This Sample Program Pathway is designed to provide an example of course selections in a term by term sequence. Please see an Academic Advisor for a plan specific to your academic needs.
Description: Theories and principles of child development. Promoting positive growth from prenatal through age eight. Impact of the environment including the family, educational experiences, peer relationships, community and culture on each child’s development.
Notes: ELEE majors need to see an academic advisor for permission to register for this course
Prerequisites: Approval of Department and Other (Open to ELEE students)
Description: In English Composition I students learn reflective, analytical and argumentative writing strategies, incorporating sources and personal experience. Students will negotiate between public and private rhetorical situations and purposes to achieve academic literacy. They will write multiple drafts using a recursive writing process as they work toward fluency in style and mechanics.
Prerequisites: DEV 0035 and DEV 0035 and DEV 0035 and DEV 0035 and DEV 0035 and DEV 0035 and DEV 0035 and DEV 0035 and DEV 0035 or Other (Placement Test Score) or Other (Placement Test Score) or Other (Placement Test Score) or Other (Placement Test Score) or Other (Placement Test Score) or Other (Placement Test Score) or Other (Placement Test Score) or Other (Placement Test Score) or Other (Placement Test Score)
Description: University-parallel course covering history and systems of psychology, behavioral research methods, physiology of behavior, sensation, perception, learning, memory, consciousness, cognition, personality, lifespan development, gender, social psychology, motivation, emotion, stress, mental disorders and therapies.
Prerequisites: DEV 0035 and DEV 0035 and DEV 0035
Description: Major trends in the development of Western culture, emphasizing political, economic, social and cultural achievements from the seventeenth century to the present.
Notes: Program elective. Choose from one of the following courses: HIS1112 or HIS1102 HIS 1112 required by UD.
Description: Designed to improve speaking and listening skills through the study and application of public speaking structure, content and style. This course requires 5 speeches in front of a live audience. The online course sections require the recordings to be created by the student with at least 8 adults present for each speech. Any questions, please contact the Communication Department at com.dept@sinclair.edu.
Prerequisites: DEV 0035 and DEV 0035 and DEV 0035 or Other (Any other college level English course) or Other (Any other college level English course) or Other (Any other college level English course)
Description: Basic nature of philosophy, its relationship to physical and social sciences and theology and its value to the individual.
Notes: Associate of Arts elective: You may choose any college level course in the Sinclair catalog (Limited to two hours of PED courses) For UD: Choose either PHI 2205 or PHI 2206.
Term hours subtotal:
18
Description: Family and community characteristics, supporting and empowering families and communities through respectful, reciprocal relationships and involving families and communities in the development and learning of children.
Notes: ELEE majors need to see an academic advisor for permission to register for this course
Prerequisites: Approval of Department and Approval of Department and Other (Open to ELEE majors) and Other (Open to ELEE majors)
Description: English Composition II, building on the skills in English Composition I, develops rhetorical literacy through research, critical reading and multigenre writing tasks. Through major and minor, cumulative and stand-alone assignments, students construct arguments and analyses, ethically incorporating academic sources while developing their own voices as writers and citizens.
Prerequisites: ENG 1101 and ENG 1101 and ENG 1101 and ENG 1101
Description: Surface processes of wind, water and ice in changing Earth's surface, plate tectonics; interior forces that cause earthquakes, volcanoes, mountain building. Introduction to natural resources; impact of natural hazards on human populations; and impact of human activities in the natural world. Laboratory component stresses introduction to and use of basic scientific method and problem solving. Three classroom, two lab hours per week.
Notes: Any Natural & Physical Science elective from the approved Ohio Transfer 36 List. View electives at: https://sinclair.edu/about/offices/provost/articulation-transfer/ohio-transfer-36/ GLG 1101 required by UD.
Corequisites: GLG 1111 GLG 1111 GLG 1111
Description: Identification of minerals, sediments and rocks; interpretation of topographic maps and geologic maps. Laboratory must be taken concurrently with Physical Geology.
Corequisites: GLG 1101 GLG 1101
Description: A critical analysis of contemporary American society with review of major sociological theories, research methods, culture, socialization, groups, social structure, social institutions, deviance, social inequalities, social processes and social change.
Notes: Any Social & Behavioral Science elective from the approved Ohio Transfer 36 List. View electives at: https://sinclair.edu/about/offices/provost/articulation-transfer/ohio-transfer-36/ May not be another PSY course.
Prerequisites: DEV 0015 and DEV 0015
Description: Introduction to the identification, developmental characteristics, foundations, theory, legal issues and intervention strategies for exceptional children and youth across educational and community settings.
Term hours subtotal:
16
Description: Development of the people of the United States in political, social, economic, and cultural areas from pre-Columbian America through Reconstruction.
Notes: Any Arts and Humanities elective from the approved Ohio Transfer 36 List. View electives at: https://sinclair.edu/about/offices/provost/articulation-transfer/ohio-transfer-36/ HIS 1101 required by UD.
