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HIST 4456:World War II 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned at least 45 credit hours.
A survey of the causes, events, and results of World War II. The course emphasizes military history and the global nature of the conflict but also examines the economic, political, and diplomatic aspects of the war.
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HIST 4461:Gilded Age & Progressive Era 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned at least 45 credit hours.
An examination of the expansion, industrialization, and urbanization of the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and of the era’s cultural, political, economic, intellectual, and social issues.
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HIST 4471:Recent United States History 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned at least 45 credit hours.
Recent United States History, 1939-present. Considers domestic political history, an overview of foreign policy, economic growth and change, and social and cultural reform movements.
Course may be cross-leveled with HIST 6471.
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HIST 4488:Approaches to World History 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HIST 3271 , and Permission of Program Coordinator
The course examines approaches to world history as a field of study, including important debates and controversies in the tradition, along with best practices in teaching world history. The course includes a consideration of recent developments on topics such as modernization and globalization and their significance in world history, philosophical perspectives on the importance of world history in today’s secondary classrooms, world history lesson planning and teaching, and a middle school field component.
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HIST 4490:Special Topics in History 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned at least 45 credit hours.
The course treats topics of interest to both students and faculty.
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HIST 4495:Research Seminar in US History 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HIST 3100 ; Departmental Approval.
This seminar introduces students to the historiography of a particular topic or theme in US History. It requires students to develop an original research paper on the topic or theme using primary and secondary sources and reflecting standard practices within the discipline.
Notes: This course should not be taken before the second semester of the junior year and may be repeated once for credit.
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HIST 4496:Research Seminar in European History 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HIST 3100 ; Departmental Approval.
This seminar introduces students to the historiography of a particular topic or theme in European History. It requires students to develop an original research paper on the topic or theme using primary and secondary sources and reflecting standard practices within the discipline.
Notes: This course should not be taken before the second semester of the junior year and may be repeated once for credit.
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HIST 4497:Research Seminar in non-Western History 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HIST 3100 ; Departmental Approval.
This seminar introduces students to the historiography of a particular topic or theme of a particular region in the non-Western world. It requires students to develop an original research paper on the topic or theme using primary and secondary sources and reflecting standard practices within the discipline.
Notes: This course should not be taken before the second semester of the junior year and may be repeated once for credit.
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HIST 4498:Research Seminar in World History 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HIST 3100 ; Departmental Approval.
This seminar introduces students to the historiography of a particular topic or theme in World History, using the approaches of cross-cultural, transnational, or transregional history. It requires students to develop an original research paper on the topic or theme using primary and secondary sources and reflecting standard practices within the discipline.
Notes: This course should not be taken before the second semester of the junior year and may be repeated once for credit.
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HIST 4499:Senior Thesis in History 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HIST 3100 and (HIST 4495 or HIST 4496 or HIST 4497 or HIST 4498 ) and approval of the department chair.
A combined tutorial and seminar in which students research and write a senior thesis in addition to making a computer based presentation in class.
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HIST 4501:Ancient Greece 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned 45 credit hours.
This is an upper-level history course on the history of the Greek world in the Bronze, Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic ages (c. 3000 - 200 BC). In addition to core political and military developments, lectures cover Greek literature and extended forays into a range of important social and cultural topics including art, religion, and the family.
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HIST 4502:Ancient Rome 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned 45 credit hours.
This is an upper-level history of the Roman people and their empire from the foundation of the city of Rome to the end of the so-called Pax Romana (753 BC -180 AD). In addition to core political and military developments, this course covers literature, religion, imperial ideology, Romanization, and Roman daily life.
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HIST 4503:Twilight of Antiquity 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned 45 credit hours.
This is an upper-level history course on the final phase of the ancient Roman empire and the transition from antiquity to the early Middle Ages (c. 200 - 600 AD). Major topics include the fall of the western half of the empire, the survival of the East, the rise of new barbarian kingdoms, and the Christianization of the Roman world.
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HIST 4544:Renaissance Europe 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Completion of at least 45 credit hours
This course is an overview of European history ca. 1400 to ca. 1530, focusing on the Renaissance, a revival, originating in Italy, of ancient models for education, art, literature and politics. Among the topics the course covers are humanism, the transformation of art and architecture, Renaissance political models, the military and print revolutions, and the European voyages of reconnaissance and conquest. This course emphasizes the close reading of period texts and frequent critical writing.
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HIST 4545:Reformation Europe 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Completion of at least 45 credit hours
This course provides an overview of European history in the long sixteenth century, focusing on the religious upheavals known as the Reformations. It traces the emergence of the Protestant confessions, as well as Catholic reform and reaction. Examining both the actions of key figures and the broader social forces, the course assesses the immediate and enduring repercussions of the splintering of western Christendom.
