Psychological factors in career decision-making theory, job classification systems, vocational assessment, career information and placement. Prerequisites: Educ 570 and 705.
Introduces theories and research on college students' development and their college experience. Theories describing patterns of growth and development and their application in higher education.
This course take a generative justice approach to learning and teaching with computational media. Through coursework, students prepare to work with youth in Holyoke in an after school computer club.
Seminar develops the interpersonal and organizational leadership skills of experienced undergraduate tutors who are serving as site coordinators, group leaders, researchers, or administrators in the TEAMS Project.
School-Based Prepracticum. This course features pre-student teaching experiences in a middle or high school classroom under the supervision of experienced public school teachers. Candidates observe teachers, work with large and small groups of students, and develop lessons that incorporate NCATE and Massachusetts learning standards.
This course provides students with theoretical and practical experiences related to the education and training of special needs students. Emphasis is placed on curriculum development, methods and materials, assessment, vocational programming and research.
The purpose of this course is to give students in the social sciences and, in particular, education, skills in statistical reasoning so that they will be critical readers of research literature in their fields and in a position to design research studies and analyze data on their own.