| # | Code | Name | UG | GR | ADC | Subject | Subject Code | Academic Department | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1201 | EDUC457 | Elementary Social Studies Methods An introduction to the pedagogical knowledge, skills, and dispositions related to effective instruction and assessment in Social Studies. Teacher candidates become familiar with frameworks of instruction that support multi-grade contexts, developmentally appropriate practices, and differentiating for diversity. Classroom observation and micro-teaching are required. Incorporates fieldwork that includes an intensive culminating field experience in conjunction with EDUC 327, EDUC 331, EDUC 339, and EDUC 454, providing opportunity for application of knowledge, skills, and dispositions. Credits: 2, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: WINTER Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2024 — Indefinite) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | Education (EDUC) | EDUC | School of Education, Psychology and Counseling | Active | |
| 1202 | EDUC464 | Teaching Seminar This course is designed to provide candidates with opportunities to enhance the student teaching experience through in-depth discussion and analysis of topics relevant to student teaching. The seminar will include an overview of major principles/theories of learning and teaching as they relate to actual classroom practice. Practitioners will make presentations related to areas of the teaching experience. Credits: 2, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: FALL | WINTER Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2004 — Indefinite) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | Education (EDUC) | EDUC | School of Education, Psychology and Counseling | Active | |
| 1203 | EDUC471 | Enhanced Student Teaching - Elementary (SERV-2) Designed as a full-time practicum for one semester. Students are assigned to two (2) placements (K-3, 4-8). Cooperating teachers, determined by the district and university personnel, are selected according to experience, certification, and competence, and share supervision responsibilities with university faculty, who assume responsibility for the final summative evaluation. Credits: 10, Lab Fee 12 ($300), Level: Undergraduate, Offered: FALL | WINTER Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2004 — Indefinite) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | Education (EDUC) | EDUC | School of Education, Psychology and Counseling | Active | |
| 1204 | EDUC472 | Enhanced Student Teaching - Secondary (SERV-2) Prerequisite(s): Admission to Student Teaching. Corequisite(s): EDUC 464. Designed as a full-time practicum for one semester. Students are assigned to two (2) placements (7-8, 9-12). Cooperating teachers, determined by the district and university personnel, are selected according to experience, certification, and competence, and share supervision responsibilities with university faculty, who assume responsibility for the final summative evaluation. Credits: 10, Lab Fee 12 ($300), Level: Undergraduate, Offered: FALL | WINTER Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2005 — Indefinite) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | Education (EDUC) | EDUC | School of Education, Psychology and Counseling | Active | |
| 1205 | EDUC473 | Enhanced Student Teaching K-12 (SERV-2) Designed as a full-time practicum for one semester. Students may be assigned to three (3) placements (K-4, 5-8, 9-12). The time spent will be approximately six weeks in each area. Cooperating teachers, determined by the district and university personnel, are selected according to experience, certification, and competence, and share supervision responsibilities with university faculty, who assume responsibility for the final summative evaluation. Credits: 10, Lab Fee 12 ($300), Level: Undergraduate, Offered: FALL | WINTER Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2007 - 2022) Discontinued (2021-01-01) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | Education (EDUC) | EDUC | School of Education and Psychology | Active | |
| 1206 | EDUC473 | Enhanced Student Teaching P-12 or K-12 (SERV-2) Designed as a full-time practicum for one semester. Students will be assigned to two (2) placements (PK-5 and 6-12). Cooperating teachers, determined by the district and university personnel, are selected according to experience, certification, and competence, and share supervision responsibilities with university faculty, who assume responsibility for the final summative evaluation. Credits: 10, Lab Fee 12 ($300), Level: Undergraduate, Offered: FALL | WINTER Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2024 — Indefinite) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | Education (EDUC) | EDUC | School of Education, Psychology and Counseling | Active | |
| 1207 | EDUC473 | Enhanced Student Teaching P-12 or K-12 (SERV-2) Designed as a full-time practicum for one semester. Students may be assigned to three (3) placements (K-4, 5-8, 9-12). The time spent will be approximately six weeks in each area. Cooperating teachers, determined by the district and university personnel, are selected according to experience, certification, and competence, and share supervision responsibilities with university faculty, who assume responsibility for the final summative evaluation. Credits: 10, Lab Fee 12 ($300), Level: Undergraduate, Offered: FALL | WINTER Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2022 - 2024) Discontinued (2023-01-01) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | Education (EDUC) | EDUC | School of Education, Psychology and Counseling | Active | |
| 1208 | EDUC475 | Workshop in Education (Methodology) Experienced teachers are given opportunity to work under supervision on curriculum problems. Credit is also available for preservice students as an elective. Credits: 1 - 3, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: FALL | WINTER Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (1975 — Indefinite) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | Education (EDUC) | EDUC | School of Education, Psychology and Counseling | Active | |
| 1209 | EDUC476 | Practicum: English as a Second Language Supervised experience in a school setting working with ESL teachers and students provides opportunity for application of knowledge, skills, and dispositions. Two placements (PreK-5 and 6-12) are required. Candidates will spend additional time in lesson planning. Cooperating teachers will be determined by collaboration between university and K-12 personnel. University faculty assumes responsibility for the final summative evaluation. Grades will be assigned on an A, B, or F basis. Credits: 1, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: FALL | WINTER Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2012 - 2024) Discontinued (2023-01-01) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | Education (EDUC) | EDUC | School of Education, Psychology and Counseling | Active | |
| 1210 | EDUC476 | Practicum: English as a Second Language Supervised experience in a school setting working with ESL teachers and students provides opportunity for application of knowledge, skills, and dispositions. Two placements (PreK-5 and 6-12) are required. Candidates will spend additional time in lesson planning. Cooperating teachers will be determined by collaboration between university and K-12 personnel. University faculty assumes responsibility for the final summative evaluation. Grades will be assigned on an A, B, or F basis. Credits: 1, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: FALL | WINTER Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2024 — Indefinite) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | Education (EDUC) | EDUC | School of Education, Psychology and Counseling | Active | |
| 1211 | EDUC477 | Enhanced Student Teaching, Religious Education (SERV-2) Designed as a full-time practicum for one semester. Students are assigned to two (2) placements (middle school, high school). Clinical instructional mentors, determined by university personnel and partners, are selected according to experience, certification, and competence, and share supervision responsibilities with university faculty, who assume responsibility for the final summative evaluation. Credits: 10, Lab Fee 07 ($120), Level: Undergraduate, Offered: FALL | WINTER Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2022 — Indefinite) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | Education (EDUC) | EDUC | School of Education, Psychology and Counseling | Active | |