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HIST 4555:Topics in European Culture 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have completed 45 credit hours.
This course introduces themes in early modern and modern European cultural history. It explores the premise that literary and artistic developments could drive-not just reflect-political, social, economic, and intellectual changes. Topics may include, but are not limited to, the use of popular song as political propaganda, changing gender norms in eighteenth-century literature, identity formation through music, culture as an industry, film and globalization, and the relationship between visual art and warfare.
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HIST 4558:The Holocaust 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned at least 45 credit hours.
This course puts the Holocaust into historical perspective and reflects on what it reveals about genocide in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The course examines the roots of anti-Semitism, the rise of fascism in Europe as it relates to the ideology of the Nazi Party, and the implementation of the Final Solution. The structure and purpose of the ghettos and death camps is studied, as well as efforts to resist. The course concludes by looking at what contemporary representations of the Holocaust mean for a post-Shoah generation.
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HIST 4633:Modern German History 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned at least 45 credit hours
This course examines German history from Napoleon to Hitler. It explores Germany’s ascent to global power and its dramatic losses in two world wars. Special attention is paid to the collapse of the Weimar Republic and the rise of the Nazi dictatorship. This course situates the Nazis within the larger narrative of Germany history and demonstrates the global influence of Germany in many areas of life from gymnastics and corporate R&D to cinema and gay rights.
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HIST 4640:Modern Ireland 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned at least 45 credit hours.
This course surveys Irish history from 1700 to the present. The primary emphasis is on the political history of Ireland, but the course also seeks to convey an understanding of Irish economic, social and cultural history, as well as of the influence of the Irish in America. Major topics include Irish nationalism, Ulster unionism, the Famine, Irish revolutions, the Irish Civil War, and the Troubles.
This course may be cross-leveled with HIST 6640.
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HIST 4654:Russia to 1861 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned at least 45 credit hours.
This course is a study of Russian history to 1861 that examines the cultural, social and political history from the origins of the Russian State in Kiev to the emancipation of the serfs.
This course may be cross-leveled with HIST 6654.
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HIST 4655:Russia Since 1861 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned at least 45 credit hours.
This course is a study of Russia since 1861 that examines the cultural, social and political history of Russia from the emancipation of the serfs to the present.
Course may be cross-leveled with HIST 6655.
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HIST 4760:The Age of Imperialism 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned 45 credit hours.
This course explores the Age of Imperialism in its political, social, economic, and cultural dimensions mainly from the 1870s through the 1960s. The course examines imperialism as a global phenomenon and utilizes inter-cultural, transnational, and transregional perspectives.
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HIST 4765:History of Terrorism 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Completion of at least 45 credit hours
This course studies the history of terrorism, analyzing how terrorist attacks and definitions of terrorism change over time. Students explore why people use certain types of violence in specific eras to achieve distinct goals. All terrorism is political, and terrorist attacks are deeply embedded in the politics of their day. Thus, students also examine the historical societies affected by terrorism and their reactions to attacks.
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HIST 4905:History of the Atlantic World 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned at least 45 credit hours.
This course exposes students to the momentous socioeconomic transformations that occurred in the Atlantic basin in the wake of Christopher Columbus’s voyage of 1492. The changes were engendered by the convergence of diverse cultural groups and the complex social and economic networks that they established in the Atlantic basin. Students examine the complex interconnections, the consequences, and the resultant new social and economic institutions which significantly informed our contemporary world.
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HIST 4911:Themes in American Environmental History 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned at least 45 credit hours.
This course focuses on the interaction of the natural environment and human societies in North America from approximately 1500 to the present. Topics include colonial and imperial expansion, industrialization and the rise of modern technological systems, agricultural intensification, the development of contemporary environmental thinking, and the origins of the modern environmental movement. Selected themes present American environmental history within a global context.
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History Education |
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HIED 4490:Special Topics in History Education 1-6 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor and department chair.
Selected special topics of interest to faculty and students.
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HIED 4498:Internship in Teaching Social Studies (6-12) 0 Class Hours 18 Laboratory Hours 12 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Provisional teaching license issued by State of Georgia, full-time employment teaching social studies (7-12).
Student teaching experience in social studies for provisionally certified teachers. Supervision will be in collaboration with a mentor-teacher in a local school and a specialist in social studies education. Twelve (12) hours of this internship will automatically substitute for SSED 4475. Proof of professional liability insurance. Students are responsible for their own school placements.
