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ANT 5710 - Topics in Anthropology
This course provides graduate students the opportunity to pursue topics of special interest in Anthropology appropriate for the 5000-level.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is an undergraduate degree.
Credits: 1 to 3
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ATM 5071 - Broadcast Meteorologist I
This course focuses on deepening and broadening the student’s knowledge of meteorological and environmental topics. The course serves as a means of enhancing the effectiveness of the broadcast meteorologist as a forecaster and as the station scientist. Possible topics include review and application of topics from the undergraduate meteorology curriculum to an operational broadcast setting, coverage of weather safety and global change issues, and survey of the earth, space, environmental, and related sciences covered by broadcast meteorologists in their role as the station scientist.
Prerequisites & Notes
This course is designed for those with a BS/BA in meteorology, atmospheric sciences, or related disciplines or the AMS Seal of Approval. This course is offered every semester.
Credits: 1
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ATM 5072 - Broadcast Meteorologist II
This course extends coverage of ATM 5071 to other meteorological and environmental topics suitable to the participants’ needs.
Prerequisites & Notes
Pre-requisite: ATM 5071. This course is offered every semester.
Credits: 1
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ATM 5710 - Topics for Teachers
This course is intended primarily for teachers who are interested in enhancing and updating the content of the courses they teach. Topics will be chosen from among those typically offered by the Meteorology Department. Specific topics and level will vary. Course may be repeated for credit when no duplication of experience results.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisites are graduate standing and permission.
Credits: 1 to 4
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SED 5280 - Issues in Environmental Studies
This course focuses on the chemistry related to environmental problems. The instruction emphasizes the nature and properties of pollutants, and their interactions with each other and the environ ment. Particular attention is paid to the chemistry of aquatic systems.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is SED 5310 or SED 5330. There is a lab fee.
Credits: 4
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SED 5320 - Principles of Chemistry I
This is the first course of a two-semester sequence that provides an introduction for Science majors to the principles of chemistry. The first semester treats stoichiometry, atomic structure, and the periodic table, chemical bonding and molecular structure, chemical reactions in aqueous solution, and the properties of solids. The course requires three classroom hours, and one two-and-a-half hour lab per week.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite or co-requisite is MAT 1020. High school or college physics is strongly recommended. There is a lab fee.
Credits: 4
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SED 5330 - Principles of Chemistry II
This is the second course of a two-semester sequence that provides an introduction for Science majors to the principles of chemistry. The second semester topics include behavior of gases, liquids and changes of state, properties of solutions, chemical equilibrium, acids and bases, solubility and complexion equilibria, electro-chemistry, and the behavior of the representative and transition elements. The course requires three classroom hours and one two-and-a-half hour lab per week.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is SED 5320. There is a lab fee.
Credits: 4
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SED 5340 - Organic Chemistry I
Organic Chemistry I presents the fundamentals of the structure and reactions of carbon compounds. The instruction emphasizes reaction mechanisms, synthesis, stereochemistry, and chemical and spectroscopic methods of analysis. The course requires one three-hour laboratory per week which emphasizes basic techniques and synthesis.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is SED 5330.
Credits: 4
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SED 5350 - Organic Chemistry II
This course continues SED 5340 with an introduction to the biochemistry of carbohydrates, lipids and proteins. The course requires one three-hour laboratory per week which emphasizes basic techniques of compound identification and synthesis.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is SED 5340.
Credits: 4
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SED 5360 - Chemistry Modules
Chemistry Modules provide an intensive study of a variety of current topics in chemistry, offered in response to the current interests of the students and faculty. Examples of topics include food and nutrition, household chemicals, drugs and pharmaceuticals, farm chemistry, and water quality. Some modules may be taken for major elective credit with written permission. The course requires fifteen lecture/lab hours per credit.
Prerequisites & Notes
Permission of the instructor is required for registration. There is a lab fee.
Credits: 1 to 4
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DES 5030 - Fundamentals of Web Design
This course provides students with the fundamentals of web design. It provides instruction in introductory web-design principles, web-site structure, Internet basics, web rapid-prototyping, and “What You See Is What You Get” (WYSIWYG) web design. This course requires the development of a web site; graduate education students will also create a research-based rationale for the site.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is EDU 6490 or permission. There is a lab fee. This course is offered every spring.
Credits: 3
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EDU 5020 - Literature for Children
This course offers students an overview of the field of children’s literature, insight into the use of children’s literature in content areas, and an understanding of how to better use reference materials. The course also provides perspective on the handling of contemporary issues in children’s literature. A wide spectrum of literature will be examined, and participants will have the opportunity to examine regional literature, authors, and illustrators more closely.
