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Advanced Journalism   (JOU-300)   3 credits  
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Course Description
Instruction and practice in advanced journalistic techniques, with an emphasis on such specialized areas of coverage as business, science, education, and arts and entertainment.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Demonstrate writing and reporting for beats such as business, science, education, and arts and entertainment
  • Compare and contrast journalistic skills and techniques used when covering beats such as business, science, education, and arts and entertainment
  • Analyze how innovations in technology have impacted journalistic techniques and legal and ethical principles

 
Education Reporting   (JOU-328)   3 credits  
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Course Description
Reporting on issues in relation to education.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Exhibit the ability to research, write, and edit magazine and newspaper articles on education topics;
  • Demonstrate the ability to generate marketable topics on education to magazines and newspaper;
  • Demonstrate the ability to apply a range of research methods for developing marketable nonfiction magazine and newspaper topics;
  • Demonstrate the ability to target education ideas to specific newspaper and magazine audiences;
  • Demonstrate the ability to apply different writing styles and techniques to the development of education topics for magazines and newspapers;
  • Demonstrate the ability to revise and to edit completed magazine and newspaper articles in education.

 
Social Science and Science in Early Childhood Education   (CDS-313)   3 credits  
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Course Description
Social Science and Science in Early Childhood Education. Examines the purpose, scope and sequence of social science and science instruction in early childhood education. Develops methods of teaching social science and science to the young child at the preschool and primary school levels.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Articulate the value of teaching social sciences in the early childhood and primary school setting: cultural studies, environmental studies, and health education.
  • Discuss developmental instructional models designed to foster an understanding of the social sciences in the early childhood and primary setting. Include Bloom's Taxonomy in the discussion.
  • Summarize the characteristics of a high quality science program in the early childhood setting.
  • Indicate and describe an inquiry model for the teaching of scientific principles and investigation. Include both an exploratory and guided discovery learning model.
  • Discuss assessment principles for both the social sciences and sciences in the early childhood and primary setting.
  • You may section the paper into early childhood and primary contexts if this structure is helpful.

 
Driver Education   (EDU-372)   3 credits  
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Course Description
Methodology relating to knowledge, skill and psychological considerations in teaching driver education

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Discuss the concept of a national safety culture for driving and what would be entailed.
  • Indicate the key elements of successful drivers regarding: speed, maneuvering and execution, requirements of the road, and driver expertise.
  • Identify the behavioral elements necessary for effective driving.
  • Discuss the driving safety issues of the future.

 
Therapeutic Intervention and Clinical Patient Management   (PSG-105)   4 credits  
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Course Description
This is a clinical course designed to provide training in the initiation and management of therapeutic interventions for sleep-related breathing disorders including PAP, oxygen, servo-ventilation and non-invasive positive pressure ventilation. The course focuses on patient treatment and development of the skills required to identify and manage patient safety and medical emergencies in the sleep center, the delivery of patient education, and the management and optimization of therapeutic interventions. The student will, under the supervision of a Registered Polysomnographic Technologist, participate in polysomnographic recording procedures that include therapeutic intervention procedures.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Identify the need for therapeutic intervention of sleep-disordered breathing and other co-morbid respiratory disorders.
  • Initiate and manage therapeutic interventions (e.g., PAP therapy, servo-ventilation, bi-level therapy, supplemental oxygen therapy).
  • Identify and manage patient safety issues.
  • Identify and manage medical emergencies (e.g., cardiac arrhythmias, seizure disorders, psychiatric crises).
  • Identify and manage environmental emergencies.
  • Provide patient education (e.g., addressing treatment compliance issues with PAP therapy, addressing sleep hygiene issues, educating patient and family members about treatments for other sleep disorders).

