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USC Catalogue 2018-2019 [ARCHIVED CATALOGUE]

Courses of Instruction

The terms indicated are expected but are not guaranteed. For the courses offered during any given term, consult the Schedule of Classes.
 

Education
  

  • EDUC 210 Breaking the Code of College Success

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Examination and application of research-based self-regulation and learning strategies to increase performance outcomes in any academic subject.
    Duplicates Credit in EDPT 110 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 392 Undergraduate Research Methods

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    (Enroll in AMST 392 )
  

  • EDUC 409 Foundations of Language Education

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Overview of research and current theories in bilingual, second language, and foreign language instruction.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 410 The Teaching of Reading and Writing

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Analysis of reading/writing processes; methods/materials for teaching literacy in elementary schools; issues in biliteracy and instruction; classroom observation/participation in small-group instruction. Admission to the major.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 411 Foundation of TESOL

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Introduction to the ways in which sociocultural context, language systems and acquisition influence English language learning and teaching.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 412 Instructional Methods in TESOL

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Introduction to approaches in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages and methods for teaching reading, writing, listening, speaking, along with a practical fieldwork component.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 413 Methods and Models of Instruction for Language Minority Students

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Curriculum materials and teaching strategies for use in successfully teaching language minority students in both elementary and secondary schools.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 415 Content to Pedagogy: Mathematics in the Elementary School

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Bridging college level mathematics content and elementary school curricula to design developmentally appropriate mathematics instruction.
    Concurrent Enrollment: Concurrent enrollment: EDUC 424a  or EDUC 424b .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 416 Content to Pedagogy: Art in the Elementary School

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Transformation of content in art to curriculum in the elementary classroom.
    Corequisite: EDUC 424b .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 417 Content to Pedagogy: From Science Content to Science Curriculum

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    An overview of the goals and content of science instruction at the elementary level coupled with appropriate science curricular and pedagogical models.
    Concurrent Enrollment: Concurrent enrollment: EDUC 424a  or EDUC 424b .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 418 Content to Pedagogy: From Social Sciences to Social Studies

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Content, concepts, methods, and values for integrating the social sciences in the social studies.
    Concurrent Enrollment: Concurrent enrollment: EDUC 424a  or EDUC 424b .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 419 Content to Pedagogy: P.E. for Elementary Students

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Transformation of content in Physical Education to curriculum in the elementary classroom.
    Corequisite: EDUC 424b .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 421 Global Issues: Impact on Educational Outcomes

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Situates U.S. education within the global context and examines the impact of global issues on national and international schooling in the 21st Century.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 422 Education for Social Change

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Examines access to schooling and quality education across student difference indexed by race, class and gender. Promotes understanding of U.S. public schooling for equitable outcomes.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 423 Unrealized Promise and Hope for Education in 21st Century

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Investigates the promise of education and often-failed outcomes though the lens of literacy/language. Focuses on literacy to promote student agency for successful educational attainment.
    Recommended Preparation: Freshman Seminar on a topic in education
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 424a Curriculum and Methods in Elementary Education

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Curriculum materials and teaching procedures in the elementary school.
    Concurrent Enrollment: concurrent enrollment: EDUC 425a .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 424b Curriculum and Methods in Elementary Education

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Curriculum materials and teaching procedures in the elementary school.
    Concurrent Enrollment: concurrent enrollment: EDUC 425b .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 425a Observation and Directed Teaching in Elementary Schools

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Observation and experience in teaching under supervision in elementary schools (one semester at the kindergarten-primary level and one semester in the intermediate or upper grades).
    Concurrent Enrollment: Concurrent enrollment: EDUC 424a .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 425b Observation and Directed Teaching in Elementary Schools

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Observation and experience in teaching under supervision in elementary schools (one semester at the kindergarten-primary level and one semester in the intermediate or upper grades).
    Concurrent Enrollment: Concurrent enrollment: EDUC 424b .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 426 Educational Inquiry

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Introduction to the skills and knowledge required to be competent consumers and producers of education research. Students will be asked to design an educational study.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 427 Vectors that Influence Early Childhood Development

