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UD College of Education & Human Development Summer Courses

This summer learn new skills, enhance your knowledge, and advance your career! UD’s College of Education and Human Development summer session offers fully online learning opportunities for early-career and experienced education professionals. Teachers, administrators and instructional aides in Delaware public and charter schools and Delaware residents automatically receive a tuition scholarship.

Registration begins April 20. Please be aware of our graduate transfer of credit policy. If you are not certain about committing to a program, you are welcome to take up to three courses (nine credits) through Professional and Continuing Studies.

For any questions, please contact cehd-info@udel.edu.

First Summer Session (June 8-July 10)

Designing Online Instruction (EDUC-439/EDUC-639)

In response to the closing of schools across the country due to Covid-19, educators have been tasked with transitioning all of their teaching to online formats. This immediate call to action has proven to be quite a disruptor for those with little experience teaching in fully digital environments. This course will share a simple framework to support lesson plan design along with approaches to integrating evidence-based instructional practices with digital tools.

EDUC-439 is an undergraduate-level course and EDUC-639 is a graduate-level course.

Multimedia Literacy (EDUC-485/EDUC-685)

Defines multimedia and discusses the impact it is having on society. Surveys applications across the curriculum and reflects on the effects of multimedia on current teaching practice. Provides a multimedia toolbox and shows how to use it to create and publish multimedia applications on the Internet. Discusses emerging technology and societal issues including copyright, fair use, equity, cost and universal access.

EDUC-485 is an undergraduate-level course and EDUC-685 is a graduate-level course.

Educational Technology Topics: Apple Teacher Certificate (EDUC-439/EDUC-639)

In-depth study of a major problem in educational technology. Problems to be studied will vary with each offering.

EDUC-439 is an undergraduate-level course and EDUC-639 is a graduate-level course.

Childhood Literature (EDUC-602)

Survey of literature of children and its application to the curriculum. A study of literary genre, elements and devices found in children’s books, aids for selection, criteria for evaluation and techniques for promoting reading.

Functional Communication for Individuals with Autism and Severe Disabilities (EDUC-626)

Reviews appropriate functionally relevant communication objectives for students with autism and severe disabilities. Highlights the impact of functional communication upon social skills and behavior management. Presents a variety of alternative communication methods and modalities.

This course requires knowledge of behaviorally-based educational models for students with autism and other severe disabilities. Instructor approval is required.

Introduction to Assistive Technology (EDUC-652)

Focuses on assistive technology for exceptional learners in K-12 settings. Prepares special education teachers to identify, evaluate, and use assistive and augmentative technologies to support the education of exceptional learners. Includes attention to design principles, practical applications, legal requirements, and ethical considerations.

Educational Evaluation: Exceptional Children & Youth (EDUC-680)

Procedures and practices for the assessment and identification of students with disabilities. Examines legal, ethical, and professional requirements related to assessment and IEPs. Administration, scoring, and interpretation of informal and formal tests used to determine learner’s academic performance, including screening and progress monitoring.

Education of Exceptional Children (EDUC-697)

Historical and philosophical basis for special education; legislative mandates and litigation that establish the right to a free, appropriate, public education; physical, psychological and educational characteristics of exceptional children; study of past and emerging education practices for exceptional children with emphasis on pedagogical commonalities.

Special Education Instruction and Curriculum: Introduction (EDUC-753)

Foundations of special education instruction and curriculum across the grade levels, including models of instruction, lesson planning, setting instructional goals and objectives, implementing education Programs and instructional adaptations. Introduction to IEPs and literacy instruction (reading and writing curriculum [K-3] and methods) is included.

School Library Media Program Administration (EDLM-625)

Explores and evaluates administration and management of school library media center. Topics include: planning and evaluation; policy making; personnel; budget; facilities; standards; research trends in area.

Life Span Development (HDFS-201)

Exploration and understanding of the social, emotional, cognitive and physical development of the individual from infancy through old age in the context of the family.

Diversity and Families (HDFS-202)

Examination of diverse families in the United States with a focus on issues of race, ethnicity, social class, and gender. Emphasis is on the accelerating effects of globalization and social change.

Families and Developmental Disabilities (HDFS-270)

Focuses on people with developmental disabilities in the context of their family and culture from a multidisciplinary perspective. Covers disabilities and their causes; changing needs across the lifespan, gender, cross-cultural and legal issues; and information about prevention/intervention, employment, inclusion, and empowerment.

First Summer Session (June 8-July 24)

Digital Literacies (EDUC-762)

Critically examines complex multimodal digital environments by comparing traditionally printed and digital texts. Students will develop their own multimodal presentations utilizing web-based tools. Strategies for preparing K-12 students to read and write multimodal texts will be explored.

Foundational Skills in Standards Integration (EDUC-775)

Prepares teacher-leaders with the foundational skills needed to interpret changing educational standards and to design curriculum and instruction that is aligned with these standards.

Second Summer Session (July 13-August 13)

Introduction to Autism and Severe Disabilities (EDUC-624)

An introduction to issues related to the identification and assessment of students with autism or severe disabilities. Presents identification instruments, assessment systems and their relation to theoretical models about these disabilities. Reviews the relationship between assessment and educational planning.

Assistive Technology: High Incidence Disabilities (EDUC-653)

Focuses on assistive technology for students with high incidence disabilities, K-12. Includes design principles, practical applications, legal requirements, and ethical considerations. Considers user-centered frameworks for assessment, planning, delivery, and utilization of technologies.

Discipline and Classroom Management (EDUC-658)

A review of discipline procedures, sources of assistance, legal implications, parental roles, management techniques and strategies for developing school discipline policies.

Diversity and Families (HDFS-202)

Examination of diverse families in the United States with a focus on issues of race, ethnicity, social class, and gender. Emphasis is on the accelerating effects of globalization and social change.

Families and Developmental Disabilities (HDFS-270)

Focuses on people with developmental disabilities in the context of their family and culture from a multidisciplinary perspective. Covers disabilities and their causes; changing needs across the lifespan, gender, cross-cultural and legal issues; and information about prevention/intervention, employment, inclusion, and empowerment.

Positive Youth Development (HDFS-331)

Emphasizes a strength-based approach and focuses on youth development from a social, cultural and psychological perspective. Explores areas of youth functioning, including social, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral competencies. Through theory, research, and application, this course examines a myriad of factors including characteristics of the individual, family, school, and the larger society that can conceivably allow youth to develop in positive ways.