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Undergraduate Educational Foundations

2024 Spring Term

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3 Units

COLLEGE LITERACY

EDFOUND 102

In this course, students will learn various active reading strategies and critical reading skills in order to effectively comprehend, apply, analyze, and synthesize information from a variety of texts. The main purpose of this course is to provide students with the necessary active and critical reading skills to succeed in their outside courses. Throughout the course, students will enhance their critical reading and thinking skills as well as their metacognition skills in order to effectively prepare students for complex reading materials in their current and future required college level courses.


3 Units

EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY

EDFOUND 212

This course is intended primarily for prospective secondary school teachers. Among the areas considered are the psychology of teaching, learning theories, memory, development, intelligence, creativity, individual differences, motivation, and classroom management.


1 Units

PORTFOLIO DEVELOPMENT I

EDFOUND 214

This course is designed to enable students to develop their Foundations Block portfolio, which is a requirement for admission to Professional Education.


3 Units

CHILD DEVELOPMENT

EDFOUND 222

A developmental study of the child from conception to the onset of puberty, including physical, psychosocial and cognitive growth.


3 Units

INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

EDFOUND 230

The focus of this course is the study of human development and change throughout the entire lifespan from psychological, sociological, and biological perspectives.


3 Units

YOUTH CULTURE FORMATION: RACE, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY

EDFOUND 241

This course explores how various U.S. institutions construct "youth" as a social category, how those constructions are primarily interlocked with race and ethnicity, and how those constructions subsequently shape youth cultures in multi-faceted, intersectional cultural contexts such as music, gaming, sports, and media.


3 Units

FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATION IN A PLURALISTIC SOCIETY

EDFOUND 243

This course is designed to prepare students to understand and teach in school settings with diverse populations. Attention will be directed to major educational issues, the experiences of students from diverse backgrounds, and the role of the teacher in a pluralistic society.


3 Units

MEASUREMENT AND EVALUATION IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

EDFOUND 424

This class is designed for special education, communicative disorders, and elementary education majors. It includes testing, measurement, and evaluation of student progress in multiple contexts. Teacher testing, assessment, and decision making in the school environments are emphasized as well as examining traditional and performance assessment strategies. Basic statistical procedures, the use and interpretation of standardized tests, appropriate use of non-testing techniques are covered as well as various grading and reporting systems.


3 Units

MEASUREMENT AND EVALUATION IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOL

EDFOUND 425

This class is designed for special education, communicative disorders and secondary education majors. It includes testing , measurement, and evaluation of student progress in multiple contexts and subject areas. Teacher testing, assessment, and decision making in the school environments are emphasized as well as examining traditional and performance assessment strategies. Basic statistical procedures, the use and interpretation of standardized tests, appropriate use of non-testing techniques are covered as well as various grading and reporting systems specific to the secondary school setting.


3 Units

BUILDING EQUITABLE CLASSROOM RELATIONSHIPS

EDFOUND 475

The goal of this course is to prepare future educators to organize and design their classroom environments in a way that builds equitable and sustainable classroom relationships. The course will directly engage philosophies and theories of classroom management, conflict resolution, restorative justice, discipline, relational philosophy, and trauma-informed practices. Across the course, there will be focus on how to practically apply these theories and philosophies in a variety of school contexts to foster equitable learning environments.


3 Units

HUMAN ABILITIES AND LEARNING

EDFOUND 481

This course is designed to help educators comprehend and apply the fundamental psychological principles underlying the teacher-learning process. Among the areas considered are motivation, classroom management, instructional applications, individual differences and creativity.

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