| 1212 | EDUC478 | NAD-only Enhanced Student Teaching (SERV-2) Designed as a full-time practicum for one semester. Students are assigned to two (2) placements in NAD schools reflective of the grade level(s) and subject matter for which they are preparing to teach. Clinical instructional mentors, determined by university personnel and partners, are selected according to experience, certification, and competence, and share supervision responsibilities with university faculty, who assume responsibility for the final summative evaluation. Credits: 10, Lab Fee 07 ($120), Level: Undergraduate, Offered: FALL | WINTER Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2023 — Indefinite) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | Education (EDUC) | EDUC | School of Education, Psychology and Counseling | Active | |
| 1213 | EDUC485 | Workshop in Education (Content) Experienced teachers are given opportunity to develop new skills and gather new facts in content fields at various levels. Credit is also available for preservice students as an elective. Credits: 1 - 3, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: SUMMER Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (1984 — Indefinite) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | Education (EDUC) | EDUC | School of Education, Psychology and Counseling | Active | |
| 1214 | EDUC485T | Workshop in Education NULL Credits: 1 - 3, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: VARIABLE Catalog: (2021 — Indefinite) | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | Education (EDUC) | EDUC | School of Education, Psychology and Counseling | Active | |
| 1215 | EDUC495 | Directed Study See EDUC 295 for course description. Credits: 1 - 3, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: VARIABLE Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (1975 - 2023) Discontinued (2022-01-01) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | Education (EDUC) | EDUC | School of Education and Psychology | Active | |
| 1216 | EDUC495 | Independent Study This course permits the advanced student with adequate preparation to pursue independent study in special fields. This course may be repeated for credit. Credits: 1 - 3, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: VARIABLE Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2024 — Indefinite) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | Education (EDUC) | EDUC | School of Education, Psychology and Counseling | Active | |
| 1217 | EDUC495 | Independent Study This course permits the advanced student with adequate preparation to pursue independent study in special fields. This course may be repeated for credit. Credits: 1 - 3, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: VARIABLE Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2023 - 2024) Discontinued (2023-01-01) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | Education (EDUC) | EDUC | School of Education, Psychology and Counseling | Active | |
| 1218 | EDUC521 | Theories of Adult Learning A Biblical view of the learner and the learning process is used to examine current approaches to learning theory. Behaviorist and cognitive learning theories, as well as adult teaching practices, are examined as they relate to theoretical perspectives. Theoretical principles are then used to devise practical teaching and learning methodologies. Credits: 3, Level: Graduate, Offered: VARIABLE Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2010 — Indefinite) | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | Education (EDUC) | EDUC | School of Education, Psychology, and Counseling | Active | |
| 1219 | EDUC531 | Technology and the Educator Study and analysis of the integration of technology in learning environments. The course examines technology-related issues from instructor, student, and administrator perspectives. Issues include the philosophy of and need for technology, learning outcomes associated with the use of technology, implementation of and problems associated with technology in the instructional environment, and technology related to administrative function and professional development. This course also seeks to provide the educator with an array of professional competencies so as to optimally leverage technology for instructional ends. This course incorporates a hands-on approach and assumes basic competencies in word processing, presentation software, Internet usage, and the Windows operating system. Credits: 3, Level: Graduate, Offered: VARIABLE Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2004 — Indefinite) | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | Education (EDUC) | EDUC | School of Education, Psychology, and Counseling | Active | |
| 1220 | EDUC532 | Psychology and Behavior of Exceptional Individuals This course is focused on the psychological aspects of exceptionality and the implications for classroom management. The course provides an opportunity for in-depth examination and administration of various models and techniques for the management of exceptional individuals according to counseling and psychology theory. Credits: 3, Level: Graduate, Offered: VARIABLE Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2012 — Indefinite) | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | Education (EDUC) | EDUC | School of Education, Psychology, and Counseling | Active | |
| 1221 | EDUC543 | Assessment of Exceptional Individuals This course provides an opportunity for examination and administration of assessment measures for exceptional individuals. On-site field experience is required. Teachers will learn how to administer screening instruments and draw instructional implications from these. Case studies will be reviewed and teachers will be assisted in determining when a student should be referred for further professional testing. Credits: 3, Level: Graduate, Offered: VARIABLE Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2012 — Indefinite) | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | Education (EDUC) | EDUC | School of Education, Psychology, and Counseling | Active | |
| 1222 | EDUC565 | Topics in Education Selected topics in education. This course may be repeated with an appropriate change in topic. Credits: 1 - 3, Level: Graduate, Offered: VARIABLE Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2010 — Indefinite) | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | Education (EDUC) | EDUC | School of Education, Psychology, and Counseling | Active | |
| 1223 | EDUC565T | Topics Selected topics in education. Credits: 1 - 3, Level: Graduate, Offered: VARIABLE Catalog: (2016 — Indefinite) | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | Education (EDUC) | EDUC | School of Education, Psychology, and Counseling | Active | |
| 1224 | EDUC566 | Seminar: Trends and Issues in Education Analysis of current and emerging educational trends. This course also involves exploration of curricular concerns and/or instructional issues which shape the teaching/learning process. Credits: 1 - 3, Level: Graduate, Offered: VARIABLE Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2007 — Indefinite) | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | Education (EDUC) | EDUC | School of Education, Psychology, and Counseling | Active | |
| 1225 | EDUC566T | Seminar: Analysis of current and emerging educational trends. This course also involves exploration of curricular concerns and/or instructional issues which shape the teaching/learning process. Credits: 1 - 3, Level: Graduate, Offered: VARIABLE Catalog: (2017 — Indefinite) | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | Education (EDUC) | EDUC | School of Education, Psychology, and Counseling | Active | |
| 1226 | EDUC567 | Curriculum and Strategies for Children with Learning Differences Planning, developing, and implementing curriculum for exceptional students is the focus of this course. Study will include the application of the three-tier model of Response to Intervention in order to tailor instruction for students with varied learning needs in the multiage classroom. The North American Division REACH Manual will also receive special emphasis in this course. Credits: 3, Level: Graduate, Offered: VARIABLE Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2012 — Indefinite) | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | Education (EDUC) | EDUC | School of Education, Psychology, and Counseling | Active | |