Prerequisites & Notes
The course will be offered at least every three years.
Credits: 3
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EDU 5025 - Literature for Youth
This course offers students an overview of the field of adolescent literature, insight into the use of literature in different content areas for middle school and secondary students, and an understanding of how to better use reference materials. It also provides perspective on the handling of contemporary issues in adolescent literature. A wide spectrum of literature will be examined, and participants will have the opportunity to examine regional literature, authors, and illustrators more closely.
Prerequisites & Notes
The course will be offered at least every three years.
Credits: 3
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EDU 5040 - Adolescent Development
This course explores the physical, psychological, and social development of adolescents. In addition to understanding various theories that attempt to explain adolescent research, a main objective of the course is to be able to evaluate critically the theories and research findings concerning adolescent development.
Credits: 3
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EDU 5110 - Teaching Students with Special Needs: Elementary Emphasis
This course reviews the etiology, characteristics, and evaluation of individuals diagnosed as learning impaired or learning disabled. The course studies current research and practice regarding teaching strategies, instructional modifications, curriculum, and transitional planning, supervising paraprofessionals, and collaboration with other professionals.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisites are EDU 3510, EDU 2110 or permission.
Credits: 3
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EDU 5115 - Teaching Students w/Special Needs - Secondary Emphasis
This course introduces students to the special education process including the development of the Individualized Education Program. The course explores effective methods for individualizing instruction and modifying curriculum to meet the needs of students with special needs. Students are taught to use assessment data to guide recommendations in the classroom setting.
Credits: 3
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EDU 5135 - Developing a Positive Classroom Climate
This course explores theories and practice in developing a positive classroom climate. The applications of motivation and management principles and procedures to develop and maintain a positive learning environment in the classroom is studied. Positive Behavior Support, a systems approach to academic achievement and social competence for all children, is explored through study of research based practices, interventions and systems that are integrated to improve the educational experience of all students, including those with disabilities.
Credits: 2
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EDU 5170 - Teaching Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities
Students study methods of assessment, evaluation, and programming for children with behavioral and emotional problems that interfere with normal learning and social development. Students also investigate behavior modification, biophysical, ecological, developmental, psychodynamic, and counter-theoretical approaches.
Credits: 3
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EDU 5190 - Observation and Participation
This course provides students without prior field experience the opportunity to complete field experience designed to integrate content, pedagogy and professional knowledge. These experiences will be connected to appropriate core courses.
Credits: 1
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EDU 5220 - Learning Disabilities/Secondary
This course introduces the etiology, characteristics, evaluation and law governing the education of students with secondary student learning disabilities. The course introduces students to the special education process including the development and implementation of the Individualized Education Plan. The course explores effective methods and materials for individualizing instruction and modifying curriculum to meet the needs of students with special needs. Students are taught to use assessment data to guide classroom instruction. Methods of developing a positive classroom climate for all students are introduced.
Credits: 3
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EDU 5223 - Differentiating Instruction, Assessment, and Special Education Law
This course provides instruction in the methods and materials appropriate for teaching students with special learning needs in the inclusive classroom. Models of designing an inclusive classroom, including universal design and differentiated instruction, are studied with an emphasis on using assessment data to inform instruction. The course provides an introduction to special education law and the special education process. This offers the student an opportunity to participate in the development of the Individualized Education Program and to work collaboratively as a member of the Evaluation and Planning team.
Prerequisites & Notes
This course is offered every spring.
Credits: 3
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EDU 5250 - Literacy Development in the Content Area
This course will concentrate on the principles, effective teaching methods, and materials for developing literacy in the content areas. Best practices in the areas of reading comprehension, vocabulary, writing, new literacies and assessment are addressed. The focus is on specific needs within the various content areas taught in the secondary schools for both the general student population and special populations.
Credits: 3
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EDU 5310 - Reading and Language Arts
This course emphasizes reading, writing, speaking and listening. Materials, methods and classroom organization are considered as well as theoretical and research foundations for literacy instruction. Participants will learn to use of technology as an instructional tool with emphasis on technology’s role in research, problem solving, and presentation to promote higher order thinking.
Credits: 3
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EDU 5350 - Child Development
This course takes a topical approach in examining the biophysical, cognitive, psychosocial, and ecological changes that occur from infancy to adolescence. The instruction stresses the practical implications of current theory and research in developmental psychology and related fields.
