Expect to define your aspirations and examine what educational and community-based professionals do to learn how to best support the community you are serving. Your final assignment, the Positionality Statement and Portfolios, will consist of drawing upon your past assignments in the class as well as in theoretical concepts developed in the course readings and discussions to create a piece of multimedia outlining identity, social and racial justice, leadership, and potential ideas for further research.

This course surveys appropriate administrative policies and procedures relevant to designing, administrating, and assessing high quality early learning programs. Expect to work on a portfolio assignment that requires that you gather and present materials education, experience, and professionalism in the field of early Childhood Education.

This course is an introduction to person-centered and multicultural perspectives within educational, socialization, and vocational contexts for speech, language, hearing, and swallowing disorders across the lifespan. For your major assignment you will have the option to choose from assessing a hypothetical client or giving a presentation summarizing what you learned about a topic covered in class.

This course focuses on the effective use of the computer to meet exceptional learning needs, including special education software evaluation, word processing for written language development, logo, individualized lessons with graphics and speech and database management for cognitive and language development. The major assignment will consist of creating one lesson plan and include an example of alternative media the student has designed to align with evidenced-based multimedia principles.

This course explores the relationship between language, identity, power, and educational opportunity in various domestic and international contexts. In your major assignment you will draw on your course learning to critically examine your own thoughts and experiences regarding language and social justice. 

Providing optimal services to children, adolescents, and their families requires knowledge and skills in program evaluation and assessment. In this course you will learn how to determine service needs within communities, how to develop a mission statement and a program theory of how activities will lead to short- and long-term outcomes. Apply what you learn to the programs you currently work at or when you design and assess your own programs.