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ABP 101 Covenant and Community-An Introduction to the Bible (3 SH)

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Addresses the design and implementation of technology-enhanced instruction, and the application of technology to assess and monitor learner performance. Topics include principles and practices of effective assessment, the relationship between instruction and assessment, grading systems and practices, and using assessment data to improve instruction and learner performance. Education majors only.
Core: TI

ED 301 Needs of Diverse Learners (3 SH)

Addresses teaching learners with diverse and special needs. Explores student diversity, including, but not limited to, cultural, racial, linguistic, socio-economic, and dis/ability characteristics. Focuses on integrated settings, universal design for learning, differentiation, and collaboration. Pre or corequisite: ED 331, 332, 333 or ED 351.

ED 331 Math in Elementary School (2 SH)

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Curriculum Block is comprised of ED 331, 332, 333 (4 SH content; 2 SH practicum) which provide foundations of curriculum development and implementation. Coursework is integrated with a 60-hour practicum experience in K-6 classrooms with a focus on local, state, and national curriculum standards. Introduces methods of teaching mathematics in grades K-6 with significant attention to planning, instruction and assessment activities which are responsive to the needs of diverse learners. National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) standards and Virginia Standards of Learning (SOLs) provide the content framework. Participants will be involved in exploration, development and practical applications of inquiry, discovery, directed teaching, use of manipulatives, and other activities designed to prepare them for teaching mathematics in elementary schools. Prerequisites: ED 235, ED 245 and a cumulative GPA of 2.5.

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This course runs every fall semester and is led by the director of the Honors program and/ or other members of the Honors faculty. It is available to all students entering EMU with an Honors Scholarship and is highly recommended to all students entering the Honors Program as sophomores or as transfer students. The course is designed to investigate the central ideas of various academic disciplines and higher education generally. Together, students and faculty begin to explore and examine the goals of the program spelled out above.

HONRS 310 Honors Colloquium+ (3 SH)

Colloquium courses explore a specific topic chosen by the professor and are designed to be provocative and challenging but accessible to students of any major—no prerequisites are required. These courses run every semester and course topics vary. All EMU students are invited to take these courses, but Honors students in the Honors Program have priority for enrollment.

HONRS 401 Worldview Seminar (2 SH)

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Crisis theory is applied with clients and their families in the acute stages of a health-related situational crisis and in disaster situations. Clinical experiences occur in the emergency department and critical care units. (Clinical experience: 4 days). Prerequisites: NURS 319, NURS 321, NURS 420, NURS 421322 and NURS 422.

NURS 439 Transition to Practice (3 SH)

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Students explore contemporary family structure and dynamics from historical, inter cultural, developmental, and practical perspectives. This course provides an overview of courtship, marriage, gender roles, parenting, aging, family crisis, and conflict resolution.

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Courses on a variety of topics in sociology are offered on a rotating basis depending on student and faculty interest

SOC 350 Urban Sociology (3 SH)

In this course students explore their connection to an increasingly urban world by examining patterns of urban settlement, theories of urbanism, the "community “community question," ” and the problems and possibilities of urban life through the perspectives of urban planning. The course includes a focus on the roles of race and class as factors influencing social interaction and use of space in urban environments. Prerequisite: SOC 101 or SOC 201.
Core: SB

SOC 351-355 Topics in Sociology (3 SH)

Courses on a variety of topics in sociology are offered on a rotating basis depending on student and faculty interest SOC 350 Urban Sociology (3 SH)

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In this course students explore their connection to an increasingly urban world by examining patterns of urban settlement, theories of urbanism, the “community "community question,” " and the problems and possibilities of urban life through the perspectives of urban planning. The course includes a focus on the roles of race and class as factors influencing social interaction and use of space in urban environments. Prerequisite: SOC 101 or SOC 201.
Core: SB

SOC 351 Topics in Sociology-Religion in Culture and Society (3 SH)

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Students develop compassionate listening and speech communication skills while exploring a calling within a discipline. This course is ideally taken in the spring semester of the first year. Prerequisite: WRIT 135, WRIT 140, or CORE 120302. 
Core: Communication Foundations

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