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HIED 4550:Methods of History Education 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Pre-Service Certificate, Admission to Yearlong Clinical Experience, Permission of Program Coordinator Corequisite: HIED 4650 , INED 3300 , and EDUC 4610
This course is an examination and application of curriculum issues, learning theories, teaching strategies, instructional materials, and assessment procedures for teaching secondary social sciences in the multicultural and diverse classrooms of today. Emphasis is on those practices suggested by research in secondary social science education and encouraged by our accrediting agencies.
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HIED 4650:Yearlong Clinical Experience I 0 Class Hours 24 Laboratory Hours 6 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to Yearlong Clinical Experience, Issued Pre-service Certificate, HIST 3271 , and HIST 4488 . Corequisite: EDUC 4610 , INED 3300 , and HIED 4550
This course is the first semester of an intensive and extensive co-teaching yearlong clinical experience in history education. Under the guidance of a collaborating teacher and university supervisor and working in a diverse environment that includes students with exceptionalities and English learners, candidates practice professional competencies that impact student achievement. This experience includes regularly scheduled professional seminars. Proof of liability is required.
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HIED 4660:Yearlong Clinical Experience II 0 Class Hours 24 Laboratory Hours 6 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HIED 4550 , HIED 4650 , and permission of the program coordinator
This course is the second semester of an intensive and extensive co-teaching yearlong clinical experience in history education. Under the guidance of a collaborating teacher and university supervisor and working in a diverse environment that includes students with exceptionalities and English learners, candidates practice professional competencies that impact student achievement. This experience includes regularly scheduled professional seminars and the completion of a content pedagogy assessment. Proof of liability insurance is required.
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Honors |
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HON 1000:An Introduction to Honors Education 1 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 0 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admissions to the University Honors Program
This course introduces students to the philosophy of Honors education, the requirements of the University Honors Program, and the Honors Foundations. Students learn strategies for maximizing their academic opportunities at KSU through the Honors Program and developing the eight Honors Foundations: appreciation of diverse perspectives, creativity and innovation, critical thinking, effective communication, information fluency, interdisciplinary learning, leadership, and professionalism
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HON 1100:The First-Year Honors Colloquium: An Introduction to Honors Education 1 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 1 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to the Undergraduate Honors Program.
This course introduces students to the educational philosophy of the Honors College. Students explore and engage in various forms of academic inquiry, guided by a member of the Honors Faculty. In addition, they learn strategies for building strong academic credentials, finding good leadership and service opportunities, and preparing effective scholarship applications, both for internal (KSU) awards and for Rhodes, Marshall, Fulbright, or other major scholarships they may decide to pursue later in their academic career.
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HON 2001:Introduction to Honors Research 1 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 1 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to the Undergraduate Honors Program
In this one-hour introduction to Honors research, students will learn how to find a wide array of credible sources for research in any discipline; how to construct a research question and a thesis/hypothesis; how to write a literature review; and how to document their sources correctly using the documentation manual specific to their disciplines.
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HON 2400:Honors Discovery 1 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 0 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to the University Honors Program
Honors Discoveries are short-term, not-for-credit learning experiences focused on topics outside the usual college curriculum. They often integrate disciplines, current events, or popular culture. Honors Discoveries involve small groups of Honors students learning through seminar discussion and experiential learning under the guidance of a KSU faculty member. May repeat once.
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HON 2800:Honors Applied Learning Experience 0 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 0 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admissions to University Honors Program
An Honors Applied Learning Experience is a way to acquire hands-on experience related to your major in a meaningful way that is less formal than an internship. Some common types of applied learning include volunteering, shadowing a professional in your future field, and observations. At least 48 hours of applied learning experiences are required, along with a written proposal within the first month of the semester and a written report and reflection on the experience by the final class day of the semester.
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HON 3000:Honors Colloquium 1 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 0-1 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to the University Honors Program
In this seminar, selected faculty lead Honors students in an exploration of a topic of interest.
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HON 3002:Honors Research 0-3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to the Undergraduate Honors Program
This course enables Honors students to earn course credit and gain hands-on experience by assisting a professor with his or her research. Students work one-on-one within their major field or within a closely related field doing primary and/or secondary research for a research project conducted by the instructor. Both the student and the instructor are expected to present their findings to members of the campus community at the end of the semester.
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HON 3100:Honors Research Methods 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to the University Honors Program
Students learn about conducting various kinds of research. Topics include advantages and disadvantages of different research methods, designs of studies, methods of collecting and analyzing data, ethical issues, application of findings, and protocols for writing reports and proposals. As their final project, students choose a topic and write a sample research proposal for the Honors Senior Capstone Experience.