| 1227 | EDUC577 | Reading Assessment and Remediation This course examines the various causes of reading difficulties and the instructional procedures, strategies, and materials for remediating those difficulties. This course involves the application of course content in a field experience with K-8 students. Credits: 3, Level: Graduate, Offered: SUMMER ODD YEARS Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2006 - 2024) Discontinued (2023-01-01) | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | Education (EDUC) | EDUC | School of Education and Psychology | Active | |
| 1228 | EDUC577 | Reading Assessment and Remediation This course is designed to enable graduate students to develop a comprehensive knowledge of the Response to Instruction and Intervention (RTI² ) model to help every student succeed with reading. The focus is on using data from multiple assessments to determine targeted interventions and using progress monitoring to measure effectiveness of the interventions. Students will also develop the leadership mindset of advocacy and teambuilding by establishing a culture of collaboration among educators, families, and communities to support literacy success Credits: 3, Level: Graduate, Offered: SUMMER ODD YEARS Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2024 — Indefinite) | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | Education (EDUC) | EDUC | School of Education, Psychology, and Counseling | Active | |
| 1229 | EDUC583 | MSEd Capstone This course is required for all MSEd students in their final semester of enrollment. Completing an application to graduate, as well as successful completion of comprehensive exam or program portfolio, is required. Credits: 0, Level: Graduate, Offered: FALL | SUMMER | WINTER Catalog: (2023 — Indefinite) | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | Education (EDUC) | EDUC | School of Education, Psychology, and Counseling | Active | |
| 1230 | EDUC584 | Clinical Practice Candidates are immersed in the learning community and provided opportunities to demonstrate competence in the professional role of instructional leadership in the area of declared emphasis. Expectations of this course include collaboration with other researchers and Unit faculty, as well as an administrative evaluation. The research proposal provides the framework for the culminating activity. Arrangements for this course should be made with the faculty adviser while the student is enrolled in EDUC 591. Credits: 3, Level: Graduate, Offered: FALL Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2021 — Indefinite) | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | Education (EDUC) | EDUC | School of Education, Psychology, and Counseling | Active | |
| 1231 | EDUC588 | Statistics This course is designed to provide the basic knowledge of descriptive and inferential statistics to be applied to educational research. Topics covered include measure of central tendency and variability; correlation and regression; testing of hypothesis using the normal; binomial t, F, and chi-square distribution. Credits: 3, Level: Graduate, Offered: FALL ODD YEARS Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2004 — Indefinite) | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | Education (EDUC) | EDUC | School of Education, Psychology, and Counseling | Active | |
| 1232 | EDUC591 | Methods of Educational Research Fundamentals of research methodology are covered. This course examines the forms, methods, and tools of scholarly research which facilitates the development and presentation of a research proposal. Recommended for Instructional Leadership and Outdoor Education students. Credits: 3, Level: Graduate, Offered: SUMMER Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2013 - 2023) Discontinued (2022-01-01) | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | Education (EDUC) | EDUC | School of Education and Psychology | Active | |
| 1233 | EDUC591 | Methods of Educational Research Fundamentals of research methodology are covered. This course examines the forms, methods, and tools of scholarly research which facilitates the development and presentation of a research proposal. Recommended for Instructional Leadership and Outdoor Education students. Credits: 3, Level: Graduate, Offered: SUMMER Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2023 - 2024) Discontinued (2023-01-01) | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | Education (EDUC) | EDUC | School of Education and Psychology | Active | |
| 1234 | EDUC591 | Methods of Educational Research This course includes an examination of the forms, methods, and tools of research conducted in an educational setting for the purpose of improving teaching practice. The fundamentals of action research are covered, which facilitates the development and presentation of a research proposal. Credits: 3, Level: Graduate, Offered: SUMMER Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2024 — Indefinite) | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | Education (EDUC) | EDUC | School of Education, Psychology, and Counseling | Active | |
| 1235 | EDUC595 | Independent Study in Education Individual research/study project in education under the supervision of a graduate studies professor. A total of no more than six Independent Study hours are allowed to apply toward a student's degree. Credits: 1 - 3, Level: Graduate, Offered: VARIABLE Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2002 — Indefinite) | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | Education (EDUC) | EDUC | School of Education, Psychology, and Counseling | Active | |
| 1236 | EDUC598 | Master's Thesis A body of original scholarly work by an individual student. Involves the preparation of a research proposal, under the guidance of a thesis adviser, and its subsequent implementation. The final report will consist of the following sections: (1) Focus of the Study, (2) Review of the Literature, (3) Methodology of the Study, (4) Results of the Study, and (5) Discussion of the Findings. Both the proposal and the final report must be approved by a thesis committee, consisting of the thesis adviser and two other faculty members. The thesis committee must be approved by the School of Education and Psychology. In addition, the student must complete an oral defense of the thesis before their thesis committee, the faculty adviser, the Dean of the School of Education and Psychology, and the Dean of Graduate Studies. The oral defense will typically consist of a visual presentation, followed by a question/answer session. Note: This course must be taken for a total of 6 hours prior to thesis defense. Credits: 3 - 6, Level: Graduate, Offered: VARIABLE Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2009 — Indefinite) | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | Education (EDUC) | EDUC | School of Education, Psychology, and Counseling | Active | |
| 1237 | EESL127 | Grammar for English Language Learners I This course provides an overview of the basic sentence patterns of English and develops the grammar skills necessary for clear written and oral communication. Credits: 3, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: FALL Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2019 — Indefinite) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | English Skills Language (EESL) | EESL | English | Active | |
| 1238 | EESL128 | Grammar for English Language Learners 2 This course continues the overview of the basic sentence patterns of English and develops the grammar skills necessary for clear written and oral communication. Credits: 3, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: WINTER Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2019 — Indefinite) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | English Skills Language (EESL) | EESL | English | Active | |
| 1239 | EESL137 | Writing for English Language Learners I This course offers an introduction to academic writing skills including the study of the steps in the writing process, the parts of the paragraph and basic essay structure. Emphasis on sentence and paragraph structure. Credits: 3, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: FALL Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2019 — Indefinite) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | English Skills Language (EESL) | EESL | English | Active | |
| 1240 | EESL138 | Writing for English Language Learners 2 This course develops academic writing skills, emphasizing the process of planning, writing, revising, and editing paragraphs and essays for a particular audience. Emphasis on proofreading and editing skills. Credits: 3, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: WINTER Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2019 — Indefinite) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | English Skills Language (EESL) | EESL | English | Active | |
