2005-06 Catalog

Academics

2005-06 Greenville College Catalog

Adult and Graduate Studies Course Listings

CONTINUING EDUCATION (CE)

CE 539 Adolescent Growth and Development - Three Credits
Explores human growth of typical and exceptional youth from the onset of puberty through late adolescence.

CE 556 Middle/Secondary School Curriculum - Three Credits
Examines the principles and practices of curriculum planning, design, implementation, and evaluation for the middle grades.

EDUCATION (EDU)

EDU 501 Issues in Education - Two Credits
Introduces graduate students to issues of professionalism including the agencies and entities that impact education. Reviews school law that relates to the practice of teaching. (Field experience required.)

EDU 516 Teaching Reading and Writing - Three Credits
Addresses the processes of reading and writing development, emphasizing methods and materials for teaching literacy skills in elementary and middle schools. (Field experience required.)

EDU 520 Corrective Reading and Writing - Three Credits
Explores strategies for meeting the needs of individual students through the use of commercial reading materials and development of teacher-prepared materials. (Field experience required.)

EDU 522 Teaching Fine Arts - Three Credits
Provides student exposure to the techniques for teaching art and music to elementary students. (Field experience required.)

EDU 524 Teaching Social Studies - Two Credits
Provides students the opportunity to develop teaching methods and strategies to integrate social studies with other content areas. (Field experience required.)

EDU 534 Teaching Mathematics and Science - Four Credits
Introduces strategies for teaching mathematics and science topics to elementary and middle school children. (Field experience required.)

EDU 538 Special Education - Three Credits
Focuses on the educational needs of exceptional children and youth who deviate from normalcy in their emotional, intellectual, social, or communication abilities. Introduces the legal, historical, and social foundations of special education. (Field experience required.)

EDU 539 Adolescent Growth and Development - Three Credits
Explores human growth of typical and exceptional youth from the onset of puberty through late adolescence. (Field experience required.)

EDU 540 Students with Exceptionalities - Three Credits
Examines the process of identifying children whose intellectual, physical, or emotional development deviates from normalcy in order to create strategies to accommodate them. (Field experience required.)

EDU 542 Diversity and Schools - Three Credits
Provides an introduction to the history, politics, issues, and approaches to educating a culturally and linguistically diverse student population. (Field experience required.)

EDU 544 Technology and Teaching - Three Credits
Investigates the impact technology has on teaching and learning. Students design and implement technology-based curriculum for use in the classroom. (Field experience required for MAT degree seekers only.)

EDU 546 Elementary Student Teaching - Ten Credits
Offers students the opportunity to participate full-time in a supervised teaching assignment in an appropriate elementary school environment. (Requires 14 weeks of clinical practice.)

EDU 548 Behavioral Management - Two Credits
Examines the application of learning theory to the management of both exceptional and typical school populations. (Field experience required.)

EDU 550 Measurement and Design - Three Credits
Explores the evaluation of student growth as an integral part of instruction. Also addresses professional, social, ethical, and philosophical implications. (Field experience required.)

EDU 552 Teaching Middle/Secondary Students - Three Credits
Introduces instructional planning and teaching methodology appropriate for middle/secondary students. (Field experience required.)

EDU 556 Middle/Secondary School Curriculum - Three Credits
Examines the principles and practices of curriculum planning, design, implementation, and evaluation. (Field experience required.)

EDU 558 Reading/Writing in Content Area - Three Credits
Provides orientation to the processes of reading and writing, emphasizing methods and materials appropriate to instruction within the appropriate subject area in middle/secondary school.(Field experience required.)

EDU 560 Secondary Student Teaching - Ten Credits
Offers students the opportunity to participate full-time in a supervised teaching assignment in an appropriate secondary or middle school environment. (Requires 14 weeks of clinical practice.)

EDU 562 Seminar in Student Teaching - Two Credits
Provides students the opportunity to reflect on practice and performance activities related to their student teaching assignments.

EDU 563 Disciplined Inquiry in Education - Three Credits
Introduces graduate students to research methods in education, analysis of research reviews, and applying research results in educational settings.

EDU 564 Teacher Leadership and School Improvement - Three Credits
Examines alternative approaches to instructional leadership in K-12 schools with special attention to problems of curriculum development, supervision and evaluation of teaching, assessment of student learning, and the design and implementation of school improvement plans.

EDU 566 Trends/Issues in Education - Three Credits
Investigates current issues, research, and theory of educating students.

EDU 568 Regular and Special School Curriculum - Three Credits
Examines curriculum planning, design, implementation, and evaluation in elementary, middle, and secondary schools. Emphasizes principles and objectives that may underlie these processes and specific practices that may flow from them.

EDU 570 Classroom and Behavior Management - Two Credits
Applies various theories of learning to the management of classroom behavior.

EDU 572 Middle School Mathematics Methods - Three Credits
Examines effective strategies for teaching mathematics to middle school students, and explores methods to assess students’ progress. Pre-service teachers will be provided instructional tools including questioning strategies, mini-lessons, investigations, format of lessons, formative and summative assessment strategies, meeting students’ diverse needs, and methods of eliminating gender and ethnic/racial biases in mathematics instruction. Field experiences required.
Prerequisite: Admission to the Teacher Education Program. (Offered fall semester)

EDU 574 Equity in School and Society - Three Credits
Focuses on gender, ethnicity, and cross-cultural differences from an educational perspective. Examines how different social and psychological characteristics of classroom/school milieus influence individual achievement and personal development.

EDU 576 Action Research - Three Credits
Covers methods used to study the process of classroom teaching and learning including observation, questionnaire, interview, think aloud, and case study. Multi-method designs are discussed, along with how different sources of data, both quantitative and qualitative, can be combined for interpretive purposes. (Field experience required.)

EDU 580 Master’s Thesis - Nine Credits
Provides students the opportunity to conduct original research.

EDU 582 Reflective Studies - Nine Credits
This field-based study offers the opportunity to assess one or more educational programs to determine their efficacy. Formal presentation given at the conclusion of the project.

Last updated: August 2, 2005