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HON 3102:Honors Peer Mentoring 0-3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to the Undergraduate Honors Program
This class is intended to help students develop mentoring and leadership skills within their major field, a field of interest, or a university service program (e.g., Student Affairs, Housing, the Odyssey Peer Mentoring Program, or the ATTIC). Students can work with a professor, a department chair, a program director, or an administrator to assist a student or a group of students, using a variety of teaching methods and study skills in which they will receive training.
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HON 3203:Honors Teaching Assistance 0-3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to the Undergraduate Honors Program
This class is intended to help students develop teaching and leadership skills within their major field or a field of interest. Students will assist a professor in teaching duties. The class teaches students how to disseminate ideas and how to assess learning. It teaches communication skills since teaching assistants will work one-on-one, in small groups, and full class with students taking the course.
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HON 3301:Honors Interdisciplinary Seminar 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to the Undergraduate Honors Program
In this intensive reading and writing course, honors students will explore creative integrations of evidence from two or more disciplines, with emphasis on global learning. In addition to investigating the how and why of interdisciplinary thinking, they will examine the origins, consequences, and principles underlying their own assumptions about issues raised in class lectures and discussions.
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HON 3600:Introduction to Community, Service, and Leadership 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission into the President’s Emerging Global Scholars Minor
The purpose of this course is to enable students to prepare for a life of service, leadership and community engagement. The class will teach various leadership theories and how each theoretical approach is applied in a variety of organizations. Concepts learned through the course will be immediately applicable for students. Students will have the opportunity to place their theoretical learning in the context of active service.
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HON 3620:Issues in the Global South 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HON 3600
Students must gain global competencies and an inclusive worldview to help further their global citizenship and prepare them for leadership positions within their specific academic discipline and intended careers. This course examines global issues related to developing countries, or what are collectively called the “Global South.” The Global South numerically consists of the largest number of nations in the world encompassing more than 150 countries in Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East. Despite their diversity, developing nations share several common characteristics. Common issues include war, poverty, oppressive gender norms, race and religious inequality, globalization, neo-liberalism, the impact of colonialism, and political and social instability. This course aims to help students identify and critically analyze the major issues and challenges facing developing nations in dialogue with specific contexts and greater global experiences. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this course leads students in examining a specific developing country in the Global South as a case study for understanding common issues faced by developing countries.
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HON 3640:Introduction to Civic Engagement 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HON 3620
This course will explore theoretical and applied concepts in civic engagement. Students will choose from a variety of opportunities to investigate and select options to learn and serve in the community for causes and ideas in which they believe.
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HON 3660:The Developed World and Global Competency 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HON 3640
We live in a connected, complex world. Students must obtain global competencies to develop an inclusive worldview while maturing their commitment to responsible global citizenship in an integrated and interdependent world. They must master the skills necessary to become agents of change in leadership positions within their specific academic discipline and intended careers. Accordingly, students should understand how historical, political, economic, social, cultural, and other frameworks provide insights into developed countries, as they explore global issues, related challenges and their impact on the future. Through lectures, service engagements within a developed country, readings, and student led research and presentations, participants will increase their global knowledge while acquiring the analytical tools necessary to examine developed countries. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this course leads students in examining competency frameworks by focusing on a specific developed country or region other than the United States.
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HON 4400:Honors Directed Study 1-3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 1-3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to the University Honors Program
This independent study course is designed to accommodate independent study through traditional or applied learning honors experiences that are exclusive of those offered in other Honors courses.
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HON 4490:Honors Special Topics 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to the Undergraduate Honors Program
This course addresses special topics of interest to Honors students and faculty.
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HON 4497:Honors Senior Capstone Proposal 0-1 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 0-1 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to the University Honors Program
To complete their Honors requirements, students design and execute a senior project reflecting original research; an original synthesis of existing research; an application of existing research to a new context; original creative work, or the design and coordination of a major-related service learning project. This first capstone course gives students credit for producing a substantive honors capstone proposal.
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HON 4499:Honors Senior Capstone Project 0-3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 0-3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to the University Honors Program
This final segment of the Honors Senior Capstone Experience requires an honors student to complete and submit the final capstone product(s): original research, an original synthesis of existing research, an application of existing research to a new context, original creative work, or the design and coordination of a major-related service learning project.
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HMGT 3300:Introduction to Hospitality 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: at least 30 earned credit hours
This survey course provides students with an understanding of the hospitality industry and the role it plays in both the U.S. and global economies. This course offers an overview of the industry, its economic impact, its history, its current and future challenges, and its business characteristics. The main goal of the course is to expose students to the hospitality industry and provide an understanding of the unique aspects of managing businesses in this industry.
