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2021-2022 Edgewood College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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CS 302 - Agile Info System Engineering Pt 2
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
In this course students expand upon their work on the web oriented, database connected projects started in CS 301 (Part 1) by enhancing their ability to identify and address changing requirements. Students manage backlogs and burnout charts, iterate using Sprints and complete required testing and quality assurance.
Prerequisite(s): CS 301
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CS 305 - Introduction to Data Analytics
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course is intended to give students the grounding principles of data analysis. Students will be exposed to different frameworks of scientific interaction with the data and ways to reduce uncertainty in order to get better decision-making results.
Offered Fall
Prerequisite(s): CS 165 or CS 179; and MATH 256
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CS 315 - Introduction to Machine Learning
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
In this course students will get a foundation indifferent machine learning models and algorithms. Topics may include supervised and unsupervised learning, Bayesian decision theory, neural networks, stochastic methods and cluster analysis. Students will learn how these models may solve complex real-life problems such as data mining, autonomous navigation, speech recognition, robotic control, bioinformatics, image recognition, and many others.
Offered Fall
Prerequisite(s): CS 165 or CS 179; and MATH 256
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CS 320A K - Soc & Prof Issues in Is/It: Majors
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course is seminar based, community oriented and involves research into the topics of codes of ethics, ethical decision making, and the ways in which our ‘wired world’ present challenges to living an authentic life. Students are expected to develop and refine their own personal mission statements. To explore what it means to live and contribute to a just and compassionate world, students select from a potential list of professional issues, develop strategies to explore the issues in detail, using a semi-structured qualitative research method. Using an iterative approach, students begin by exploring their own values and assumptions about the chosen issue, then select, interview and explore the views and perspectives of members of the Edgewood College community, the greater Madison community and the global community. While developing a greater awareness of the chosen professional issue, students construct a community space to house the results of their work. Near the end of the semester, students provide a series of public presentations to members of the Edgewood College, Madison, and global communities. Cross-listed CS 320B 2K
Offered Fall
Prerequisite(s): Departmental major, ENG 110 or W cornerstone, COMMS 100 or completion/current enrollment in O cornerstone. For Majors only.
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CS 320B 2K - Soc & Prof Issues in Is/It: Non-Maj
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course is seminar based, community oriented and involves research into the topics of codes of ethics, ethical decision making, and the ways in which our ‘wired world’ present challenges to living an authentic life. Students are expected to develop and refine their own personal mission statements. To explore what it means to live and contribute to a just and compassionate world, students select from a potential list of professional issues, develop strategies to explore the issues in detail, using a semi-structured qualitative research method. Using an iterative approach, students begin by exploring their own values and assumptions about the chosen issue, then select, interview and explore the views and perspectives of members of the Edgewood College community, the greater Madison community and the global community. While developing a greater awareness of the chosen professional issue, students construct a community space to house the results of their work. Near the end of the semester, students provide a series of public presentations to members of the Edgewood College, Madison, and global communities. Cross-listed CS 320A K
Offered Fall
Prerequisite(s): ENG 110 or W cornerstone, COMMS 100 or completion/current enrollment in O cornerstone.
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CS 330 - Network & Information Security
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
The securing of networks pose some of the most complex challenges to the Information Systems/Technology professional. Students explore various methods used to secure a network with commonly used tools and encryption strategies. Network security skills are developed through a series of hands-on activities, ensuring that students acquire and apply effective network security techniques, regardless of type of connected devices. The concepts of cybersecurity are introduced and will be explored further in CS 485 .
Prerequisite(s): CS 220
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CS 340 - Advanced OOP and Data Structures
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course builds upon CS 180 - Object Oriented Programming in Java , and will: deepen students’ understanding of core principles of Object-Oriented Programming including Encapsulation, Inheritance, and Polymorphism; will cover topics such Exception Handling, I/O Streams, Event Handling, and will introduce students to different types of Data Structures.
Prerequisite(s): CS 180 and CS 270 .
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CS 379 - Independent Study - Computer Sci
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Topics and credits to be arranged.
Prerequisite(s): consent of instructor.
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CS 430 - Information Security & Network Mgmt
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
The securing and management of networks poses some of the most complex challenges to the Information Systems/Technology professional. This course, designed to follow CS 220 , explores various methods used to secure a network, including commonly used encryption algorithms. Effective network management techniques ensure that all types of information travel the network in an efficient manner.
Prerequisite(s): CS 220 .
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CS 470 - Internship in Computer Science
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This internship course supports students completing an internship experience in the field of computing and information technology. Students undertake a significant engaged learning opportunity, integrating theories learned in the classroom with engaged activities in internship opportunities, and developing skills in preparation for future employment or graduate school studies. The internship is designed to provide students an opportunity to examine implications of their studies and to gain skills to enable them to be successful professionals.
Students complete this course as part of the internship requirement for the major. Students need to have either completed or be currently pursuing an internship in the field of computing for a minimum of 50 hours per credit. The internship class may be taken for 1-3 credits following the minimum 50 hours/credit model.
Offered Fall, Spring
Prerequisite(s): Junior standing in the major or minor; consent of department.
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CS 479 - Independent Study - Computer Sci
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Topics and credits to be arranged.
Prerequisite(s): consent of instructor.
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CS 480 - Advanced Web Development Strategies
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course is designed to give students the opportunity to enhance and enrich their skills in web programming and covers various current advanced web development techniques. Students will learn to develop mobile-friendly responsive web applications that use three-tier architecture, session management, object-oriented techniques, and advanced database interactions. Topics may include, but are not limited to: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery, Bootstrap, AJAX, JSON, XML and PHP. Students will work both independently and as a class through units of instruction in order to develop a variety of web development skills. Upon completion, they will be able to design and develop database driven web applications according to industry standards.
