Practical applications of experience-based career education will be examined as related to secondary school industrial education. Field visitations and public school resource personnel will illustrate to the experienced teacher practical applications of the exploratory and preparatory concepts of career education. Also open to departmental majors.
Major contemporary issues in marketing education will be identified, researched and discussed. Potential issues emanating from social, economic and political forces will be addressed. Position and reaction papers will be developed.
Hands-on experience using software with applications for classroom management (such as grade records and test banks) and classroom instruction (such as simulation).
Credit Hours: 2 hrs Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)
Class Restriction(s): Graduate Standing
Notes - Senior standing (2.5 GPA) with permission of department and Graduate School may enroll in this course
CTWE 526 - Basic Business and Economic Education for Teachers
This course is designed to prepare teachers for the task of teaching economic education. Topics will include scarcity, choices and incentives, fiscal and monetary policy, competition, role of government, business models and foreign exchange rates.
Credit Hours: 3 hrs Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)
Department Permission isrequired
Prerequisite(s): Six hours of graduate computer science (COSC) courses
The applications of technology in business, industrial and service institutions will be viewed through a series of field visitations. Implications for educational programs that prepare employees for those institutions will be defined.
Credit Hours: 2 hrs Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)
Major Restriction(s): Technology Education Major or Graduate standing
Philosophical viewpoints concerning technology education and industrial-vocational education; historical development and philosophical justification of modern programs.
Provides orientation to the entrepreneurial process and development of a philosophical base for teaching. Curriculum and methods appropriate to the participants’ school setting are identified. Plans for implementation are designed.
CTWE 568 - Coordination of Cooperative Education Programs
Analyzes the duties and responsibilities of the cooperative education coordinator. Focus on human and public relations, related instruction and program development. Required for all potential coordinators, school administrators and vocational teacher education students.
The historical, economic, sociological and psychological foundations of business education. The course focuses on basic business, vocational business and vocational marketing, and the forces, including legislation, that shape instruction and curriculum developments in these areas. In addition to the foundations, students will formulate a professional development plan and a statement of educational philosophy.
Provides for intensive study of selected topics drawn from current developments in the total field of business education. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.
Credit Hours: 1 hr May be repeated for credit (provided topics are different) Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)
Provides for intensive study of selected topics drawn from current developments in the total field of business education. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.
Credit Hours: 2 hrs May be repeated for credit (provided topics are different) Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)
Class Restriction(s): Graduate standing
Notes - Qualified Seniors should see department for permission to enroll
Provides for intensive study of selected topics drawn from current developments in the total field of business education. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.
Credit Hours: 3 hrs May be repeated for credit (provided topics are different) Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)
Class Restriction(s): Graduate standing
Notes - Qualified Seniors should see department for permission to enroll
A series of academic meetings led by a specialist on topics pertinent to graduate students concerning theory and/or practice in career, technical and workforce education.
CTWE 611 - Curriculum Frameworks in Career, Technical and Workforce Education
This course emphasizes the social, political and economic factors influencing design and revision of curriculum in special programs such as Tech Prep and School-to-Work, as they impact technological literacy in the workplace, are addressed.
CTWE 614 - Advanced Approaches to Marketing Education Curriculum and Instruction
Advances in (a) curriculum, (b) methods, (c) DECA, (d) school store and (e) co-op will be evaluated. Plans, procedures and products will be developed for implementation and utilization. Emphasis will be on areas of primary concern to enrollees.
CTWE 651 - Administration of Vocational-Technical Education
Focuses on the legislation, programs, planning and regulations that are unique to vocational education and to the administrative functions that are directly related. Recommended for school administrators and vocational teacher education students.
CTWE 661 - Evaluation Standards and Strategies in Career, Technical and Workforce Education
This course is concerned with standards and strategies of student and program evaluation as they relate to assessing technological literacy in career, technical and workforce education. The challenge inherent in evaluating special programs such as Tech Prep and School-to-Work will be addressed.
CTWE 665 - Trends and Administration in Career, Technical and Workforce Education
This course will focus on changes in career, technical and workforce education affecting business and technology education programs. Issues will include the areas of Legislation, recruitment, employment, curriculum, administration and funding.
