This course focuses on student dialogue about issues of difference, identity and community to facilitate intergroup understanding. Students actively engage, read about, and examine social justice issues in small groups. Gen Ed (SB, U)

This course is a study of the origin, diagnosis, and treatment of special needs children with an emphasis on learning, goal planning, and understanding their intellectual, social, physical and sensory needs.

Course examines the relationship of art and music to aspects of teaching and learning in other areas. There will be opportunities for students to use basic art media, including paint, clay, collage, and wood. Cultural differences in songs, dances, and the visual arts will be explored.

Pre-practicum in School Counseling is designed to support the student in her/his first school placement, and to facilitate professional growth as a school counselor.

This course is designed to provide a forum for TESI students and faculty to explore major issues in teacher education and school improvement. This will be done through the in-depth study of a current topic of concern in the field; presentations and analysis of TESI faculty's current scholarly work; and presentations and analysis of the scholarly work of TESI students. In addition, there will be on occasion presentations and analysis of the work of visiting scholars.

This doctoral seminar is designed to support in-depth exploration of critical approaches to discourse analysis as a basis for research on language and literacy in educational settings.

This is a writing-intensive course that fulfills the University's Junior Writing requirement. The course will provide students with an opportunity to explore critical perspectives of early childhood education and serve as an introduction to the profession. Through the writing assignments, students will become acquainted with and practice writing required by professional teachers.

This advanced research methods course will help students develop important knowledge and skills needed to conduct scientific survey research, and to understand and criticall evaluate survey-based research.

Focus on issues of social identity, social and cultural diversity, and societal manifestations of oppression. Draws on interdisciplinary perspectives of social identity development, social learning theory, and sociological analyses of power and privilege within broad social contexts. (Gen.Ed. I, U)

Focus on issues of social identity, social and cultural diversity, and societal manifestations of oppression. Draws on interdisciplinary perspectives of social identity development, social learning theory, and sociological analyses of power and privilege within broad social contexts. (Gen.Ed. I, U)