Non TESOL
EDUC 510 Research Methods and Design I (4 Credits)
Students acquire the tools necessary to conduct research as they learn to create and test research hypotheses, identify and define research variables and conditions, create quantitative and qualitative research designs, and use statistical analyses to draw conclusions about data. The course culminates with each student creating and submitting an individualized research proposal to Capital University’s Institutional Review Board.
EDUC 520 Research and Methods of Inquiry II (4 Credits)
Students use the tools acquired in the Research Methods and Design course to implement and execute their individualized research proposals. Students present their research at the end of the course.
EDUC 530 Principles of Leadership (4 Credits)
The importance of teachers serving as leaders in their building, and district, has become increasingly well documented in the past decade. To serve as an effective leader requires skills that many teachers may not have been formally trained in during their professional development. This course seeks to expose the student to the critical leadership components of: relationship development, leadership, authority/power and influence, politics of leadership, decision-making, communication, culture development, change, motivation, and conflict management.
EDUC 532 Educational Change (4 Credits)
This course focuses on the problems, issues, and possibilities of bringing change to the educational arena. It explores the influences on the education system from many levels including national, state, local, community, school and classroom. Students will also reflect on their own experiences and the possibilities of becoming visionaries of change.
EDUC 534 Teaching: Best Practices (4 Credits)
Students in this course will analyze and synthesize best practices in teaching as defined and described by a variety of researchers to include Grant Wiggens, Steve Challahan, David Rose, Lisa Delpit, Ruby Payne, Harvey Daniels, Steve Zemelman, and Arthur Hyde. Best practice literature will be examined from developmental, content specific, and diversity perspectives. Students will apply best practice principles to an analysis of a selected aspect of their own teaching, with the goal of advancing student academic achievement.
EDUC 536 Learners and Learning Theory (4 Credits)
This course provides a detailed analysis of modern learning theories and practices as they relate to education. It embarks on a detailed investigation of major research in educational psychology focusing on learning cognition. Aspects of Universal Design for learning and diversity issues are addressed.
EDUC 699 Capstone Research Hours (2 Semesters, 4 Credits Each)
*MBA 600 Ethics and Social Responsibility (3 Credits)
Now more than ever, companies are held accountable for developing responsible business policies and practices, and making them an integral part of their strategies and operations. Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethical Decision Making provide students with a laboratory for examination of these significant issues. The principal outcomes of this course are to understand important ethical constructs, to provide opportunities to apply ethical and responsible decision making in a variety of business situations and to facilitate a deeper understanding of the strategic complexities in managing these priorities across often competing needs. The class is structured around a rich set of challenging projects and case studies.
*MBA 613 Organizational Behavior (3 Credits)
A good manager must know how to guide an organization through business cycles, market shifts, corporate restructurings and changes in ownership, resource constraints, and any number of other challenges. Success depends on a clear understanding of organizational dynamics, of how to influence the actions of individuals and groups, and of you. Building Effective Leaders and Organizations has students examine how best to organize, manage and motivate the human capital of the firm to achieve it’s strategic and other goals. Students discover their personal strengths and management styles learn to solve organizational problems and consider how to influence the actions of individuals, groups and organizations successfully.
TESOL
EDUC 510 Research Methods and Design I (4 Credits)
Students acquire the tools necessary to conduct research as they learn to create and test research hypotheses, identify and define research variables and conditions, create quantitative and qualitative research designs, and use statistical analyses to draw conclusions about data. The course culminates with each student creating and submitting an individualized research proposal to Capital University’s Institutional Review Board.
EDUC 520 Research and Methods of Inquiry II (4 Credits)
Students use the tools acquired in the Research Methods and Design course to implement and execute their individualized research proposals. Students present their research at the end of the course.
EDUC 560 Research in Second Language Acquisition (4 Credits)
This course will guide students through the linguistic and theoretical basis for the study of language structure and then focus specifically on English. Practical strategies will be discussed for teaching English in the five skill areas: reading, writing, grammar, listening and speaking. Class material in phonology, morphology, and syntax will be covered to help students consider these various skill areas.
EDUC 570 Sociolinguistics and Culture (4 Credits)
Topics for the course include: bilingualism, dialects, ethnic group membership, gender, religion, social class and educational level as it impacts on the identity of individuals. Understanding and appreciating uniqueness and differences will allow students in the TESOL Endorsement program to effectively design learning environments for all students.
EDUC 580 Assessment, Evaluation and Program Development in TESOL (4 Credits)
Students in the class will work toward skills in the development of lessons for ESOL (English for speakers of other languages) students that reflect Ohio’s grade-level learning outcomes. They will select, create, and adapt resources to support ESOL students’ language and literacy development and content area achievement. They will use age-appropriate assessment procedures, interpret data to make instructional decisions, communicate assessment results to learners and their caregivers, and develop strategies to encourage learners to use assessment results to make decisions about their own learning. Students will develop a Research Design for Assessment and Program Development.
EDUC 600 Practicum-Classroom Observation and Practice Teaching (5 Credits)
The TESOL practicum consists of classroom observation and ESL teaching through direct experience which will allow the student to demonstrate in a portfolio knowledge, dispositions, and skills for the 10 performance areas required of teachers in the State of Ohio. A faculty member from the university’s Education Department will serve as supervisor. A portfolio is required.
EDUC 699 Capstone Research Hours (2 Semesters, 4 Credits Each)
*MBA 600 Ethics and Social Responsibility (3 Credits)
Now more than ever, companies are held accountable for developing responsible business policies and practices, and making them an integral part of their strategies and operations. Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethical Decision Making provide students with a laboratory for examination of these significant issues. The principal outcomes of this course are to understand important ethical constructs, to provide opportunities to apply ethical and responsible decision making in a variety of business situations and to facilitate a deeper understanding of the strategic complexities in managing these priorities across often competing needs. The class is structured around a rich set of challenging projects and case studies.