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Investigating early childhood issues from professional perspectives: historian, journalist, premedical, and law.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 428 The Effects of Curriculum and Institution on Early Childhood

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    The study of research, philosophy, and pedagogy that informs political, parents, community members, schools and their curriculum.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 429 Early Childhood and Contemporary Society

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Consequences of “corporate world” on developing expectations of young children as consumers and scholars, an emphasis on films, television, and toys that effect intellectual growth.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 430 Early Childhood: Action Research Focus

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Selecting an instructional or developmental problem of young children to investigate through an action research design.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 490x Directed Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
    Max Units: 12.0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Individual research and readings.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 499 Special Topics

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Seminar in selected topics in education. Specific topics to be determined at the time seminar is offered.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 500 The Counseling Process

    Units: 3
    Theoretical foundations, models, values, and assumptions underlying psychological counseling; cross-cultural perspectives, ethical and legal considerations.
    Concurrent Enrollment: Concurrent enrollment: EDUC 507 .
    Duplicates Credit in former EDCO 500.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 501 Instruction for Teaching English as a New Language

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Teaching linguistically and culturally responsively to linguistic minority students. Topics include learning theories, sociocultural contexts of language development, and assessment of language and non-language competencies. Open only to MAT and MAT (online) students.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to MAT and TESOL students.
    Duplicates Credit in EDUC 543ab.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 502a Teaching Science in Secondary Classrooms

    Units: 3, 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Strategies, methods, and materials for teaching science to all learners in secondary classrooms. Open only to MAT Single Subject and Single Subject (online) students.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Single Subject Teaching and Single Subject Teaching (online).
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 502b Teaching Science in Secondary Classrooms

    Units: 3, 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Strategies, methods, and materials for teaching science to all learners in secondary classrooms. Open only to MAT Single Subject and Single Subject (online) students.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Single Subject Teaching and Single Subject Teaching (online).
    Duplicates Credit in EDUC 539.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 503 Learning and Motivation

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Design and advancement of learning and motivation outcomes in various environments through a systematic examination and application of current research.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 504 Foundations of Literacy Development and Instruction

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Application of a balanced, integrated, interactive perspective to teaching reading in an elementary classroom. Foundational skills needed in the developmental phase of learning to read. Open only to MAT Multiple Subject and Multiple Subject (online) students.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to MAT Multiple Subject students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 505 Integrating Literacy in Secondary Content Instruction

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Facilitation, mediation and intervention in the development of literacy and language integrated within the content areas. Connection between language and literacy to developing content knowledge. Open only to MAT Single Subject, Single Subject (online), TESOL and TESOL (online) students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 506 New Media Literacies in High Needs Schools

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Instructional procedures and resources for encouraging secondary students’ interests in communications, cultural studies, media production, and literacy education. Open only to MAT Single Subject, Single Subject (online), TESOL and TESOL (online) students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 507 Professional Identity, Law and Ethics for Counselors

    Units: 3
    History of the field of counseling and professional identity development for counselors are addressed. Examination of current legal, ethical, and other professional issues in counseling.
    Concurrent Enrollment: Concurrent enrollment: EDUC 500 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 508 Creating Communities of Interest

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Framing the graduate experience for master’s students. Establishing a professional foundation and philosophy as educators.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 509a Teaching Mathematics in Secondary Classrooms

    Units: 3, 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Strategies, methods, and materials for teaching mathematics to all learners in secondary classrooms. Open only to MAT Single Subject and Single Subject (online) students.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Single Subject Teaching and Single Subject Teaching (On Line).
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 509b Teaching Mathematics in Secondary Classrooms

    Units: 3, 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Strategies, methods, and materials for teaching mathematics to all learners in secondary classrooms. Open only to MAT Single Subject and Single Subject (online) students.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Single Subject Teaching and Single Subject Teaching (On Line).
    Duplicates Credit in EDUC 545.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 510 Theories of Language Learning and Teaching

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Application of learning theories to the design of second language instruction and student assessment to promote motivation, investment, self-regulation and engagement among language learners.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to majors in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 511 Introduction to Counseling