Description: This is the first of two mathematics courses designed for future elementary school teachers. The focus is on understanding numbers, operations, algebraic thinking, and number theory. This is a mathematics content course. Please note that this is not a teaching methods course, but a course focusing on using, justifying and connecting mathematical concepts. This course employs oral and written communication as both a learning tool and as preparation for handling mathematical questions which arise in elementary school classrooms. Discussion focuses on the deep mathematical reasoning underlying the computational procedures that are usually taught in elementary school. The course explores common misconceptions with preservice teachers, enabling the interpretation of children's work which might be incorrect, incomplete, or different from adult ways of thinking. Also this course is activity based, providing opportunities for deep, connected learning. It is essential for all teachers of mathematics to understand the reasoning underlying the mathematics they are teaching. They need to understand why various procedures work, how each idea they will be teaching connects with other important ideas in mathematics, and how these ideas develop and become more sophisticated. Please note that students are expected to pass a mathematics competency exam without the use of a calculator in order to be eligible to take the final exam.
Prerequisites: MAT 0300 and MAT 0300 and Other (with a grade of C or better) and Other (with a grade of C or better) or Other (Satisfactory score on math placement test) or Other (Satisfactory score on math placement test)
Description: A survey of motion, forces, energy, thermodynamics, properties of matter, electricity and magnetism for nonscience majors. Three classroom, three lab hours per week.
Notes: Any Natural & Physical Science elective from the approved Ohio Transfer 36 List. View electives at: https://sinclair.edu/about/offices/provost/articulation-transfer/ohio-transfer-36/ PHY 1100 required by UD.
Prerequisites: MAT 0100 and MAT 0100 or MAT 0600 and MAT 0100 or MAT 0600 and MAT 0100 or MAT 0600 or MAT 1110 or MAT 1110 or MAT 1110 or MAT 1110 or MAT 1130 or MAT 1130 or MAT 1130 or MAT 1130 or MAT 1445 or MAT 1445 or MAT 1445 or MAT 1445
Corequisites: PHY 1110 PHY 1110 PHY 1110 PHY 1110
Corequisites: PHY 1100 PHY 1100
Description: Principles of learning and development applied to educational settings emphasizing research-supported development of effective learning in varied educational environments.
Prerequisites: PSY 1100 and PSY 1100
Term hours subtotal:
15
Description: Students will be introduced to concepts of creating and preserving a setting in which children are afforded a safe, productive and responsive learning environment. The course intentions are for pre-service teachers to be exposed to, interact with and become prepared through an array of practical theories and practices to develop and maintain sustainable classroom cultures and climates affording all students the opportunity for an equitable quality of education.
Description: Introduction to the teaching profession. A variety of experiences to facilitate exploration of the role of school and its relationship to society. The knowledge, skills, dispositions and performances necessary for an individual to become an effective teacher.
Notes: For Sinclair/U.D. Academy students only!! It is important that instead of taking Sinclair's EDU1100, students register for U.D. EDT110/110L and transfer it back to Sinclair. See your Academic Advisor for details.
Description: As a part of the teacher education program students are to spend time observing and engaging in K-12 classroom. The nature of this course requires the student to be in a K-12 school classroom for weeks 1-8. The student will spend a total of 25 hours observing in a K-12 classroom as well as one class period on the first day of the semester and the last week of the semester in class on Sinclair's campus. Students will have required reading, projects and connection engagement log and weekly reflective journal writings.
Prerequisites: Restricted to Majors
Description: This is the second of two mathematics courses designed for future elementary school teachers. The focus is on understanding ratios, proportional relationships, functions, measurement, geometry, statistics, and probability. This is a mathematics content course. Please note that this is not a teaching methods course, but a course focusing on using, justifying and connecting mathematical concepts. This course employs oral and written communication as both a learning tool and as preparation for handling mathematical questions which arise in elementary school classrooms. Discussion focuses on the deep mathematical reasoning underlying the computational procedures that are usually taught in elementary school. The course explores common misconceptions with preservice teachers, enabling the interpretation of children's work which might be incorrect, incomplete, or different from adult ways of thinking. Also this course is activity based, providing opportunities for deep, connected learning. It is essential for all teachers of mathematics to understand the reasoning underlying the mathematics they are teaching. They need to understand why various procedures work, how each idea they will be teaching connects with other important ideas in mathematics, and how these ideas develop and become more sophisticated.
Prerequisites: MAT 2415 and and MAT 2415 and Other (MAT 2415 with a grade of C or better) and Other (with a grade of C of better) and Other (with a grade of C of better)
Description: Introduction to Western religions and cultural traditions, including beliefs, practices, stories, rituals and historical context.
Notes: Any Arts and Humanities elective from the approved Ohio Transfer 36 List. View electives at: https://sinclair.edu/about/offices/provost/articulation-transfer/ohio-transfer-36/ UD required REL 1111, 1112, 2204, or 2255.
Term hours subtotal:
14