Credits: 3
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EDU 5380 - Social Studies Methods
This course will address social studies curriculum, instruction and assessment through Understanding by Design. Focus on using Social Science to develop 21st Century learning environments that reflect personalization, collaboration, active engaged learning, technology rich, investigative, interdisciplinary curriculum.
Credits: 2
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EDU 5450 - Assessment of Exceptional Students
Assessment of Exceptional Students will provide instruction in administration, scoring and interpreting tests commonly used to identify students as learning disabled, behavior disordered, or learning impaired. The Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-educational Battery, Adaptive Behavior Scale, Test of Language Development, Test of Written Language, The Instructional Environmental Scale, Clinical Evaluation of Language Functioning, and Behavior Rating Scales are among the tests that will be studied in depth. The course will focus on both federal regulations and Vermont guidelines and procedures for identifying children with learning disabilities, emotional disturbances, and learning impairments.
Credits: 3
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EDU 5470 - Reading Disabilities I
This is a basic course for prospective clinicians and remedial teachers and an advanced course for prospective classroom teachers. The instruction covers the diagnosis of reading disabilities and the classification of reading problems. Experience with a variety of approaches to problems is a major consideration.
Credits: 3
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EDU 5480 - Science and Technology
This course addresses the use of technology in developing 21st century skills across the curriculum. Participants will learn to use technology as an instructional tool with emphasis on its role in research, problem solving, and presentation to promote higher order thinking, engage individual learning styles, extend learning opportunities, and provide access to resources beyond the school environment. The use of technology to promote interdisciplinary studies as well as to address individual learning strengths will be addressed.
Credits: 3
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EDU 5585 - Human Relations Management
This course will focus on human relations theory and practice as it relates to individual, group, and organizational performance. Topics will include various perspectives on organizational staffing, and improved organization effectiveness through employee training and development.
Credits: 3
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EDU 5590 - Budgeting and Finance Process
This course will examine budgeting and finance processes and issues as they relate to various levels of leadership. The instruction will examine the concepts that form the foundation for decisions that influence funding across a broad range of organizational objectives.
Credits: 3
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EDU 5810 - Reading Disabilities II: Practicum
This course allows the student or teacher the opportunity to consider actual reading problems in relation to a wide variety of diagnostic and remedial activities. Seminars include the review and development of techniques and approaches to reading problem solving. Practicum activities focus on using and evaluating materials and ideas while working with students either in the public schools or at the College reading clinic.
Credits: 3
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EDU 6010 - Supervision & Evaluation
The purpose of the course is to provide students with a knowledge base in supervision/evaluation as it relates to the changing workplace. The course will also help participants acquire some of the skills necessary for the supervision/evaluation process.
Credits: 3
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EDU 6045 - Developing Literacy Skills K-6
This course provides students with an introduction to developing reading, writing, speaking and listening skills in grades K – 6. This course focuses on the theoretical background, literacy processes, instructional practices and materials that develop literacy skills in children. Students will learn to incorporate phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, word study, comprehension, and writing in a comprehensive literacy program. Students will become familiar with screening, diagnostic, and program assessments in order to direct literacy instruction to meet individual needs.
Prerequisites & Notes
This course is offered every fall.
Credits: 3
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EDU 6135 - Legal and Ethical Issues in Education
This is a course in legal issues and professional ethics related to teaching with instructional resources. The course explores educational legal issues, professional ethics, and information literacy topics such as plagiarism, confidentiality, and copyright law in the information age. The course evaluates decisions and assesses various approaches to fundamental ethical dilemmas and the impact of academic ethics in contemporary society.
Prerequisites & Notes
This course is offered every summer.
Credits: 3
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EDU 6190 - Mathematics in the Elementary Classroom
Participants will develop an understanding of how to evaluate and design appropriate math instruction for diverse learners. Emphasis will be on numeracy, inquiry, and problem solving instruction. Participants will gain experience in the use of formative assessment and authentic tasks in math instruction. Participants will learn to use of technology as an instructional tool with emphasis on technology’s role in research, problem solving, and presentation to promote higher order thinking.
Credits: 3
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EDU 6280 - Education, Culture, and Ecology
This course introduces students to the integral relationship between teaching and learning, the broader society, and the environment. Participants will work collaboratively to examine current cultural trends, controversies and values, ecological parameters of choice and social change priorities at the local and global level in light of current learning theory. Texts will draw from a variety of academic fields, including anthropology, ecology, economics, education, and sociology.
Prerequisites & Notes
The course will be offered at least every three years.