| 1241 | EESL147 | Reading and Critical Thinking for Academic Purposes I This course focuses on reading skills for newcomers to the U.S. academic environment. Students will learn critical thinking strategies for approaching academic reading and show understanding through annotation, paraphrase, summary, and notetaking skills. Credits: 3, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: FALL Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2019 — Indefinite) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | English Skills Language (EESL) | EESL | English | Active | |
| 1242 | EESL148 | Reading and Critical Thinking for Academic Purposes 2 This course improves the student's ability to handle academic reading and further develops the critical thinking skills demanded for university course work. Students may also be exposed to library and research skills. Credits: 3, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: WINTER Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2019 — Indefinite) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | English Skills Language (EESL) | EESL | English | Active | |
| 1243 | EESL157 | Oral Skills for Academic Purposes I This course serves to improve oral proficiency for newcomers to the US academic environment. Students will learn language patterns and strategies for coping with group work, oral presentations, and notetaking. Critical thinking skills will be adapted for oral contexts. Credits: 3, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: FALL Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2019 — Indefinite) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | English Skills Language (EESL) | EESL | English | Active | |
| 1244 | EESL158 | Oral Skills for Academic Purposes 2 This course reinforces oral skills in the US academic environment. Students will employ critical thinking skills, appropriate language patterns and adaptive strategies for coping with group work, oral presentations, lectures, and workplace expectations. Credits: 3, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: WINTER Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2019 — Indefinite) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | English Skills Language (EESL) | EESL | English | Active | |
| 1245 | EESL195 | Directed Study Customized language practice designed to practice targeted language skills such as vocabulary development, test preparation, accent improvement, or other skills not covered through regular EESL courses. Credits: 1 - 3, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: VARIABLE Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2019 — Indefinite) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | English Skills Language (EESL) | EESL | English | Active | |
| 1246 | ELIT175 | Transformative Texts (IN-10) This course offers first-year students an opportunity for lively discussion of accessible, yet important, literary texts in a small-group setting. The emphasis will be on developing collegiality, cultural literacy, and more sophisticated reading and analysis skills. The content of individual seminars will be determined by English department faculty. This course does not count toward an English major or minor. Credits: 3, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: VARIABLE Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2019 — Indefinite) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | English Literature (ELIT) | ELIT | English | Active | |
| 1247 | ELIT214 | Survey of American Literature (IN-10) A study of representative selections from major American authors, from the pre-colonial period to the present, with emphasis on literature as it relates to history, spirituality, and aesthetic analysis. Credits: 3, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: FALL | WINTER Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2008 - 2024) Discontinued (2023-01-01) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | English Literature (ELIT) | ELIT | English | Active | |
| 1248 | ELIT214 | Survey of American Literature (IN-10) A study of representative selections from major American authors, from the pre-colonial period to the present, with emphasis on literature as it relates to history, spirituality, and aesthetic analysis. Credits: 3, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: FALL | WINTER Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2024 — Indefinite) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | English Literature (ELIT) | ELIT | English | Active | |
| 1249 | ELIT215 | Survey of English Literature (IN-10) A study of representative selections by British writers, with special emphasis on the author's philosophy as compared or contrasted with Bible-based thinking, and a review of literary trends and influences from the late Roman period to the present. Among writers receiving strong attention are Chaucer, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, and Wordsworth. Credits: 3, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: FALL | WINTER Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2008 - 2024) Discontinued (2023-01-01) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | English Literature (ELIT) | ELIT | English | Active | |
| 1250 | ELIT215 | Survey of English Literature (IN-10) A study of representative selections by British writers, with special emphasis on the author's philosophy as compared or contrasted with Bible-based thinking, and a review of literary trends and influences from the late Roman period to the present. Among writers receiving strong attention are Chaucer, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, and Wordsworth. Credits: 3, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: FALL | WINTER Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2024 — Indefinite) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | English Literature (ELIT) | ELIT | English | Active | |
| 1251 | ELIT216 | Approaches to Literature (IN-10) In this course students read and interpret short stories, poems, and drama in terms of current literary theories. Students acquire the basic tools and vocabulary to analyze a variety of diverse works including the Bible as literature. Students have interactive opportunities to develop philosophical and professional values which can guide them in making wise reading and viewing decisions. Credits: 3, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: WINTER Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2008 — Indefinite) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | English Literature (ELIT) | ELIT | English | Active | |
| 1252 | ELIT265 | Topics in Literature Selected topics designed to meet the needs or interests of students in literature. Subjects covered will determine how the class applies to the major or minor. This course may be repeated for credit. Credits: 1 - 3, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: VARIABLE Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2021 — Indefinite) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | English Literature (ELIT) | ELIT | English | Active | |
| 1253 | ELIT295 | Directed Study The content of this course will be adjusted to meet the particular needs of the student. This course may be repeated for credit. Credits: 1 - 3, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: VARIABLE Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2008 - 2023) Discontinued (2022-01-01) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | English Literature (ELIT) | ELIT | English | Active | |
| 1254 | ELIT295 | Independent Study The content of this course will be adjusted to meet the particular needs of the student. This course may be repeated for credit. Credits: 1 - 3, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: VARIABLE Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2023 — Indefinite) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | English Literature (ELIT) | ELIT | English | Active | |
| 1255 | ELIT309 | Readings in English The content of this course will be adjusted to meet the particular needs of the student. This course may be repeated for credit. Credits: 1, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: FALL | WINTER Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2018 — Indefinite) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | English Literature (ELIT) | ELIT | English | Active | |
