This course uses child development as the foundation to discuss the importance of play throughout childhood to understand, educate, and support healing. Students will learn about various forms of play for each developmental stage, the value of various play environments, and be introduced to effectively integrating play into therapeutic, medical, and educational settings.
This course explores the many places and spaces that make up Germany/Austria/Switzerland. It will focus on cities, landscapes and locations that are central to German-language cultures and German- language identities. Examples topics include German cities; Berlin; Forests and Mountains; and Discos, Bars and Oktoberfest. Students will develop their communication and literacy skills through structured use of the German language. Course targets the Intermediate-Mid to Advanced- low range on the ACTFL proficiency scale or the B1 to B2 levels on the CEFR.
This course examines important cultural forms in Germany/Austria/Switzerland. It focuses on genres, forms of expression, and traditions that have impacted German culture and its understanding nationally, transnationally, internationally and globally. Possible topics include: From Bach to HipHop, Visual Arts from Caspar David Friedrich to Gerhard Richter, the TV Crime Series and/or Fairy Tales, Urban Legends and Moral Lessons. Students will develop their language and literacy skills through structured use of the German language.
This course provides an introduction to the history of Latinxs (and Hispanics, a distinction in terms the course will address) in the United States. It explores the diverse roots, changing identities, and social and political impact of various historical actors-women and men, natives and immigrants, political leaders and political dissidents, exiles and refugees-whose actions, interactions, and dynamics shaped the country and defined its character, its politics, its culture, its economics, and its social structures-in other words, its history.
The United States has historically been both "a nation of immigrants" and a nation wary of them. This course will explore the history of immigration in/to the United States, paying close attention to the paradoxes and ironies that have defined that history since the nation's earliest days. We will trace changing migration patterns, examine the development of citizenship as a social and political construct, explain changes in immigration policy over time and their unintended consequences, discover the roots of nativism, and assess the struggle for immigrants' rights.
This course examines the history of China during its last two imperial dynasties. It traces the uses of Confucian ideas in politics, with special attention to themes of protest, power, autocracy, gender, and ethnicity. All students in the course will participate in role-playing simulations to explore texts, ideas, and personalities of the period.
A study of the legal and ethical issues facing journalism. The course will focus on the rights, constraints and responsibilities under the U.S. Constitution, federal and state statutes, administrative law, common law and voluntary codes of ethics. This course satisfies the GCCR requirement for the Journalism major.
In line with the AACN goals of advancing diversity, inclusion, and equity in academic nursing, this enrichment program would serve all three AACN objectives: The course aims to "(1) improve the quality of education by enhancing the capacity of academic nursing to maximize learning opportunities and experiences for students and faculty, alike, which depend in significant ways on learning from individuals with diverse life experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds.
This 1-credit hour human physiology laboratory course is designed for current and former students of PGY 206, Elementary Physiology. This course is designed to encourage concept development and integration via application and hypothesis testing. This human physiology laboratory course will take a virtual pragmatic learning approach utilizing healthcare simulation, experimental and clinical data sets, and computer modeling to conduct physiology experiments.
The purpose of this course is to further develop teacher candidates' knowledge and understanding of the reading foundations (including multiple concepts about print, alphabetic principles, sense of story, phonological awareness) and word recognition components (phonemic awareness, phonics, sight words, context, structural analysis) related to emergent literacy and children's success in reading, writing, and spelling.