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HMGT 3397:Work Experience In Hospitality Management 0 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 0 Credit Hours
All hospitality majors, upon completion of 400 hours of verifiable work experience in the hospitality, tourism, or related industries must sign up for this course. The work experience may be obtained any time from the freshmen year at KSU to the semester of graduation at KSU and must be completed in its entirety before a degree will be awarded. This course carries no credit hours, and thus no tuition fees. Grading is Satisfactory or Unsatisfactory based on successful completion of the work-hour requirement and a reflection paper, which details work experiences and involves the students” self-critique of their skills and knowledge in preparation for a career in the hospitality industry.
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HMGT 3500:Guest Service Management 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HMGT 3300
This course explores the dimensions of successful service management of hospitality organizations. It also offers an in-depth study of the provision and management of high quality service provided within a hospitality business. It prepares students for enlightened guest service management and suggests creative approaches. The course will use an integrated viewpoint on issues of measurement, continuous service improvement, staff member training from a guest perspective, and the ability to benchmark among hospitality competitors are discussed.
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HMGT 4100:Hospitality Marketing and Revenue Management 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HMGT 3300
Students in this course survey common marketing practices and revenue management issues that are unique to the hospitality industry. These practices include sales procedures, revenue management (i.e., setting room rates), the use of technology to maintain a leadership position compared to one’s competitors, building a loyal customer base, a discussion of the relationship of marketing to overall organizational success, and an analysis of a hospitality operation’s annual marketing plan.
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HMGT 4200:Hospitality and Travel Law 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: BLAW 2200
This course acquaints students with the legal aspects of the hospitality and travel industry. Students examine laws and regulations governing the industry with specific emphasis on: sources and principles of hospitality and travel law; the hotel-guest relationships and the duty owed to each other; liability and sale of guestrooms, food and beverage; employment practices; government regulations; contracts; licensing and insurance; risk management; management and franchise agreements and; commercial and case law. At the completion of the course, students will be able to recognize and evaluate legal issues for the purpose of decision making in hospitality and travel work environments.
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HMGT 4300:Hotel Management and Operations 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HMGT 3300
This course examines hotels with students gaining a basic understanding of the various departments within these lodging venues. The relationship between major departments such as rooms division, and food and beverage are illustrated. Managerial and operational functions and decisions are identified and discussed. Students are exposed to key abilities and skill sets necessary to manage such facilities by familiarization with the role of a managerial position.
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HMGT 4490:Special Topics in Hospitality Management 1 to 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 1 to 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HMGT 3300
Selected topics of interest to students and faculty in Hospitality Management.
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HMGT 4500:Strategic Analytics for Hospitality Managers 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HMGT 3300 , HMGT 4100 , and at least 90 earned credit hours.
This course focuses on the analysis of data as they apply to operational and financial decision making. Stemming from the operational hospitality manager’s perspective, industry-specific tools are used to conduct predictive and prescriptive analytics, and financial and non-financial performance analysis, including but not limited to, service measurement, expenses and profitability, turnover and human resources information, guest satisfaction, competitor performance data, and other measures of operational performance in hospitality.
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HS 2100:Overview of Human Services 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
This required course provides students with an overview of helping professions. Topics include: philosophy of human services; characteristics of human service workers; careers in human services; description of public, nonprofit and for-profit agencies; theory; and cultural diversity. Human service majors are required to take this course prior to applying for admission into the HS program. This course is also a prerequisite for other HS courses. Students must complete 20 hours of volunteer service as a requirement of this class.
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HS 2200:Fundamentals of Nonprofits 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
This introductory course is designed to provide knowledge, theory, and skills in the administrative/management aspects of nonprofit organizations.
Notes: This course is a required course for students seeking Nonprofit Leadership Alliance Certification.
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HS 2300:Cultural Competence in the Human Services 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
This foundation required course in human diversity enhances students’ abilities to understand, evaluate, and provide culturally sensitive and competent human services to members of diverse groups. This course gives students the opportunity to reflect upon their own cultural development and to be more sensitive to others
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HS 2400:Interviewing Skills for the Helping Professions 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HS majors or HS Interest or Non-Majors with permission of Department.
This required course introduces students to interviewing skills in non-crisis settings. Communication skills learned in the course include relation skills building techniques within a problem solving model. Additionally, students learn skills to identify client strengths and to work with resistant clients. Students are required to role-play, videotape, and critique skills learned in the course. The goal of this course is to expose the student to a variety of perspectives used by all human service workers.
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HS 2900:Working with Support Groups 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HS 2400 and (HS Majors or Permission of Department)
This course introduces students to basic theory, skills, methods and values necessary to lead support groups. Students will develop, facilitate/co-facilitate issue oriented groups for different ages, genders, etc.
