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Undergraduate Curriculum & Instruction Gen

2025 Fall Term

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NATURE AND CONSERVATION EDUCATION

CIGENRL 212

This course is designed to help students develop the content knowledge, theory and strategies teachers need to incorporate nature pedagogy into their teaching practices so that children will grow up understanding the human impact on the environment and how to be helpful stewards of it. This course fulfills the conservation requirement for teacher licensure in Wisconsin.

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SURVEY OF EDUCATIONAL LINGUISTICS

CIGENRL 310

In Survey of Educational Linguistics, students will examine certain core areas of linguistics (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics), with special attention to language acquisition and sociolinguistics. Course assignments will relate to the teaching of linguistically diverse communities.

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PEDAGOGICAL TRANSLANGUAGING ACROSS CONTENT AREAS

CIGENRL 330

In this course, students will develop the skills for utilizing pedagogical translanguaging across multiple content areas and grade bands. This includes translanguaging in relationship to disciplinary content knowledge, translanguaging as part of literacy instruction, and translanguaging as part of formative and summative assessment practices.

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INTRODUCTION TO BILINGUAL/BICULTURAL EDUCATION AND ESL

CIGENRL 350

This course explores the social, cultural, and educational issues connected to the experiences in schools of youth who are being raised in families and communities where languages other than English are commonly spoken. Some of these issues are: translanguaging (multilingual) teaching and learning, multicultural education, politics of language education and policy in the US; race, racism, and discrimination in schooling; design and implementation of bilingual and English as a 'Second' Language (ESL) programs; theories of second language acquisition; pedagogy and methods for teaching ESL; the social context of schooling and learning in the US; the role and meaning of culture.

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MULTICULTURAL CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADOLESCENT LITERATURE

CIGENRL 365

This course utilizes children and adolescent literature to teach for social justice. Students will be prepared to critically examine existing literature and develop ways to utilize children and adolescent literature to challenge their own students to critically examine societal norms and expectations with the aim for social justice.

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MULTILINGUAL TEACHING METHODS

CIGENRL 403

Throughout this course, we will examine the intersections of culture and language and learn about processes of language acquisition. This is a field-based methods course, and so we will meet at a local school and work with younger students. Through this collaboration, we will develop an understanding of issues confronting emergent bilingual (EB)/English learner (EL) students, and examine various program models for supporting and expanding students' linguistic repertoires. We will learn methods for integrating the teaching of language and academic content.

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PRE-STUDENT TEACHING SEMINAR

CIGENRL 420

This course is designed to support students in field study during the Secondary Methods Block with opportunities for focused reflection, discussion, and close supervision of preparation for performance assessment tasks.

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PERFORMING JUSTICE: EDUCATIONAL DRAMA FOR SOCIAL CHANGE

CIGENRL 450

This course explores applied theatre, process drama, and other performative art forms as a medium to engage people in both traditional and non-traditional pedagogical settings about social change. Through this artistic approach, students learn to generate a more democratic and dynamic dialogue to address relevant issues within a particular community of people.

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STUDENT TEACHING SEMINAR

CIGENRL 470

Discussion and writing about practical issues of teaching as experienced in the full-time directed teaching semester. Incorporates presentations and panels by experienced educators as well as large- and small-group interaction to promote reflection and inform beginning teachers. Repeatable.

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MIDDLE LEVEL STEAM METHODS APPLYING MODELING, INQUIRY, & DESIGN

CIGENRL 472

This course will help prospective and practicing teachers in grades 6-8 learn methods of instruction in STEAM subjects, using the lens of science and math content knowledge and modeling, inquiry and design practices. Students will learn how to identify, develop, and apply and evaluate STEAM challenges using project-based learning.

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EMPLOYMENT STRATEGIES

CIGENRL 489

Offered on a satisfactory/no credit basis only. Designed to acquaint the teacher education student with the problems and procedures of securing a teaching position. Includes consideration of professional ethics, preparation of placement credentials, teacher licensure practices, interviewing techniques and teaching contracts. Reviews opportunities for professional advancement through graduate study. (Open to teacher education students. Should be taken the semester prior to graduation or the semester of graduation.

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INDEPENDENT STUDY

CIGENRL 498

Study of a selected topic or topics under the direction of a faculty member. Repeatable.