| 1256 | ELIT316 | Literary Criticism A study of contemporary critical theory as it applies to literature and culture, with emphasis on using a variety of critical approaches to analyze literary texts. Critical approaches include Psychoanalytic, Feminist, Marxist, Structuralist, Deconstructionist, New Historicist, and Postcolonialist. Credits: 3, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: FALL Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2024 — Indefinite) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | English Literature (ELIT) | ELIT | English | Active | |
| 1257 | ELIT323 | A Destiny in Reserve: American Classics of the Nineteenth Century (IN-10) (W) A chronological study of some of the most significant works of American literature written during the nineteenth century. Credits: 3, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: FALL Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2008 — Indefinite) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | English Literature (ELIT) | ELIT | English | Active | |
| 1258 | ELIT330 | Global Literature Global Literature is a thematic introduction to selected literary texts that have greatly influenced culture around the world. This critical exploration of world literature emphasizes how literature is constructed, how it describes the human experience, how cultural movements (historical, intellectual, religious, political, etc.) influence and are influenced by the works studied, and how we talk about literature’s interrelationships with time, place, culture, and other contexts. Texts will be selected from a diverse group of authors, traditions, and periods with an emphasis on gaining insights into the foundations of our contemporary global civilization. Credits: 3, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: VARIABLE Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2022 — Indefinite) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | English Literature (ELIT) | ELIT | English | Active | |
| 1259 | ELIT332 | Studies in Medieval Literature (IN-10) (W) A study of literary selections from the English Medieval period. Emphasis placed on the works of Old English poetry (including Beowulf), translations of the Bible ranging from Caedmon in the seventh century to Wycliffe in the fourteenth century, Arthurian legends, Chaucer, sources and analogues of the works, and twentieth-century criticism. Credits: 3, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: FALL Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2008 — Indefinite) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | English Literature (ELIT) | ELIT | English | Active | |
| 1260 | ELIT333 | Poets and Other Radicals of the English Renaissance (1485-1608) (IN-10) (W) Henry VIII's actions unleashed a swirl of debate over responsibilities previously monitored by Rome. Authors in the English Renaissance dispute matters of conscience, obedience, allegiance, wealth, work, honor, law, superstition, worship, and doctrine. Emphasis placed on the works of Skelton, Wyatt, Tyndale, Latimer, Thomas More, John Foxe, Spencer, Sydney, and Shakespeare. Credits: 3, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: WINTER Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2008 — Indefinite) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | English Literature (ELIT) | ELIT | English | Active | |
| 1261 | ELIT335 | The Bible as Literature (IN-10) (W) A study of the literary masterpieces of the Bible in translation. The course applies techniques of close reading to various biblical genres such as narrative, lyric, proverb, parable, speech, and epistle. Credits: 3, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: FALL Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2011 — Indefinite) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | English Literature (ELIT) | ELIT | English | Active | |
| 1262 | ELIT337 | A Beautiful Empire: British Classics of the Nineteenth Century (IN-10) (W) A chronological study of the most significant works of British literature from 1798-1901. Credits: 3, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: FALL Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2008 — Indefinite) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | English Literature (ELIT) | ELIT | English | Active | |
| 1263 | ELIT338 | Modernist Writers (IN-10) (W) The early twentieth century was a time of great literary experimentation as literary Modernists rose to the challenge to “make it new.” This course explores Modernism’s stylistic experimentation while considering the contexts and changes that shaped this literature. The course examines a range of writers, genres, movements, and locations which prompt us to consider what, when, and where was Modernism. Credits: 3, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: FALL Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2024 — Indefinite) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | English Literature (ELIT) | ELIT | English | Active | |
| 1264 | ELIT338 | Twentieth-Century Writers (IN-10) (W) A study of significant texts, theories, and trends of the twentieth century. This reading and writing intensive course will focus on Anglophonic work from English, Irish, Scottish, American, and Canadian authors, in addition to concepts of modernism, postmodernism, and literary theory. Credits: 3, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: FALL Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2008 - 2024) Discontinued (2023-01-01) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | English Literature (ELIT) | ELIT | English | Active | |
| 1265 | ELIT340 | C. S. Lewis (IN-10) (W) A survey and critical study of the literature of C. S. Lewis. His major fictional works, autobiography, and theological works are selected for study from the post-conversion period of Lewis's life. Critical literary theorists and primary source authors are examined in connection with the literature. The course will focus on issues of faith and on literary techniques as demonstrated in this popular twentieth century author's various literary genres. This class does not count toward a major or minor in English. Credits: 3, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: WINTER Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2016 — Indefinite) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | English Literature (ELIT) | ELIT | English | Active | |
| 1266 | ELIT342 | African American Literature (IN-10) (W) African American Literature is a study of major periods, genres, and theories of African American literature to show the breadth and variety of the African American literary tradition and the ways in which African Americans have contributed to, been influenced by, and transformed America. Credits: 3, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: WINTER Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2018 — Indefinite) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | English Literature (ELIT) | ELIT | English | Active | |
| 1267 | ELIT346 | Shakespeare (IN-10) (W) Celebrated as the greatest of English writers, Shakespeare continues to influence world culture. This course employs a variety of critical strategies to read and discuss several plays. Topics discussed include authority and ethical government, art and the shaping of history, social unity and the influence of the theatre, staging and performance, music and costume, superstition and magic, identity and the self, honor and cowardice, and obedience and the conscience. Students will attend a professional performance of a selected Shakespeare play. Credits: 3, Lab Fee 04 ($30), Level: Undergraduate, Offered: WINTER ODD YEARS Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2020 — Indefinite) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | English Literature (ELIT) | ELIT | English | Active | |
| 1268 | ELIT417 | Intercultural Contexts: Literatures of Power, Place, and People (IN-10) (W) A study of diverse international literature. This reading and writing intensive course will focus specifically on literature of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with special attention to texts that address the imperialist project and its aftereffects, as represented in indigenous and postcolonial cultures. The course material will also investigate how representations of the Other, concepts of moral responsibility, and preoccupations with Western degeneration structure political and cultural boundaries, which are countered and critiqued by those from margins of society. Credits: 3, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: WINTER Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2008 — Indefinite) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | English Literature (ELIT) | ELIT | English | Active | |