Credits: 3
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EDU 6285 - Methods in Teaching Secondary Science
This course focuses on teaching methods and techniques, as well as preparation, implementation, and assessment of curriculum in the specific content area. The teacher’s relationship with the school and community is also addressed.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is EDU 6565.
Credits: 3
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EDU 6286 - Methods in Teaching Secondary English
This course focuses on teaching methods and techniques, as well as preparation, implementation, and assessment of curriculum in the specific content area. The teacher’s relationship with the school and community is also addressed.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is EDU 6565.
Credits: 3
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EDU 6287 - Methods in Teaching Secondary Social Studies
This course focuses on teaching methods and techniques, as well as preparation, implementation, and assessment of curriculum in the specific content area. The teacher’s relationship with the school and community is also addressed
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is EDU 6565.
Credits: 3
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EDU 6435 - Change Management
This course prepares participants to manage change within a variety of educational settings. The course covers change-management theory, features of organizational environments, and sustainable educational technology plans. The course also identifies specific strategies for managing change in educational environments and for professional development in the context of educational change.
Prerequisites & Notes
This course is offered every summer.
Credits: 3
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EDU 6485 - Technology for Educational Assessment
This course explores a variety of different technologies as tools for assessment. Students will learn when assessment should be integrated into curricula and will explore how to choose the right assessment tool to fit their classroom needs. Students will be exposed to technologies such as clickers and ePortfolios throughout the course.
Prerequisites & Notes
This course is offered every fall.
Credits: 3
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EDU 6487 - Business of Educational Technology
This course provides participants with the necessary understanding of how business principles support and advance educational technology. Participants will learn how to draft proposals and grants for evaluating, planning, and implementing educational technology systems.
Prerequisites & Notes
This course is offered every fall.
Credits: 3
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EDU 6490 - Technology for Educators
This hands-on course provides students with a foundation in the use of up-to-date technology. Participants will gain skill in using different educational software and hardware, assistive technology, and the Internet to support the learning of all students, including those with learning problems. The course will present technology to support instruction through software applications, social networking, and mobile technology. Best practice in the use of educational technology will be addressed.
Prerequisites & Notes
There is a lab fee. The course will be offered every summer.
Credits: 3
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EDU 6495 - Tools of Educational Technology
The purpose of this course is to take a hands-on approach to different technologies available to educators. Students will learn about tablets, clickers, learning-management systems, and other popular technology tools. The course discusses how to integrate these technologies successfully into a classroom.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is EDU 6490. This course is offered every spring.
Credits: 3
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EDU 6540 - Advanced Studies in Learning Theory
This course examines the various theories of learning and their application to the classroom. The interaction of physical, social, emotional, cultural, cognitive and personality factors and the role of learning in these processes is addressed in this course. Brain based research is also explored. The effect of motivation, intelligence, and attitudes are also addressed, as are issues in educational theories for using technology.
Prerequisites & Notes
This course is offered every fall.
Credits: 3
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EDU 6550 - Foundations and Issues in Education
This course provides a survey of philosophical, historical, and contemporary issues in education. Historical perspectives will be explored through understanding the changing conceptions of curriculum reform. Social and cultural forces affecting curriculum will be discussed in terms of decision systems for curriculum change. The impact of technology on education will be explored. The historical and philosophical orientation of this course will enable students to understand, evaluate and act on current issues in education.
Prerequisites & Notes
This course is offered every fall.
Credits: 3
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EDU 6561 - Reading Recovery I
This course introduces teachers to the philosophy and techniques of the Reading Recovery program. The course will give participants an opportunity to demonstrate effective teaching of Reading Recovery materials under the supervision of a teacher leader. Instruction in data gathering, progress monitoring, and curriculum planning is included.
Credits: 3
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EDU 6562 - Reading Recovery II
This course is a continuation of EDU 6561. The instruction focuses on advanced techniques used in the Reading Recovery program.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is successful completion of EDU 6561.
Credits: 3
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EDU 6570 - Research Methods
This course examines concepts and procedures for analyzing, designing, assessing, and conducting social research. Students will look at both quantitative and qualitative research methods, and statistical software will be introduced. Focus is placed on action research and practitioner inquiry within the formal academic setting.
Prerequisites & Notes
The course is offered every summer.
