Object-oriented approach to design and implementation of medium to large software projects. Abstract data types including lists, stack and queues. Emphasizes design trade-offs based on analysis of run time and storage requirements. Includes time-intensive assignments
Study and practice of yoga. Focuses on sequences for strength, flexibility, and balance and techniques for breath awareness, meditation and relaxation.
Introduction to the ideas and tools economists use to understand human behavior constrained by scarce resources. Analytical tools introduced include supply and demand analysis, elasticities, and models of perfect and imperfect competition. These tools will be used to study topics such as consumer and producer decision-making, taxation, environmental quality and health care.
Explores forces behind business consumer purchases, capital spending and the balance of payments and their relationship to unemployment, inflation and the value of the dollar abroad. Also examines the effect of government spending, taxation and money supply policies on the economy's performance.
Examines concepts, principles, theories and research related to teaching and learning for diverse populations across grade levels. Explores traditional and nontraditional strategies for assessing student learning. Field experience is included.
ELED 309 involves students in school field placement in which they make classroom observations and/or take part in other professional activities (e.g., team planning) that are appropriate to the methods classes being taken concurrently. Plan to spend at least one hour per week in classroom observations and/or professional activities at field placement for each methods class being taken.
Provides a foundation for examining, integrating and evaluating practical and theoretical issues related to constructing developmentally appropriate programs for infants and toddlers. Emphasis on infant/toddler development, quality of adult-child interactions and the physical environment. Looks at family-school-community partnerships that relate to the child's ability to develop and learn with a focus on the central role of family involvement in early childhood programs. Field experience required.
Focuses on the development of the young child's receptive and expressive language and emergent literacy through play and a rich array of content-related activities. The teacher's role in supporting and facilitating language and literacy development and community building is examined. Issues of language and literacy diversity are also explored.
Developmentally appropriate practices and current research in early childhood curricula areas (including math, social studies and science) are emphasized through inquiry learning and the arts to engage all children, ages 4-6. Techniques in classroom management include the "responsive classroom." Field experience required.
Introduces the processes of communication and strategies for promoting growth in these areas in the elementary and middle school. Emphasis on language acquisition, oral and written language development, viewing, diverse language learners, and the relationship of language proficiency to literacy development. Field experiences and reflective evaluation included
Selection and creation of meaningful mathematics learning experiences for elementary and middle school students. Attention given to use of technology, manipulatives, literature, and assessment that support mathematical thinking and learning in diverse classrooms. Field experiences and reflective evaluation included.
Introduces the processes of science that facilitate student learning in elementary and middle schools. Emphasis on planning, teaching and assessment with a focus on inquiry and understanding of everyday phenomena. Attention given to environmental education. Field experiences and reflective evaluation included.
Selection, organization, presentation and assessment of meaningful social studies learning experiences for elementary and middle school students. Attention given to technolgy, literature, and local resources that support learning in diverse classroom settings. Field experiences and reflective evaluations included.
Provides a basic arts knowledge base along with reasons and techniques for incorporating the arts throughout the elementary and middle-school curriculum. Emphasizes infusing the art in teaching, an alternative approach to the traditional view of the arts soley enjoyable "add-ons."
Overview of the role of computers in education. Examination of computer applications as they relate to specific teaching/learning operations and educational functions in the pre-K-12 classroom.