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HS 3000:Foundation Internship 3 Class Hours 6 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HS 2200 , HS 2300 , HS 2400 , HS Majors only, Minimum 2.8 Institutional GPA
This course provides students the opportunity to begin to explore the helping professions by completing service learning while applying theoretical knowledge, skills and human services value systems. Specifically, HS majors will be expected to demonstrate knowledge content from prerequisite courses. Students will be expected to demonstrate beginning competencies in micro and macro practice.
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HS 3100:Poverty and Culture 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HS 2300 and (HS major or HS Interest or Non-major with permission of department)
This required course will provide an overview of poverty in the US, its causes, efforts to alleviate it, and its reflection in and by culture. Students will examine theories of the causes of poverty, insights into personal experiences of poor people, and critical thinking activities relative to this social issue.
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HS 3200:Policy & Advocacy 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HS 2200 ; HS major or HS Interest or Non-majors with permission of the department.
Students gain the skills to analyze, interpret, and ultimately change policies and laws that impact service users, nonprofit organizations, and service delivery in the human services/social sector. A highlight of the course features ways in which advocates in the area of social policy have been mobilized to effect real change for diverse communities. Students have the opportunity to experience how activism and advocacy in their roles as human service professionals can lead to change.
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HS 3300:Human Socialization 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HS majors or HS Interest or Non-majors with permission of the department
This required course provides students with an overview of human development within the social environment. This course focuses on the effect of the environment on personal and social functioning.
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HS 3400:Community Intervention 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HS majors or Non-majors with permission of the department
This required course focuses on macro-human service practice as a complement to preparation in micro-direct services. It is specifically designed to provide students with a working knowledge and basic skills required for helping communities and organizations address their needs and concerns. Students will learn various models of community and organizational intervention that can be used in diverse settings.
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HS 3500:Research Methods for the Human Services 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HS 3000 and (STAT 2332 or STAT 1401 or MATH 1160 or MATH 1190 or MATH 2202 ); HS majors or Non-majors with permission of department
This required course introduces quantitative and qualitative social science research methods with an emphasis on specific methods necessary for human service research and evaluation. This course enables students to become informed producers and consumers of research products, particularly in the human service areas. The emphasis is on basic concepts and underlying assumptions of various social science research methodologies and their design implications. It also develops skills in designing research projects with a particular emphasis on survey research. This course content has critical application in HS 4900-Capstone course.
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HS 3600:Program Development and Evaluation 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HS 2200
This course introduces students to the development and evaluation of human services programs. Students will discuss appropriate program evaluation techniques and design elements, including an evaluation plan.
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HS 3650:Governance, Advocacy, and Leadership in Nonprofits 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HS 2200
This course introduces students to the theory and practice of governance, leadership and advocacy within non-profit organizations.
Notes: This course is a required course for students seeking Nonprofit Leadership Alliance Certification and is offered as an online course.
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HS 3700:Aging and the Family 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HS majors or Non-majors with permission of the department.
This course introduces students to family systems theory and practice in relation to working with older adults and their families. Impact on nursing home placement, Alzheimer’s disease, death and dying, and depression as it relates to family function is stressed. Services and solutions to aging related problems will be included.
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HS 3750:Death, Dying and Bereavement 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HS majors or Non majors with permission of the department
In this course, students will examine death, dying, and bereavement from historical, contemporary, and cultural points of view. Students will also study skills necessary for working with dying and bereaved populations
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HS 3800:Social Entrepreneurship and Enterprise 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HS 2200 or MGT 4001
This course introduces students to the theory and practice of social entrepreneurship and innovation.
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HS 3850:Introduction to Nongovernmental Organizations and Development 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HS 2200 or Permission of Department
Students critically examine types, challenges, strategies and activities of international nonprofit organizations (i.e., nongovernmental organizations). This course provides a forum for students to analyze NGOs and their relationships to governments, civil societies, donors and other stakeholders. International development serves as the unifying theme of exploration.
Note: This course may be cross-listed with POLS 3850 .
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HS 3900:Dynamics of Family Violence 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HS majors or Non majors with permission of the department
This course provides students with a working knowledge of family violence issues. Students will become familiar with different theories regarding causation and treatment as well as society’s response to family violence.
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HS 3950:Perspectives on Child Maltreatment and Child Advocacy 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HS 3300 , PSYC 2103 , SOCI 3364 , or ECE 2250
In this course, students will study the history, comparative perspectives, legal framework and responses to child maltreatment. They will discuss and begin to develop the skills necessary to work in the field and speak about pertinent issues pertaining to child maltreatment and child advocacy.
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HS 3960:Professional and System Responses to Maltreatment 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HS 3300 , PSYC 2103 , SOCI 3364 , or ECE 2250
This course prepares students to identify and investigate child maltreatment and apply intervention strategies for children and their families including prosecution where indicated. Students will be able to discuss issues related to child witnesses such as recantation, suggestibility, memory and the impact of multiple interviews on children.
