations of the American education system.
Prerequisites
EDUC-199 and EDUC-299, or MUED-225.
Credit Hours: 3
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ECED 342 - Observation and Assessment of Young Children
This course is designed to acquaint students with the basic assessment techniques appropriate for young children. Also covered are community and school resources instrumental in providing services and referrals.
Credit Hours: 3
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ECED 401 - Early Childhood Methods
Effective methods and materials for teaching in the preschool and kindergarten. This course is to be taken concurrently with ELED-402. An intensive practicum is an integral part of the methods block.
Prerequisites
Admission to the Teacher Education Program.
Credit Hours: 2
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ELED 340 - Principles of Classroom Instruction - Elementary
A course designed to introduce students to the methods, skills, and strategies they will need as they become effective teachers in elementary classrooms. The course unites theory and practice by using the instructional methods of classroom discussion, presentations and analysis of case studies. Co-requisite: READ371
Credit Hours: 2
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ELED 402 and 402L - Elementary Grades Methods and Lab
Effective methods and materials for teaching reading, writing, listening, speaking, science, math, and social studies in the elementary grades are included in this course. An intensive practicum is an integral part of the methods block.
Prerequisites
Admission to Teacher Education Program.
Credit Hours: 4, plus 1 credit-hr lab
Notes
Requires co-requisite enrollment in ELED-402L (Methods Lab) for 1 credit hr.
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ELED 418 - Methods of Teaching PE/Health K-6
This course is designed to equip teacher licensure candidates with the required methods, skills and strategies they need to become effective physical education / health teachers in the K - 6 classroom.
Prerequisites
Admission to Teacher Education Program.
Credit Hours: 2
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EDMG 315 - Foundations of Middle Grades Education
This course is designed to give the prospective teacher an overview of the theoretical models of middle level education and to provide a broad overview of the historical, sociological and philosophical foundations of the American education system. Students will explore preadolescent and young adolescent characteristics, middle grades teaching, student learning, and organizational characteristics of a middle level school. Twenty hours of tutoring or observations must be completed.
Prerequisites
EDUC-199 and EDUC-299.
Credit Hours: 3
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EDMG 340 - Principles of Classroom Instruction - Middle Grades
A course designed to introduce candidates to the knowledge of methods, skills, and strategies they will need as they become effective teachers in middle level classrooms. The course unites theory and practice by using the instructional methods of classroom discussion, presentations, and analysis of case studies.
Credit Hours: 2
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EDMG 403 - Middle Grades Methods
Effective methods and materials for teaching reading, writing, listening, speaking, science, math and social studies in the intermediate grades are included in this course. An intensive practicum is an integral part of the methods block.
Prerequisites
EDUC-315 or EDMG-315
Credit Hours: 2
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EDMG 406L - Middle Grades Methods Laboratory
This course is a co-requisite to the middle grades specialty methods courses. During the specialty methods courses, candidates will spend one-half day in each endorsement area applying the methods, skills, and strategies studies in the specialty methods courses in two middle grades classrooms.
Prerequisites
EDUC-315 or EDMG-315, and EDMG-340
Credit Hours: 1
Notes
Students enrolling in EDMG-406L must enroll concurrently in the two Middle Grades Specialty Methods courses appropriate for their endorsement areas.
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EDMG 412 - Middle Grades Social Studies Specialty Methods
This course focuses on effective methods, skills, strategies, and problems of teaching the social studies in the middle grades. Emphasis is placed on literacy skills and the integrative nature of the curriculum. Other key topics include using technology, changing demographics, integrative curriculum and instruction, and community service. Candidates apply various teaching methods, strategies, and techniques during the associated laboratory experience (EDMG-406L).
Prerequisites
EDUC-315 or EDMG-315, and EDMG-340.
Credit Hours: 2
Notes
Requires co-requisite enrollment in EDMG-406L (Middle Grades Methods Laboratory).
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EDMG 413 - Middle Grades English/Language Arts Specialty Methods
This course focuses on effective methods, skills, strategies, and problems of teaching English/language arts in the middle grades. Emphasis is placed on developing reading and writing skills and the integrative nature of the curriculum. Candidates apply various teaching methods, strategies, and techniques during the associated laboratory experience (EDMG-406L).
Prerequisites
EDUC-315 or EDMG-315, and EDMG-340
Credit Hours: 2
Notes
Requires co-requisite enrollment in EDMG-406L (Middle Grades Methods Laboratory).