Credits: 3
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EDU 6580 - Leadership & Organizational Change
Effective leadership is adaptive and situational and builds on an anthropological understanding of the organizational culture. Leadership cannot occur in a vacuum. There are legal and moral limits that define leadership acts and the use of power. The leader must posses the skills to articulate a vision, to establish creative decision making, and to foster continuous personal, professional, organizational, and systemic growth and improvement. The leader must be able to act in a variety of demanding situations. Leaders have to identify the challenges that a community must confront no matter how difficult. Students will be required to distinguish between problems and solutions, between preferences and principl;es and between fads and researched strategies. They will appreciate the complexity of different organizational environments and understand the conditions that motivate individuals to contribute their best.
Credits: 3
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EDU 6710 - Special Topics in Educational Technology
This course offers students the opportunity to concentrate on topics of special interest in current trends in educational technology not extensively treated in regularly offerings. The prerequisite is graduate standing or permission.
Prerequisites & Notes
This course may be repeated once for credit with change of topic.
Credits: 1-3
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EDU 6770 - Cooperative Learning
This course is designed to help teachers develop an understanding of the theory and operation of cooperative groups. Teachers will have an opportunity to develop materials for their classrooms, and will implement/critique the materials and activities in class.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Graduate standing and for teachers only.
Credits: 3
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EDU 6780 - Topics in Education
This course provides an opportunity to explore specific topics in consultation with a faculty member. An Independent Study Contract must be negotiated with a faculty member before registration. Recent topics have included: Story telling as a Focal Point for the Integrated Arts, Classroom Demonstrations for a Chemistry Curriculum, and Teaching Human Sexuality.
Credits: 1 to 6
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EDU 6810 - Internship
The internship provides an opportunity for students to apply professional knowledge and skills at an approved placement site with a qualified supervisor. The internship course is designed to balance didactic, seminar and experiential curricula. Course expectations include satisfactory completion of practical, seminar participation, and a final written and oral presentation.
Credits: 3 to 12
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EDU 6825 - Internship in Special Education
Adult development and group dynamics theory provide the knowledge base for collaboration with parents and teachers to meet the diverse needs of students with disabilities. Team teaching and universal design theories are practiced.
Credits: 3
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EDU 6830 - Secondary Teaching Internship
A full semester (12 weeks) of student teaching in an elementary classroom combined with monthly seminars that focus on improving the student’s classroom teaching skills. Students are expected to maintain the public school calendar and demonstrate competency expected of a first- year teacher.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisites are completion of core courses; 3.0 GPA; passing scores on Praxis I and II; 60 hours of observation in a variety of classroom settings.
Credits: 6
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EDU 6840 - Administrative Internship
Administrative Internship
Credits: 3
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EDU 6850 - Elementary Teaching Internship
Elementary Internship is a full semester of student teaching in an elementary classroom combined with monthly seminars that focus on improving the student’s classroom teaching skills. Students are expected to maintain the public school calendar and demonstrate competency expected of a first- year teacher.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: 60 hours of observation in a variety of classroom settings, 3.0 GPS in Education courses and Liberal Studies; Passing scores on Praxis I & II. EDU 6540 Advanced Study in Learning Theory; EDU 6550 Foundations and Issues in Education; PSY 3050 or 5350 Child Development; EDU 6560 Curriculum Development; EDU 5223 Learning Differences and Classroom Management; EDU 5310 Reading and Language Arts; EDU 6190 Mathematics in the Elementary Classroom, EDU 5480 Science and Technology; EDU 5380 Social Studies Methods; EDU 5135 Developing a Positive Classroom Climate.
Credits: 6
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EDU 6870 - Fieldwork
This course is encourages the student to apply theoretical knowledge gained in the classroom in a supervised practicum. A completed contract must be filed with the Registrar’s Office in order for registration to be complete.
Credits: 3 to 6
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EDU 6885 - Literacy Practicum
This course is supervised experience as a reading specialist which is supervised by college faculty as well as a person holding a Reading and English Language Arts Specialist endorsement. Candidates will gain experience in developing reading and literacy skills in students in K-12.
Credits: 3
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EDU 6890 - Research Practicum/Final Project
The final product represents the culminating experience in the Master of Education program. The goal is integration of course work through the application of content to a project or study specific to the student’s focus. Students provide a conceptual or theoretical perspective for their work, implement a project or study, prepare a written document that demonstrates content mastery, successful completion of the project and lessons learned from the final experience and analysis. An oral presentation to the faculty committee and interested others is also required.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisites are EDU 6490, EDU 6540, EDU 6550, EDU 6560 and EDU 6570.
