2008-2009 Catalog - Virginia Wesleyan College

82 ENGLISHtechnology to access the general curriculum, andimplementing and monitoring IEPS. Prerequisite: SPED371. Corequisite: SPED 377. Offered each fall.377 Assessment and Management of Instructionin Special Education-Practicum (1)Provides a supervised opportunity to apply proceduresfor administering, scoring and interpreting individual andgroup instruments and utilizing assessment findings foreligibility, program planning, and program evaluationdecisions. The student plans lessons for students withdisabilities to teach content, remediate deficiencies inaccessing the general curriculum and implementing IEPs. Afield experience placement is provided. The student mustrequest a placement from the Director of Field Experiences.Pass/fail grading. Prerequisite: SPED 371. Corequisite:SPED 376. Offered on demand.382 Collaboration and Transitionin Special Education (3)Prepares students to work with families to providesuccessful transitions of students with disabilitiesthroughout the educational experience to includepostsecondary training, employment, and independentliving that addresses an understanding of long-termplanning, career development, life skills, communityexperiences and resources, self-advocacy, and selfdetermination,guardianship and legal considerations.Students learn to routinely and effectively collaborate withfamilies, other educators, related service providers, andpersonnel from community agencies in culturallyresponsible ways. Prerequisite: SPED 371. Corequisite:SPED 383. Offered each spring.383 Collaboration and Transitionin Special Education–Practicum (1)Prepares students to work with families to providesuccessful transitions of students with disabilitiesthroughout the educational experience to includepostsecondary training, employment, and independentliving that addresses an understanding of long-termplanning, career development, life skills, communityexperiences and resources, self-advocacy, and selfdetermination,guardianship and legal considerations.Students learn to routinely and effectively collaborate withfamilies, other educators, related service providers, andpersonnel from community agencies in culturallyresponsible ways. Prerequisite: SPED 371. Corequisite:SPED 382. Offered each spring.438 Special Education PreserviceTeaching I (7.5)A preservice teaching experience in grades K-6. Thestudent teaching I and II provide over 300 clock hours and150 hours of direct instruction. The student must request aplacement from the Director of Field Experiences thesemester prior to student teaching. Seminars are included.Attendance is mandatory. Prerequisite: Admission to theEducation Department. Offered each semester.439 Special Education PreserviceTeaching II (7.5)A preservice teaching experience in grades 6-12. Thestudent teaching I and II provide over 300 clock hours and150 hours of direct instruction. The student must request aplacement from the Director of Field Experiences thesemester prior to student teaching. Seminars are included.Attendance is mandatory. Prerequisite: Admission to theEducation Department. Offered each semester.465 ACT Special EducationPreservice Teaching I (4)A preservice teaching experience for ACT students inspecial education grades K-6. The student teaching I and IIprovide over 300 clock hours and 150 hours of directinstruction. The student must request a placement from theDirector of Field Experiences the semester before studentteaching. Seminars are included. Attendance is mandatory.Prerequisites: admission to the Education Department.Corequisite: SPED 466. Offered each semester.466 ACT Special EducationPreservice Teaching II (4)A preservice teaching experience for ACT students inspecial education grades 6-12. The student teaching I and IIprovide over 300 clock hours and 150 hours of directinstruction. The student must request a placement from theDirector of Field Experiences the semester before studentteaching. Seminars are included. Attendance is mandatory.Prerequisites: admission to the Education Department.Corequisite: SPED 465. Offered each semester.ENGLISHDR. CONNIE BELLAMYDR. LISA P. CARSTENSDR. MICHAEL HALL, Program CoordinatorDR. REBECCA E. HOOKERDR. CAROL V. JOHNSONDR. SUSAN E. LARKINDR. KATHERINE M. LORINGMS. VIVIAN TETERDR. JEFFREY W. TIMMONS, Program CoordinatorDR. JOSH A. WEINSTEINThe student drawn to the study of English as a major isusually, before anything else, someone who loves to readand write. This lover of words reads not just for information,but for the pleasure of experiencing the beauty andmystery of language and for the challenge of seeing how itshapes human thought and feeling. The English major,then, is someone interested in politics, history, psychology,religion, philosophy, science, and the arts, but particularlythrough the refractive lens of critical and imaginativewriting.English courses teach the skills of critical thinking,writing, and research, as well as some of the frameworksthrough which literature can be read. Courses are designedto help students read with comprehension and enjoyment,