Summary of Requirements

Education Requirements: 47 credits

• EDML2010

  ML TEACHING SCIENCE METHODS-LAB

  EDML2010
  ML TEACHING SCIENCE METHODS-LAB

  Credits (Min/Max): 1/1

  This course is required for all middle level education majors. The course will focus on how to use an inquiry approach to teach science in the 4th-6th grade levels, with an emphasis on how to address the Pennsylvania Academic Standards and Assessment Anchors for Science & Technology and Environment & Ecology. A field experience is a required component of this course.

  PREREQUISITES:

  EDUC1010

• EDML2023

  ML TEACHING MATHEMATICS METHODS - LAB

  EDML2023
  ML TEACHING MATHEMATICS METHODS - LAB

  Credits (Min/Max): 1/1

  This course is required for all middle level education majors. The course will focus on how to use a learner based approach to teach math in the 4th-6th grade levels, with an emphasis on how to address the Pennsylvania Academic Standards and Assessment Anchors for Mathematics. A field experience is a required component of this course.

  PREREQUISITES:

  EDUC1010

• EDML3013

  ML TEACHING SOCIAL STUDIES METHODS - LAB

  EDML3013
  ML TEACHING SOCIAL STUDIES METHODS - LAB

  Credits (Min/Max): 1/1

  This course is required for all middle level education majors. The course will focus on how to present social studies concepts in a hands-on manner to 4th-6th grade students, with an emphasis on how to address the Pennsylvania Academic Standards for Geography, History, Economics, and Civics & Government. A field experience is a required component of this course.

  PREREQUISITES:

  EDUC1010

• EDML3050

  READING AND WRITING ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES

  EDML3050
  READING AND WRITING ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES

  Credits (Min/Max): 3/3

  Reading and Writing Across the Disciplines introduces a wide variety of effective instructional methods for middle level and secondary teachers to present reading and writing skills in any content area.

  PREREQUISITES:

  ENGL1012 or ENGL1012H

• EDML4010

  ADVANCED TEACHING METHODS FOR MIDDLE LEVEL TEACHING CERTIFICATION

  EDML4010
  ADVANCED TEACHING METHODS FOR MIDDLE LEVEL TEACHING CERTIFICATION

  Credits (Min/Max): 2/2

  This course is required for all middle level education majors, in order to prepare for student teaching. Future middle level teachers will explore ways to engage students in the learning process, with a focus in the content areas at the 7th and 8th grade level. Future teachers will plan lessons and units based on content standards and assessment anchors. The use of technology will also be explored as a way to enhance instruction and assessment. A field experience is a required component of this course.

  PREREQUISITES:

  EDUC1010

• EDML4050

  ML STUDENT TEACHING (GRADES 4-6)

  EDML4050
  ML STUDENT TEACHING (GRADES 4-6)

  Credits (Min/Max): 6/6

  During this portion of student teaching, middle level education majors will be placed in a 4th-6th grade setting, and may be expected to teach any subject area (science, mathematics, language arts, or social studies) for approximately seven weeks. Student teachers will be expected to demonstrate instructional strategies that capitalize on the developmental characteristics of young adolescents and to design successful interventions responsive to the needs of individual middle level students. Student teachers will be supervised by a cooperating teacher and a LRU supervisor, and will be expected to participate in collaborative team building opportunities. Part of the student teaching experience will also include an on campus student teaching seminar, where topics such as certification requirements, school law, and interviewing strategies will be presented.

  PREREQUISITES:

  EDML4010

• EDML4055

  ML STUDENT TEACHING (GRADES 7-8)

  EDML4055
  ML STUDENT TEACHING (GRADES 7-8)

  Credits (Min/Max): 6/6

  During this portion of student teaching, middle level education majors will be placed in a 7th-8th grade setting within their content specialty (science, mathematics, language arts, or social studies) for approximately seven weeks. Student teachers will be expected to demonstrate their deep content knowledge as they apply instructional strategies that capitalize on the developmental characteristics of young adolescents and to design successful interventions responsive to the needs of individual middle level students. Student teachers will be supervised by a cooperating teacher and a LRU supervisor, and will be expected to participate in collaborative team building opportunities. Part of the student teaching experience will also include an on campus student teaching seminar, where topics such as certification requirements, school law, and interviewing strategies will be presented.

  PREREQUISITES:

  EDML4010

• EDSP2015

  INTRO TO HIGH INCIDENCE DISABILITIES

  EDSP2015
  INTRO TO HIGH INCIDENCE DISABILITIES

  Credits (Min/Max): 3/3

  This course provides students an opportunity to explore foundations of special education in the United States including: characteristics of each disability category, legislation, over-representation of diverse students, academic and functional needs of students with disabilities, individual learning differences, least restrictive environment, implications for a Standards Aligned System, collaboration and transition. Students will develop an understanding of Accommodations and Adaptations for inclusive environments.