Credits: 2-3
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EDU 6910 - Teaching Children to Read
This course will introduce A Teacher’s Guide to K-3 Literacy Instruction: A Three Block Model. Participants will gain an understanding of the three block model, which includes the Reading Workshop, Writing Workshop and Working with Words. This course will focus on theory, instructional practices and assessments related to K-3 literacy instruction.
Credits: 3
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AHS 5020 - Motor Development & Learning
This course offers a study of sensory-motor growth and development of the pre-natal to adult human. Emphasis will be placed upon models, theories, and experiments which assess motor learning through tests of motor performance. Three classroom hours and one two-hour lab per week.
Prerequisites & Notes
There is a lab fee. The prerequisite is PSY 1050.
Credits: 4
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AHS 5710 - Topics in Allied Health Sciences
This course offers an opportunity for students to concentrate on topics and issues related to the field of Allied Health Sciences. The course may be repeated for credit but the total may not exceed four credits.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisites are junior or senior standing and permission.
Credits: 1 to 4
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GEO 5710 - Topics in Geography
This course provides graduate students the opportunity to pursue topics of special interest in geography appropriate for the 5000-level.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is an undergraduate degree.
Credits: 1 to 3
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SED 5440 - Introduction to Geology I
This course investigates changes that have occurred in landscapes over a long time which are detected by a study of the processes of rock weathering, erosion, deposition, regional uplift and subsidence, folding and faulting, metamorphism and igneous activity. The instruction proposes a partial geologic history of northern New England that appears consistent with these processes and also consistent with observations made on two half-day and two all-day field trips. The course provides exercises using topographic maps, vertical aerial photographs and geologic maps. The course requires three classroom hours and one two-hour lab per week.
Prerequisites & Notes
There is a lab fee.
Credits: 4
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SED 5450 - Introduction to Geology II
This course investigates the evolution of the northern Appalachian landscape with the help of small-scale geologic maps. The instruction attempts to make this geologic history consistent with Plate Tectonic (Continental Drift) Theory. It studies the evolution of other landscapes all over the world in the light of the geologic history of the northern Appalachians and Plate Tectonic Theory. The course includes at least three all-day field trips to localities within an area bounded by the Connecticut Valley of northern Massachusetts, the St. Lawrence Lowland near Montreal, and the White Mountains. The course requires three classroom hours and one two-hour lab per week.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is SED 5440. There is a lab fee.
Credits: 4
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SED 5460 - Mineralogy
Mineralogy includes such major topics as crystallography of minerals, identification of minerals and rocks, origin of minerals, and mineral resources. The course includes field trips. The course requires three classroom hours and one two-hour lab per week.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is SED 5450. There is a lab fee.
Credits: 4
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SED 5470 - Geology III
This course explores structural geology and geomorphology in the context of regional geology. Fieldwork is expected. Detailed study of geologic processes, structures and landforms will include construction of geologic maps and cross-sections. Two classroom and three lab hours per week.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisites are SED 5440 and SED 5450. There is a lab fee. This course is offered every even-numbered fall.
Credits: 4
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SED 5480 - Aqueous Geochemistry
This course introduces students to the theoretical foundations governing the chemistry of ground and surface waters. Particular attention is given to carbonate and silica equilibria, which are the systems most responsible for the chemical behavior of natural waters. The course includes three hours of lecture per week.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisites are SED 5320 and SED 5440. SED 5330 is strongly recommended. There is a course fee. This course is offered every odd-numbered fall.
Credits: 4
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SED 5510 - Geology Modules
Geology Modules offer the intensive study of a variety of current topics in geology, offered in response to the current interests of the students and faculty. Examples of topics include paleoclimatology of the last five million years, a survey of our economic mineral resources, and the glacial geology of northern Vermont and adjacent Quebec. Some modules may be taken for major elective credit with written permission. The course requires fifteen lecture/lab hours per credit.
Prerequisites & Notes
Permission of the instructor is required. There is a lab fee.
Credits: 1 to 4
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SED 5520 - Hydrogeology
The course explores such topics as hydrologic cycle porosity and permeability of geologic material, hydraulic head, flow nets, pump tests, steady and unsteady flow patterns in aquifers, migration of solute fronts in aquifers, geology of groundwater occurrence. Some of these topics include a discussion of flood control, waste disposal, drinking water supplies, sources of water pollution and soil quality. At least two of these problems will be investigated in northern Vermont.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is SED 5440. There is a lab fee.