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EDMG 415 - Middle Grades Mathematics Specialty Methods
This course focuses on effective methods, skills, strategies, and problems of teaching mathematics in the middle grades. Emphasis is placed on developing mathematical problems, task analysis, learner activities, evaluation procedures, literacy, and the integrative nature of the curriculum. Candidates apply various teaching methods, strategies, and techniques during the associated laboratory experience (EDMG-406L).
Prerequisites
EDUC-315 or EDMG-315, and EDMG-340
Credit Hours: 2
Notes
Requires co-requisite enrollment in EDMG-406L (Middle Grades Methods Laboratory).
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EDMG 416 - Middle Grades Science Specialty Methods
This course focuses on effective instructional strategies for teaching principles associated with the middle school science disciplines. Evidence is placed on planning, science process skills, inquiry-based instruction, hands-on/minds-on activities, improvising materials, demonstrations, assessment technigues, literacy across the curriculum, and the integrative nature of the curriculum. Candidates apply various teaching methods, strategies, and techniques during the associated laboratory experience (EDMG-406L).
Prerequisites
EDUC-315 or EDMG-315, and EDMG-340
Credit Hours: 2
Notes
Requires co-requisite enrollment in EDMG-406L (Middle Grades Methods Laboratory).
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EDMG 512 - Middle Grades Social Studies Specialty Methods
This course focuses on effective methods, skills, strategies, and problems of teaching the social studies in the middle grades. Emphasis is placed on literacy skills and the integrative nature of the curriculum. Other key topics include using technology, changing demographics, integrative curriculum and instruction, and community service. Candidates apply various teaching methods, strategies, and techniques during the Internship I experience.
Credit Hours: 2
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EDMG 513 - Middle Grades English/Language Arts Specialty Methods
This course focuses on effective methods, skills, strategies, and problems of teaching English/language arts in the middle grades. Emphasis is placed on developing reading and writing skills and the integrative nature of the curriculum. Candidates apply various teaching methods, strategies, and techniques during the Internship I experience.
Credit Hours: 2
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EDMG 515 - Middle Grades Mathematics Specialty Methods
This course focuses on effective methods, skills, strategies, and problems of teaching mathematics in the middle grades. Emphasis is placed on developing mathematical problems, task analysis, learner activities, evaluation procedures, literacy, and the integrative nature of the curriculum. Candidates apply various teaching methods, strategies, and techniques during the Internship I experience.
Credit Hours: 2
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EDMG 516 - Middle Grades Science Specialty Methods
This course focuses on effective instructional strategies for teaching principles associated with the middle school science disciplines. Evidence is placed on planning, science process skills, inquiry-based instruction, hands-on/minds-on activities, improvising materials, demonstrations, assessment technigues, literacy across the curriculum, and the integrative nature of the curriculum. Candidates apply various teaching methods, strategies, and techniques during the Internship I experience.
Credit Hours: 2
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EDLR 510 - Foundations of Educational Leadership
This course will provide an overview of American public school administration to include basic concepts, policies, practices, and principles of educational leadership at the local, state, and federal levels. Participants will examine the role and responsibilities of school administrators and issues impacting school administration.
Credit Hours: 3
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EDLR 571 - School Finance and Management
This course examines the fundamental financial management tasks and procedures in an individual school setting. Further, it develops concepts and skills necessary for the quality operation of educational facilities.
Credit Hours: 3
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EDLR 572 - Organizational Theory
The intent of this course is to study the behavior, structures, and underlying principles of educational organizations.
Credit Hours: 3
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EDLR 573 - Curriculum and Supervision
Students will gain knowledge and understanding about supervision and curriculum theory and its application to classrooms today.
Credit Hours: 3
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EDLR 574 - Interpersonal Relationships
This is an introductory, graduate-level course in interpersonal relations and group processes. It surveys a broad range of topics, including communication, power, managing conflict, leadership styles, and others related to the field of study.
Credit Hours: 3
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EDLR 581 - School and Community Relations
This course will comprehensively examine communication principles and the variety of forces that are involved in school and community relations. Application of essential public relations tools to enhance a school’s mission focused on student learning is a major course objective.
Credit Hours: 3
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EDLR 582 - School Personnel Administration
This course represents a study of personnel administration in public school systems. The course examines selection, orientation, placement, compensation, transfers, separation, and staff development of instructional and support staff.
