SED 300 - Develop Individual Acad & Behavior Plans (3 Credit Hours)
This course is meant only for those students enrolled in a licensure program due to assignments that require a clinical field experience placement. This course provides students the opportunity to develop skills in conducting functional behavioral assessments and creating behavior intervention plans as well as legally compliant individualized education plans. Candidates will get an introduction to special education law that specifically pertains to their future career as an intervention specialist. Focus is on gathering academic and behavioral assessment data to write individualized, measurable goals and objectives as well as selecting measures to monitor progress toward established goals. Additionally, candidates will learn how to specify specially designed instruction and select accommodations and modifications to address students' areas of need.
Course Prerequisites - PF 121 or PF 321, ENG 120, COMM 150 or SPCH 100, EDP 429, EDP 471 or EDUC 421, EDP 472 or EDUC 402, Admitted to Intervention Specialist licensure program
SED 405 - Transition Planning & Career Issues (3 Credit Hours)
This course is meant only for those students enrolled in a licensure program due to assignments that require a clinical field experience placement. This course provides students with an understanding of the importance of the Transition Planning Process in planning to address the social, academic and vocational needs of exceptional children as they prepare for life after high school. Students will also be exposed to tools that can be used to gather information that can be used to develop transition plans for these children. Students will practice using assessment data to develop transition goals and services.
Course Prerequisites - PF 121 or PF 321, ENG 120, COMM 150 or SPCH 100, EDP 429, EDP 471 or EDUC 421, EDP 472 or EDUC 402, Admitted to Intervention Specialist Licensure Program
SED 413 - Management Strategies for Intervention (3 Credit Hours)
This course provides students the opportunity to develop skills in planning and managing the teaching and learning environment, and in managing student behavior and social interaction skills. Students become familiar with daily management skills, safety and health issues in the classroom, creating and modifying a supportive learning environment, and behavior management skills. It also encourages students to have regard and respect for a child's total self.
Course Prerequisites - COMM 150 or SPCH 100, SED 300, SED 405
SED 414 - Professional and Collaborative Practice (3 Credit Hours)
This course provides students the opportunity to develop skills in communicating effectively, in developing collaborative partnerships, and in demonstrating professionalism and ethical practices. The course focuses on the development and interaction of the educational team, on methods and models of collaborative practices with parents, students, educational personnel, and members of the community and incorporates this into the instructional process. Effective advocacy and problem solving skills and techniques are examined.
Course Prerequisites - COMM 150 or SPCH 100, SED 300, SED 405
SED 445 - Instructional Strategies and Assessment for Students with Moderate to Intensive Needs (3 Credit Hours)
This course is meant only for those students enrolled in a licensure program due to assignments and program assessments that require a clinical field experience placement. This course provides students the opportunity to develop skills in adapting curriculum and instruction to meet the needs of learners with multiple and/or severe disabilities. Focus is on conducting assessments and using the resulting data to select instructional strategies, adapt curriculum, and integrate supports for medical and assistive technology needs. Additionally, this course will cover the unique skills and environmental adjustments needed to teach vocational, functional, and daily living skills.
Course Prerequisites - PF 121 or PF 321, ENG 120, COMM 150 or SPCH 100, EDP 471 or EDP 421, EDP 472 or EDUC 402, EDP 429, Admitted to Intervention Specialist: Moderate/Intensive Need
SED 495 - Intervention Specialist Practicum (6 Credit Hours)
The Intervention Specialist practicum is an in-depth clinical laboratory experience that provides opportunities to observe, analyze, plan, and practice teaching methods in a school setting. The experience enables a teacher seeking licensure in an additional field of study a place where they can reflect on their development as professionals.
Course Prerequisites - COMM 150 or SPCH 100
SEMT 240 - Disaster Planning & Response (4 Credit Hours)
Students will explore the nuances of planning for and responding to catastrophic disasters. The course will involve discussion of domestic and international approaches to planning and responding to such disasters. Students will view issues from the perspective of an Emergency Manager who spends most of their time in the field planning for critical incidents and disasters and who understands the key components to a good plan that involves many agencies at all levels of government and at different stages of the event. Students will explore the logistics of mass care, mass evacuation, and critical infrastructure damage.
Course Prerequisites - ENG 120, PF 121 or PF 321
SEMT 322 - Ethics & Leadership in Public Safety Agencies (4 Credit Hours)
This course will study ethics and leadership theories in the context of public safety agencies. Consideration of leadership skills and traits in both the strategic and tactical settings will be considered. Ethics will be considered in terms of creating a culture of ethics within a public safety agency.
Course Prerequisites - PF 121 or PF 321, ENG 120, COMM 150 or SPCH 100
SEMT 328 - Emergency Management Theory & Practice (4 Credit Hours)
This course will focus on Emergency Management and Homeland Security in the Post 9-11 era. Emphasis will be on mitigation and preparedness related to international and domestic terrorism as well as natural disasters.
Course Prerequisites - PF 121 or PF 321, ENG 120, COMM 150 or SPCH 100
SEMT 335 - Introduction to Emergency Management & Homeland Security (4 Credit Hours)
This course analyzes emergency management from a historical perspective. Disaster planning and disaster management in the post 9-11 environment are analyzed. The impact of Homeland Security on local public safety agencies is examined as are selected Homeland Security Presidential Directives (HSPD #5 and HSPD #11 in particular). The National Incident Management System (NIMS) and the National Response Plan (NRP) are examined with regard to their impact on local public safety agencies. Finally, special challenges for emergency management and disaster response will be analyzed.
Course Prerequisites - PF 121 or PF 321, COMM 150 or SPCH 100, ENG 120