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This course introduces methods of teaching science in grades K-6 which emphasize planning, instruction, and assessment activities that point to an inquiry-based approach. National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) themes and Virginia Standards of Learning (SOLs) provide the content framework. Teacher candidates will be involved in exploration, development, and practical applications of inquiry, discovery, directed teaching, and use of hands-on/minds-on activities designed to prepare them for teaching science in elementary schools. Prerequisites: ED 235, ED 245 and a cumulative GPA of 2.5.
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This course is offered as instructors with special expertise in an area are available to offer unique or trial content. Possible topics include HIST 341 History of First Americans, and HIST 343 USA Today, 1940-Present.
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This course will provide innovative, topical approaches to varying humanities topics. It may be repeated as topics shift from year to year. Possible topics include HUM 331 BIPOC Cinema: Representations Race, and HUM 332 Queer History.
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This is an opportunity for students to explore leadership and gain limited practical experience in an organizational or team setting. Students will log at least 40 contact hours and complete some reflective written reports. Travel and personal expenses are the student's responsibility. Can be taken during the summer. Graded on a Pass/Fail basis. Prerequisites: Sophomore + status or above standing and EMU cumulative GPA 2.0 or better. (Must apply one month in advance to secure placement)
Core: CE
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Minors enter a semester or summer-session internship through their major. Some options would be in the immediate area, while others would tap into EMU and MCC programs in Washington, New York, and abroad. These might include paralegal work, mediation work, VORP, WCSC, SALT, or the MCC U.N. Liaison. Note: Students completing an internship/practicum for their major (e.g. BusinessBUAD, PXD) can use this to satisfy the pre-law internship with approval from the history department. Grading is on a pass/fail basis. Students may be able to meet the requirement (but not earn credit) through documentation of a non-credit experience, upon departmental approval.
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Courses on a variety of topics in psychology are offered on a rotating basis depending on student and faculty interest. Topics include: intercultural psychology, marriage and family, introduction to clinical psychology, psychology of pop culture and theology, forensics, psychology and spirituality, creativity, and narrative psychology. Open to psychology majors only. Possible topics include PSYC 380 Psychology of Politics and Morality (Fall 2024), PSYC 381 Sports Psychology (Spring 2025), PSYC 382 Health Psychology, PSYC 383 Positive Psychology, and PSYC 384 Attention and Emotional Regulation (Summer 2024). Prerequisite: junior/senior level statusstanding.
PSYC 391 Introduction to Counseling (3 SH)
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In this course a team of faculty members coaches will coach students as they further develop their knowledge and skills for dealing with conflict and situations of injustice. Students work individually and in teams to apply new ideas and skills to cases that progress in complexity from the community to the national and to the global level. Students continue to develop their self-awareness as well as their capacity for professional judgment and reflective practice. Accelerated program students only. (PAX 634)
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This course first explores the rich history, culture, and sociopolitical structure of the Aztec, Maya, and Inca civilizations prior to the conquest of the Americas. Additionally, this course prepares students to engage in the study of myths surrounding the conquest of the Americas and the role indigenous allies, Africans, and traitors to the Spanish crown played in the conquest and exploration of the New World. This course will also provide students with contemporary cultural knowledge of present-day indigenous culture, transculturation, struggles, and survival in the modern nationstatenation-state. Spanish is the primary language of instruction for all courses in the 300- and 400- levels. Note: Additional Language Learning courses beyond the first may fulfill EMU Core Communication Intensive (CI) credit. At the 200-level and above, they may be used to fulfill the Communication Foundations requirement if they are not being used to fulfill another Core requirement (History, Literature, or Communication Intensive). (Fall 2023)
Core: HI, LL
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This capstone class offers the opportunity for students to develop an artistic and vocational vision. Students will create a coherent body of work for exhibition and web display and will investigate career options related to their discipline. VACA majors should take Junior/Senior Portfolio and Vocation in the fall semester of the last full year they are on campus. They VACA majors should plan to take VACA 481 Senior Thesis and Exhibition the next semester (where they will exhibit and write about the work they developed in portfolio class). Prerequisites: VACA 151 and VACA 252.
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