Off-Campus Courses By Number

Course #	Course Name	Schedule (Click to View)
05:300:200	Exploring Teaching as a Profession
Exploration of teaching as a career. Examines teaching and learning from divergent perspectives and includes issues related to the profession and practice of teaching. Personal, public, and professional perceptions of teachers and teaching addressed. Includes a field experience. Prerequisite for admission to teacher education. Credits: 3.0
05:300:306	Principles of Classroom Learning
Prerequisite: 01:830:101. Surveys areas of psychology most relevant to education. How children think, learn, and remember; influence of motivation; principles of measurement. Credits: 3.0
05:300:316	Assessment for Instructional Planning
Special education classroom assessment techniques. Formal measures analyzed for technical adequacy & usefulness. Emphasis on teacher-made assessment instruments & IEP development. Possible fieldwork. Credits: 3.0
05:300:341	Modern High School Mathematics
Prerequisites: 01:198:111 or equivalent; 01: 640:250,251. In-depth study and construction of some key ideas in the high school mathematics curriculum. Viewing of mathematics in terms of the ideas built up in the minds of students. Credits: 3.0
05:300:342	Supervised Undergraduate Tutoring in Mathematics
Prerequisites: 01:640:250,251. Develop teaching strategies, an interactive style, and an approach to high school mathematics content in a one-on-one tutorial or small group setting. Students work with other undergraduates in lower-level, E -credit mathematics courses. Credits: 3.0
05:300:350	Education and Computers
Establishes a foundation for using the computer in a variety of educational settings across all subject areas through programming, application programs, computer-based instruction, and social/philosophical issues of computers in education. Credits: 3.0
05:300:383	Introduction to Special Education
Pre-or corequisite: 01:830:396 or 397. Overview of the diverse physical, psychological, and social disabilities of special education children. Credits: 3.0
05:300:401	Individual and Cultural Diversity in the Classroom
Prerequisites: 05:300:200; admission to the teacher education program. Focuses on the range of student diversity in contemporary classrooms, including cultural, linguistic, and academic differences. Emphasizes strategies to enhance academic success, promote inter-action, and facilitate the inclusion of diverse students in the regular school setting. Credits: 3.0
05:300:402	Special Topics in Education
Seminar on selected topic of current interest. Topics differ each term. Consult instructor for description of topic under study. Credits: 3.0
05:300:403	Independent Study in Education
Independent project in education to be carried out in consultation with appropriate faculty. Arrangements for a project supervisor must be made prior to registering for this course. Credits: 3.0
05:300:411	Laboratory in Human Development
Prerequisite: 01:830:331. Examines topics in social, cognitive, and affective development through the study of children and the settings in which they learn and develop. Findings related to current literature in child development and developmental psychology. Fieldwork required. Credits: 3.0
05:300:412	Learning and Teaching in the Early Childhood Classroom
Prerequisite: Admission to the teacher education program. Addresses teaching strategies and curricula appropriate for the young child aged three to eight. Emphasizes the role of play in learning and development and instructional strategies to foster cognitive, social, and emotional development. Curriculum planning around integrated, thematically related experiences explored. Credits: 3.0
05:300:413	Practicum in Early Childhood/Elementary Education I
Prerequisite: Admission to the teacher education program. Can be taken before or after 05:300:414. Coordinated with 01:300:412 and 494. Fieldwork in a local elementary school to observe and participate as a teaching assistant; one full day per week for nine weeks in a pre kindergarten, kindergarten, or first-through third-grade classroom. Credits: 3.0
05:300:414	Practicum in Early Childhood/Elementary Education II
Prerequisite: Admission to the teacher education program. Can be taken before or after 05:300:413. Coordinated with 01:300:441,461,471, and 495. Fieldwork in a local elementary school to observe and participate as a teaching assistant; one full day per week for nine weeks in a fourth-through eighth-grade classroom. Credits: 3.0
05:300:421	Language and Linguistics I
Prerequisite: Senior standing. Examines a variety of grammatical and sociolinguistic descriptions of language and considers the critique they offer of traditional school grammar. Explores the educational and political implications of teaching traditional school grammar in the light of these critiques. Credits: 3.0
05:300:422	Teaching Literature: Readers, Texts, and Contexts
Prerequisite: Senior standing. Examines a variety of theories about what literary reading is and why it should be taught. Develop strategies for introducing, sequencing, and discussing literary texts as well as for integrating the study of literature into the other language arts. Field experience required. Credits: 3.0
05:300:423	Teaching Writing: Social and Cognitive Dimensions
Prerequisite: 05:300:421. Examines a variety of perspectives on the nature of the writing process. Considers research and theory on how teachers should teach and respond to writing. Field experience required. Credits: 3.0
05:300:430	Principles of Second/Foreign Language Acquisition
