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• SPAN 3600: Hispanic Immersion

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course consists of a trip to a Spanish speaking country for two-five weeks with the usual number of semester hours. Students will experience total immersion in the Spanish language and culture in daily life and activities including but not limited to classes, lectures, visits, excursions, etc. Prerequisite: SPAN 2001, equivalent, or approval.
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• SPED 1000: Disability in Popular Media

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This is a discussion-based class designed to develop an awareness of disabilities as they are portrayed in modern popular media. This course specifically investigates representations of disability in mainstream media, as well as the impact that such portrayals have on people with disabilities and on people without disabilities.
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• SPED 1050: Foundations of Special Educ

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course is designed to provide information and skills necessary for accommodating exceptional learners in a variety of school arrangements. The primary focus is foundations and characteristics of special education and students with exceptionalities and collaboration/consultation for the successful inclusion of students with exceptionalities into the inclusionary classroom.
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• SPED 2000: Assessment and PBS

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course is required for all education or related services majors and is intended to provide future teachers with the fundamental knowledge, skills, and disposition: how to administer, score, and interpret both norm-referenced and criterion-referenced assessment devices; how to design appropriate learning environments to promote positive learning and reduce interfering behaviors; and how to design and implement schoolwide and classroom positive behavior interventions and supports.
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• SPED 2050: Intro to Sp Ed with Field Obs

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  The Special Education Field Experience I is a course taken by candidates majoring in Special Education. Candidates spend 45 hours in a school setting to gain experience with students with disabilities. This will be a collaborative experience between the candidate, the university supervisor, and the collaborating teacher. The collaborating teaching will be certified in special education and have at least two years experience teaching students with disabilities. While fully immersed in the school-based setting, the candidate will observe a variety of special education placements during the semester. The observations will focus on instructional techniques, assessments, and classroom management related to each student's IEP and identified disability.
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• SPED 2100: Teac Student with Disabilities

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course focuses on the Practice of prevention and intervention in dealing with students who demonstrate academic deficiencies. It will prepare in-service and pre-service educators with the skills and knowledge to deliver and support instruction to students with disabilities in the classroom setting. Prerequisite: SPED 418. Offered each semester.
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• SPED 2400: Managing Inc Environ

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course addresses classroom approaches to managing disruptive behaviors in inclusive settings. It emphasizes current research and effective practice on a continuum from proactive through intervention strategies. The course addresses issues of physical environment, daily routines, rules and appropriate consequences both natural and logical. This course is taken at the pre-candidacy level of a teacher candidate's program.
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• SPED 2950: Pre-field

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This field experience provides students with an experience in the introduction of students with disabilities in a public school or alternative setting. Students participate in the education process by assisting in the planning, instruction, and classroom management of students under the supervision of a certified special educator in a public school or other approved educational setting.
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• SPED 3000: Intro to Appl Behav Analysis

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  Focuses on principles of applied behavior analysis in the assessment and treatment of behavioral excesses or deficiencies. Students will design programs to increase skill acquisition or reducing inappropriate behavior for either groups or individuals in special education, clinical settings, or rehabilitation settings.
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• SPED 3010: Spc Learn Dis and Emo Beh Dis

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course focuses on the nature of specific learning disabilities and emotional and behavioral disorders and familiarizes the student with the classification systems and theoretical models. This course also emphasizes the history, etiology, characteristics, assessment and treatment/instructional approaches as they pertain to children and adolescents in classroom settings.
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