EDU: Education

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EDU-130 Home, School, and Community Relations

3 credits—Focuses on the importance of collaborative efforts of the school, home, and community to the promotion of the children's healthy development. Research relating to parental involvement, impact of inclusion, and factors which place families at risk are examined. Explores attitudes, philosophies, and practical techniques with emphasis on building respectful, culturally sensitive relationships with families, utilizing community resources and working with diverse families.

Lecture Hours: 48

Course Type: General Education / Transfer

2025–2026 Course Cost: $702.00

EDU-210 Foundations of Education

3 credits—Examines American education from a historical, philosophical, and sociological perspective. Challenges and issues in education today will be discussed in the context of school organization, politics, funding, curriculum, professionalism, legal issues, and effective school and teacher characteristics.

Lecture Hours: 48

Course Type: General Education / Transfer

2025–2026 Course Cost: $702.00

EDU-214 Exploring PK-12 Education

2 credits—This course is designed to give students the opportunity to gain insight into the teaching profession and examine what it means to be a PK-12 teacher. Students will critically evaluate teaching as their chosen or possible profession. An overview of the skills and knowledge they will need to be successful professionals will be investigated. Current and future trends in public education will be examined.

Lecture Hours: 32

Course Type: General Education / Transfer

2025–2026 Course Cost: $468.00

EDU-223 Multicultural Education

3 credits—This course introduces conceptual, theoretical, and philosophical issues in Multicultural Education (MCE). Students learn instructional strategies for making their future multicultural classrooms into effective learning communities that are collaborative, inclusive, developmentally appropriate, and globally oriented.

Lecture Hours: 48

Course Type: General Education / Transfer

2025–2026 Course Cost: $702.00

EDU-235 Children's Literature

3 credits—The course is designed to present the dynamics of children's literature. It promotes the selection and evaluation of literature for children as well as how to engage young readers in a variety of literary genres. The course will emphasize literature as a key element of the reading curriculum, grades Preschool-8 and beyond. The course will be relevant to those interested in education and literacy.

Lecture Hours: 48

Course Type: General Education / Transfer

2025–2026 Course Cost: $702.00

EDU-240 Educational Psychology

3 credits—The study of learning as it relates to cognitive, affective, and psychomotor processes; personal, social, and moral development; abilities and exceptionality and motivation, measurement and classroom management, exceptionality and individual differences; curriculum development and assessment; motivation and classroom management.

Lecture Hours: 48

Co-requisite(s): EDU-920.

Course Type: General Education / Transfer

2025–2026 Course Cost: $702.00

EDU-246 Including Diverse Learners

3 credits—Students are introduced to the issues and practices regarding the inclusion of diverse student populations in general education settings. The needs of all students including general education, special education, and gifted will be emphasized. Strategies for adapting curriculum and the classroom will be examined. Support services that are available to teachers and students will be explored.

Lecture Hours: 48

Course Type: General Education / Transfer

2025–2026 Course Cost: $702.00

EDU-255 Technology in the Classroom

3 credits—This is a basic course in the planning and practical use of technology resources to enhance and extend the learning process in the face to face classroom, hybrid and online learning. Students will be exposed to various ways of thinking about educational media and its applications in the classroom. The course is designed to provide the student with experiences that will enable them to select, arrange, utilize, and produce a variety of resources to enhance student learning through their creation of a Thematic Unit.

Lecture Hours: 48

Course Type: General Education / Transfer

2025–2026 Course Cost: $702.00

EDU-901 Academic Service Learning Experience

1 credits—Students in this course develop and/or implement service learning projects to help the college's community including the surrounding local community under the supervision of college faculty and in cooperation with the staff of community organizations and agencies.

Lab Hours: 32

Course Type: General Education / Transfer

2025–2026 Course Cost: $234.00

EDU-920 Field Experience

1 credits—This course provides an observation and participation experience to explore duties, roles and responsibilities of teachers to the school community. This takes place in area schools under the direction and guidance of classroom teachers. May be taken for 1 or 2 credits.

Lab Hours: 32

Co-requisite(s): EDU-240

Course Type: General Education / Transfer

2025–2026 Course Cost: $274.00

EDU-924 Honors Project

1 credits—This course involves in-depth independent research on an approved topic under supervision of a faculty member. Upon project's completion, results will be shared with community of peers and faculty. This course can be repeated with different content for credit.

Can be taken for 1 – 3 credits.

Lecture Hours: 16

Course Type: General Education / Transfer

2025–2026 Course Cost: $234.00

EDU-928 Independent Study

1 credits—This course provides students with an opportunity to pursue or investigate a topic of interest that does not fit within the framework of regular course offerings. An independent study self-directed learning agreement must be discussed with and submitted to a faculty advisor prior to registration. This course may be repeated for credit with different content. Course can be taken for 1–3 credits.

Lecture Hours: 16

Course Type: General Education / Transfer

2025–2026 Course Cost: $234.00

EDU-949 Special Topics

1 credits—Special Topics expands the curriculum by allowing students to enroll for up to three credits in a specific course or program area. Subject matter may be an in-depth extension of the particular area and is developed by the teaching faculty to meet unique interests and needs of the students. This course may not duplicate another one already in the catalog. This course may be repeated for credit with different content. This course can be taken for 1–3.

Lecture Hours: 16

Course Type: General Education / Transfer

2025–2026 Course Cost: $234.00