Credits: 4
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SED 5530 - Environmental Geologic Mapping
This course includes topics such as surveying concepts necessary for the preparation of topographic and geologic maps, interpretation of aerial photographs, topographic maps, bedrock geologic maps, surficial geologic maps, daytime photographic infrared imagery, Lands at multi-spectral scanning imagery, thermal infrared scanning imagery and radar sensing imagery, and a discussion of geographic information systems. The course includes a major exercise of the construction of a geologic map of a nearby area.
Prerequisites & Notes
There is a lab fee.
Credits: 4
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HIS 5710 - Topics in History
This course provides graduate students the opportunity to pursue topics of special interest in history appropriate for the 5000- level.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is an undergraduate degree.
Credits: 1 to 3
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MAT 5110 - Math History For Teachers
This is a survey of the development of mathematical thought from ancient times to the present. The course considers the interplay between mathematics and political, social, and intellectual history. Assignments explore historical methods of solution, famous mathematical questions, the work of individual mathematicians, and the rise of various branches of mathematics. The importance of history in the math classroom and methods of incorporating math history in the school curriculum are discussed. A curriculum project is required.
Credits: 3
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MAT 5115 - Number and Arithmetic in the K-8 Curriculum
This course is designed to build a deep understanding of the concepts of number and arithmetic important in elementary and middle school teaching and to support standards based instruction. By experiencing, discussing, and reflecting on mathematical concepts and problem solving, participants will expand their mathematical understanding. This course will explore the role of number and arithmetic in problem solving across the mathematical strands. Participants will be expected to connect the required readings from the NCTM journals the their classroom teaching.
Credits: 3
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MAT 5120 - Algebra and Functions in the K-8 Curriculum
This course is designed to build a deep understanding of the concepts of algebra important in elementary and middle school teaching and to support standards based instruction. Every attempt will be made to make connections across the content strands, although Functions and Algebra (Vermont standard 7.8) will be the focus. By experiencing, discussing, and reflecting on mathematical concepts and problem solving, participants will expand their mathematical understanding. In a supportive environment, the course will be increasing the student’s content knowledge within this standard and developing enhanced problem solving skills and strategies and their own confidence as teacher of mathematics. This course will examine the K-8 curriculum in the Functions and Algebra strand.
Credits: 3
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MAT 5130 - Geometry in the K-8 curriculum
This course is designed to build a deep understanding of the concepts of geometry important in elementary and middle school teaching and to support standards based instruction. When ever possible we will make connections across the content strands. By experiencing, discussing, and reflecting on mathematical concepts and problem solving, participants will expand their mathematical understanding. In a supportive environment, the course will be increasing the student’s content knowledge in geometry and developing enhanced problem solving skills and strategies and their own confidence as teachers of mathematics. The course will examine the K-8 curriculum in geometry, including several of the standards based programs and portfolio problems.
Credits: 3
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MAT 5320 - Methods of Teaching Mathematics
This course focuses on teaching methods and techniques, as well as preparation, implementation, and assessment of curriculum in the specific content area. The teacher’s relationship with the school and community is also addressed.
Credits: 3
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MAT 5710 - Topics for Teachers
This course is intended primarily for teachers who are interested in enhancing and updating the content of the courses they teach. Topics will be chosen from among those typically offered by the Mathematics Department. Specific topics and level will vary. Course may be repeated for credit when no duplication of experience results.
Prerequisites & Notes
The pre-requisites are graduate standing and permission.
Credits: 1 to 4
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MRM 5010 - Introduction to Outdoor Education
This course introduces the history and significance of the outdoor education movement. Classroom and outdoor-learning experiences emphasize methods of integrating out door education with the school curriculum and foster the skills, attitudes, and appreciation of environmentally sound outdoor living.
Credits: 3
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MRM 5020 - Topics in Recreation Resource Management
Topics in Recreation and Resource Management explore special problems or topics in recreation program management, travel and tourism, and resource development in each of the department’s concentrations. Emphasis is on synthesis of information. Topics may include resort economics, ski area marketing and guest services, adventure-based programming, issues and trends, community tourism development, recreation resource planning, and GIS (Geographic Information Systems) technology in resource planning.
Credits: 1 to 6
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MRM 5031 - Facilitator Competency for Ropes Course I
This course introduces the use and integration of initiative activities and low ropes course elements in school and staff training and development environments. Topics include programs and curricula, facilitation techniques, student outcomes, training and management issues, and safety.
Prerequisites & Notes
There is a lab fee.
Credits: 2
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MRM 5032 - Facilitator Competency for Ropes Course II
This course introduces the use of high ropes course elements in school and staff training and development environments. Topics include: programs and curricula, facilitation techniques, student outcomes, training and management issues, and safety.