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    The role of the school counselor. An overview of key elements in increasing access to and equity for primary and secondary education for all students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 512 Reading and Writing Methods for Secondary Teaching

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Analysis of reading/writing processes; methods for teaching literacy in grades 9–12; issues in biliteracy and instruction.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 513a Teaching English Language Arts in Secondary Classrooms

    Units: 3, 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Strategies, methods, and materials for teaching English to all learners in secondary classrooms. Open only to MAT Single Subject and Single Subject (online) students.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Single Subject Teaching and Single Subject Teaching (online).
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 513b Teaching English Language Arts in Secondary Classrooms

    Units: 3, 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Strategies, methods, and materials for teaching English to all learners in secondary classrooms. Open only to MAT Single Subject and Single Subject (online) students.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Single Subject Teaching and Single Subject Teaching (online).
    Duplicates Credit in EDUC 535.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 514 School Counseling Seminar

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Current issues and problems in school counseling; emphasis is on K–12 learning and achievement.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 515 Theories of Marriage and Family Therapy

    Units: 3
    Major psychotherapeutic orientations relating to family systems, marital relationships, and communications theory applied to the family unit.
    Prerequisite: EDUC 500 , EDUC 507 , EDCO 541 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 516 Framing the Social Context of High Needs Schools

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Introduction to the Master of Arts in Teaching Program. Relationship between the actions of the teacher and student learning in the classroom and school context. Open only to MAT and MAT (online) students.
    Duplicates Credit in EDUC 517ab.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 518 Application of Theories of Learning to Classroom Practice

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Learning theories and instructional practices for teaching. Procedures involved in curriculum development, planning, evaluation, and practical application. Open only to MAT and MAT (online) students.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Multiple Subject Teaching, Multiple Subject Teaching (online), Single Subject (Music Education). Single Subject Teaching, and Single Subject Teaching (online).
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 519 Human Differences

    Units: 3
    Equity and diversity in learning environments. Issues in teaching special populations. Beliefs about how people learn. Inclusive environment for special populations in the general classroom. Open only to MAT and MAT (online) students.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Single Subject (Music Education), Multiple Subject Teaching, Multiple Subject Teaching (online), Single Subject Teaching, and Single Subject Teaching (online).
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 520 Counseling for College and Career Readiness I

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Theoretical foundations of individual and systemic characteristics that impact college and career choices. Consideration of economic, political, social, and policy issues.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 521 Assessment and Instruction for Diverse Language Learners

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Assessment practices and strategies in English language instruction with special attention to learner differences (social, cultural, physical, intellectual) that influence academic performance. Open only to MAT TESOL and TESOL (online) students.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (online).
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 522 Challenges in Urban Education: Accountability

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Issues related to accountability theory and practice in urban education settings. Open only to EdD students.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Ed.D. students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 523 Challenges in Urban Education: Diversity

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Diversity issues in urban educational settings. Open only to EdD students.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Ed.D. students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 524 Challenges in Urban Education: Leadership

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Theories, principles, and concepts of leadership in urban K–12 schools and institutions of higher education. Open only to EdD students.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Ed.D. students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 525 Challenges in Urban Education: Learning

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Theory and research in learning, motivation, and instruction for diverse educational settings. Open only to EdD students.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Ed.D. students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 527 Assessment in the Language Classroom

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sm
    Introduces students to relevant research in language assessment, reviews concepts of reliability and validity and examines assessment practices in the classroom.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 528 Course Proposal Project

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sm
    Using a framework of course development, students present a course proposal, linking the theoretical, methodological and practical principles gained from all course work in the program.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 529 Political and Academic Issues Affecting Gifted Students

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Examination of the political and academic issues affecting gifted and high-ability students. Psychosocial reasons contributing to achievement and underachievement. Institutional and personal factors inhibiting potential. Open only to MAT students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 530 Differentiated Curriculum and Pedagogy for Gifted Students

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Recognizing the talent and potential of gifted and high ability students. How gifted education can be generalized to affect the education of all students. Open only to MAT students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 531 Student Disability Issues in Higher Education