CTWE 678 - Research in Business and Technology Education
A review of basic research techniques applied to business, marketing and technology education areas. Studies are analyzed in light of research processes and conclusions. Students become involved in the design and application of research methodology to projects appropriate to classrooms.
CURR 505 - Curriculum and Methods for Teaching in the Secondary School
This course focuses on curriculum and teaching strategies that enhance learning at the secondary level. Students will explore curriculum approaches, teaching and instructional strategies, and classroom management. Students will become familiar with the ways in which secondary schools function, both within their buildings and within their broader communities. Current issues affecting the secondary classroom are examined. This course provides students with an opportunity to develop and evaluate standards-based instructional and curricular materials. Course also includes a planned practicum experience in a school classroom.
Helps teachers plan activities that encourage creativity in students. Emphasizes the direct teaching of creative thinking skills, developing a supportive classroom atmosphere and enhancing the teacher’s personal creativity.
CURR 512 - Enriching the Elementary Classroom Program
This course is designed to help teachers use a variety of techniques to develop materials and strategies for classroom enrichment. Reinforcement and extension activities using application projects, exploratory activities, interdisciplinary connections and independent learning strategies will be included.
CURR 553 - Collaborative Communities for Teaching and Learning
This course will support teacher leaders in learning and enacting adult learning principles to develop a professional collaborative teaching and learning community that builds upon practices of shared responsibility, collegiality, trust, and a focus on continuous improvement in instruction and student learning.
Credit Hours: 3 hrs May not be repeated for credit Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)
Class Restriction(s): Graduate standing, UG Degree Pending
Equivalent Course(s): CURR 552
Previously listed as CURR 552 - The Pedagogy of Group Learning Last Updated: Change to course number, title, credit hours, & description 2/2016, effective Fall 2016
CURR 560 - Establishing a Positive Classroom Environment
This course will review case studies, general teacher practices and the theoretical base for establishing classroom and environments that meet the needs of every student. Additionally, there will be a review and critique of emerging legal issues, information systems and programs that affect discipline.
Credit Hours: 3 hrs May not be repeated for credit Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)
Class Restriction(s): Masters, Specialist, UG Degree Pending
Previously listed as CURR 560 - Establishing an Inclusive Classroom Environment Last Updated: Change to course title and restriction 2/2016, effective Fall 2016
The identification of gifted pupils; the use of test results, psychological services and cumulative records. Curricula stressing enrichment and acceleration and the use of community resources; of special value to classroom teachers.
This course seminar taken concurrently with the Teaching Internship is designed to help candidates become reflective teachers by providing a forum for collaborative, critical inquiry based on their teaching experience. The course offers opportunities and frameworks for thinking about and analyzing classroom situations, the teaching-learning process, classroom management, current issues in education, and professional goals and development.
Issues involving curriculum-development determinants and approaches, and the concept of change. Emphasis is on the role of the teacher in curriculum development.
Credit Hours: 3 hrs Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)
Previously listed as Issues in Elementary School Curriculum Last Updated: Title Change, 1/2014, effective Summer 2014
CURR 618 - Middle Level Education: Theory and Practice
This course provides the background in the philosophy and history of middle-level education, and examines curriculum and instruction particular to the unique developmental needs of pre-adolescents.
This course focuses on the curricular implications of issues which address responsive middle grades program components and curriculum. Emphasis is placed on developmental and cultural appropriateness, and collaboration with students, colleagues, the family and the community.
CURR 622 - Effective Teaching in Middle Level Education
This class focuses on instructional aspects of programs and classrooms in middle schools that are appropriate for the developmental needs of pre-adolescents. Included are interdisciplinary curricula, scheduling, adviser/advisee programs, instructional methods and materials, teaming, affective outcomes and classroom management.
CURR 632 - Individualizing Instruction in the Secondary School
A course designed to help secondary teachers meet individual differences among their students by using a variety of resources, pupil involvement, thematic approaches and other teaching strategies.
CURR 650 - Improving Instruction through Inquiry and Assessment
This course emphasizes the continued growth of the classroom teacher and the exercise of effective, culturally responsive instruction through an examination of student’s learning, processes, perceptions and patterns or development. Action research methodologies, developmental theory, critical theory and analysis of student work samples help frame an understanding of students.