Prerequisites & Notes
There is a lab fee. The prerequisite is MRM 5031 or permission.
Credits: 2
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MRM 5050 - Adventure-Based Techniques for Counselors and Teachers
This course is designed for counselors and teachers interested in the integration of adventure-based learning into their professional settings and situations. Emphasis is placed on the understanding and use of full-value contract, challenge-by-choice, group process, and the development of adventure-based facilitation skills.
Credits: 3
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MRM 5060 - Wilderness-Based Techniques for Counselors and Teachers
This course is designed for counselors and teachers interested in the integration of wilderness-based activities into their professional settings and situations. Emphasis is placed on wilderness trip preparation, wilderness skill development, group management skills, and safety considerations.
Credits: 3
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MRM 6910 - Independent Study in Recreation Management
This course provides an individual exploration of a specialized area in consultation with a faculty member. An independent study contract including a review of literature, project outline, and plans for a final presentation must be negotiated with the instructor before registration.
Credits: 1 to 6
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SED 5010 - Bird Identification
This course is designed for students interested in being able to identify the local birds in field and in laboratory. Final field test and bird list required.
Prerequisites & Notes
There is a lab fee.
Credits: 2
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SED 5020 - Field Ornithology
This course is a field-oriented course designed for students interested in the study of birds primarily as an avocation. Identification, conservation, and life history of the local bird fauna are stressed.
Prerequisites & Notes
There is a lab fee.
Credits: 3
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SED 5030 - Principles of Ornithology
The instruction provides an elementary study of the principles of bird biology, including morphology, general physiology, taxonomy, evolution, and migration.
Prerequisites & Notes
There is a lab fee.
Credits: 4
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SED 5040 - Human Anatomy and Physiology I
The instruction covers topics including the skeletal, muscular, articular, integumentary, respiratory, and digestive systems, and a discussion of metabolism and nutrition. The class requires three classroom hours and one two-hour lecture/lab per week. Chemistry is recommended.
Prerequisites & Notes
There is a lab fee.
Credits: 4
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SED 5050 - Human Anatomy and Physiology II
This course includes such topics as the circulatory, immunological, nervous, endocrine, urinary, and reproductive systems, development, aging, and disease. The class requires three classroom hours and one two-hour lecture/lab per week. Chemistry is recommended.
Prerequisites & Notes
There is a lab fee.
Credits: 4
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SED 5060 - The Plant Kingdom
The Plant Kingdom presents a survey of the plant world from an evolutionary viewpoint. The lectures trace the form and structure of the flowering plants back through the course of evolution to some of the simplest forms of plant life, through a consideration of the anatomy, morphology, and life cycles of living and extinct groups of plants. Frequent local field trips and a full-day trip to the Montreal Botanical Gardens are included. The laboratories center on the examination of reproductive characteristics of the plant groups. The class requires three classroom hours and one two-hour lab per week.
Prerequisites & Notes
There is a lab fee.
Credits: 4
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SED 5090 - Introduction to Biology
An introduction to the study of life, including cells, organisms, ecosystems, and evolution, and the techniques of the biologist.
Credits: 4
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SED 5110 - Wildlife Biology and Management
Topics for this course include the basic principles of ecology, introduction to fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals, human impacts on soils, plants, animals, and the environment. Discussions address ways to work toward an appreciative and respectful coexistence. The laboratory emphasizes unique aspects of plant and animal interactions, water ecosystems, biodiversity, and the interrelatedness of biological systems.
Prerequisites & Notes
There is a lab fee.
Credits: 4
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SED 5120 - Survey of Animal Kingdom
The course takes students on a journey through the animal kingdom, from animal-like protists, to invertebrate mollusks, worms, and arthropods, to the vertebrates: fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. Elementary principles of ecology introduce the course. Laboratory time focuses on live and preserved representatives of each animal group. The course requires three classroom hours and one two-hour lab per week.
Prerequisites & Notes
There is a lab fee. This course is offered every spring.
Credits: 4
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SED 5130 - Field Zoology
This course investigates the local animal groups with a particular emphasis on protozoa, molluscs, arthropods, and vertebrates. The lectures include taxonomy, life history of selected types— including economically important kinds—modes of adaptation to the environment and zoogeography. The combined laboratory/field approach includes the study of identification, preparation and collection techniques, structure, observations of behavior, and local distribution. Students make a collection or do an elementary field project. The course requires two classroom hours, one three-hour lab per week.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is one semester of biological science. SED 5120 is recommended. There is a lab fee.
Credits: 4
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