Prerequisites: 05:300:200; admission to the teacher education program. Introductory course that examines the research and theory on first and second language acquisition related to children, teens, and adults in the United States and abroad. Credits: 3.0
05:300:431	Teaching World Language/ESL in Elementary Schools
Prerequisite: 05:300:200. Open only to students who have been formally admitted to a foreign language teaching program. May count as education credit but not toward the major in a foreign language. Explores methods and materials used to foster world language and ESL development within an elementary school context. Fieldwork. Credits: 3.0
05:300:432	Teaching World Language/ESL in Secondary Schools
Prerequisites: 05:300:200; admission to the teacher education program. Explores methods and materials used to foster world language and ESL development within a secondary school context. Fieldwork. Credits: 3.0
05:300:433	Language and Culture
Prerequisites: 05:300:200; admission to the teacher education program. Relationship of linguistic, cognitive, attitudinal, and behavioral patterns within each culture and how they affect cross-cultural communication and language education. Credits: 3.0
05:300:434	Language Foundations I
Prerequisites: 05:300:200; admission to the teacher education program. Nature of language relevant to teachers involved with other languages and cultures. Topics include functional motivation of linguistic structure, linguistic sign, phonetics, phonemic and morphemic analysis, world semantics, and correctness. Credits: 3.0
05:300:441	Teaching Mathematics in the Elementary School
Prerequisite: 05:300:200. Open only to students who have been formally admitted to a teacher education program. Concrete, manipulative approach to teaching mathematics concepts. Psychology of learning mathematics; the elementary curriculum; effective teaching techniques. Credits: 3.0
05:300:442	Problem-Solving Processes in Mathematics
Prerequisite: Admission to the teacher education program. Focuses on understanding one ’s own mathematical problem-solving processes and how such processes develop in mathematics learners of all ages. Credits: 3.0
05:300:443	Methods of Teaching Secondary School Mathematics
Prerequisite: Admission to the teacher education program. Reviews the status of secondary mathematics teaching in the United States, the reform movement of the 1990s, and current thinking about issues of concern to practicing teachers. Encourages development of personal style and approach to teaching high school mathematics. Topics include instructional planning, assessment, individual differences, cultural and gender differences, and teaching styles. Credits: 3.0
05:300:444	Practicum in Teaching Secondary School Mathematics
Prerequisite: Admission to the teacher education program. Corequisite: 05:300:443. Students spend two complete mornings in the school each week. Gives prospective secondary mathematics teachers an opportunity to observe experienced teachers, serve as an aide, work with individuals and small groups, and teach several class sessions in a high school setting. Credits: 3.0
05:300:461	Science in the Elementary School
Prerequisite: Completion of student ’s liberal arts college science requirement. Presents science as an integrated body of knowledge using investigative and inquiry techniques. Thematic or problem-based approach to science teaching. Credits: 3.0
05:300:462	Demonstration and Technology in Science Teaching
Prerequisite: Admission to the teacher education program. Creating science teaching support materials using resources available over the Internet. For use in creating laboratory, demonstration, and related activities that would complement classroom practice. Involvement in the broad Internet community of interest in science and science teaching. Credits: 3.0
05:300:471	Teaching Social Studies in Elementary School
Prerequisite: Admission to the teacher education program. Examines strategies and materials for teaching social studies in the elementary school. Focuses on a cluster of teaching models to engage children in the active pursuit of knowledge, skills, and values. Credits: 3.0
05:300:472	Materials and Methods in Social Studies
Prerequisite: 05:300:200. Open only to students who have been formally admitted to the social studies teaching program. Study of instructional practices, curricular trends, and teaching materials used in social studies. Credits: 3.0
05:300:480	Materials and Methods in Special Education
Prerequisites: 05:300:200,383; 01:830:331. Open only to special education students. Application of learning theory and principles of systematic instruction in the areas of motor learning, oral and written language, mathematics, and social skills. Fieldwork. Credits: 3.0
05:300:481	Materials and Methods in Special Education II
This course is a continuation of Material and Methods in Special Education I. Students will learn to develop education programs for students, including IEP’s. Students will learn a variety of reasearch-based instructional strategies for diverse learners. Students will plan short-term and long-term units of instruction in a variety of instructional settings. Research-based practices will be used to plan, implement and evaluate instruction. Credits: 3.0
05:300:483	Resources for Individuals with Disabilities
Open only to students who have been admitted to the special education program. Resources essential to the handicapped student and the family. Referral procedures and use of resources. Credits: 3.0