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HS 3970:Global Child Advocacy 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
The purpose of this course is to prepare students to recognize child advocacy issues around the world. The course is designed for students majoring in various disciplines where knowledge of child maltreatment and advocating for children will be necessary. Multidisciplinary approaches to advocacy in different countries throughout the world will be presented and discussed.
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HS 4100:Grant Writing and Fundraising 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HS 2200
In this course students study fundraising/development, including grant writing, special events, and basic finance in the nonprofit sector. It is appropriate for students working in all areas of Human Services as well as other majors who plan to work with nonprofits or governmental agencies.
Notes: This course is a required course for students seeking Nonprofit Leadership Alliance Certification.
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HS 4200:Human Resources for Nonprofit Organizations 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HS 2200
Students will examine theories and management practices necessary to effectively manage human resources for nonprofit organizations, including staff and volunteers.
Notes: This course is a required course for students seeking Nonprofit Leadership Alliance Certification.
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HS 4300:Education Abroad in Human Services 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Students will explore the issues and challenges of planning and will participate in the delivery of human services internationally.
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HS 4400:Directed Study in Human Services 1-3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Approval of the instructor and department chair.
This course covers special topics and seminars external to regular course offerings. May include original research projects and practicum experiences.
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HS 4430:Forensic Social Work 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HS 3300 or permission of the department.
This course provides an overview of the interplay between human service professionals and the court systems. It will also focus on forensic social work practice and theory. Additionally, it illustrates skills for working with diverse populations across the lifespan and across diverse settings, such as community, medical, school, child welfare, mental health and addictions, and juvenile and criminal justice settings.
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HS 4490:Special Topics in Human Services 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Approval of the instructor and department chair.
This course provides selected topics of interest to faculty and students.
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HS 4500:Working with Families 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HS 3000 or Permission of Department
This course provides students an overview of the basic theoretical models used for family interventions. Students will also apply family intervention skills in a variety of practice simulations.
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HS 4600:Working with Children and Youth 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HS 3000 or Permission of Department.
This course focuses on theoretical interventions through the life span phases of childhood and adolescence. Intervention techniques within an ecological frame work are explored and assessed for use in a wide range of problem areas and settings.
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HS 4700:Crisis Intervention 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HS 3000 or Permission of Department
Students will learn crisis intervention theory, advanced communication skills and knowledge about different crises and crisis settings. Students will be required to role-play crisis intervention techniques.
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HS 4800:Ethics in the Helping Profession 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HS Majors only; Completion of 90 credit hours; Minimum 2.0 Institutional GPA
This course provides students with an understanding of the importance of ethics and values in the Human Services profession. The course exposes students to different ethical decision-making models and diverse value systems. Students demonstrate skills in applying NOHS Code of Ethics to ethical dilemmas in Human Services and balance their personal values in the process.
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HS 4900:Capstone Seminar in Human Services 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HS Majors only; Completion of 90 credit hours; Minimum 2.0 Institutional GPA and Permission of the Human Services Coordinator Corequisite: HS 4950
This course is the culmination of the Human Services major, and thus integrates students’ education and experiences. It provides students with the opportunity to synthesize and apply learning from their program of study in a comprehensive manner. This course should be taken concurrently with HS 4950 in the student’s final semester.
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HS 4950:Advanced Internship for Human Services Professionals 1 Class Hours 16 Laboratory Hours 6 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Permission of the Department
This course is an advanced supervised field experience that includes regular class meetings to discuss field experiences.
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INED 3300:Educating Students with Exceptionalities in Inclusive Settings 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to the teacher education program Concurrent:
SCED 4650 or ENED 4650 or FLED 4650 or HIED 4650 or MAED 4650 or EDMG 3300
This course prepares candidates to work collaboratively with families and school personnel to positively impact the academic, social/emotional, and behavioral development of students with exceptionalities. This course requires a ten-hour observational and instructional experience in assigned school placement(s). Verification of professional liability insurance is required prior to placement in the field experience. Candidates must have an issued preservice certificate for this course. This course fulfills Georgia HB 671 requirement. Beginning July 1, 2019, all candidates must earn a “B” or higher in this course for certification as stated in the Georgia PSC 505-2-.24 Special Georgia Requirements.