| 1269 | ELIT425 | Literature of the South (IN-10) (W) This course considers literary works from important writers of the American South including Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, and others. Credits: 3, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: WINTER Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2012 — Indefinite) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | English Literature (ELIT) | ELIT | English | Active | |
| 1270 | ELIT430 | Library Materials for Young Adults A survey of the variety of books and related materials available for grades 6-12. Designed for prospective teachers in SDA junior and senior academies as well as those in public middle and high schools, this course correlates critical evaluation and selection to the uses and specific needs of young adults as they develop their reading habits and skills. Includes a study of censorship and copyright law. Credits: 2, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: FALL Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2008 - 2022) Discontinued (2021-01-01) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | English Literature (ELIT) | ELIT | English | Active | |
| 1271 | ELIT430 | Young Adult Literature A study of the growing body of literature written for and marketed to young adults in grades 6-12. The course considers how young adult literature both shapes and responds to its cultural moment, including issues like identity, diversity, technology, education, and mental health. Students also consider censorship and discernment in text selection. Prospective teachers will take a 2-hour version of this course, which will include development of curriculum materials. Credits: 2, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: FALL Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2022 — Indefinite) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | English Literature (ELIT) | ELIT | English | Active | |
| 1272 | ELIT431 | Young Adult Literature A study of the growing body of literature written for and marketed to young adults in grades 6-12. The course considers how young adult literature both shapes and responds to its cultural moment, including issues like identity, diversity, technology, education, and mental health. Students consider censorship and discernment in text selection. Students enrolled in the 3-hour course investigate the historical development of young adult literature and produce a substantial analytical paper. Credits: 3, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: FALL Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2022 — Indefinite) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | English Literature (ELIT) | ELIT | English | Active | |
| 1273 | ELIT444 | Restoration, Revolution, and Reason: British Classics of the Eighteenth Century (1660-1800) (IN-10) (W) New freedoms of the 1688-1689 English revolution created a market-driven press where writers competed to entertain or to improve society. Included are poets, preachers, and essayists such as Milton, Dryden, Pope, Thomson, and John Wesley; dramatists such as Goldsmith and Sheridan; novelists such as Bunyan, Swift, Defoe, and Johnson; and authors of travel and slave narratives such as Olaudah Equiano and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Credits: 3, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: WINTER Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2008 — Indefinite) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | English Literature (ELIT) | ELIT | English | Active | |
| 1274 | ELIT445 | Ancient Classics (IN-10) (W) After beginning with the three great epics that underlie the literature of the Western World---the Iliad, the Odyssey, and The Book of Job---the course considers a range of Greek and Roman works. Collateral emphasis is on enhancing a student's ability to distinguish between classical Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian modes of thought. Credits: 3, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: FALL Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2008 — Indefinite) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | English Literature (ELIT) | ELIT | English | Active | |
| 1275 | ELIT450 | You, Me, We: Identity, Society, Culture, and Politics in Contemporary Literature (W) This reading and writing intensive course is a study of contemporary literary texts, theories, trends, and contexts with a focus specifically on literature since 1990. Course material will address key concerns and innovative trends of current writing, including the ways in which literature depicts the individual in relation to wider social, political, cultural, and global contexts. Topics may include but are not limited to: identity politics; censorship and the individual; medical humanities; modernity, globalization, and postnationalism; psychogeography, geopolitics, and the environment. Credits: 3, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: WINTER EVEN YEARS Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2019 — Indefinite) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | English Literature (ELIT) | ELIT | English | Active | |
| 1276 | ELIT463 | Literary Criticism A survey of modern approaches to literary criticism, including Psychoanalytic, Feminist, Marxist, Structuralist, Deconstructionist, New Historicist, and Postcolonialist. Credits: 3, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: FALL Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2013 - 2024) Discontinued (2023-01-01) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | English Literature (ELIT) | ELIT | English | Active | |
| 1277 | ELIT465 | Topics in Literature (W) Selected topics in literature presented in a classroom setting. Subjects covered will determine how the class applies to the major. This course may be repeated for credit. Credits: 1 - 3, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: FALL | WINTER Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2008 — Indefinite) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | English Literature (ELIT) | ELIT | English | Active | |
| 1278 | ELIT468 | Milton Seminar (IN-10) (W) In this class, Milton's brilliant mind engages our community of scholars in his vibrant and antagonistic debates about the freedoms of conscience, speech, assembly, and the press. Students read Milton's major epics, polemical prose, and poetry. Milton's work is also contextualized by other early seventeenth-century poets such as Donne, Herbert, Marvell, Herrick, and Crashaw. Credits: 3, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: WINTER ODD YEARS Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2020 — Indefinite) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | English Literature (ELIT) | ELIT | English | Active | |
| 1279 | ELIT490 | Senior Capstone This course is for senior English majors only, to be taken during the semester prior to the final semester before graduation. The work consists of essay writing, portfolio preparation, an oral assessment, and reviewing for and taking the Major Field Test, Literature in English. English majors must score at or above the 50th percentile on the Major Field Test, with acceptable performance on essays, portfolio, and the oral assessment, in order to earn a Pass. A student may earn a grade of Honors ("A" on the transcript), Pass, or Fail. One must earn at least a Pass in order to graduate as an English major. Credits: 1, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: FALL | WINTER Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2010 — Indefinite) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | English Literature (ELIT) | ELIT | English | Active | |
| 1280 | ELIT495 | Directed Study See ELIT 295 for course description. Credits: 1 - 3, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: VARIABLE Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2008 - 2023) Discontinued (2022-01-01) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | English Literature (ELIT) | ELIT | English | Active | |
| 1281 | ELIT495 | Independent Study The content of this course will be adjusted to meet the particular needs of the student. This course may be repeated for credit. Credits: 1 - 3, Level: Undergraduate, Offered: VARIABLE Catalog: ✔️ Undergraduate (2023 — Indefinite) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | English Literature (ELIT) | ELIT | English | Active | |