05:300:494	Literacy Development in the Early Years
Prerequisites: 05:300:200; admission to the teacher education program. Examines literacy development from birth to third grade. Varied strategies for literacy development are presented and analyzed using the emergent literacy and integrated language arts approach. Also addresses theories of early literacy development. Credits: 3.0
05:300:495	Literacy Development in the Elementary and Middle School
Prerequisites: 05:300:200; admission to the teacher education program. Emphasizes integrated language arts approach to literacy learning in grades three through eight. Connections between reading, writing, and oral language addressed. Reviews strategies to integrate literacy learning with instruction in the content areas. Credits: 3.0
15:230:500	Foundations of Educational Administration and Supervision
Analysis of conceptual, technical, and human resources skills associated with administrative and supervisory behavior in schools. Emphasizes the foundations of leadership, communications, decision making, and human resource management. Credits: 3.0
15:230:501	Leadership and Communications Skills Development I
Introduces both the theory and practice of educational leadership. Drawing upon differing disciplinary perspectives, the class emphasizes linking administrative policies and practices to their theoretical foundations. Credits: 3.0
15:230:502	School Budgeting
Prerequisite: 15:230:520. Comprehensive review of the basic accounting cycle followed by a study of accounting systems, internal administrative and accounting controls, bond financing, budgeting, and an analysis of financial statements. The application of site-based budgeting to core curriculum standards presented. Credits: 3.0
15:230:503	Business Administration of School Systems
The business administration of a school district, including accounting, budgeting, payroll, purchasing procedures, capital outlay, management information systems, risk management, food service, transportation, personnel records, equipment, and facilities. Credits: 3.0
15:230:505	School-Community Relations: The Politics of Education
Analysis of the political basis for community support to schools and the influence of community groups on the role of the school administrator. Credits: 3.0
15:230:506	Clinical Studies in School-Community Analysis
Prerequisite: 15:230:505 or permission of instructor. Facilitates a field application of community analysis and relations programs; analysis carried out through the use of a varied political, theoretical, and practical base. Credits: 3.0
15:230:507	Education Law
Impact of the legal system on education; emphasizes issues arising from conflicts between public policy and individual rights; study of federal and state constitutions, statutes, regulations, and court decisions. Credits: 3.0
15:230:512	Administration and Supervision of Elementary and Secondary Schools
Prerequisites: 15:230:500, 521. Problems of organization, supervision, and administration of the elementary and secondary school. Credits: 3.0
15:230:514	Personnel Administration
Prerequisite: 15:230:500. Administration of personnel policies, methods, and techniques employed in the public sector, including environmental influences, relevance to organizational structure, collective bargaining, tenure, affirmative action, recruitment, selection, induction, development, appraisal, termination, and legal parameters. Credits: 3.0
15:230:516	Administration and Supervision of Special Education Services
Prerequisites: Either 15:230:500 or 501 and 521. Role and function of special education; special services within the school and community, including special classes for the mentally and/or physically handicapped; and various services, such as school psychology, school social work, speech correction, learning disabilities specialist, and others. Credits: 3.0
15:230:520	Public School Finance
State and federal directives on school finance and educational equity; economic principles and national income measures related to public education; calculation of property taxes and bond issues; local, state, and federal methods of financing public education; overview of cost efficiency and effectiveness measures; investments; the basic accounting structure of state and local governments; and the budget system and comprehensive annual reports used by school districts in New Jersey. Credits: 3.0
15:230:521	Supervision of Instruction
Basic course; prerequisite to advanced study in supervision. Aspects of supervision, such as definition and scope; philosophy, issues, principles, and techniques; understanding and improving the learning situation; and evaluation of supervision. Credits: 3.0
15:230:522	Decision Analysis I
Prerequisites: 15:230:500,501. Introduction to decision making in organizations; focuses on organizational missions, goals, and practical techniques for developing decision-making strategies; emphasizes use of microcomputers for quantitative decision making. Credits: 3.0
15:230:530	Internship in Educational Administration
Arrangements are made by the university, the student, and the participating school district a term in advance. Firsthand, on-the-job administrator or supervisor training under an able educational leader. May or may not involve part-time status and payment to the intern by the organization in whose system the student is placed. Credits: 3.0
15:230:599	Master’s Thesis Research
Prerequisite: Permission of adviser. Open to graduate students enrolled in a program requiring the writing of a master’s thesis in the field of administration. Credits: 3.0