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INED 3304:Education of Exceptional Students 3 Class Hours 1 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to the Teacher Education program. Corequisite: ECE 3330
Prepares candidates to work collaboratively with families and school personnel to have a positive impact on the educational, social and behavioral development of all students, including those with a full range of disabilities, in a diverse society. The course focuses on knowledge of legislative mandates for serving exceptional students, characteristics of exceptionality, best practice in facilitating teaching and learning, and accountability through assessment of outcomes. This course requires an observational experience in an assigned school placement. Verification of professional liability insurance is required prior to placement in the field experience. Fulfills Georgia HB 671 requirement.
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INED 3305:Education of Students with Exceptionalities in an Inclusive Setting I 2 Class Hours 1 Laboratory Hours 2 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admissions to EPP Concurrent:
EDMG 4650 or ENED 4650 or FLED 4650 or HIED 4650 or MAED 4650 or SCED 4650
This course prepares candidates to work collaboratively with families, school personnel to have a positive impact on the educational, social and behavioral development of students, including those with a full range of exceptionalities, in a diverse society. It focuses on knowledge of legislative mandates for serving exceptional students and the characteristics of exceptionalities. This course, along with INED 3306, fulfills Georgia HB 671 requirement.
Notes: Acceptance into Yearlong Clinical Experience required.
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INED 3306:Education of Students with Exceptionalities in an Inclusive Setting II 1 Class Hours 1 Laboratory Hours 1 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to Teacher Education and INED 3305 Concurrent:
EDMG 4660 or ENED 4660 or FLED 4660 or HIED 4660 or MAED 4660 or SCED 4660
This course prepares candidates to work collaboratively with families and school personnel to have a positive impact on the educational, social and behavioral development of all students, including those with a full range of exceptionalities, in a diverse society. It focuses on knowledge of legislative mandates for serving exceptional students, characteristics of exceptionality, best practices in facilitating teaching and learning, and accountability through assessment of outcomes. This course requires an observational experience in an assigned school placement. Verification of professional liability insurance is required prior to placement in the field experience. This course, along with INED 3305, fulfills Georgia HB 671 requirement.
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INED 4000:Service Learning in Special Education 1-3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: 60 hours and permission of the instructor and department chair/program coordinator.
A community activity which links learning to life by connecting meaningful community service activities with academic learning, personal growth, and civic responsibility. Activity will be designed with the instructor and approved by the chair/program coordinator.
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INED 4430:Applied Linguistics and English Language Literacy 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: EDUC 2120 and EDRD 3320 , or approval of the department.
This course is an introduction to linguistic systems and their acquisition as they occur in the language development of English (ELs) and other limited English proficient learners. There is a strong focus on cognitive and social processes of language acquisition, including how functional, cultural, and critical literacies are constructed and promoted. Students will explore relationships among the four language domains, their connections to language proficiency levels and development of academic vocabulary.
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INED 4431:Foundations for Teaching Diverse English Learners 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Concurrent:
EDUC 4610 or EDMG 3350
This course introduces middle and/or secondary teacher candidates to today’s diverse English learner population, education policies that impact these students and how cultural resources can be leveraged to meet their academic needs. This course focuses on developing effective instruction, assessment, and literacy development for English learners and other linguistically diverse learners in middle grade classrooms. Specifically, candidates will a) examine the academic, linguistic and social needs of linguistically diverse learners, b) explore the differences between teaching reading and writing to English learners and native English speakers; and c) develop skills necessary for the differentiation, scaffolding language and content for English learners at a variety of language proficiency levels.
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INED 4435:Foundations of Teaching Adolescent English Learners 1 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 1 Credit Hours
Corequisite: Yearlong Clinical Experience I or department approval
In this course, middle and/or secondary preservice content teachers are introduced to today’s student immigrant population, education policies that impact urban youth, first and second language acquisition, linguistic elements, and linguistically responsive pedagogy. In addition, candidates will begin to develop an understanding of these concepts as they relate to meeting the academic needs of English learners and recognizing the cultural resources that they bring to the content classroom in relation to the larger sociopolitical context.
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INED 4436:Foundations of Teaching Adolescent English Learners II 2 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 2 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: INED 4435
This course focuses on developing effective instruction, assessment, and literacy development for English learners and other linguistically diverse learners in middle GRADE classrooms. Specifically, candidates will a) examine the academic, linguistic and social needs of linguistically diverse learners, b) explore the differences between teaching reading and writing to English learners and native English speakers; and c) develop skills necessary for the differentiation, scaffolding language and content for English learners at a variety of language proficiency levels.
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INED 4437:Education for Linguistically Diverse Students 2 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 2 Credit Hours
In this course, teacher candidates are introduced to first and second language acquisition, linguistic elements, and linguistically responsive pedagogy. In addition, students will begin to develop an understanding of these concepts as they relate to understanding the educational experiences of English learners and recognizing the vast cultural resources that they bring to the classroom in relation to the larger sociopolitical context.
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