Prerequisite(s): CS 175 or CS 176; and CS 270
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CS 485 - Introduction to Cyber Security
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course will provide a basic introduction to security in all cyber-physical systems. Topics will include policies and procedures, legal aspects, network communication, security management and cryptography.
Prerequisite(s): CS 330
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CS 490 - Research in Computer Sciences
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 2
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Under the supervision of a faculty member of the CIS department, this course provides students the opportunity to conduct research in a topic of their choosing to deepen their knowledge in a particular area of the Computing profession.
Offered Fall, Spring
Prerequisite(s): CS 270, and completion of or concurrent enrollment of any other 300 or 400 level CS course
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CS 492 3 - Capstone Project
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
As an integrating course combining all of the elements of successful system development, this is the capstone course for the CIS major. This course is intended to provide the students with an opportunity to implement and complete a project in support of an Edgewood College Community Partner. Working in teams, the students utilize formal project management structures and processes. Through an examination of technologies used for communication, with a special focus on the emerging emphasis on technologies used for social networking, the students completing this community service project will consider this question: As members of the IS/IT profession, in what ways do their roles as purveyors of technology impact and are impacted by the constant shift of technological platform and how does this constant change shape their views. This question will be examined from three contexts: 1) organizations in which they work; 2) their personal lives; and 3) the lives of others with whom they interact. The class will develop a system in accordance with client specifications and present its final results to departments and peers of the college.
Offered Spring
Prerequisite(s): COR 2, CS 270, and one of the combinations: CS 340 & CS 315 or CS 480 & CS 302.
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COR 101 1 - Wisconsin’s Alcohol Culture
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This course provides an opportunity to: (1) explore personal beliefs and values around alcohol use and (2) understand connections to the unique Wisconsin alcohol culture. Areas of exploration include: study the Wisconsin cultural perspectives on alcohol use; study the biological impacts of alcohol use; reflect on personal, family and community experiences of alcohol use and abuse; and act through making deliberate, conscious personal choices on alcohol use. In this class you should expect to participate in several excursions into the community outside of, and in addition to class time (primarily nights and weekends). Transportation is arranged.
Prerequisite(s): This course is for first semester freshman or freshman transfer students.
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COR 103 1 - Disability Awareness & Advocacy
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
The purpose of the course is to embrace the motto, “we are more alike than different.” This course is designed to enrich students’ understanding and appreciation of students with high incidence and low incidence intellectual disabilities. The course objective is to enrich students’ understanding and appreciation of people with disabilities. We will explore person-first language, disability rights, and how to best support and advocate for people with disabilities. Together we will build a community founded around compassion and partnership of all abilities, focused on creating a more just and compassionate world. This course requires mentoring a student from the Cutting-Edge program.
Offered Fall
Prerequisite(s): This course is for first semester freshman students or freshman transfer students.
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COR 105 1K - Humor: Always a Laughing Matter?
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
We will look at the verbal and nonverbal symbols used in humor from a variety of perspectives. You will have a chance to share the humor you enjoy and speculate on how it reflects your identity. We’ll also take a broader societal and historical view of humor. Has our understanding of humor evolved through the history of western civilization? Has it always been just entertainment or has it played a role in interpersonal relations, health, commerce, politics and /or as a reflection of culture? Can we detect ways in which the use of humor might be adapted for the betterment of self and society? This course requires at least one off-campus field trip on a weekend.
Prerequisite(s): Concurrent enrollment in COMMS 100 ; this course is for first semester freshmen or freshmen transfer students.
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COR 115 1Q - Gender & the Medical Professions
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This course examines the history and current trends in health-related professions as they relate to the gender distribution of practitioners. These fields include medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and pharmacy, as well as the relatively newer professions such as physical therapist and physician assistant. We will study the interaction of societal gender roles with career selection and the experiences of professionals within health fields, especially experiences of discouragement and discrimination. We will reflect on the results of our studies and propose actions that you take in determining your career path.
Prerequisite(s): This course is for first semester freshmen or freshmen transfer students.
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COR 117 1 - Gender and Liberation
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This course examines the relationship of gender, and our assumptions about gender, to both individual freedom and broad notions of civil and human rights. We will use popular culture, research based in Sociology, and autobiographical writing to explore gender socialization in the context of social movements of the past 150 years: women’s suffrage, second wave feminism, gay liberation, and marriage equality. This course also addresses the intersection of discrimination based on gender with other forms of discrimination, and considers ways in which people have resisted the resulting oppression.
Prerequisite(s): First year students only.
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COR 118 1 - Belonging & Marginalization
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
The dominant white, northern European culture in the U.S. creates insiders and outsiders, and affects the way we see ourselves. In this class, we will study the dominant culture and experiences of marginalization and trauma within it. Examples of those experiences may include homelessness, incarceration, and surviving sexual assault. We will explore emerging understanding of how to respond to trauma in our community, and also focus on the importance of self compassion. Our understanding of trauma will be informed by basic knowledge from neuroscience. This discussion based course will provide students with opportunities to work in circle, and develop skills for building community in and outside the classroom.
Offered Fall
Course Fee: $20
Prerequisite(s): This course is for first semester freshman students and freshman transfer students.
