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  • 2.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing and admission to Professional Education Program or permission of department chair. Includes theory and philosophy for teachers working with diverse populations, grades K-6. Outlines critical need for knowing students' personal, cultural, and community assets, as well as academic strengths and needs. Addresses strategies for pre- and formative assessment determining instruction that differentiates content, learning processes, and products for students' readiness, interests, and learning profiles.
  • 9.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing, admission to Professional Education Program or permission of department chair, and successful completion of all other professional coursework.. Corequisite(s): EDEL 4240 and EDEL 4990. Provides a culminating 12-week teaching experience in an elementary classroom, grades K-6. Enhances knowledge, skills, and attitudes in preparation for a teacher preparation assessment. May be Graded Credit/No Credit.. Course Lab fee of $300 for practical experience applies. Corequisite:    EDEL 4980
  • 8.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing, admission to Professional Education Program or permission of department chair, and successful completion of all other professional coursework.. Corequisite(s): EDEL 4240 and EDEL 4990. Provides a culminating 12-week teaching experience in an elementary classroom, grades K-6. Enhances knowledge, skills, and dispositions to successfully transition into the role of a professionally licensed elementary educator. May be Graded Credit/No Credit.. Course Lab fee of $300 for practical experience applies. Corequisite:    EDEL 4240 AND EDEL 4990
  • 2.00 - 4.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): Department Chair Approval and University Advanced Standing. For Bachelor Degree seeking students and other interested persons. Offers independent study as directed at the discretion and approval of the department chairperson. May be repeated for a maximum of 3 credits toward graduation.
  • 2.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing, admission to Professional Education Program or permission of department chair, and successful completion of all other professional coursework. Corequisite(s): EDEL 4240 and EDEL 4880. Explores the teaching and learning cycle of planning, instruction, and assessment. Addresses authentic assessment to evaluate student learning. Focuses on authentic teaching practices and self-assessment of teaching, to reveal the impact on student learning. May be Graded Credit/No Credit. Corequisite:    EDEL 4240 AND EDEL 4880
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): Admission into any UVU graduate program. Examines diverse models and systems of higher education in an effort to provide contexts for effective work and leadership in higher education environments. Explores the nuances of higher education institutions in terms of political dynamics, shared governance, technology, innovation, organizational culture, and external/internal constituent expectations and perceptions. Discusses U.S. and international models of higher education and future possibilities.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): Admission into any UVU graduate program. Addresses the importance of multiple critical lenses informing the higher education landscape on issues related to marginalization, identity, silence, under-representation and other factors that American higher education has historically been inadequate at addressing. Guides students to develop a personal framework based in reflexivity around biases. Invites the development of syntheses of collegial, institutional, historical and contextual nuances to provide foundational knowledge. Develops a dispositional and interdisciplinary approach to facilitate inclusion within particular higher education roles and activities.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): Admission into any UVU graduate program. Presents various theories relevant to college student development and applies those theories to the field through class discussion, papers, and special projects. Introduces students to the major theories of learning, development, and retention and connects them with current practice.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): Admission into any UVU graduate program. Examines organizational theory, models, governance, and management processes in higher education, leadership perspectives and leadership theory. Explores leadership as a discipline that transcends functional area, serving as a framework to lead and guide within higher education. Investigates leadership theories and formulates personal approach as an educational leader.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Master of Education in Higher Education Leadership program, or permission of the graduate program director.. Examines legal frameworks, liability, compliance, constitutional and civil rights, competing rights of institutions, faculty, staff, and students, and contractual obligations in higher education. Explores the legal, ethical, institutional, and political processes that influence higher education and the relationship between law and the system of higher education. Critiques legal issues as a way to define the role and meaning of higher education in today's society.