| 1282 | EMAT505 | Foundations of Education This course includes an examination of teaching as a profession, foundations in the history of education, as well as current issues and trends. Students participate in a variety of field experiences to enhance their understanding of the field. Students will be required to show evidence of passing a TN Bureau of Investigation background check prior to participating in field experiences. Credits: 1, Level: Graduate, Offered: ALL SEMESTERS Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2022 — Indefinite) | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | Education Master of Arts in Teaching (EMAT) | EMAT | School of Education, Psychology, and Counseling | Active | |
| 1283 | EMAT507 | Educational Technology This course examines best methods for the integration of technology in education. Credits: 1, Level: Graduate, Offered: FALL | SUMMER Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2022 — Indefinite) | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | Education Master of Arts in Teaching (EMAT) | EMAT | School of Education, Psychology, and Counseling | Active | |
| 1284 | EMAT508 | Bible Methods, Elementary An introduction to the pedagogical knowledge, skills, and dispositions related to the effective teaching of religion and spiritual commitment. Candidates become familiar with the Transformational Planning Framework and Spiritual Growth Model that serve as the philosophical basis for the Encounter Bible curriculum. Instructional planning and assessment are based on the pedagogical strategies outlined in the Encounter units for 1st-8th grades. A required field experience provides opportunity for application of knowledge, skills, and dispositions. Action research component. (Required for NAD licensure only.) Credits: 2, Level: Graduate, Offered: FALL Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2022 — Indefinite) | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | Education Master of Arts in Teaching (EMAT) | EMAT | School of Education, Psychology, and Counseling | Active | |
| 1285 | EMAT510 | Master of Arts in Teaching Candidacy This pass-fail course assesses a student’s readiness to become a teacher education candidate. This course is a requirement for Transition Two in the Teacher Education Program. Coursework includes meeting with the education program adviser to ensure requirements for Transition Two have been met. Although the student consults directly with the adviser, it is the Teacher Education Council that votes completion of this transition. To continue in the Teacher Education Program, a student must first receive a Pass in this course. Students become eligible to register for this class after 9 hours of coursework have been successfully completed. Credits: 0, Level: Graduate, Offered: ALL SEMESTERS Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2022 - 2024) Discontinued (2023-01-01) | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | Education Master of Arts in Teaching (EMAT) | EMAT | School of Education and Psychology | Active | |
| 1286 | EMAT510 | Master of Arts in Teaching Candidacy This pass-fail course assesses a student’s readiness to become a teacher education candidate. This course is a requirement for Transition Two in the Teacher Education Program. Coursework includes meeting with the education program adviser to ensure requirements for Transition Two have been met. Although the student consults directly with the adviser, it is the Teacher Education Council that votes completion of this transition. To continue in the Teacher Education Program, a student must first receive a Pass in this course. Students become eligible to register for this class after 9 hours of coursework have been successfully completed. Students must obtain program advisor permission in order to register for this course. Credits: 0, Level: Graduate, Offered: ALL SEMESTERS Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2024 — Indefinite) | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | Education Master of Arts in Teaching (EMAT) | EMAT | School of Education, Psychology, and Counseling | Active | |
| 1287 | EMAT512 | Classroom Management This course includes an overview of educational theories pertaining to the teaching-learning process and classroom management. Principles of effective classroom management and strategies to promote positive relationships, cooperation, conflict resolution are examined with an emphasis on culturally responsive and trauma-informed practice. Action research component. Credits: 3, Level: Graduate, Offered: FALL | WINTER Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2022 — Indefinite) | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | Education Master of Arts in Teaching (EMAT) | EMAT | School of Education, Psychology, and Counseling | Active | |
| 1288 | EMAT518 | Elementary Bible Methods Bridge This bridge course is designed to create the connection between EDCI 522 and EMAT 508. The relationship between the courses includes an introduction to the pedagogical knowledge, skills, and dispositions related to the effective teaching of religion and spiritual commitment. Candidates become familiar with the Transformational Planning Framework and Spiritual Growth Model that serve as the philosophical basis for the Encounter Bible curriculum. Instructional planning and assessment are based on the pedagogical strategies outlined in the Encounter units for 1st-8th grades. This bridge course incorporates fieldwork that provides opportunity for application of knowledge, skills, and dispositions. Action research component. Pre- or co-requisite EDUC 505 and EDCI 522. Credits: 1 - 2, Lab Fee 12 ($300), Level: Graduate, Offered: FALL Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2023 — Indefinite) | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | Education Master of Arts in Teaching (EMAT) | EMAT | School of Education, Psychology, and Counseling | Active | |
| 1289 | EMAT524 | Elementary Math Methods Bridge This bridge course is designed to create the connection between EDCI 526 and EMAT 554. The relationship between the courses includes curriculum organization, materials, methods, and instructional aids with emphasis on standards-based assessment. Attention is given to sequential skill development and to changes in the mathematical contents, technology and pedagogy. Instruction is also provided in lesson planning, assessment, and differentiating instruction to meet the needs of diverse learners. Classroom observation and micro-teaching required. This bridge course incorporates fieldwork that includes an intensive culminating field experience, providing opportunity for application of knowledge, skills, and dispositions. Action research component. Credits: 1 - 2, Lab Fee 12 ($300), Level: Graduate, Offered: FALL Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2023 — Indefinite) | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | Education Master of Arts in Teaching (EMAT) | EMAT | School of Education, Psychology, and Counseling | Active | |
| 1290 | EMAT525 | Elementary Language Arts Methods Bridge This bridge course is designed to create the connection between EDCI 525 and EMAT 555. The relationship between the courses includes a comprehensive study of effective evidence-based language arts principles and instructional methods appropriate for Kindergarten-8th grade. Effective methods and strategies related to both the receptive and expressive language arts (including listening, talking, writing, viewing, and visual representation) are emphasized. Teacher candidates become familiar with frameworks of instruction that support multi-grade contexts, developmentally appropriate practices, and differentiating for diversity. Study is given to assessments that inform instruction in the language arts. This bridge course incorporates a required field experience and provides opportunity for application of knowledge, skills, and dispositions. Action research component Credits: 1 - 2, Lab Fee 12 ($300), Level: Graduate, Offered: FALL Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2023 — Indefinite) | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | Education Master of Arts in Teaching (EMAT) | EMAT | School of Education, Psychology, and Counseling | Active | |
| 1291 | EMAT526 | Elementary Reading Methods Bridge This bridge course is designed to create the connection between EDCI 529 and EMAT 556. The relationship between the courses includes the examination of research on how children become literate and the implications of research on instructional practice. This course focuses on fluency, vocabulary acquisition, comprehension, and close reading of complex text. This course connects to content in previous literacy-specific courses and develops proficiency in the use of more complex teaching strategies and assessments. Classroom observation and micro-teaching is required. This bridge course incorporates fieldwork that includes an intensive culminating field experience. Action research component. Credits: 1 - 2, Lab Fee 12 ($300), Level: Graduate, Offered: WINTER Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2023 — Indefinite) | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | Education Master of Arts in Teaching (EMAT) | EMAT | School of Education, Psychology, and Counseling | Active | |