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COR 120 1 - Liberal Arts in Dominican Tradition
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Can education combat evil? Did St. Augustine help write The Matrix? Is it true that the more you learn, the less you know? Who knew these questions relate to the liberal arts, which are one of the oldest and most influential institutions in the human experience? In this course, we examine different conceptions and applications of the liberal arts across the Western Tradition, including leadership in public life, the problem of evil, specialization and professionalism, and Edgewood’s own tradition of liberal arts, using original texts including those from Cicero, St. Augustine, Francis Bacon, John Dewey, and more. Beyond the classroom, we talk philosophy around a bonfire, discuss leadership in the halls of the state Capitol, ask mentors about the problem of evil, and discuss hopes and dreams at a “salon.”
Prerequisite(s): Concurrent enrollment in PHIL 101 is required. This course is for first semester freshmen or freshmen transfer students.
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COR 121 1 - Justice & Compassion for Animals
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Have you ever thought about what the world might look like from outside a human perspective? This class explores the consciousness, emotion and experience of non-human beings, as well as their interactions with humans. We will study the evidence for similarities between humans and other species, while asking questions about the roles of justice and compassion in our relationship with them. Other species will be part of the class experience, through class visits and a trip to Heartland Farm Sanctuary.
Offered Fall
Prerequisite(s): Concurrent enrollment in a “T” tagged course is required. This course is for first semester freshmen or freshmen transfer students.
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COR 148 1 - A Hero’s Journey: Identity & Myth
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Have you ever thought about your life as if you were on a Quest? What would you do if you suddenly realized you were the protagonist in the middle of an epic tale? In this course, we will read new and current young adult novels, make art, and read and create mythology while exploring and updating Joseph Campbell’s concepts of the “Hero’s Journey.” Novels in this class will include diverse authors and characters, including a variety of races, abilities, genders and gender expressions, LGBT characters and more.
Offered Fall
Course Fee: $15
Prerequisite(s): This course is for first semester freshman students or freshman transfer students.
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COR 199 - Transfer Bridge to COR
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 0
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This course is a 2.5 hour session that satisfies the COR 1 general education requirement for transfer students with 12 credits and above, and those students otherwise approved by the COR Program. Bridge curriculum addresses an introduction to Edgewood’s Dominican tradition, an opportunity to reflect on the COR questions, and a community engagement experience.
Offered Fall, Spring
Prerequisite(s): Transfer student with 12 credits and above, unless otherwise approved by the COR Program.
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COR 250 2D - Conversations in Race and Diversity
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This course is a salon-style forum for students to unpack and explore the many dimensions of race in society and the ongoing challenges of building inclusive communities. Students will have sustained, direct, relevant and in-depth conversations with racial justice activists, individuals and organizations doing inclusive community organizing, social issue advocates, and people working on inclusive reforms in government, education, business and industry, media and other civic groups. This course has expectations for outside of class community engagement.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of COR 1 or COR 199 or COR 199 in progress; two full-time semesters of college credit, excluding retro credits, AP credits, and college credit earned while in high school.
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COR 252 2 - Madison: A Model City
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This course will explore current local issues and how they affect the lives of all of us living in South-central Wisconsin. Possible issues include jobs, schools, safety, politics and kids, as well as new urban living, sustainable agriculture and food policies, the environment and green economy, and civic engagement and public life. Students will meet with community leaders at various sites throughout the Madison area.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of COR 1 or COR 199 or COR 199 in progress; two full-time semesters of college credit, excluding retro credits, AP credits, and college credit earned while in high school.
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COR 253 2 - Community Change & Action
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This course allows students to explore community change questions such as how groups work collectively to encourage change, create a collective vision, build relationships, sustain energy over time, address barriers and celebrate successes. Students will learn about institutional and community-based approaches to change. They will examine the cultural assumptions and community identity underlying change efforts. Participation in a day-long community-based experience required in addition to class time.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of COR 1 or COR 199 or COR 199 in progress; two full-time semesters of college credit, excluding retro credits, AP credits, and college credit earned while in high school.
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COR 254 2 - Intro to Restorative Justice
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Students will learn about concepts of restorative justice such as the three dimensions of harm when a crime is committed and the peacemaking circle as a tool to transform brokenness into a place of healing. They will learn how to create consensus, build community, incorporate the process into a community-based setting, and create positive environments and the means to build community. This class has expectations for outside of class community engagement.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of COR 1 or COR 199 or COR 199 in progress; two full-time semesters of college credit, excluding retro credits, AP credits, and college credit earned while in high school.
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COR 255 2 - Disability: Rights & Citizenship
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This course will give students the ability to be a part of the only program in Wisconsin serving adults with more severe disabilities in higher education. While they learn more about disability in our society and the barriers this population confronts in our community, they will be serving to help them overcome these same barriers. Through a unique collaborative relationship with individuals with severe disabilities, students will be involved in a totally integrated, service learning project of their choosing on and off the Edgewood college campus. Undergraduate students will be paired with Cutting Edge students with like interests and together they will explore becoming engaged citizens. Both will learn and grow while reflecting on the nature of volunteerism and the as powerful change and growth experience in their lives. This class has expectations for outside of class community engagement.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of COR 1 or COR 199 or COR 199 in progress; two full-time semesters of college credit, excluding retro credits, AP credits, and college credit earned while in high school.
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COR 295 2 - Caring for Ourselves, the World
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This COR 2 seminar has been designed as an opportunity to explore the connections between our life work as helping professionals, development as leaders in these careers, and building resilience through self-care and mindfulness. Using the lens of the COR 2 essential questions (Who am I and who could I become? What are the needs and opportunities of the world? What is my role in building a just and compassionate world?), the class will pose such questions as, What are the relationships between self and community, and between personal activities and public service? What responsibilities exist in these relationships? How do social forces (e.g., poverty, racism, and sexism) shape these roles and inform one’s responsibilities? Through reading, discussion, and service activities, students will reflect upon community experiences, how these experiences influence their personal and public worlds, and their personal values in relation to these spheres, while identifying and examining their own value systems as they are situated in the values systems of other contexts, including those of their service sites and the Dominican tradition. Class members must have a concurrent field placement within their majors, and content will be based in part of the experiences of students in these placements.
