Curriculum and Instruction Course Listing

Core Curriculum
18 CI 701: Masters Research Seminar: Curriculum and Instruction (3 hrs)
Learn about research and bibliographic methods in curriculum and instruction; analytic, evaluative writing about research; use of research facilities.

18 CI 702: Inquiry into Teaching and Learning (3 hrs)
This course explores various modes, formal and informal, for posing and pursuing questions about teaching and learning. Emphasis is on teachers as knowledge generators.

18 CI 703: The Role of Teachers in a Democratic Society (3 hrs)
Builds on the theoretical, philosophical, and practical foundations of what it means to be a teacher in a democratic society, with applications to students’ personal and professional lives.

18 CI 704: Forces Shaping the School Curriculum (3 hrs)
Examines philosophical, historical, political/legislative, and socio-cultural forces shaping school curricula, past and present. The course provides multiple perspectives for identifying and evaluating the consequences of curricular choices.

18 CI 705: Addressing Diversity in the Classroom (3 hrs)
Focuses on the nature of diversity, both in society and in the classroom, and its relationship to what is studied and how it is taught. The course addresses nature and use of culturally responsive pedagogy to enhance learning and the classroom experience.

18 CI 774: Education Technology-Social, Ethical, Legal, and Human Issues (3 hrs)
This course is a critical examination of technology and its impact on society and individuals from an ethical, legal, and social perspective.

18 CI 874: Culminating Experience Option: The Master’s Project
The Master’s Project is an option for graduate students/practitioners who view the M.Ed. as a terminal degree. Projects should produce a tangible product such as a curriculum, literature review, CD/DVD, or action research study. The candidate should be able to explain how their project applied ideas or skills learned in the program to the problem being addressed and why this approach is appropriate. The results of a project should be useful to the candidate and to others in the field.

C&I Curriculum
18 CI 885: Attitude Formation and Change (3 hrs)
Examines theories of attitude formation and change and their application in classroom settings, and presents tools and strategies for assessing student attitudes.

18 CI 785: Improving Instructional Effectiveness (3 hrs)
This course studies teacher behaviors that influence the academic achievement of students.

18 CI 729: Future Directions in Education (3 hrs)
Study of instructional practices in effective schools. Includes models of teaching, classroom management, teaching methods for young adolescents, and methods to increase engaged learning time.

18 CI 782: Classroom Management (3 hrs)
This course emphasizes relationship between instruction and discipline and stresses skills necessary to implement humanistic, interactive, and behavioral models of classroom management.

18 CI 523: Field Experience Practicum (3 hrs)
This course allows students to participate in a special practical experience working in a K-12 classroom. Permission from the Director of Field Experiences must be obtained before registering for this class.

Elective Curriculum

18 SPED 705: Advanced Assistive Technology and Universal Design for Learning (3 hrs)
This course (second in a three-quarter sequence) focuses on design, implementation, and assessment of instructional activities for challenging learners.

18 LTCY 781: Teaching Reading and Writing in ESL (3 hrs)
This course is designed to explore the critical role of reading and writing in second language acquisition through an overview of theories on bi-literacy as well as important components related to acquiring bi-literacy. Basic processes in reading, common errors in L2 students writing, steps in the writing process, developmental stages in reading and writing, various teaching strategies, and practical applications for second language pedagogy for different age groups are discussed and analyzed.

SPED 663: Gifted Education: Introduction (3 hrs)
This course is an introduction to teaching children and youth who are gifted, creative, or talented.  This course is an introduction to the historical foundations and issues related to the schooling, learning, and instruction of students identified as having special educational needs.  The focus of this course is the foundation of knowledge related to problems and characteristics of students identified as gifted, creative, and talented.

18 LTCY 751: Making Meaning from Text (3 hrs)
Examines the various systems that readers and writers use to make meaning from text and how they orchestrate and integrate the various language systems. Also examines current methods for literacy instruction.