CURR 652 - Introduction to Urban/Diversity Education
This course constructs the framework for urban and diversity education studies through its examination of the emergence and transformation of urban teaching and its institutions. Critiqued through social, sociocultural, political and economic lenses, the history of politics in education will frame a discussion of equity, voice, marginalization and resilience in the classroom.
Credit Hours: 2 hrs Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)
Prerequisite(s): Students must admitted to the College of Education
This is a prerequisite to all other coursework in all curriculum and instruction masters degrees. Issues of standards, artifact collection, critical reflection, variety of portfolios, models of instruction and assessment as well as examined professional growth will provide the necessary background for the successful completion of the capstone experiences.
Credit Hours: 1 hr Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)
Prerequisite(s): Students must be admitted to the College of Education
Major Restriction(s): Students must be enrolled in one of the following programs: Masters in Middle Level Education; Masters of Urban/Diversity Education; Masters in Elementary Education; Masters in Secondary Education; Masters in Curriculum and Instruction
This course provides the background a teacher/curriculum worker must have to examine, analyze, interpret and evaluate curriculum programs, proposals and curricular decisions. The course will address historical, economic, political, cultural, intellectual, social and personal forces which influence contemporary curriculum and professional ideologies which shape classroom decisions.
CURR 656 - Curriculum Design, Implementation and Evaluation
This course hones curriculum workers skills and knowledge in designing, implementing and evaluating curriculum plans and programs, in designing in-service sessions, in writing curriculum papers and reports, and in evaluating projects. This work is framed by today’s school climate that is influenced by political cultural, social, racial, ethnic and economic factors.
The open classroom tied to a demonstration center, planning an integrated day based upon learning centers and pupil self-direction, the child-centered experience-based curriculum. Designed to help free teachers to become more innovative, open, creative and human in curriculum development.
CURR 660 - Assisting Student Teachers and New Teachers
This course is designed for teachers who are employed as clinical faculty, student teaching supervisors, cooperating teachers and mentor teachers. It develops teachers’ awareness of their own reflective decision-making through action research, discussions and simulations. The course also presents a framework for assessing student teachers’ development. Finally, teachers practice and analyze coaching and problem-solving strategies for promoting reflective decision-making.
CURR 663 - Effective Partnership Strategies for Secondary Schools
This course is designed to develop students’ reflective thinking by examining current critical issues that affect and help shape education in American schools. Students will examine complex issues from multiple perspectives and through the degree-required Masters Focus Paper, develop new knowledge adding to the current debates/practices such as equity and diversity, technology, change, educational reform and curriculum development determinants.
The purpose of this course is to further develop participants’ multicultural skills and understandings through readings, class discussion, simulation and self-critique, as well as through the examination, analyzation and creation of curricular and multicultural materials.
The course is designed to provide the knowledge and skills, concepts and dispositions necessary for differentiating curriculum to meet the needs of all students in the mixed-ability classroom.
This course emphasizes classroom inquiry for practitioners. Teachers explore autobiography, multiple and personal voices, and narratives in context. Readings and projects connect teachers’ own agenda with school change and environment.
CURR 673 - Curriculum and Teaching Strategies for the Gifted and Talented
This is a study of curricular options and teaching models, and strategies appropriate for the differentiated learning needs of gifted/talented students.
The purpose of this class is to further develop students’ cultural competency and multicultural teaching skills to create culturally responsive classrooms with learning environments where all students feel safe, affirmed and nurtured.
CURR 675 - Eastern Michigan Writing Project Summer Institute
For practicing K-12 teachers across disciplines. Participants investigate and experience current practices in literacy instruction. Based upon National Writing Project assumptions, participants read, write and reflect upon their teaching.
CURR 676 - Education of the Gifted and Talented: Underrepresented Populations
This course examines barriers that cause underrepresentation of student populations in gifted programs. It discusses identification and programming strategies for gifted students with disabilities, underachieving students and students from diverse cultural groups.
An experimental course for subject matter not provided in other departmental offerings. Subject matter will change from semester to semester. Students may elect this course more than once, provided different topics are covered.
An experimental course for subject matter not provided in other departmental offerings. Subject matter will change from semester to semester. Students may elect this course more than once, provided different topics are covered.
An experimental course for subject matter not provided in other departmental offerings. Subject matter will change from semester to semester. Students may elect this course more than once, provided different topics are covered.