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    History of the disability movement; current research on the success of students with disabilities in higher education; legal and management issues.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 532 Inquiry Methods I

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Logic and methods of quantitative data analysis in the examination of educational issues and the framing of solutions for them. Open only to EdD students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 533 School Leadership: Theory and Practice

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Theories and principles of leadership and the application of principles to solve authentic problems in elementary and secondary schools.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 535 Teaching Secondary English and Language Arts

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Instructional procedures, techniques, strategies, and resources for teaching English in secondary classrooms. Open only to MAT students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 536 Inquiry Methods II

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Logic and methods of qualitative data analysis in the examination of educational issues and the framing of solutions for them. Open only to EdD students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 537 Leading with the Community and Culture in Context

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Creating a positive culture of learning to promote student success. Strategies to engage diverse communities.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 538 Entrepreneurial School Leadership

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Entrepreneurial opportunities in education. Developing the skills and knowledge for entrepreneurial leadership to improve educational outcomes.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 539 Teaching Secondary Science

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Instructional procedures, techniques, strategies, and resources for teaching science in secondary classrooms. Open only to MAT students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 541a Teaching Social Studies in Secondary Classrooms

    Units: 3
    Strategies, methods, and materials for teaching social studies to all learners in secondary classrooms. Open only to MAT Single Subject and Single Subject (online) students.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Single Subject Teaching and Single Subject Teaching (On Line).
    Duplicates Credit in former EDUC 534.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 541b Teaching Social Studies in Secondary Classrooms

    Units: 3
    Strategies, methods, and materials for teaching social studies to all learners in secondary classrooms. Open only to MAT Single Subject and Single Subject (online) students.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Single Subject Teaching and Single Subject Teaching (On Line).
    Duplicates Credit in former EDUC 542b.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 544 Measurement Procedures for Counselors

    Units: 3
    Educational and psychological instruments; psychometric concepts and the rationale for the use of psychological instruments in the counseling relationship.
    Duplicates Credit in former EDCO 544.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 545 Teaching Secondary Mathematics

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Instructional procedures, techniques, strategies, and resources for teaching mathematics in secondary classrooms. Open only to MAT students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 546 Psychopathology for Marriage and Family Therapy

    Units: 3
    Theories of psychological impairment emphasizing diagnosis of child and family dysfunction. Practice in utilizing DSM-IV classification of case studies.
    Duplicates Credit in former EDCO 546.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 547 Career Development: Theory and Process

    Units: 3
    Theories and process of career development; principles of career and leisure planning and counseling applicable throughout life.
    Duplicates Credit in former EDCO 548.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 548 Data-Driven Leadership for Schools

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sm
    Analyzing, interpreting, and using data to increase effectiveness of instruction and programs, improve student learning, and reduce or eliminate the achievement gap.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 549 Supervising Instruction for Optimal Learning

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sm
    Application of adult learning theory to evaluate instruction. Appropriate professional development to improve student achievement.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 550 Multimedia Literacy

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Applying new technology in the classroom. Exploration of the use of multimedia tools to increase literacy. Examination of multiple forms of technology to facilitate learning. Open only to MAT and Gifted Education Certificate students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 551 Teaching Physical Education

    Units: 1
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Instructional approaches for integrating physical education content across the elementary curriculum. Open only to MAT students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 552 Literacies in the Content Area

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Literacy and language within content areas. Developing reading, writing, speaking and listening skills for real audiences. Academic language.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 553 Psychopharmacology and the Effects of Substance Abuse

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Focus on the effects of psychotropic medication, alcohol, and other substances on behavior. The professional and ethical issues for marriage and family therapists.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 554 Visual and Performing Arts in Elementary Subjects

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Instructional approaches for integrating visual and performance arts content across the elementary curriculum. Open only to MAT students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 555 STEM Education in Secondary Classrooms

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Developing innovative practices in designing inquiry-based lesson plans to faciliate integrating the STEM disciplines as a foundation for teaching.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 556 Integrating English Language Arts and Social Studies

