HPE 16203 Nutrition ................................................. 3 LA 10001 Gateway to Success .................................. 1 MTH 11505 Mathematics for Educators I ................. 5 PSY 11103 General Psychology ................................ 3 PSY 21103 Human Growth & Development ............ 3 General Education Total .................................................. 30 Professional Education EDU 10303 School and Community ......................... 3 +EDU 20403 Planning for Instruction ...................... 3 EDU 22403 Educating the Exceptional Learner ........ 3 EDU 22603 Content Area Reading & Intervention ECE/ISK-12/ECSE ............................................... 3 Total ................................................................................. 12 Curriculum Content +EDU 20203 Intro to Infant, Child, & Adolescent Dev (prenatal to YA) ECE/ISK-12/ECSE ............. 3 EDU 20303 Learning Environments P-12 ECE/ISK-12/ECSE ............................................... 3 EDU 25503 Assessment in Education ECE/ISK-12/ECSE ............................................... 3 EDU 23303 Family, School, & Community Collaboration ECE/ISK-12/ECSE ......................... 3 EDU 28803 Behavior Intervention and Classroom Management .............................................................. 3 EDU 28302 Early Childhood Dev. Portfolio ............ 2 EDU 29403 Early Childhood Seminar ...................... 3 +HPE 24302 Safety & First Aid ................................ 2 Total Curriculum Content .................................................................... 22 Total Hours Required For Degree ..................................... 64 + These courses not required for students holding a CDA credential.
Bachelor of Arts or Science - Minor in Sensory Impairment Education (4030) This academic minor is designed to provide interested students with an overview of hearing and visual impairment and its impact on persons. The academic minor provides a focus on the causes and life implications of a hearing or a visual impairment with emphasis on the P-12 educational implications of each of these. EDU 29503 Orientation to Hearing Impairment ....... 3 EDU 29603 Sign System I ........................................ 3 EDU 29803 Orientation to Visual Impairment ......... 3 EDU 39503 Needs and Supports of the Hearing Impaired ...................................................... 3 EDU 39603 Needs and Supports of the Visually Impaired ...................................................... 3
ENGLISH Bunce School of Education & Liberal Arts College of Arts and Sciences Robert S. Wood Hall 740-245-7182 office; 740-245-7432 fax
Mission Statement The English Department’s mission is to offer the gifts of reading, writing, critical thinking, and interpretative analysis, context and imaginative awareness, and appreciation and value via literature, language, and writing. In practical terms, the Department provides an associate degree, as well as a major and minor in English, contributes substantively to the General Education core curriculum, and prepares students for a variety of important careers. This major presents students with both the critical experience necessary to appreciate and understand literature from a wide variety of times, places, and genres and the frequent opportunity to develop critical, creative, and professional writing abilities, including the use of electronic media.
Degrees Offered ♦ ♦
Bachelor of Arts or Science – Minor in English Associate of Arts - English
Learning Outcomes The successful student will: • Demonstrate rhetorical knowledge – the ability to analyze and act on understandings of audiences, purposes, and contexts in creating and comprehending texts. • Apply critical thinking – the ability to analyze a situation or text and make thoughtful decisions based on that analysis through writing, reading, and research. • Demonstrate writing processes – multiple strategies to approach and undertake writing and research. • Exhibit knowledge of conventions – the formal and informal guidelines that define what is considered to be correct and appropriate, or incorrect and inappropriate, in a piece of writing. • Demonstrate abilities to compose in multiple environments – from using traditional pen and paper to electronic technologies.
Facilities The English Department is located in Robert S. Wood Hall, which opened in September, 1989. Most English classes are taught in Wood Hall, which contains an auditorium, several general classrooms, seminar rooms, smart classrooms, and the Instructional Design and Media Center, which assists English faculty with online learning and additional technology. The offices of senior and adjunct English faculty members are on the second floor. The Jenkins Center for Student Success, located in the Jeanette Albiez Davis Library, directly supports English courses with an open computer lab, test- and note-taking skills, English tutoring, reading and learning strategies, time-management instruction, enhancement of writing skills, and accessibility support. The Jeanette Albiez Davis Library is essential to English research via the library’s books, microforms, audiovisual materials, periodicals, government documents, online research databases, OhioLINK, and a traditional
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