| 1292 | EMAT527 | Elementary Science & Health Methods Bridge This bridge course is designed to create the connection between EDCI 519, EDCI 527 and EMAT 557. The relationship between the courses include curriculum organization, methods, materials and equipment with emphasis on multi-grade classrooms. Techniques and materials are examined using basic principles of the scientific method. Instruction is also provided in lesson planning, assessment, and differentiating instruction to meet the needs of diverse learners. Classroom observation and micro-teaching are required. This bridge course incorporates fieldwork that includes an intensive culminating field experience, providing opportunity for application of knowledge, skills, and disposition. Action research component. Credits: 1 - 2, Lab Fee 12 ($300), Level: Graduate, Offered: WINTER Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2023 — Indefinite) | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | Education Master of Arts in Teaching (EMAT) | EMAT | School of Education, Psychology, and Counseling | Active | |
| 1293 | EMAT528 | Elementary Social Studies Methods Bridge This bridge course is designed to create the connection between EDCI 523 and EMAT 558. The relationship between the courses includes an introduction to the pedagogical knowledge, skills, and dispositions related to effective instruction and assessment in Social Studies. Teacher candidates become familiar with frameworks of instruction that support standards-based instruction, developmentally appropriate practices, and differentiating for diversity. Classroom observation and micro-teaching are required. This bridge course incorporates fieldwork that includes an intensive culminating field experience, providing opportunity for application of knowledge, skills, and dispositions. Action research component. Credits: 1, Lab Fee 12 ($300), Level: Graduate, Offered: WINTER Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2023 — Indefinite) | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | Education Master of Arts in Teaching (EMAT) | EMAT | School of Education, Psychology, and Counseling | Active | |
| 1294 | EMAT545 | General Methods for Secondary Education This course explores pedagogical knowledge, skills, and dispositions related to effective curriculum planning, differentiated instruction, and assessment in secondary classrooms. Topics also include culturally responsive teaching, trauma-informed practices, and teacher self-assessment and reflection. A required field experience provides opportunity for application of knowledge skills and dispositions. Action research component. Credits: 3, Level: Graduate, Offered: WINTER Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2022 — Indefinite) | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | Education Master of Arts in Teaching (EMAT) | EMAT | School of Education, Psychology, and Counseling | Active | |
| 1295 | EMAT546 | Content Methods for Secondary Education This course combines discussion, guided practice, and actual teaching experiences in middle/high schools. Attention is given to using North American Division and TN Learning Standards to guide instruction and assessment. Secondary teacher candidates become familiar with content pedagogy as well as resources for planning, instruction, assessment, and evaluation. Curriculum and Content Methods is offered in Biology, Chemistry, English, History, Languages, Mathematics, and Physics. A required field experience provides opportunity for application of knowledge, skills, and dispositions. Action research component. Credits: 3, Level: Graduate, Offered: WINTER Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2022 — Indefinite) | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | Education Master of Arts in Teaching (EMAT) | EMAT | School of Education, Psychology, and Counseling | Active | |
| 1296 | EMAT547 | Inclusive Education for Secondary Education This course is based on the assumption that all students are capable of learning. The course seeks to familiarize teacher candidates with the broad range of exceptionalities found in elementary and secondary classrooms. Emphasis is placed on learning to differentiate instruction to meet the needs of diverse students in inclusive classrooms, with an emphasis on students who are English language learners. Students are also introduced to the Response to Intervention model, including universal screening instruments and the three tiers of instruction and assessment. Action research component. Credits: 3, Level: Graduate, Offered: FALL | SUMMER Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2022 — Indefinite) | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | Education Master of Arts in Teaching (EMAT) | EMAT | School of Education, Psychology, and Counseling | Active | |
| 1297 | EMAT549 | Teaching Writing in Grades 6-12 In this course candidates become familiar with the ELA writing standards for 6th - 12th grades. These standards guide the development of a writing unit that uses the writing process to create text focused on the use of textual evidence. Planning includes identifying the central focus, including the language function, and aligning standards, clear learning targets, mentor texts, assessments, and instructional pedagogies to support mastery of the language function. A key assessment is the performance assessment, which includes enacting the unit. Action research component. Credits: 3, Level: Graduate, Offered: FALL | SUMMER Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2022 — Indefinite) | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | Education Master of Arts in Teaching (EMAT) | EMAT | School of Education, Psychology, and Counseling | Active | |
| 1298 | EMAT551 | Literature for Children This course includes a survey of children’s literature in its various genres. Attention is given to close reading techniques used to guide elementary students in the analysis of both narrative and informational text as well as in the selection of literature. Credits: 2, Level: Graduate, Offered: FALL | SUMMER Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2022 — Indefinite) | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | Education Master of Arts in Teaching (EMAT) | EMAT | School of Education, Psychology, and Counseling | Active | |
| 1299 | EMAT552 | Art Methods, Elementary Designed to help prepare students to be effective teachers of art at the elementary and middle school levels, the course includes experience observing and teaching in elementary and/or middle school art classrooms, development of a teaching file and effective lesson plans, and examination of the stages of artistic development and appropriate art lessons and teaching strategies for each age group. Credits: 1, Level: Graduate, Offered: SUMMER Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2022 — Indefinite) | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | Education Master of Arts in Teaching (EMAT) | EMAT | School of Education, Psychology, and Counseling | Active | |
| 1300 | EMAT553 | Foundations of Literacy This course examines research and its implications on the development of literacy with a focus on theoretical knowledge and pedagogical skills to assist in making data-informed instructional decisions for teaching reading, writing, language, speaking and listening using integrated literacy practices in primary grade classrooms. Candidates are engaged in planning, instruction, and assessment with an emphasis on instruction and assessment. Topics relate to the development of phonemic awareness, phonics, literacy processes, spelling, and oral language. A performance assessment will be submitted that includes a comprehensive unit design. A required field experience provides opportunity for application of knowledge, skills, and dispositions. Action Research Component. Credits: 3, Level: Graduate, Offered: FALL Catalog: ✔️ Graduate (2022 — Indefinite) | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | Education Master of Arts in Teaching (EMAT) | EMAT | School of Education, Psychology, and Counseling | Active |