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ERM 355: Ethical and Effective Assessment for Learning 7-12

3.00 Credits

West Chester University of Pennsylvania

This course will focus on exploring ethical issues related to educational and psychological assessment. The goal of the course is to encourage students to critically evaluate ethical issues in educational and psychological testing to make informed and ethical choices with regards to assessment development, administration, results, and interpretation. This course is designed to provide students the knowledge and skills to use multiple developmentally appropriate assessments (authentic, screening, diagnostic, formative, and summative) to guide instruction related to standards, to monitor results of interventions and their implications for instruction for all students, and to report assessment results.

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ERM 359: Assessment for Learning: Mathematics Educators

3.00 Credits

West Chester University of Pennsylvania

This course is designed to provide secondary mathematics education candidates the knowledge and skills to use multiple assessments to guide instruction related to standards, to monitor results of interventions and their implications for instruction for all students, and to report assessment results. This course has a 25-hour field experience. Field clearances required (PA criminal background, PA child abuse, FBI fingerprinting, TB test results).

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ERU 309: Russian Culture

3.00 Credits

West Chester University of Pennsylvania

(In English) A course designed to acquaint students with Russian culture and life in Russia today. No knowledge of Russian required.

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ERU 363: Russian & Soviet Film and Literature

3.00 Credits

West Chester University of Pennsylvania

A comparative approach to selected 20th century Soviet and Russian works of fiction, poetry, drama, and film. No knowledge of Russian is required.

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ESP 300: Latin-American Culture and Civilization (In English)

3.00 Credits

West Chester University of Pennsylvania

Cultural, geographic, literary, philosophical, and artistic manifestations of the Hispanic-American world. No knowledge of Spanish is required.

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ESP 303: Convivencia: Muslims, Jews, and Christians in Medieval Spain

3.00 Credits

West Chester University of Pennsylvania

This course focuses on the culture of the southern portion of the Iberian Peninsula (today, Spain and Portugal), known as Al-Andalus, where Christians, Jews, and Muslims lived together from the 8th to the 15th centuries. Through the study of historical, religious, and artistic materials, political and social events, and architectural and literary works, the course examines the display of multicultural identities in Medieval Europe. All course materials are in English.

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ESP 305: Spanish Cinema

3.00 Credits

West Chester University of Pennsylvania

This course will investigate the ways in which films participate in and create debates about the relationship between national identification, class, and gender. No knowledge of Spanish is required; taught in English.

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ESP 306: Representations of the Spanish Civil War

3.00 Credits

West Chester University of Pennsylvania

A study of how political activism in and outside of Spain created debates about the relationship between national culture(s), society, politics, and "official" versions of history.

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ESP 309: Latin America on Film (in English)

3.00 Credits

West Chester University of Pennsylvania

This course explores contemporary Latin American film production in order to foster a better understanding of Latin American cultures and history while investigating complex power dynamics in Latin American societies. Films will be the points of departure to address critical issues such as history, culture, politics, economics, and religion; ethnic diversity, gender, class-based and racial conflicts; violence, dictatorship, and revolution; and the place of Latin America in an increasingly globalized world. No knowledge of Spanish is required.

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ESP 310: Latin American Narrative from the European Conquest to 1930s

3.00 Credits

West Chester University of Pennsylvania

This course is an overview of the literature of Latin America from the arrival of European conquerors through the early 20th century. Throughout the semester, students will focus on narratives of encounter and conquest, life in the Colonial period, early republican literatures in Spanish American countries, and life in Imperial Brazil, as well as texts from the first half of the 20th century. Students will reflect on geographic ideological perspectives on "America" and "Latin America," cultural and religious mixes (hybridism, syncretism), indigenismo, and the concept of identity in regional, national, ethnic, and gender matters.

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