Course Fee: $40
Prerequisite(s): Completion of COR 1 or COR 199 or COR 199 in progress; two full-time semesters of college credit, excluding retro credits, AP credits, and college credit earned while in high school.
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COR 306 2X - Prison Chronicles, Prisoner Stories
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
It isn’t called “doing time” for nothing. As the hours and unrelenting sameness of routines press in on incarcerated men and women, some struggle, often in isolation, with fundamental questions: Who am I and who could I become? Why am I here? Can I be forgiven? How can I forgive myself? What are the needs and opportunities of the world - this world and that world? What is my role in building a just and compassionate world? The search for answers to these questions is often addressed through writing. Students would also explore prisoner art and music/spoken word and raw - other expressions of story.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of COR 1 or COR 199 or COR 199 in progress; two full-time semesters of college credit, excluding retro credits, AP credits, and college credit earned while in high school.
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COR 312 2 - Beyond Birth: Mental/Emotional
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This interdisciplinary course will delve into the mental/emotional side of birth support drawing on scientific and medical research, and the disciplines of Psychology, Theology, and Sociology. Students will examine the merits and critiques of the dominant medical model, and gain insights from an experienced childbirth educator and birth doula, as well as a variety of birth support professionals and programs in the broader community. Tools to help laboring women remain centered and focused and able to activate their parasympathetic nervous system for gentler birth outcomes will be explored. Students will also personally gain specific tools for realization and focus, as well as an understanding of how these can be of benefit in the birthing process. Recognizing that people come from a variety of experiences with birth, we will also explore the many racial, socio-economic and cultural factors involved. As part of the process, students will be invited to explore their own identity in a deeper way and how that relates to supporting other in connection with the three organizing COR questions.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of COR 1 or COR 199 or COR 199 in progress; two full-time semesters of college credit, excluding retro credits, AP credits, and college credit earned while in high school.
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COR 314 2 - Community, Identity, Service
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This course examines the ethical dimensions of community involvement and provides a platform from which students can assess their own efforts, and community efforts, to address the effects of inequality. We explore the knowledge and skills necessary to make a meaningful difference, and the impact of white cultural assumptions in shaping both community work and identity. Students will learn through experience as mentors to youth involved with Lussier Community Center at either the elementary or middle school program level. Students must complete 10 weeks of work at Lussier as well as attending events in the community, which will be scheduled during class time as much as possible.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of COR 1 or COR 199 or COR 199 in progress; two full-time semesters of college credit, excluding retro credits, AP credits, and college credit earned while in high school.
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COR 316 2 - Mentoring Through Media Arts
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Students in this course will learn about issues faced by young people growing up in an economically marginalized community, and gain experience mentoring young people through media arts such as photojournalism and video. Through pairings with Boys and Girls Club participants, students will build relationships with youth and assist as young people develop skill in using media for self-expression. Mentoring experiences are informed by and integrated with reading on motivating urban youth and other class materials, and provide a foundation from which to learn about the challenges faced by youth, parents and other community members where basic resources are lacking.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of COR 1 or COR 199 or COR 199 in progress; two full-time semesters of college credit, excluding retro credits, AP credits, and college credit earned while in high school.
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COR 320 2D - Madison as Text
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Madison, Wisconsin offers us an exceptional laboratory: capital of a state with abundant but fragile and vulnerable human resources, currently entangled in conflicts to serve the needs of many diverse communities. This course is an opportunity to examine the ways the city of Madison is shaped by a variety of forces. Using music, art, guest speakers, field research, and readings we will examine the ways cities communities, and social institutions are shaped by social, cultural, economic, historical, and political forces.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of COR 1 or COR 199 or COR 199 in progress; two full-time semesters of college credit, excluding retro credits, AP credits, and college credit earned while in high school.
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COR 323 2 - ADVOCATING FOR THE EARTH AND WATER
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This course explores the emerging movement for the Rights of Nature, as well as the relationship between humans and the earth, especially water, from different cultural perspectives. We will consider approaches to water protection from within and outside Native communities in Wisconsin, as well as collaborations across communities. Students will learn from speakers from Wisconsin’s First Nations and become involved with project-based work with community members. $40 course fee supports a field trip to a Native reservation in Northern Wisconsin.
Course Fee: $40
Prerequisite(s): Completion of COR 1 or COR 199 or COR 199 in progress; Two full-time semesters of college credit, excluding retro credits, AP credits, and college credit earned while in high school.
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COR 479 - Independent Study
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course involves in-depth study under the mentoring of a family member of COR intended learning outcomes and questions. COR program approval required.
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ECON 121 J - Scarcity & Social Justice
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Multiple pertinent and contemporary social issues are examined with an approach used in the field of economics. In the process, an understanding of economic systems and institutions is gained. Methodology is elementary and issues covered should be of interest to a broad range of majors/disciplines. A capacity to interpret graphs and tables is appropriate for the course.
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ECON 240 J - Principles of Economics
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
An introduction and integrated treatment of macroeconomics and microeconomics. Markets and pricing as resource allocation mechanisms, issues in fiscal and monetary policy. Exposure to economic methodology in decision making and policy evaluation.
