GENERAL TEACHER EDUCATION / 93


General Courses
EDE 6525-Classroom Discipline: Applying Alternative
Methods (3) Examining the issues of discipline and manage-
ment in the schools. Emphasis on increasing the classroom
teacher's ability to apply alternative strategies for effective
discipline.
EDE 6541-Individualization of Instruction (3) School pat-
terns as determiners of educational programs in childhood
education. Innovative approaches in nursery, kindergarten,
elementary, and middle schools.
EDE 6905-Individual Work (1-5; max: 10) For advanced stu-
dents who wish to study individual problems in childhood
education and/or early childhood education under faculty
guidance.
EDE 6910-Supervised Research (1-5; max: 5) S/U.
EDE 6932-Special Topics (1-5; max: 10) Prereq: permission
of department chairman.
EDG 6427-Parent Education for Educators (3) Review of
roles of parents and children in the family; planning and
conducting parent education units for children and parents.
EDG 6705-The Education of Culturally Disadvantaged Chil-
dren and Youths (3) Curriculum content and procedures
pertinent to educational needs.
EDG 6941-Field Laboratory for Faculty Study of Special
Problems (2-6; max: 6) Offered only by extension. To assist
teachers in single schools, groups of schools, or county sys-
tems in improving certain subject areas or in working on
special problems within the system:
EDG 6971-Research for Master's Thesis (1-15) S/U.
EDG 7795-Seminar in the Education of Disadvantaged Chil-
dren and Youths (3) Open to advanced graduate students.
Research and literature dealing with developing programs
for culturally disadvantaged children and youths.
EDG 7979-Advanced Research (1-9) Research for doctoral
students before admission to candidacy. Designed for stu-
dents with a master's degree in the field of study or for stu-
dents who have been accepted for a doctoral program. Not
open to students who have been admitted to candidacy.
S/U.
EDG 7980-Research for Doctoral Dissertation (1-15) S/U.
EDS 6351-Supervision of Pre-Service Teachers (1-3; max: 3)
Open to graduate students with certification and back-
ground in childhood education.
ESE 6385-Supervision of Pre-Service Teachers (1-3; max: 3)
Functions of the directing teacher in the program including
problems and procedures of supervising the work of pre-
service teachers.
Early Childhood Education
EDG 6375-Teaching Early Childhood Mathematics and Sci-
ence (3) The process approach to teaching mathematics and
science to children in preschool through primary programs
with a focus on inquiry and discovery methods and formal
curriculum programs.
EEC 5944-Laboratory in Nursery-Kindergarten Teaching I
(3) Prereq or coreq: EDF 3122, or consent of instructor and
teaching experience.
EEC 5945-Laboratory in Nursery-Kindergarten Teaching II
(3) Prereq or coreq: EEC 5944 or EDF 3122, or consent of in-
structor and teacher experience.
EEC 6051-Early Childhood Education: Background and
Concepts (3) Trends in the teaching of nursery and kin-
dergarten children as shown in past and current educational
theory.
EEC 6205-Early Childhood Curriculum (3) Students will de-
velop and/or implement instructional strategies consistent
with their personal philosophies of early childhood educa-
tion. Open to majors and non-majors seeking introductory
knowledge of the field.
EEC 6304-Creativity in the Early Childhood Curriculum (3)
Techniques for teaching all areas of the early childhood cur-
riculum so that these areas may-be learned more creatively.
EEC 6307-Parent Education Programs (3) Prereq: EDF 6113
or equivalent. Strategies professionals can use to design pro-
grams for involving parents of their children in home,
school, and community programs.
EEC 6405-Resources for Early Childhood Education (3; max:
6) Prereq: matriculation in an early childhood education


graduate program. Laboratory experiences in an array of
community and institutional agencies.
EEC 6525--Day Care for Young Children (3) The back-
ground, curriculum, organization, staffing, training of staff,
parent education and involvement, funding and research of
day care.
EEC 6946-Practicum in Early Childhood Education (1-6;
max: 11) Supervised experience in a variety of early child-
hood settings with weekly seminars.
EEC 6947-Practicum in Parent Education (1-6; max: 11) Su-
pervised experience in a variety of parenteducation pro-
gram settings with weekly seminars.
EEC 7932-Seminar in Early Childhood Education (1-6; max:
6) Open to advanced graduate students. Problems and is-
sues.
LAE 6301-Early Childhood Language Arts and Reading (3)
Prereq: RED 4147. Factors influencing early language and
their relationship to beginning school programs in listening,
speaking, reading, and writing.,
LAE 6407-Early Childhood Children's Literature (3) Prereq:
a course in children's literature. Methods of involving young
children (birth through kindergarten) with literature and the
role of literature in the home and school.
Elementary Education
EDE 6205-Elementary School Curriculum (3) Primarily for
students with no course background or teaching experience
in elementary curriculum. Content and methods.
EDE 6225-Practices in Childhood Education (3) Prereq:
course background or teaching experience in the elementary
curriculum. Elementary school practices in relation to funda-
mental principles of curriculum development; selection, or-
ganization, and development of effective teaching-learning
situations.
EDE 6948-Internship in Elementary School (1-9; max: 11)
Prereq: consent of the instructor. Supervised teaching in
elementary grades 1-6.
EDE 7247-Problems in Childhood Education I(3) Advanced
course in elementary school curriculum.
EDE 7248-Problems in Childhood Education II (3)
EDE 7415-Evaluation in the Elementary School (3) Point of
view, methods, and techniques used in appraising behav-
ioral growth of pupils; evaluation of the objectives of the to-
tal program.
EDE 7935-Seminar in Elementary Education (1-6; max: 6)
Open to advanced graduate students. Current research and
an overview of the total program.
The following specialized subject area courses may be nec-
essary to fulfill requirements in General Teacher Education
program areas.
ARE 5313-Teaching Art in the Elementary School (3) For in-
service teachers. Not open to students who have taken ARE
3312. Study of art expression based on an understanding of
child development. Laboratory, lecture, visual aids, class dis-
cussion, and individual projects.
ARE 5315-Teaching Art in Elementary School II (3) For in-
service teachers. Prereq: ARE 5313 or 3312 or equivalent. Lab-
oratory experiences with materials. Emphasis upon ways of
developing art experience with children. Individual and
group projects.
EDG 6375-Teaching Early Childhood Mathematics and Sci-
ence (3) The process approach to teaching mathematics and
science to children in preschool through primary programs
with a focus on inquiry and discovery methods and formal
curriculum programs.
LAE 6319-Language Arts in the Elementary School (3)
Speaking, listening, writing, and language study in the
elementary classroom.
LAE 6714-Children's Literature in the Childhood Cur-
riculum (3) Prereq: ENG 4161. Evaluating, selecting, and us-
ing fiction, biography, poetry, and informational books for
instructional, informational, and recreational purposes.
MAE 5318-Teaching Modern Math in Elementary School (3)
Analysis of content, methodology, and materials for teach-
ing modern mathematics.
MAE 6115--Mathematics in the Elementary School (3) Pre-
req: MAE 5318. Recent research,, patterns of curriculum,
techniques of teaching, and use of instructional media. Pri-