15:230:600	Topics in Educational Administration and Supervision
Selected issues and policies pertinent to the administration and supervision of education. Topics may differ each time the course is offered. Credits: 3.0
15:230:601	Practicum in Educational Administration
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Open only to advanced graduate students who desire to accomplish independent minor research in the solution of specific problems. The case-conference method provides an opportunity for analysis of individual administrative problems. Credits: 3.0
15:230:603	Theory and Research Findings in Educational Administration
Prerequisites: Master’s degree and permission of instructor. History and development of theories of administration in general and theories of educational administration in particular; scientific and logical study of administrative performance and leadership behavior designed for the preparation of the practicing administrator, the theorist, and the researcher in educational administration. Credits: 3.0
15:230:604	Organizational Theory in Education
Prerequisite: 15:230:603 or permission of instructor. Contemporary organizational theory and analysis with major focus on behavior in educational organizations; the approach is a comparative analysis of formal organizations. Credits: 3.0
15:230:605	Fieldwork in Educational Administration
Prerequisite: Permission of program coordinator. Provides opportunities for advanced students to do special research on a professional problem in the field under supervision of the Graduate School of Education staff; the problem may involve any phase of local school administration; application of research in the field to local conditions and local facilities. Credits: 3.0
15:230:607	The Law of New Jersey Education
The legislative, judicial, and administrative sources of New Jersey law affecting the cooperation of schools; policy issues, New Jersey Statutes Title 18A, and commissioner’s decisions emphasized. Credits: 3.0
15:230:608	Case Studies in Educational Administration and Supervision
Administrative/supervisory cases identifying and diagnosing concrete issues and problems in educational organizations; examples of learning styles and people with special needs in our multicultural society considered. Credits: 3.0
15:230:610	Administration for School Effectiveness
Prerequisites: 12 credits, including 15:230:500, 501, 521. Examines literature on school factors related to student learning and planned organizational change. Students conduct an on-site school assessment with recommendations for instituting change. Credits: 3.0
15:230:613	Research Problems in Educational Administration and Supervision I
Problem areas in educational administration and supervision and examination of relevant potential research topics and appropriate methodologies of study; practical experiences in the research process as a way of integrating course work experiences; and the preparation of a doctoral dissertation. Credits: 3.0
15:230:614	Research Problems in Educational Administration and Supervision II
Problem areas in educational administration and supervision and examination of relevant potential research topics and appropriate methodologies of study; practical experiences in the research process as a way of integrating course work experiences; and the preparation of a doctoral dissertation. Credits: 3.0
15:230:630	Readings in the Administration and Supervision of Education
Prerequisite: Permission of department. Study of literature and research in an area of administration and supervision of educational institutions. The interests and back-ground of the student and his or her professional career goal are given careful consideration in the development of the reading list. Periodic reports and/or papers on the readings are used to evaluate student progress. Credits: 3.0
15:230:650	Seminar in Educational Supervision
Prerequisites: 15:230:500, 521, or permission of instructor. Using the clinical approach, students carry on studies of the theoretical context of supervisory practice, methodological techniques, sociology of supervision, and supervision as leadership in curriculum improvement. Credits: 3.0
15:230:700	Residency Seminar
Required of specialist and doctoral students establishing residency in the department. Field experiences and related activities designed to augment full-time study. Credits: 3.0
15:230:701	Dissertation Study: Educational Administration
Prerequisite: Permission of adviser. Open to graduate students who are writing a doctoral thesis in the field of administration. Credits: 3.0
15:230:800	Matriculation Continued
Continuous registration can be accomplished by enrolling for at least 3 credits in standard course offerings, including research courses, or by enrolling in this course for 0 credits. Students actively engaged in study toward their degree who are using university facilities and faculty time are expected to enroll for the appropriate credits. Credits: 3.0
15:230:866	Graduate Assistantship
Students who hold graduate assistantships are required to enroll in this course for 3 or 6 E credits per term. Credits: 3.0
15:230:877	Teaching Assistantship
Students who hold teaching assistantships are required to enroll in this course for 3 or 6 E credits per term. Credits: 3.0
15:233:542	Introduction to Adult and Continuing Education
The nature of the field and major areas of professional practice; examines basic concepts and issues and analyzes various program areas and institutional settings. Credits: 3.0