Provides a supervised opportunity for students to apply knowledge and skills gained through classroom activity in a “real world” working environment. Internship sites and supervisory arrangements must be approved by program adviser prior to registration.
Provides a supervised opportunity for students to apply knowledge and skills gained through classroom activity in a “real world” working environment. Internship sites and supervisory arrangements must be approved by program adviser prior to registration.
Provides a supervised opportunity for students to apply knowledge and skills gained through classroom activity in a “real world” working environment. Internship sites and supervisory arrangements must be approved by program adviser prior to registration.
This final seminar is the culminating experience for Masters in Curriculum and Instruction. As such, it is designed to assist candidates in the examination and completion of work as they critically look across their degree programs.
Credit Hours: 2 hrs May be repeated for credit Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)
This course is designed to be the culmination of master degree programs in elementary, middle school or secondary curriculum. Students must have a thesis/project proposal approved by a faculty committee before registering.
This course is designed to be the culmination of master degree programs in elementary, middle school or secondary curriculum. Students must have a thesis/project proposal approved by a faculty committee before registering.
This course is designed to be the culmination of master degree programs in elementary, middle school or secondary curriculum. Students must have a thesis/project proposal approved by a faculty committee before registering.
An intensive study of a problem or group of problems. The completed study must give evidence of the student’s ability to select a problem and set it up and pursue it to satisfactory completion.
Credit Hours: 1 hr Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)
Prerequisite(s): Must be done with approval of a full-time member of the faculty.
An intensive study of a problem or group of problems. The completed study must give evidence of the student’s ability to select a problem and set it up and pursue it to satisfactory completion.
Credit Hours: 2 hrs Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)
Prerequisite(s): Must be done with approval of a full-time member of the faculty.
An intensive study of a problem or group of problems. The completed study must give evidence of the student’s ability to select a problem and set it up and pursue it to satisfactory completion.
Credit Hours: 3 hrs Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)
Prerequisite(s): Must be done with approval of a full-time member of the faculty.
An experimental course for subject matter not provided in other departmental offerings. The content will change from semester to semester. Students may elect this course several times, provided different topics are studied. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.
An experimental course for subject matter not provided in other departmental offerings. The content will change from semester to semester. Students may elect this course several times, provided different topics are studied. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.
An experimental course for subject matter not provided in other departmental offerings. The content will change from semester to semester. Students may elect this course several times, provided different topics are studied. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.
An experimental course for subject matter not provided in other departmental offerings. The content will change from semester to semester. Students may elect this course several times, provided different topics are studied. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.
An experimental course for subject matter not provided in other departmental offerings. The content will change from semester to semester. Students may elect this course several times, provided different topics are studied. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.
An experimental course for subject matter not provided in other departmental offerings. The content will change from semester to semester. Students may elect this course several times, provided different topics are studied. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.
An experimental course for subject matter not provided in other departmental offerings. The content will change from semester to semester. Students may elect this course several times, provided different topics are studied. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.
An experimental course for subject matter not provided in other departmental offerings. The content will change from semester to semester. Students may elect this course several times, provided different topics are studied. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.
An experimental course for subject matter not provided in other departmental offerings. The content will change from semester to semester. Students may elect this course several times, provided different topics are studied. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.
DS 501 - Introductory Probability and Statistics for Business
The development of fundamental probability concepts and statistical techniques emphasizing their applications to business decision making. Includes the study of probability distributions, sampling, point and interval estimation, and hypothesis testing.
Credit Hours: 3 hrs Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)
Typically offered Fall and Winter (evening)
Prerequisite(s): Level 3 Math Placement or an Elementary placement test score of at least 83 points or a grade of C or better in
An experimental course for subject matter not provided in other departmental offerings. The content will change from semester to semester. Students may elect this course several times, provided different topics are studied. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.
An experimental course for subject matter not provided in other departmental offerings. The content will change from semester to semester. Students may elect this course several times, provided different topics are studied. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.
An experimental course for subject matter not provided in other departmental offerings. The content will change from semester to semester. Students may elect this course several times, provided different topics are studied. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.
Statistics as a tool to assist in business decision making is emphasized. Computer software, data sets and written reports are utilized extensively. Techniques in the collection and analysis of data include: confidence intervals; hypothesis tests; linear regression, including dummy variables; analysis of variance; and survey design/analysis.