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ECON 250 GJ - The Political Economy of Energy
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
A seminar designed to explore the following issues: the economics of the global petroleum industry from the Standard Oil Trust, the Seven Sisters and OPEC; the generation and distribution of electricity over the last 100 years and the prospects for the next fifty years with special emphasis on alternative sources of electricity both on and off the grid; the global demand for fossil fuels and the impact that oil production has had on producing nations; peak oil concerns and national security issues; and the critical relationship between food production and energy inputs across the global economy.
Prerequisite(s): None.
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ECON 255 GJ - Principles of Macroeconomics
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
A one semester course in macroeconomics designed to meet the needs of students who wish to be informed about the economic problems which beset the world. A brief and intensive exposure to traditional analytical models will constitute the first part of the course. The second part will deal with the fiscal and monetary policy in a global economy, the current account deficit, different exchange rate regimes, inflation, unemployment, the current credit crisis and the state of the world economy.
Prerequisite(s): None.
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ECON 256 J - Principles of Microeconomics
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
The course will survey the basic principles of microeconomics. Students learn 1) how the market system operates to determine prices, allocate resources into alternative productive uses and impact social welfare; 2) circumstances under which markets may fail to provide an optimal or efficient allocation of resources and the policy options for dealing with this failure. These economic principles will be applied to an analysis of various current social issues.
Prerequisite(s): None.
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ECON 279 - Independent Study - Economics
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Prerequisite(s): consent of instructor.
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ECON 290 GJ - The Global Economy
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
An analysis of the economic, political and cultural forces that influence relations between the United States and other countries in the world. International monetary systems, trade relationships and international capital flows will be explored in depth. The problems of developing countries will be investigated, and specific countries’ financial crises will be analyzed in depth.
Prerequisite(s): None.
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ECON 291 - The Challenges of Poor Countries
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This Course is an introduction to the field of economic development. The problems faced by poor nations including, inequality, and corruption will be analyzed and discussed through case studies and cross-country comparisons. additional topics include the role that rich nations play in promoting or stunting poor countries’ economic growth.
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ECON 310 - Selected Topics in Economics
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
A course which will examine vital areas of contemporary concern in economics.
Prerequisite(s): None.
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ECON 310A G - Tpc: Devel & Soc Programs Modrn Mex
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 2
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Course content will be rooted in an economic history of Mexico from 1920. This culminates in an analysis of economic policy and institutions as they impact current conditions in Mexico. Perspectives are provided on the level of development and prosperity in Mexico as well as options for future economic policy.
Prerequisite(s): None.
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ECON 310B - Tpc: Economics of Credit
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 2
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
A course which will examine vital areas of contemporary concern in economics.
Prerequisite(s): None.
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ECON 315 - Health Care Economics
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 2
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
An intensive exposure to the economics of health care with special emphasis on rising health care cost, comparative health care systems, access to health care, and economic implications of local and national health care policy. Offered in alternate years.
Prerequisite(s): None.
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ECON 325 - Environmental Economics
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 2
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Examines the mechanisms societies employ to allocate limited natural resources among unlimited demands. By seeing environmental issues as economic issues, this course identifies the incentives faced by consumers and producers that lead to environmental problems and how alternative incentives might alleviate problems like pollution, global warming, and vanishing rainforests; or to promote sustainable resource use. Cross-listed ENVS325
Prerequisite(s): None.
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ECON 328 EG - World Food Systems
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
In the last decades, the food system has undergone significant structural changes: agriculture has become a heavily-mechanized industry and the number of miles food travels from producer to consumer has multiplied. As buyers, we are no longer constrained to the local food variety or its seasonal availability. In addition, as incomes in poor countries have risen, people’s diets have become increasingly diversified with a greater reliance upon processed foods. In this course we will use basic economic theory to analyze world food production and distribution. We will explore and compare the benefits and problems experienced by rich and poor nations due to transformations of the food system. Topics to be discussed include international food aid programs, growth of urban food markets, and impact of government policies in food prices, health, labor structure, and the environment. Cross-listed ENVS 328
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ECON 331 G - Comparative Economic Systems
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
A seminar designed to study the response of different societies to the economic problem of production, distribution and consumption. The creation of market institutions as the most prevalent solution to the basic economic problem will be the major focus of the course. Alternative solutions to the basic economic problem will be analyzed with the special emphasis on traditional and command style solutions to the economic problem. Comparative institutional responses will be explored with special attention to Japan, China, India, Russia, Poland and Bangladesh. The difficulties associated with the transition from a traditional society to a market driven society and the equally perilous transition from a socialist economy to a market driven economy will be explored through case studies.
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ECON 341A - Topics in American Economic History
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 2
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
A course which will examine significant topics in the development of the American economy. Modules on the Great Depression, the economics of slavery and the cotton trade, monetary and banking history, and case studies of specific urban areas (e.g., New York, Chicago, Los Angeles) will be developed. Two-credit courses will be offered as half-semester, Winterim, or Summer Session courses.
Prerequisite(s): None.
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ECON 350 - Econ of Labor, Poverty,& Income Distr
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
The methodology of economics to evaluate current issues in the labor market, including, but are not limited to, unions, collective bargaining, poverty, income distribution, wage differentials, discrimination, unemployment, education, technological change, and employer monopsony power.
Prerequisite(s): None.
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ECON 379 - Independent Study - Economics
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Topics (e.g., financial economics, industrial organization, European economic history) and credits to be arranged.
Prerequisite(s): consent of instructor.
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ECON 450 - International Economics
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
An advanced course in economics with emphasis on international trade theory, open macro-economic models, and foreign exchange markets. For the first part of the course, economic theory will be used to analyze patterns of trade and the impact of trade policy arrangements such as NAFTA and WTO. The latter half of the course will be used to analyze modern theories of exchange rate determination and the impact of trade imbalances on the macroeconomy.
