42 courses with the subject EDUC, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
EDUC 101Diversity, Equity and the Foundations of American Education1
Offered Both Fall and Spring; Lecture hours:3Historical, economic, philosophical, and social foundations of education, and their implications for present-day education in America. Emphasizes issues of diversity and equity. Provides a background of information for the prospective teacher and citizen. Not open to seniors.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Role of psychological concepts in educational practices. Nature, sources of individual differences in development and readiness. Learning theory, motivation, and emotion in learning. Issues in identifying and supporting the learning of all students. Measurement and evaluation of learning.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course examines the varied trajectories in contemporary immigrant youth adaptations across social contexts, including schools, families, peer groups and work. Crosslisted as EDUC 627.
Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:3Use of observation, documentation, and assessment to develop instructional practices that support learning of all children. Includes assessment across environments and for different purposes. Prerequisite: EDUC 102 or EDUC 201 or permission of the instructor.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Examines the way advocates, entrepreneurs, and philanthropists are changing public education (and society) through innovations like charter schools, school vouchers, cyber schools and home schooling.
Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:3This course approaches creativity as a process that transforms our understanding of the world. It will examine the role the arts (visual, written, musical, theatre, and dance) can play in creating meaningful opportunities for students to engage, express, and learn within the context of the classroom and beyond. Fieldwork/Clearances required.
Offered Fall Semester Only; Lecture hours:3This course encourages the exploration of children’s literature. We will discuss theoretical and pedagogical approaches for integrating children’s literature. Students will have an opportunity to develop engaging unit and lesson plans that promote academic growth, social-emotional learning, and deepen children’s appreciation of history, society, and diverse cultures.
EDUC 275Linguistic Diversity & Equity in Education1
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course explores linguistic diversity and how it shapes teaching and learning in US schools. This course is designed to develop critical language awareness by examining language ideologies. We will discuss ways to recognize the linguistic resources and experiences of diverse students and identify pedagogical strategies that promote educational equity. Crosslisted as LING 275.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3An examination of how gender affects the teaching-learning process with an emphasis on theory, curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment. Crosslisted as WMST 290.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course will focus on positive, preventative, research-based classroom and behavior management strategies. Grounded in behavioral theory, students will understand specific systems and practices that provide universal support to all children and adolescents as well as more intensive supports when needed.
EDUC 308Advanced Educational Foundations: Democracy and Education1
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course employs a multidisciplinary approach to explore the relationship between education and democracy in "free" societies such as the United States. Students will critically examine the American educational system and its contemporary problems through the lenses of history, philosophy, sociology, and anthropology. Prerequisites: EDUC 101.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Focuses on instructional approaches that emphasize teaching diverse learners in the academic, social and behavior domains. Students will learn a process for differentiating instruction based on individual student needs. Students will be introduced to the concepts and application of assessment. Prerequisite: EDUC 102 or EDUC 201. Fieldwork and Clearances Required.
Offered Fall Semester Only; Lecture hours:3,Other:4This course provides an introduction to counseling theory and basic micro-skills of counseling. Students will practice basic techniques of therapeutic interviewing.
Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:3This course explores children’s literature in relation to the teaching of social studies. Pre-service teachers will engage with both social studies and literacy standards as they plan, implement, reflect and revise literature based social studies lessons. Fieldwork and clearances required. Not open to students who have taken EDUC 343/643.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:Varies; RepeatableResearch on a problem not involved in a student thesis. Upperclass students. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as EDUC 617.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course combines social science and educational research with narrative accounts to explore the historical, philosophical, sociological, and political foundations of the multicultural movement in American education. The course will examine and critique contemporary issues such as the educational experiences of minority groups, inclusive pedagogy, and bilingual education.
Lecture hours:3This course presents basic dynamics, theoretical components, and developmental aspects of group processes with clients. Students will participate in a group exercises as members and leaders.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Application of traditional and contemporary ethical theories to current dilemmas in teaching, research, counseling, administration, and educational policy.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3An overview of legislation and procedural safeguards which govern access for people with disabilities in the United States, and implications of various exceptionalities for educational attainment. Through literature and media, students will come to understand people with disabilities as far more than the cumulation of their limitations.
