| New course | Undergraduate |
| First term offered : Winter 2014 | ||
| Course Prefix&Number | Descriptive Title | Credits/Hours |
| ED 324 | Creative Arts in Early Childhood Settings (birth-4th grade) | 3 - |
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Abbreviation for Class Schedule(20 spaces) CreativeArtsEC |
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Catalog Description: This course utilizes the creative arts (art, music, and dramatic play) and play as central approaches to teaching and learning with young children from birth-4th grade in inclusive early childhood settings. The course focuses on an integrated approach to an arts-based curriculum by examining authentic arts experiences and the role of play in children's growth and development. |
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Course Goal and Objectives: Students will be able to: 1. develop an understanding of the nature and function of play, the expressive arts, and creative thinking for young children in the inclusive environment. 2. explain and apply theoretical bases of play, the expressive arts, and creative thinking. 3. observe, facilitate, interpret, and utilize children's play, expressive activities, and creative thinking. 4. address the needs of individual students with particular emphasis on working with diverse learners. 5. assess and design creative, appropriate environments and learning activities for all children. 6. utilize play, the arts, and creative thinking as integral components of the total curriculum. 7. identify themselves with the early childhood profession and will exhibit the attributes of a collaborative educational leader including the acquisition of appropriate knowledge, skills, and dispositions. (see syllabus for more details) |
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Justification for adding the course (e.g. alignment with other institutions, program revision, etc.): This course is part of a program revision (Early Childhood teaching authorization) and the proposed Early Childhood Studies major. |
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Faculty and facilities needed: This course will be taught by current faculty and/or adjuncts who are specialists in the field. |
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Brief Course outline: (See attached syllabus) |
| Step | Approver | Decision | Timestamp |
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| 1 - Department | Cindy Ryan | Approved | November 12 2012 |
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Comments: No dept chair |
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| 2 - Division | Maria Dantas-Whitney | Approved | November 12 2012 |
| 3 - Division Curriculum | Maria Dantas-Whitney | Approved | November 12 2012 |
| 5 - Curriculum Committee | Thaddeus Shannon | Approved | November 21 2012 |
| 6 - Faculty Senate | Keller Coker | Approved | January 30 2013 |
| 7 - Dean | Mark Girod | Approved | January 31 2013 |
| 8 - Provost | Kent Neely | Approved | February 01 2013 |
| ED 324 Syllabus.doc | Download |