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• HIST 401: History of PA

  3.00 Credits

  Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

  
  Explores the founding and development of Pennsylvania, emphasizing the social, political, and economic characteristics of the Commonwealth. Particular attention will be paid to the ethnic and religious diversity of the province and state and to the interpretation of the past at various historic sites and museums.
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• HIST 420: History of the Holocaust

  3.00 Credits

  Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

  
  Explores and analyzes the history of the Nazi Holocaust, including Hitler?s rise to power, the creation of a Nazi racial state, the genesis of the Holocaust, resistance to Nazism, Jewish and non-Jewish experiences, and international justice.
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• HIST 432: Plantation Societies

  3.00 Credits

  Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

  
  Examines plantation societies in early modern history from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, with special attention to Brazil, Latin America, the Caribbean islands, and the American South. This course emphasizes the economic, political, and social importance of plantation societies, and also explores the lives of the American Indians, African slaves, European indentured servants, and free people of all ethnicities who lived and worked in them.
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• HIST 451: Imperial Japan

  3.00 Credits

  Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

  
  Examines Japan's move to an imperialist, colonial, and ultimately militarist power in the early twentieth century. The primary emphasis in this course is a study of the imperialist expansion of Japan abroad that brought it to war with Asia and the West, while also considering changes in the political, economic, social, and cultural life of the Japanese people at home. Lastly, the course assesses the ongoing war memory debate within Japan and without.
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• HIST 457: Early Ottoman Empire

  3.00 Credits

  Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

  
  Provides a historical understanding of different aspects of the Early Modern Ottoman Empire, which controlled most of the region that is known as the Balkans, the Middle East, and North Africa. Through a close reading of books on the political, economic, social, and cultural history of the Ottoman Empire, this course examines this empire's role in the Mediterranean World and relates the Empire's transformation to the Mediterranean and world history between 15th and 18th centuries.
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• HIST 458: Modern Ottoman Empire

  3.00 Credits

  Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

  
  Provides a historical understanding of different aspects of the Modern Ottoman Empire, which controlled most of the region that is known as the Balkans, the Middle East, and North Africa. Through a close reading of books on the political, economic, social, and cultural history of the Ottoman Empire, this course examines this empire's role in the Mediterranean World and relates the Empire's transformation to the 20th-century conflicts in the Balkans and the Middle East.
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• HLPE 102: Foundations of PE

  3.00 Credits

  Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

  
  Provides an orientation to the health and physical education profession. This course includes an overview of contemporary instructional models and underlying scientific and health-related physical fitness principles, along with a description of the history of health and physical education that highlights successful qualities of physical educators. A focus on health education behavior theories is included as well. Students complete school-based observations and field experiences. It is aligned with the SHAPE America national accreditation competencies for Physical Education and Health Education.
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• HLPE 115: Teaching Invasion Sports 1

  3.00 Credits

  Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

  
  A methods course requiring students to plan and deliver multiple lessons to peers enrolled in the course. This involves knowledge, fundamental skills, strategy and rules of flag football, soccer, and floor hockey. Emphasis is placed on tactics and skill learning in modified-game situations, performance analyses, and the planning and implementation of developmentally appropriate instructional progressions. This teaching methods course encompasses teaching methods, formative assessment, class management, and safety appropriate for all teaching opportunities.
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• HLPE 125: Invasion Sports 2

  3.00 Credits

  Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

  
  Provides students with pedagogical content knowledge, fundamental skills, strategies and rules of basketball, team handball, and ultimate frisbee with a tactical focus and structure. Emphasis is placed on skill learning, game tactics and decisions, performance analyses, and progressions. This methods course encompasses teaching methods, class management, formative assessment, and safety appropriate for developmentally appropriate grade levels. Students will complete peer and self-evaluations.
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• HLPE 130: Teaching Net Sports

  3.00 Credits

  Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

  
  Provides pedagogical content knowledge, fundamental skills, strategies and rules of tennis, badminton, pickle ball, volleyball with a secondary focus on other net sports. Emphasis is placed on tactical-focused skill learning in modified game situations, as well as on performance analysis and instructional progressions and the planning and implementation of developmentally appropriate instructional progressions. This teaching methods course encompasses teaching methods, formative assessment, class management, and reflective assessment after completing teaching opportunities.
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