Prerequisite(s): One of ECON 255 , ECON 256 or ECON 240 .
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ECON 460 - Money, Banking & Capital Markets
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course covers the evolution of money, the development of banking institutions, the theory and implementation of monetary policy, and recent developments in international monetary affairs. A final section focuses on international banking, the Eurocurrency market and the international monetary system. Cross-listed BUS414
Prerequisite(s): ECON 255 recommended.
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ECON 465 - Reading in History of Econ Thought
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Intensive overview of the major economic theorists in the 19th and 20th centuries. Offered by arrangement.
Prerequisite(s): None.
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ECON 495 - Managerial Economics
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Economic theory applied to managerial decision-making. This course combines the theoretical concepts and quantitative tools used by economists for practical applications to decisions concerning prices, demand, production, costs, risk, market structure, and government policy toward business.
Prerequisite(s): ECON 256 or ECON 240 .
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ECON 650 - Intro to Financial & Economic Ed
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
A three credit graduate course intended to serve as introduction to financial economics with a heavy emphasis on savings, the future value of money, present value calculations, and the role of credit in the modern economy. There will be a section devoted to the role of money and credit in the overall macro-economy with special emphasis on the role of the Federal Reserve in controlling the quantity of money and credit in the economy. The last section of the course will focus on the role of hedging interest rate risk by utilizing futures markets and traded options on the Chicago Board of Trade and Chicago Mercantile Exchange. A field trip to Chicago will provide the students with a direct experience with the futures markets and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
Prerequisite(s): None.
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ECON 651 - Intermediate Financial Economics
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Builds on ECON 650 . Covers topics in insurance, retirement financing, personal finances, financial decision making and estate planning.
Prerequisite(s): None.
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ECON 652 - Financial & Econ Ed III
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
An intensive overview of basic tax issues such as income taxes, social security taxes, and estate taxes. An additional section will deal with retirement planning and related taxation issues. A final section will focus on entrepreneurial opportunities for workers displaced by technology.
Prerequisite(s): None.
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ED 101 - Praxis Prep: Reading and Writing
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 0
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
The Praxis I Prep will teach students proven test-taking strategies designed specifically for the Praxis I, including how to avoid decoys and choose the right answer on reading and math multiple choice questions. This class will look at relevant practice test questions from our practice tests.
Offered Spring
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ED 198A 1D - Ethos, Eclgy & Self: Ed Reconsderd
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This COR 1 course explores what it means to think about education through an exploration of self and mass media. The course challenges students to understand identity through intersectionalities of difference (race, class, gender, sexuality, etc.). This course looks at privilege and marginalization, challenging students to understand how discriminatory and restrictive interactions undermine human sustainability and socially just distributions of resources. Culturally relevant educational approaches and pedagogies will be explored for how they can work toward equitably supporting all peoples. Education majors may use this course to fulfill the ED 200requirement.
Prerequisite(s): This course is for first semester freshmen or freshmen transfer students.
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ED 200A - Conflict Resolution
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
ED 200A focuses on human relations and conflict resolution. Students will develop the knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed to work successfully in pluralistic classrooms and professional environments. The implications of individual and institutional discrimination will be examined through culturally significant characteristics (such as race, culture, socioeconomic status, language, ability, gender, gender identification, and sexual orientation) of individuals and groups within the United States, and the intersections among them. Through self- analysis and reflection, historical investigation linked with analysis of contemporary schools and society, school/ community-based experiences, and communication skill-building. Students will learn how to be responsive to the cultural contexts of communities and the dynamics of difference. Students will use their understanding of the past and present to inform their professional practice, and consider their role in working for positive change in the face of complexity. Course meets Wisconsin DPI Conflict Resolution requirement. This course will involve fieldwork.
Prerequisite(s): Consent of the School of Education.
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ED 200B - American Indian Tribes of Wisconsin
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Students will develop the knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed to work successfully in pluralistic classrooms and professional environments. The implications of individual and institutional discrimination will be examined through culturally significant characteristics (such as race, culture, socioeconomic status, language, ability, gender, gender identification, and sexual orientation) of individuals and groups within the United States, and the intersections among them. Through self- analysis and reflection, historical investigation linked with analysis of contemporary schools and society, school/ community-based experiences, and communication skill-building. Students will learn how to be responsive to the cultural contexts of communities and the dynamics of difference. Students will use their understanding of the past and present to inform their professional practice, and consider their role in working for positive change in the face of complexity. Course meets Wisconsin DPI American Indian Tribes requirement. This course will involve fieldwork.
Prerequisite(s): Consent of the School of Education.
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ED 200P - Initial Practicum I
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 0
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 0
Students will spend 25 hours in a PreK-5 school setting throughout the semester. Students will be placed in a diverse public school setting with the ability to showcase high quality instruction to new English Language Learners.
Students should register for ED 200, ED 215, ED 262, and ED 271 concurrently.
Offered Fall
Prerequisite(s): Concurrent enrollment in ED 262
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ED 205 - Finding Purpose, Major, Career
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
This course is intended to help you learn, develop and practice the skills essential for finding employment that matches your interests and values. Who are you? What special skills do you bring to the workforce? What are your interests and what do you hope to do with them someday? We will help you to develop professional goals related to your career interests, research different careers and skills, and be better prepared to find your path after college.
Offered Fall
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ED 215 J - Infancy through Young Adult
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This course is designed to provide a study of the physical, cognitive, social and emotional development of the child through prenatal, infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, pre-adolescence, adolescence, and young adulthood periods. It will focus on: (a) the comprehension, application, and analysis of theories and issues of childhood, including social, emotional, intellectual, physical, and moral development and learning; (b) changes and problems in the transition from childhood to adulthood, including social, emotional, intellectual, physical, and moral development and learning. Special attention is given to educational implications for children from diverse backgrounds.