  PREREQUISITES:

• EDSP2025

  LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS AND BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT

  EDSP2025
  LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS AND BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT

  Credits (Min/Max): 3/3

  This course will introduce students to behavior and misbehaviors of students in the school setting, types of misbehavior roles, establish a classroom management plan that will reflect their consideration of students with disabilities, problem solving, conflict resolution, assessing appropriate and problematic behaviors while establishing opportunities for students with diverse backgrounds to interact and share in cooperative learning groups, problem solving to achieve common goals. "Application Models" will be the framework used to demonstrate the approaches used by pioneers as well as 21st century researchers and educators.

  PREREQUISITES:

  EDSP2015

• EDSP3010

  LITERACY INSTRUCTION AND INTERVENTIONS FOR DIVERSE LEARNERS

  EDSP3010
  LITERACY INSTRUCTION AND INTERVENTIONS FOR DIVERSE LEARNERS

  Credits (Min/Max): 3/3

  This course provides the foundation for teaching reading according to PA learning standards for students with a broad range of abilities and diverse cultural backgrounds. The course emphasizes research-based instructional approaches and interventions for Middle and Secondary level students including word level instruction, text level comprehension, reading-writing connection, and assessment. A field experience is a required component of this course.

  PREREQUISITES:

• EDSP3040

  EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT

  EDSP3040
  EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT

  Credits (Min/Max): 3/3

  This required course for all education majors will explore the instructional purposes for a variety of assessment strategies, such as: authentic, screening, diagnostic, formative, benchmark, and summative assessments. Future teachers will learn how to interpret assessment data, such as standardized test scores and norms, and will practice how to communicate assessment results to educational stakeholders, while considering legal and ethical issues related to assessment data, such as maintaining confidentiality. Future teachers will also create sample assessments that target academic standards and assessment anchors within subject areas, in order to measure mastery of the curriculum in more than one way.

  PREREQUISITES:

  EDUC1010

• EDSP4015

  DEVELOPMENT OF THE IEP AND INCLUSION IN LEAST RESTRICTIVE ENVIRONMENT

  EDSP4015
  DEVELOPMENT OF THE IEP AND INCLUSION IN LEAST RESTRICTIVE ENVIRONMENT

  Credits (Min/Max): 3/3

  The focus of this culminating course is to prepare the student teacher with a realistic overview of teaching special education in Pennsylvania. The student will create an IEP, become familiar with Inclusion and collaboration, write reflections based on current issues/trends in special education, participate in discussions, create useful artifacts, discuss significant court cases, and understand Transition. The student will also comprehend the special education continuum of services available to the identified student.

  PREREQUISITES:

  EDSP2015

• EDUC1010

  INTRO TO EDUCATION AND FIELD EXPERIENCE

  EDUC1010
  INTRO TO EDUCATION AND FIELD EXPERIENCE

  Credits (Min/Max): 3/3

  This course provides students with an introduction to the teaching profession. Students will learn the qualifications for becoming an effective and ethical educator. Current programming and educational topics will be explored. Classroom observations in a variety of settings and grade levels are required.

  PREREQUISITES:

• PSYC1021

  INTRO TO PSYCHOLOGY

  PSYC1021
  INTRO TO PSYCHOLOGY

  Credits (Min/Max): 3/3

  This survey course introduces students to several critical areas of psychology. Throughout the course, there is an emphasis on the scientific method, its application to psychology, and the insights gained from scientific research. The interactions among biological processes, cognitive and emotional responses, sociocultural forces, and behavior are examined. Included are such diverse topics as: health, stress, and coping; consciousness, sleep and dreams; effects of psychoactive drugs on behavior and health; psychological disorders; social psychology; types of learning and behavior management, information processing approaches including memory, encoding and retrieval; and the relationship of the nervous system to thought, feelings, and behaviors.

  PREREQUISITES:

• PSYC2061

  EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY

  PSYC2061
  EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY

  Credits (Min/Max): 3/3

  This course provides an introduction to educational psychology, the science of learning and teaching. Students will be exposed to the research methods used in psychological science, theoretical approaches to cognitive development and learning, and applications of those theories to understanding student behavior in the context of the school environment.

  PREREQUISITES:

  PSYC1021 or PSYC1021H

Major Requirements: 48 credits (Inlcudes 1 HIST or POLI course from the "American" section and 2 HIST or POLI courses from the "Compartive" section of the Political Science Major Program Guide)

• ADMG1005

  MACROECONOMICS

  ADMG1005
  MACROECONOMICS

  Credits (Min/Max): 3/3

  An introductory economics course focusing on the field of macroeconomics, including government spending, money, inflation, unemployment and taxes. Also included are brief sections on microeconomic and economic systems.