 
Research in Education   (EDU-368)   3 credits  
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Course Description
This course is designed to provide a basic understanding of the practical and theoretical applications of educational research methodology. Beginning with an examination of the role of research in education, the course will guide the student through the process of reviewing and analyzing information and data from a variety of sources, comparing and contrasting the different types of research designs, understanding the role of descriptive and inferential statistics, and the development of a research project. Basic introduction to the principles of layout including grid systems and their use. Introduction to methods used to turn a design into a finished printed piece including basic understanding of printing and beginning past-up and mechanicals.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Discuss several research methodologies and how they may be applied to education research. Note the uses and limitations of each method.
  • Indicate the ethical issues inherent in conducting educational research.
  • List and analyze the steps of an action research project.
  • Discuss the role of a literature review in educational research.
  • Demonstrate the use of technological tools to gather and analyze data.
  • Compare and contrast the merits of qualitative versus quantitative research studies.
  • Explain how educational research should be critiqued and applied to educational contexts.

 
Introduction to Early Childhood Education   (CDS-210)   3 credits  
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Course Description
The student will be able to demonstrate knowledge of the care-giving and educational nature of the early childhood profession (pre-kindergarten to third grade) with an emphasis on examining early childhood program models, trends and issues, family and community partnerships, professional organizations, and environmental concerns.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Discuss developmentally appropriate methods and strategies that support early childhood learning in the areas of physical, socio-emotional, behavioral, and cognitive development and language acquisition.
  • Explain the need to value and support the cultural and linguistic contexts of families involved in early childhood education programs.
  • Assess the role of the educator in establishing and maintaining a positive collaborative relationship with families.
  • Summarize information regarding current legal issues and legislation relating to programs for young children.
  • Discuss developmentally appropriate curriculum in the content areas.
  • Explain how to create and maintain a physically and psychologically safe and healthy learning environment.
  • Evaluate appropriate professional literature, organizations, resources, and experiences that inform and improve professional practice.
  • Describe the wide-range of community and state resources that are currently available to families participating in early childhood programs.

 
Children's Literature and Story Telling   (CDS-214)   3 credits  
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Course Description
A study of the principles of selection, adaptation and the techniques of storytelling, book talks and book reviews. A survey of children's literature and the age appropriate use of various genre.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Discuss how the early childhood educator selects good and age-appropriate children's literature for the classroom.
  • Briefly considers the various genres and the defining elements of each.
  • Talk about the role of children's literature in promoting emergent literacy in early childhood education.
  • Indicate the role of parents/caregivers in terms of incorporating children's literature in the home environment.
  • Consider the role of multi-cultural literature in the classroom.
  • Discuss how literature has a cathartic element in the life of a child.
  • Briefly state how storytelling enhances the experience of literature in the classroom.

 
Introduction to Child Development and Early Childhood Curriculum   (CDS-251)   3 credits  
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Course Description
An examination of contemporary curriculum practices that facilitate learning in all areas: affective, psychomotor and cognitive. Emphasis on the teacher as reflective practitioner who employs culturally responsive teaching strategies and demonstrates sensitivity to special needs learners.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Discuss how knowledge of child development theory informs principles of learning and guides "best practice" in curriculum planning.
  • Explain the role of the learning environment in regard to planning developmentally appropriate curriculum.
  • Discuss how curriculum and teaching strategies are differentiated for a diverse learner population (ELL and Special Education).
  • Describe the process of how children "emerge" into literacy in areas of speaking, listening, and writing.
  • Determine the process of assessment in reference to children's knowledge, skills, and abilities.
  • Summarize how the content areas (language, creative arts, math, ad science) enhance and support a child's cognitive growth and development.

 
Fundamentals of Reading Instruction   (EDU-121)   3 credits  
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Course Description
This course is designed to train preparatory teacher education students in the basic principles of the teaching of reading. The course endeavors to facilitate their teacher training by introducing them to research practices and teaching strategies in reading. Effective pedagogical practices in the differentiation of literacy instruction are also emphasized.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Discuss the role of family/caregivers in supporting emergent literacy and early reading skills.
  • Explain the role of the alphabetic principle in the early reading environment.
  • Discuss models of reading instruction: phonics, language experience, literature, guided reading.
  • Indicate "best practice" for the teaching of reading skills of comprehension and fluency.
  • Explain how structures of both fiction and information texts are taught to foster comprehension of texts.
  • Discuss the reading/writing connection in terms of teaching reading.

 
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