Offered Fall
Prerequisite(s): Completion of or concurrent enrollment in ED 262.
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ED 260 - Exploring Language
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
An exploration into the linguistic study of language and its educational implication for English language learners. The course will investigate how a social functional view of language can provide teachers with a way of talking about language as a useful pedagogical tool. Basic linguistic concepts in the areas of phonetics, phonology, morphology and grammar will be covered as well as register, genre, and the language of school. A field experience is required.
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ED 262 - Foundations of Language and ESL
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This course examines issues that affect English language learners (ELLs) in schools. Students will develop the knowledge of language necessary for effective teaching of ELLs. Language is framed as a valuable resource used to serve a purpose; students will investigate concepts of register, genre, and features through the lens of functional linguistics. Students will also explore factors that contribute to the educational experience of English learners by examining impacts of policy, programming, and instruction. Course activities set students up to understand and appreciate the experience of students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
Offered Fall
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ED 271 P - Intro to Philosophy of Education
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This course offers an introduction to what lies beyond certain common sense understandings of education by examining the philosophical roots of traditionalist, progressivist, and functionalist understandings of education. Students will engage with key texts from educational philosophers such as Socrates, Plato, Rousseau, Dewey, Freire, and hooks, to name a few. Students will use these philosophers’ understandings and conceptualizations of education as a prism through which to tour local schools and subsequently reflect on the variety of learning environments.
Offered Fall
Prerequisite(s): PHIL 101.
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ED 275A - Topics: Pedagogy for MUS: Folk Inst
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
A study of methods, materials, and the development of competencies and skills used in the music classroom. Cross-listed MUS275A
Prerequisite(s): None.
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ED 275B - Topics: Pedagogy for MUS: Brass Ped
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
A study of methods, materials, and the development of competencies and skills used in the music classroom. Cross-listed MUS275B
Prerequisite(s): None.
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ED 275C - Topics: Pedagogy for MUS: Woodw Ped
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
A study of methods, materials, and the development of competencies and skills used in the music classroom. Cross-listed MUS275C
Prerequisite(s): None.
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ED 275D - Topics: Pedagogy for MUS: String
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
A study of methods, materials, and the development of competencies and skills used in the music classroom. Cross-listed MUS275D
Prerequisite(s): None.
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ED 275E - Topics: Pedagogy for MUS: Percussn
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
A study of methods, materials, and the development of competencies and skills used in the music classroom. Cross-listed MUS275E
Prerequisite(s): None.
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ED 275F - Topics: Pedagogy for MUS: Vocal
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
A study of methods, materials, and the development of competencies and skills used in the music classroom. Cross-listed MUS275F
Prerequisite(s): None.
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ED 279 - Independent Study - Education
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Topics and credits will be determined and approved by the School of Education.
Prerequisite(s): consent of instructor.
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ED 290 2Q - Conceptn of Gender: Infancy-Adolesc
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This course will interrogate the social and institutional processes through which the construction of gender takes place through readings, discussion, and experiences in school or community-based settings. Students will consider the ethical dimensions of gender conceptions, the ways their own worldviews of gender have formed and informed their experiences, and strategies for enacting gender in order to help build a more just and compassionate world. This course will involve a fifteen-hour field placement in an educational setting during the school day.
Offered Fall
Prerequisite(s): Completion of COR 1 or COR 199 or COR 199 in progress; two full-time semesters of college credit, excluding retro credits, AP credits, and college credit earned while in high school; current enrollment in practicum; completion of, or concurrent enrollment in ED 215 or consent of instructor.
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ED 302 I - Technology & Assess in Classroom
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This course explores the use of technology as a learning instrument in the classroom and supports students to evaluate and use instructional materials and technological resources. In addition, this course equips students with the skills needed to design appropriate formative and summative assessments around identified learning goals. Attention is focused on designing high-quality measures of student learning, evaluation of one’s own teaching practice, delivering appropriate and specific constructive feedback, and evaluating whole-class student learning.
Offered Fall
Prerequisite(s): ED 330 and junior standing
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ED 306 - Exceptional Children and Youth
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This course is an overview of exceptionalities of children and youth identified in high and low incidence areas of disability. The historical and legal foundations of cross categorical special education for children and youth and the collaborative roles between general and special education will be discussed.
Offered Spring, Other
Prerequisite(s): ED 200, ED 215, and sophomore standing
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ED 307 K - Language Develop & Instruction
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This course introduces the interplay between language and society. It discusses multilingualism, regional and social dialects, as well as the role of linguistic attitudes and language variation in language learning and teaching. The course introduces the role that academic language plays in the educational experience and the importance of planning and scaffolding for academic language development and awareness. From a genre-based perspective, participants will learn to analyze school-based texts for meaning making and for planning instructional cycles that support language development in reading, writing, and speaking activities throughout the content areas.
Prerequisite(s): Preliminary Entry level, ED 200, ED 201.
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ED 311 - Wellness in Education
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This course provides introductory knowledge and skills to integrate concepts of health, nutrition and physical education into the elementary school curriculum. Instruction in developmentally appropriate programs for physical fitness and health promotion will build understanding of personal and community health issues in schools today.
