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COURSES

 

Education (Educ)

25. Elementary Statistics (3)
Not open to freshmen except by permission of instructor. Methods of collecting, organization, interpreting, and applying data in quantitative studies in education, psychology, sociology, and biology.

30. Introduction to Teaching (2)
Recommended for students working for all credentials. Personal and professional traits, duties, and responsibilities of the teacher; observation of children at work and play.

40. Library Methods and Practice (2)
For students who are interested in librarianship as a profession.

100. Social Studies in Lower Grades (3)
Teaching the social studies including points of view, materials, unit planning, and procedures. Review of instructional procedures in all subjects. Prerequisite: provisional approval by Committee on Admission to Teacher Education.

101. Social Studies in Upper Grades (3) (See Educ. 100)

102. Reading in the Elementary School (3)
Concept of reading as a process; foundations of reading instruction; methods, materials, and instructional aids for teaching reading in the elementary school.

103. Language in the Elementary School (2)
Prerequisite: Educ 110; provisional approval for admission to a credential program. Objectives, curriculum, materials, and procedures in language, spelling, and writing.

104. Children's Literature (3)
Prerequisite: Educ 110. Standards of selection for prose and poetry suitable for children from kindergarten through grade six. Folk and fairy tales, fable, legend, realistic stories, animal stories, and poetry. Satisfies 2 units of 12-unit English requirement for general elementary and kindergarten-primary credentials.

105. Storytelling (1)
Prerequisite: Educ 110. Methods and practice in storytelling of stories suitable for kindergarten through grade 6. Satisfies 1 unit of 12-unit English requirement for general elementary and kindergarten-primary credentials.

107. Advanced Problems in Teaching Elementary Arithmetic (2)
Planned for teachers in service. Points of view, curriculum, units, instructional material, and procedures; actual problems worked out with the assistance of the instructor for grades 1-6. An evening or summer school class.

108. AdvancedProblems in Teaching Social Studies (2)
For teachers in service. Points of view, curriculum, units, instructional material, and procedures; actual problems worked out with the assistance of the instructor for grades 1-6. An evening or summer school class.

109. Audio-Visual Education (2)
Survey of the types of materials and equipment with emphasis upon the use of each in the classroom. Laboratory work will include training in operation of equipment and appraisal of films and other materials. The course will be adapted to meet the needs of class members. Required for kindergarten- primary, general elementary, junior high school, general secondary, and junior college credentials. Prerequisite: Education 110.

110. Educational Psychology (3)
Applies principles of psychology to learning process. Native capacities, differences among individuals, heredity and environment. Kinds, theories, and laws of learning; suggestions for improvement of learning process. Recent investigations of personality.

111. Mental Hygiene (2) (See Psych 111)

113. Growth and Development (2) (Same as Psych 113)
Study of the child from six to IS years with emphasis oil organismic growth changes and factors influencing these changes. Principles of growth; interrelatedness of growth; physical, motor, social and personality growth; perception; imagination; language development.

113F. Field Work in Growth and Development (1) (Same as Psych 113F)
For students in 113 desiring direct experience with children on playgrounds, in organizations, and in other various recreational activities.

114. Psychology of Elementary School Subjects (2)
Experiments and investigations in reading, arithmetic, spelling, hand- writing, grammar, social studies, fine arts, physical and health education.

117. Mental Hygiene of Children (2)
(See Psych 117)

118. Child Guidance (2)
Basic principles, techniques, and procedures in child guidance. Discovering and meeting physical, mental, social, and emotional needs of elementary school children making guidance an integral aspect of child guidance. Same as Psychology 118.

119. Psychology of Preschool Child (2)
(See Psych 119)

120. Adolescent Psychology (2)
(See Psych 120)

124. Guidance and Counseling (3)
(See Psych 124)

125. Advanced Statistics (2)
This course is designed to increase the student's understanding of the use of statistical aids in the solution of educational, psychological, sociological problems through a study of the mathematical and logical derivation of statistical formulae learned in his* first course. He will be encouraged to analyze statistical studies found in magazines, government reports, and books, and to plan, conduct, interpret, and report research studies of a quantitative nature. Open only to upper division or graduate students. Prerequisite: Educ. 25 or equivalent. Same as Psych. 125.

126. Measurement in Education (3)
Objective measurement of capacities and achievement of pupils; diagnosis of difficulties, and plans for remedying; evaluation of school programs; construction of informal, objective examinations and criteria for selection of standardized measuring instruments; Practice in planning and administering a measurement program; administrative, classroom, and guidance uses of objective measuring instruments.

128. Individual Mental Testing (2)
Terman-Merrill Revision of Stanford Binet materials, manual, and their use in a guidance-testing program; standardization; basic procedures in administering and interpreting results,; educational and guidance use. Same as Psych. 128.

130. Extra- Instructional Activities in Elementary Schools (2)
Activities of teachers that lie mainly outside the curricular fields or that have important extra-instructional phases. Prerequisites: sixth semester, Educ. 110, preferably Educ. 102 and 103. Parallel courses: Educ. 100, 101, and 131.

131. Observation and Participation (1-4)
Directed exercises in observation and participation to prepare for teaching, reveal personality problems, and provide basic experiences for interpreting theories developed in parallel education courses. Campus demonstration school. Prerequisite: provisional approval by Committee on Admission to Teacher Education.