Offered Fall Semester Only; Lecture hours:3,Lab:3A conceptual-development overview of the social, emotional, cognitive, and physical characteristics of the early childhood years (to age 9) stressing extrapolation from developmental theory to educational practice for teachers and parents who function as the earliest educators. Fieldwork and clearances required. Prerequisites: (EDUC 101 and EDUC 102) or EDUC 201.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course will focus on the elements of explicit instruction, which is a structured and systematic approach for teaching academic skills. Students will learn how to design lessons for teaching specific skills, how to organize and deliver instruction, and how to provide appropriate independent practice and feedback. Fieldwork/clearances required.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Trauma affects how people interact, learn and develop; it also affects disease processes and life expectancy. This course examines the importance of compassion by cultivating an understanding of behavioral and socio-affective implications of risk and trauma, toward the end of fostering resiliency in ourselves and those we care for.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Using textbooks, films, media and popular children's and young adult literature, this course examines all aspects of development of school-age students in grades K-12. EDUC 102 or EDUC 201 is recommended for students taking this course.
EDUC 338Bucknell in Italy: Childhood, Family & Education in Italy1
Offered Summer Session Only; Lecture hours:3In this 1-credit, 5-week study abroad experience you will learn about childhood in Italy with an emphasis on the family and education systems in Italy. Not open to seniors. Crosslisted as PSYC 338, PSYC 638 and UNIV 238.
Offered Both Fall and Spring; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:3This pre-student field experience will provide students with direct classroom experience. Students will develop instructional strategies and classroom management skills. Students will be placed in classrooms in local school districts.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3,Lab:3A study of the strategies and techniques involved in teaching children to read and to write (Pre-K-4 level). Contemporary theories of reading behavior. Fieldwork and clearances required. Prerequisites: EDUC 101 and EDUC 102 or EDUC 201.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3,Other:4This course reflects best practices for the teaching of science as inquiry. Focuses on methods and materials for teaching science concepts, processes, and skills to young children. Fieldwork and clearances required. Prerequisites: EDUC 101 and EDUC 102 or EDUC 201.
EDUC 347Family, School, and Community Partnerships1
Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:3Students will explore important factors and effective strategies in creating and sustaining respectful, reciprocal, supportive and empowering relationships with families to enhance children's development and learning. Prerequisite: junior or senior status or permission of the instructor. Field experience and clearances are required.
Offered Fall Semester Only; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:35Supervised practice in the design and implementation of instruction in elementary school classrooms. Emphasis on professional conduct and use of theory to inform practice. Students must be accepted into the Pre-CIP program, must have enrolled in all certification courses or obtain permission of the instructor. Corequisite: EDUC 449.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Overview of historical and contemporary trends in post-secondary education: systematic examination of selected social, political, economic, and educational forces and problems affecting contemporary higher education.
EDUC 351Learning and Development in Postsecondary Education1
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Investigation of contemporary theories pertaining to the processes of learning and development that occur from later adolescence through old age.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3,Other:4Principles and practices of teaching biology, chemistry, physics, earth and space science, and environmental science in grades 7-12. Prerequisites: EDUC 101, and (EDUC 102 or EDUC 201), and (EDUC 334 or EDUC 335). EDUC 335 is required for environmental science.
Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:35Supervised practice in the design and implementation of instruction in secondary school classrooms. Emphasis on professional conduct and use of theory to inform practice. Corequisite: EDUC 459. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course emphasizes the design of quantitative research and the development of skills in analyzing and interpreting data. Quantitative research in education and psychology is critiqued in terms of theory, past research, hypothesis generation, and research design. Data input and analysis involves the use of the statistical software package SPSS.
Offered Fall Semester Only; Lecture hours:3This is an introduction to the foundations of qualitative design in education, including: history, philosophy, nature, types, examples, and the challenges associated with data collection and its interpretation.
Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:3This course focuses on preparing students to teach students for whom English is their second language (ESL). It focuses on three primary areas: instructional materials development for ESL; assessment and support of ESL students; and cultural awareness and sensitivity. Fieldwork and clearances required for certification students.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:3Individual research, leading to an honors thesis in education. Supervised by an instructor in the department of education. Prerequisites: permission of the instructor, department, instructor and University Honors Council.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:3Supervised practice in an educational setting including a structured reflection component. This course may be used to fulfill the Culminating Experience course requirement for the B.A. in education.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:35Student teaching in music. Corequisite: MUSC 335. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
EDUC 449Professional Seminar in Elementary Education1
Offered Fall Semester Only; Lecture hours:3Systematic approach to the observation, interpretation, verification and remediation of problems affecting student learning. Psychological and sociological theory informing teaching practice. Implications of student diversity for adaptation of instruction. Prerequisites: Senior status and permission of the instructor. Corequisite: EDUC 349.
EDUC 459Professional Seminar in Secondary Education1
Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:3Systematic approach to the observation, interpretation, verification, and remediation of problems affecting student learning. Psychological and sociological theory informing teaching practice. Implications of student diversity for adaptation of instruction. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor. Corequisite: EDUC 359.