Prerequisites
EDUC-565.
Credit Hours: 3
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EDLR 585 - Advanced School Law
This course is designed to acquaint students with emerging legal issues that will affect them in roles as educational decision-makers. Students enrolled in this course are expected to have a working knowledge of school law and the material covered in EDUC-565 or a comparable course.
Prerequisites
EDUC-565 or equivalent.
Credit Hours: 3
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EDLR 596 - Education Leadership Practicum
This course provides students with extensive supervised administrative experiences in local schools in levels PreK – 12.
Credit Hours: 3
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EDLR 610 - School District Leadership
Desire to obtain certification in school leadershipThis is a course in the theory and practice of organizational leadership skills, tasks, responsibilities and challenges as they are applicable to the school superintendency and other district level administrative positions.
Prerequisites
Desire to obtain certification in school leadership
Credit Hours: 3
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EDLR 667 - The Law of Higher Education
This course examines legal issues relevant to American colleges and universities to provide students with the fundamental knowledge of higher education law for administrators. Topics include the legal governance of higher education, academic freedom, affirmative action, tort liability, and legal issues pertinent to the faculty and students.
Prerequisites
Graduate standing
Credit Hours: 3
When Offered
every spring
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EDLR 671 - School Business Leadership
This course examines the fundamental financial management tasks and procedures at the school district level; further, it equips students with skills necessary for planning and operating educational facilities.
Prerequisites
EDLR 571, equivalent course or permission of instructor
Credit Hours: 3
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EDLR 682 - School Personnel Administration
This course represents a study of personnel administration in public school systems. The course examines selection, orientation, placement, compensation, transfers, separation and staff development of instructional and support staff.
Prerequisites
Successful completion of EDU 565 or equivalent
Credit Hours: 3
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EDLR 685 - Advanced School Law
This course is designed to acquaint students with emerging legal issues that will affect them in roles as educational decision-makers. Students enrolled in this course are expected to have a working knowledge of school law and the material covered in EDUC 565 (School Law) or a comparable course.
Prerequisites
Successful completion of EDUC 565 or equivalent.
Credit Hours: 3
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EDLR 690 - Middle School Leadership
This course is designed to study the historical, sociological, psychological, and philosophical aspects of the middle level school. Discussion and activities focus on the purpose, function, and implications of current thinking regarding the learner, curriculum, and the middle level school. Students will explore middle grades teaching practice and student learning as well as examine the current literature regarding the middle level organization and practice. The goal of this course is to provide candidates with philosophical perspectives and the knowledge needed to provide leadership in supporting or implementing exemplary middle grades practices.
Credit Hours: 3
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EDLR 692 - School Governance: Problems and Issues
This is an elective course in the Educational Leadership strand of the Ed. S. program. This course explores issues in educational governance and policy in the United States at the federal, state, and local levels. There is a special focus on governance and policy development in Tennessee.
Credit Hours: 3
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EDLR 696 - Practicum in School District Leadership
This course provides students with extensive supervised administrative experiences in local schools in levels PreK – 12.
Credit Hours: 3
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HEDS 500 - Higher Education Environments
This course covers the history and current state of the diverse organizational structures within higher educational settings.
Credit Hours: 3
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HEDS 510 - College Student Development Apprenticeship
Supervised fieldwork in approved institutional placements. Interns will gain competence in core areas of advising, mentoring, assessment, consultation and professional functioning.
Prerequisites
Pre- or co-requisite: COUN-514
Credit Hours: 3
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English Language and Literature |
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ENGL 090 - English as a Second Language
An individualized course in English comprehension, conversation and composition for non-native speakers. ENGL-090 is required of all non-native speakers scoring below 80 on the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language). This course is offered for institutional credit only. Credit earned in this course will not count toward the composition requirement and grading will be pass/fail. Students will enroll concurrently in ENGL-091.
Credit Hours: 3
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ENGL 105 - College Writing Workshop
A writing course that seeks to teach students to develop clean, well organized prose. It emphasizes the writing process with an introduction to rhetorical strategies and culminates with an introduction to the library, research, and documentation. The course involves 3 classroom hours and 1 hour per week in a Writing Studio. A grade of C or better in this course allows the student to enroll in ENGL-110 the following semester.
Requires co-requisite enrollment in Engl-105WS.
