3 hours credit Study of classic and contemporary literature for children. Emphasis on selecting and incorporating a wide variety of literature into the elementary and middle school curriculum. Technological and media resources are included
3 hours credit Develops skills for creating and implementing curricular, instructional and environmental modifications/accommodations to meet the social, affective, behavioral and cognitive needs of exceptional students. In depth study of collaborative processes involving family, community, school staff and special education teachers in developing and implementing IEPs as well as developing the support system necessary for inclusion.
Explores the ability to create and maintain productive learning environments. Emphasis on development of learner responsibility, promotion of positive social relationships, interdependence of effective instruction and management, and prevention/intervention strategies. Consideration given to accommodating diversity and communicating with families. Field experience included.
Deals with a variety of formal and informal assessment techniques, processes and instruments from classroom, state, and national sources used to make appropriate instructional decisions in literacy for diverse populations. Includes early intervention strategies and reporting to parents.
There were three poem books we had to read and three papers that we had to write. The class isn't super hard and she gives some time in class to work on and edit the papers.
The Art of the Drama
ENGL-251
Average GPA: 2.61
Withdraw Rate: 14%
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An introduction to the types of drama in the American, British and Continental traditions.
Focuses on the practice and theory of writing, advanced strategies of writing, and the forms and aims of discourse. Emphasis on effective assignments, evaluation of prose, and the nature and analysis of style.
Study of literature written by and about "queers," including gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, gender-transcendent and intersexed identities. Selected readings derive from antiquity though the present, and are considered in their proper cultural and historical contexts.
A study in literature written by American and British women, primarily during the 19th and 20th centuries. Among writers studied are Bronte, Eliot, Chopin, Wharton, Woolf, Plath, Walker.
Techniques of writing fiction and poetry through reading, analysis and directed writing. Students submit work-in progress for class discussion and a portfolio of poems or stories.
Survey of novels, poems, short stories and plays by "third world" authors. Covers writers from South Asian, African and Middle Eastern nations. Explore the rise of "three worlds theory" in the context of the Cold War and the decolonization struggles in the 1950s and 1960s. Topics include imperialism, colonialism/neocolonialism, identity, nationalism, race and the validity of the "third world" as a political and literary-historical category. Authors may include, but are not limited to, Achebe, Anand, Dangerambga, Habiby, Head, Ngugi, Rachlin, Singh and Soyinka.
Study in literature written by American authors during the Harlem Renaissance period, beginning with the key concept of the period, W.E.B. DuBois' Double Consciousness. Readings include, but not limited to, the poetry of Hughes, McKay, Bennet, Fauset and Cullen; the fiction of Nugent, Fisher, Toomer, Larsen and Walter White.