  PREREQUISITES:

• BIOL1001

  LIFE SCIENCE (SLSC)

  BIOL1001
  LIFE SCIENCE (SLSC)

  Credits (Min/Max): 3/3

  An introductory course directed toward the development of an answer to the question: What is life? The course explores various life processes and the human person's position in the total scheme. Emphasis is placed on current scientific discoveries. This course is not open to science majors. (SLSC)

  PREREQUISITES:

• GEOG3013

  GEOGRAPHY AND WORLD AFFAIRS (INST3013)

  GEOG3013
  GEOGRAPHY AND WORLD AFFAIRS (INST3013)

  Credits (Min/Max): 3/3

  An overview of various regions of the world and the environmental conditions to which people adapt. Racial, linguistic, religious and economic groupings of people will be stressed. Current world events are examined to develop knowledge about historical, geographic, climatic, political and religious environments which people inhabit. Cross-listed with INST3013

  PREREQUISITES:

• HIST1010

  US HIST 1607 - 1865 FOUNDATIONS OF A REPUBLIC

  HIST1010
  US HIST 1607 - 1865 FOUNDATIONS OF A REPUBLIC

  Credits (Min/Max): 3/3

  A study of the history of the United States from 1607 to 1865. This course traces the development of the United States from the earliest European settlers to the formation of a republic, noting the events, people and ideas involved in the struggle to achieve that end. Particular emphasis is given to colonial America, the American Revolution, the constitutional process of 1789, Native Americans and slavery.

  PREREQUISITES:

• MATH1040

  PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS

  MATH1040
  PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS

  Credits (Min/Max): 3/3

  The study of the fundamentals of probability theory with applications to natural and social sciences as well as to mathematics. Discrete and continuous distributions, sampling theory, linear correlation, regression, statistical inference, estimation and analysis of variance are included.

  PREREQUISITES:

  MATH1010

• MATH2000

  MATHEMATICS FOR LIBERAL ARTS

  MATH2000
  MATHEMATICS FOR LIBERAL ARTS

  Credits (Min/Max): 3/3

  As in-depth exploration of the applications of various types of mathematics, with an emphasis on problem solving skills. Writing skills are an integral part of this course. The connecting of mathematical ideas with other subject areas will be emphasized. These areas will include: art, biology, chemistry, coding, computers, demographics, fiction, genetics, logic, management, marketing, music, philosophy, physics, politics, psychology, and social planning. The discussion of original source documents will be an integral part of this course.

  PREREQUISITES:

  MATH1010

• MATH2023

  GEOMETRY AND MEASUREMENT

  MATH2023
  GEOMETRY AND MEASUREMENT

  Credits (Min/Max): 3/3

  An overview of the Euclidian and non-Euclidian geometries required for teaching mathematics, particularly middle school mathematics, focusing on geometrical shapes and their properties, spatial reasoning, geometrical shapes in nature and art, and application of measurements.

  PREREQUISITES:

  MATH1010

• NSCI2045

  GEOLOGY

  NSCI2045
  GEOLOGY

  Credits (Min/Max): 3/3

  PREREQUISITES:

• POLI1022

  AMERICAN GOVERNMENT

  POLI1022
  AMERICAN GOVERNMENT

  Credits (Min/Max): 3/3

  This course introduces students to the major American political institutions, the way in which the houses of Congress function, and the Presidency while also analyzing civil liberties, constitutional rights, policy-making, social policy issues, the role of political parties, the electoral process, the political role of the media, and foreign policy debates.

  PREREQUISITES:

• POLI3015

  HISTORY/POLITICAL THOUGHT (HIST3015)

  POLI3015
  HISTORY/POLITICAL THOUGHT (HIST3015)

  Credits (Min/Max): 3/3

  In this course we inquire into the origins, evolution and development of political philosophies, focusing on the theories that have shaped Western political thought from ancient times to the present day. Key concepts in Western political thought such as liberty, justice, morality, political rights, and democracy are examined. Students will also be asked to create their own political theories. Students will learn the genesis of political thought over the past 2,000 years, how to critically assess these theories, and how to create their own theories. Cross-listed with HIST3015.

  PREREQUISITES:

• POLI3021

  COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENT (INST3021)

  POLI3021
  COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENT (INST3021)

  Credits (Min/Max): 3/3

  This course focuses on the government, policies and politics of different nation-states around the world, and investigates the political science approaches to studying government and politics in various areas of the world. The focus in not only on forms of governments, but also the major political and social factors that affect political change in different world areas, the relationship between states and societies, and the comparative study of democratic and non-democratic nations. Cross-listed with INST3021

  PREREQUISITES:

• POLIXXXX

  POLIXXXX
  

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