    Units: 5
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Strategies and methods for integrating English language arts in social studies classrooms. Reinforces the concept of social studies as a conduit to further student learning. Open only to MAT Multiple Subject and Multiple Subject (online) students.
    Duplicates Credit in EDUC 567.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 557 Civics Education

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Uses of pedagogical practices for increasing student engagement in the study of history and civics. Becoming critical thinkers, problem solvers, and effective citizens.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 558 Culture Learning in Schools: Latino

    Units: 3
    History, values, beliefs, and the demography of Spanish-speaking people; implications for the American classroom. Conducted in English. No previous knowledge of Latino culture is needed.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to USC Rossier School of Education students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 559 Discourse Analysis and Technology in STEM Classrooms

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Using multiple assessment strategies and technology to assess mathematical and scientific thinking and performance.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 560 Primary Language Instruction in a Bilingual Setting

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Bilingual programs, their goals, personnel, teaching methods, and materials.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 561 TESOL Instruction and Methods of Teaching A

    Units: 3
    Overview of approaches and methods in TESOL, topics include curriculum and lesson planning, lesson sequencing and delivery and methods for teaching reading, writing, speaking and listening. 
    Registration Restriction: Open only to majors in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 562 Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages Pedagogy II

    Units: 3
    Introduction to microcomponents of effective teaching, including curriculum and lesson planning, lesson sequencing and delivery, and creating a classroom environment conducive to English language learning.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 563 Teaching from a Comparative and International Perspective

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Examines the social context of schooling from a comparative and international perspective, connections between cultural beliefs and societal values; issues of social stratification and marginalization.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 564 Teacher Leadership

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Strategies of leadership that lead from influencing learning in the classroom to influencing learning across an entire school. Becoming an instructional leader.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 565a Social Foundations of TESOL

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Sociocultural contexts of English language learning, and awareness of language variation as a vehicle for developing and articulating one’s personal praxis in TESOL.
    Duplicates Credit in EDUC 506  
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 565b Social Foundations of TESOL

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Teaching linguistically and culturally responsively to English language learners. Topics include sociolinguistic theories, sociocultural contexts of language development, and multifaceted assessment of learner competencies.
    Prerequisite: EDUC 565a.
    Duplicates Credit in EDUC 501  
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 566 Teaching Mathematics and Science

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Instructional approaches for integrating mathematics and science with other content areas in elementary and secondary classrooms. Open only to MAT students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 567 English and Language Arts in Elementary Social Studies

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Integrating English and language arts development with learning in elementary social studies classrooms. Factors affecting the teaching and learning of social studies and language arts. Open only to MAT students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 568a Guided Practice

    Units: 3
    Supervised practicum in observation and teaching. Focus on planning, implementing, and assessing instruction for whole classes and individual students. Open only to MAT students.
    Duplicates Credit in former EDUC 568.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • EDUC 568b Guided Practice

    Units: 3
    Supervised practicum in observation and teaching. Focus on planning, implementing, and assessing instruction for whole classes and individual students. Open only to MAT students.
    Duplicates Credit in former EDUC 568.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • EDUC 569a Capstone Portfolio in Learning and Instruction

    Units: 2
    The culminating experience in the Master of Arts in Teaching Program for students in the non-credential track. Open only to MAT students.
    Duplicates Credit in former EDUC 569.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 569b Capstone Portfolio in Learning and Instruction

    Units: 2
    The culminating experience in the Master of Arts in Teaching Program for students in the non-credential track. Open only to MAT students.
    Duplicates Credit in former EDUC 569.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 570 Research Methods and Data Analysis

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Various research designs and their appropriateness for addressing different research questions. Threats to validity and other challenges in research. Basic statistical methods and their use.
    Recommended Preparation: beginning statistics course.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 572a Teaching in an International and Intercultural Context

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Examines social context of education from an international and intercultural perspective, linkages between societal values, culture, and schooling, and implications for the role of teachers.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • EDUC 572b Teaching in an International and Intercultural Context

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Examines social context of education from an international and intercultural perspective, linkages between societal values, culture, and schooling, and implications for the role of teachers.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

 

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