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EDUC 518 CAREER EDUCATION
Prerequisites: None
Credits: 3
The development of comprehensive integrated career educational
program for grades K through post-secondary in concert with the
school, home, and community. This program will stress classroom
organizational procedures, utilization of teacher-practitioner teams,
development of decision-making skills, communications skills, and
emphasis on new strategies in developing the whole person. Survey of
various career development programs, with emphasis on description
and applicability.

EDUC 519 THE FINE ARTS IN THE CURRICULUM: AN
INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH
Prerequisites: None
Credits: 3
This course is interdisciplinary, drawing upon the nature of the fine arts
and their implications for curriculum development. The course will
introduce the classroom teacher to the nature of aesthetics and the
techniques for incorporating aesthetic experiences into curriculum
through poetry and the visual (painting, collage, sculpture) and
performing (music, dance, drama) arts. Emphasis will be placed on the
classroom teacher's role and practical application of understandings
that can be used with children and youth.

EDUC 521 ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION IN PUBLIC
SCHOOLS
Prerequisites: None
Credits: 3
This is a survey course of the organization and administration of modern
American public education, including local, state, and federal levels
with their differing roles and responsibilities. The historical
development of local school district organization and various types of
local school districts, such as township, city, county unit, union high
school, and independent elementary school districts are included. The
phenomena of public insistence on local control, school district
consolidation, and the current decentralization movement in
administration are studied, as well as the development of the
professional of school administration, from the “headmaster'' and
“inspector'' beginnings to the modern urban superintendency.

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