Offered Fall
Prerequisite(s): ED 200, ED 215, and sophomore standing
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ED 314 - Indiv. Educ. Assess and Analysis
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Course focus: understanding of legal assessment practices, non-biased assessment in the first language, a wide array of assessment methods so that students develop ability to evaluate/assess/analyze assessment data to determine eligibility & to evaluate responsiveness to instruction. Learner Characteristics, neuropsychological differences, motivation, cultural and linguistic differences are examined in assessment. Course explorations move from general to specific through student declared area of emphasis (A-Emotional Behavioral Disabilities, B-Intellectual Disabilities, or C-Learning Disabilities) where students will explore evidence-based assessment tools designed for specific populations, and will demonstrate proficiency in formative & summative assessment data analysis through a series of applied case studies. Speech and Language development & delays are addressed.
Prerequisite(s): SO/JR standing, ED 313 A/B/C.
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ED 316 - Transition Team Family in Spec Ed
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This course examines the outcomes realized by youth with disabilities and correlations with documented family and school interventions. It will further focus on exemplary methodologies for promoting team and family involvement in the school-to-work transition process of youth with disabilities. A supervised practicum is required in this course
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ED 324 - The Helping Relationship
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
The role of the professional in helping relationships; family/professional partnerships emphasized. Includes childhood traumas, skills and methods of communication, personal support, and facilitation; personal assessment of skills needed in helping relationship professions, including child life, special education, social work, nursing, counseling, and teaching.
Prerequisite(s): CHLF 210 or PSY 345.
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ED 330 X - Teaching and Learning
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This course introduces and critically explores models and theories of curriculum, teaching, and assessment. Students will experience multiple pathways to planning a lesson. In addition to lesson planning within the teaching-learning cycle, this course explores different modes of instructional delivery as vehicles for learner engagement. The course gives students opportunities to navigates student-directed and teacher-direct dialogues, including group facilitation. In this class, students reflect on practice through a lens of equity and classroom collaboration, honing students’ adaptive expertise and development as reflective practitioners. It supports learners as they develop a coherent learning segment and reflect on student learning within the learning segment, including reflection around the selection of instructional activities, materials, strategies, and supports. The class will use multi-disciplinary methods to consider key educational issues and tensions in these areas including differentiation and the relationships between schooling, educational access and equity, and society. Students will engage in formal and informal writing including reflections on course readings, films, and discussions; peer review of written work; and the use of different genres to critically explore tensions in education. A practicum is required. Meets DPI conflict resolution requirement.
Offered Spring
Prerequisite(s): ED 200, ED 215, and sophomore standing
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ED 350 - Teaching for Social Justice
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This course introduces and critically explores models and theories of curriculum, teaching, and assessment. The class uses multi-disciplinary methods to consider key educational issues and tensions in these areas including differentiation and the relationships between schooling, educational access and equity, and society. Students will engage in formal and informal writing including reflections on course readings, films, and discussions; peer review of written work; and the use of different genres to critically explore tensions in education. A practicum is required. Meets DPI conflict resolution requirement.
Offered Spring
Prerequisite(s): ED 330 and junior standing
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ED 376 - Loss Bereavement Trauma Child Life
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Special needs, interventions and coping strategies for dealing with crisis situations of emergency room trauma, dying children and youths and grieving families.
Prerequisite(s): ED 370, ED 375 and admission to Child Life
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ED 379 - Independent Study - Education
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Topics and credits will be determined and approved by the School of Education.
Prerequisite(s): consent of instructor.
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ED 382 C - Lit for Mid Chld Thru Early Adlscnc
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This course provides an overview of literature for elementary and middle school readers. The emphasis is on reading, analyzing and evaluating selected literary works across genres including traditional literature, poetry, picture books, fantasy, contemporary realistic fiction, historical fiction, and nonfiction. The course primarily emphasizes diverse perspectives in contemporary children’s literature, acquainting students with key authors and texts; strategies for incorporating literature and literary strategies within educational settings will be modeled as texts are examined. The course uses knowledge in child development theory in order to inform the process of identifying appropriate literature for children.
Offered Fall, Spring
Prerequisite(s): Completion of or concurrent enrollment in W tag; Junior level standing, ED 350, declared Education Major.
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ED 383 C - Lit for Early Adolesc Thru Adolesc
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
An overview, exploration, and critical examination of literature suitable for students from Early Adolescence through Young Adulthood. The course emphasis is on reading and evaluating selected literary works within such genres as poetry, memoir, popular fiction, historical fiction, graphic novels, and other (non)fiction texts. Candidates in this course will learn a variety of approaches to literary critique (including Reader Response, Deconstructive, Biographical, Historical, Psychological, Feminist, and Queer Criticisms), and practice such approaches on course texts both in and out of class. Candidates will draw on previous knowledge, skills, and dispositions from earlier education courses in thinking about pedagogical approaches, activities, and strategies situated within sociocultural theories of learning to engage youth from ages 12-18.
Prerequisite(s): ED 215 or ED 220; or consent of instructor.
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ED 384 - Lit for Chilhd to Adolsen Hlthcare
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
An overview, exploration and critical examination of literature appropriate for children across a wide variety of age groups [early childhood to adolescence] to be utilized during their time in a variety of healthcare settings. Culturally relevant pedagogical practice will be examined through the prism of literary genre and as it relates to selection, analysis and uses of literature in a healthcare setting. The role that literature plays in advocacy, social and racial justice will be examined as well as how adolescent literature has been banned and censored. Bibliotherapeutic approaches, activities, and strategies will be explored through sociocultural theories of learning to engage patients of various age groups. This course is specifically geared to students in the Child Life program.
Offered Fall
Prerequisite(s): Completion of the W tag or concurrent enrollment in a W tag course, and a declared Child Life major.
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ED 390 - Independent Practicum
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 2
This practicum is an independent practicum designed to provide students with additional experience. The content of the experience is determined by faculty and practicum supervisor.
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