Prerequisites
ACT English score of 14-18, or SAT recentered verbal score of 370-429, or completion of ENGL-091 Basic Writing Skills with a grade of C or better
Credit Hours: 4
When Offered
Fall and Spring Semester
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ENGL 106 - College Writing
A writing course which seeks to teach students to develop clean, well-organized prose. The course emphasizes the writing process with an introduction to rhetorical strategies and culminates with an introduction to the library, research, and documentation. A grade of C or better in this course allows the student to enroll in Rhetoric and Research, ENGL-110 the following semester.
Prerequisites
ACT English score of 19-24 or an SAT recentered verbal score of 430 - 569.
Credit Hours: 3
When Offered
Fall and Spring Semester
This course is also available for students in a Division of Adult Learning program.
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ENGL 110 - Rhetoric and Research
A course focusing on four major writing projects; enables students to review the creative process as it applies to composition, learn the research methodologies and procedures of their chosen discipline (including computer-generated research), internalize approaches to critical thinking, apply basic principles of public speaking, and perform literary analysis.
Prerequisites
ACT English score of 25 or higher, or an SAT recentered verbal score of 570 or higher, or completion of ENGL-105 or 106 with a grade of C or better.
Credit Hours: 3
When Offered
Fall and Spring Semester
This course is also available for students in a Division of Adult Learning program.
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ENGL 221 - Western Literature: Ancient to Renaissance
Selected literary masterpieces from ancient, medieval, and Renaissance world literature studied in relation to cultural context.
Prerequisites
ENGL-110
Credit Hours: 3
When Offered
Fall and Spring Semester
DAL
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ENGL 222 - Western Literature: Enlightenment to Postmodern
Selected literary masterpieces of the Enlightenment, nineteenth century, and twentieth century studied in relation to cultural context.
Prerequisites
ENGL-110
Credit Hours: 3
When Offered
Fall and Spring Semester
This course is also available for students in a Division of Adult Learning program.
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ENGL 300 - Introduction to English Studies (W)
English 300 is designed to acquaint English majors with significant issues within the discipline including the value of reading and writing, the literary canon, as well as critical approaches to reading, writing, teaching, and research. The course introduces the major sub-fields of the discipline and emphasizes the impact of worldview on English studies.
Prerequisites
ENGL-110
Credit Hours: 3
When Offered
Fall and Spring Semester
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ENGL 302 - English Language Structure and Theory
This course is intended to give the student an in-depth look at the structure of the English language, focusing on traditional and alternative theories of grammar and principles of linguistics with applications for second-language acquisition.
Prerequisites
ENGL-110
Credit Hours: 3
When Offered
Fall and Spring Semester
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ENGL 307 - Literary Criticism (W)
A study of literary theory in the 20th century with a brief overview of the history of criticism. Students will apply critical theories to a number of literary texts.
Prerequisites
ENGL-300
Credit Hours: 3
When Offered
Spring Semester
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ENGL 308 - Composition Theory (W)
This course introduces students to the field of composition studies. It provides a historical overview of approaches to understanding and teaching writing, and it emphasizes the prominent current theories about writing’s composition, reception, and function within contemporary culture. Students will work both to understand their own writing processes more fully and to learn theoretically-informed strategies for teaching or tutoring other writers.
Prerequisites
ENGL-300
Credit Hours: 3
When Offered
Spring Semester
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ENGL 309 - Rhetoric for Writers (W)
A survey of the theories and techniques of rhetoric from ancient Greece to the present. Particular attention is given to the ways in which contemporary writers can create appropriate rhetorical strategies for communicating in their own social and cultural contexts.
Prerequisites
ENGL-300
Credit Hours: 3
When Offered
Fall Semester
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ENGL 311 - Foundations of Literature in English
This course offers students an opportunity to study the great authors of British literature from the 8th to the 18th century. It provides in depth study of masterworks that have influenced later literature written in English due to the writers’ linguistic contribution and artistic stature in the language.
Prerequisites
ENGL-110
Credit Hours: 3
When Offered
Fall Semester
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ENGL 312 - British Literature: 1798 to the Present
A survey of English literature from the Romantic Movement to the present.
Prerequisites
ENGL-110
Credit Hours: 3
When Offered
Spring Semester
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ENGL 313 - United States Literature I: Colonial Period to 1865
A survey of American literature from the founding of the colonies to the Civil War.
Prerequisites
ENGL-110
Credit Hours: 3
When Offered
Fall Semester
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