132. Directed Teaching (2-12 hours)
Directed teaching in city schools under supervision of teachers, principals, and college supervisors. Weekly conferences with supervisors. Prerequisite: full approval by Committee on Admission to Teacher Education.

134. Advanced Student Teaching or Observation (1-4)
Work in addition to the regular assignment designed to offer broader training or to provide additional time for growth.

138. Field Work in School Administration and Supervision (2)
Opportunities arranged for becoming acquainted with actual problems of administration and supervision, based upon an agreement among student, administrative official where student is working, and college instructor. A diary to be kept by student, including special problem, experiences, material read, and delegated function ; and finally organized into a report to be submitted to local administrator and college instructor for approval. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.

140. Elementary School Administration (2)
Survey of practices of elementary school organization and control. Pupil personnel, child accounting, teacher assignment, school plant, equipment, curriculum and materials of instruction, special and auxiliary agencies, public relations and general details of elementary school.

141. Legal Aspects of Education (2)
Means for extending educational opportunity in the state. The system of public education in California.

142. Supervision of Special Subjects (2)
Emphasis upon supervisory techniques which can be used to improve instruction in special subjects. Relationship of special supervision to general supervision.

144. Federal, State, and County School Administration (2)
Federal control and aid in education; State organization, policies, and methods of control, revenue and apportionment; County as local or semi-local agency of State-County organization and control.

146. Elementary School Supervision (2)
Organizing the supervisory force. The place of the principal, general Supervisor, and other special supervisors in an adequate plan for supervision. Emphasis upon pupil needs, curriculum problems, and the teaching personnel. Application of well established psychological principles; modern teaching techniques, and comprehensive child accounting practices.

147. History of Education (2-3)
Evolution of educational traditions and practices. Foundations which underlie western civilization and modern school systems.

148. History of Education in the, United States, (3)
Sources and development of modern American educational theory and practice. Understanding and appreciation of educational development and reorganization now in progress.

150. Nursery School Education (2) (See Home Ec. 150)

150F. Field Work in Nursery School Education (1-2) (See Home Ec. 150F)

151. Education for Citizenship (2)
Problems of citizenship by means of interviews, lectures by community leaders, field trips to community institutions and activities, discussions resulting from trips, studies by students of community problems and government and of literature pertinent to citizenship. Emphasis upon becoming acquainted with American life through direct experience, reading, participation, and group discussion.

152. Educational Sociology (2)
Scope and methods of educational sociology and the part education may play in the solution of social problems. Practice in applying the methods of educational sociology to the classroom, adult education, and other situations.

153. Elementary School Curriculum Development (2)
Technique of curriculum development. Principles, and backgrounds of curriculum, organization for curriculum development, scope, grade placement, selection and teaching of subject matter. Guidance in actual course of study construction.

154. Adult Education (2)
(See Sociology 154)

155. Vocational Education and Guidance (2)
Basic principles, practices, and materials in vocational education and guidance. Place of vocational education and guidance in the educational program. Consideration of vocational and occupational information.

172. Philosophy of Education (2)
The need for and value of building up a philosophy of education to interpret and evaluate educational functions and processes; major philosophies of education with educational applications; biological, psychological, sociological, and historical foundations of education; principles underlying modern education.

173. Secondary Education (2)
Development of secondary education in America, comparison with other systems, objectives of American system, its chief administrative characteristics, curricular and extracurricular features, articulation with other school divisions, types of students served, methods of instruction, guidance, community relationships.

174. Guidance in Secondary Schools (2)
Discovering and meeting needs of secondary school students. Guidance as an integral phase of instruction. Principles, procedures, and techniques in counseling, and in individual and group guidance.

175. Early Childhood Education (3)
Development of young children; methods of teaching in the kindergarten; unification of nursery school, kindergarten and first grade. Prerequisite: Educ. 110.

176. Modern Trends in Education (1-4)
Recent trends in educational objectives; selection, elimination, and revision of curricular materials; cooperation between community agencies and school ; methods of instruction; use of visual, auditory, and other sensory aids to instruction ; psychology of learning; development of personality: educational and vocational guidance; and measurement. May be repeated for a total of four units.

178. Education for the Consumer (1)
Merchandising and advertising practices. Desirable and undesirable qualities, and methods of determining them, in foods, household supplies and appliances, petroleum products and motor cars. Procedures for obtaining good values in purchasing.

190. Special Problems (1-5)
Independent study of approved problems of special interest.

 



GRADUATE COURSES

Education (Educ)

 

239. School Finance and Business Administration (2)
Methods of securing financial support for education; characteristics of a good tax and a good tax system; equitable apportionment of school funds; methods of determining the abilities, efforts, and needs of school districts in the support of education; the school budget; accounting for school funds; analysis of school costs; the school audit; financial statements and reports; salaries of school employees; management of school indebtedness; purchase of school sup- plies; management of school property; federal and state aid to education; general principles of school finance. Lectures, special readings, laboratory work, research projects, reports.

245. City and District School Administration (2)
Principles and practices underlying city and district school administration, district policies, organization for administration and supervision, types of organization, teacher selection and assignment, public relations, adult education, and expansion and building programs. Admission by permission of the instructor.

253. Secondary School Curriculum Development (2)
Foundations of curriculum construction; chief purposes of and trends. in contemporary secondary schools for American democracy; problems in and resources for planning significant secondary school experiences.

280. Organization and Administration of Secondary Education (2)
Problems and procedures in administration of junior and senior high schools.

281. Supervision in Secondary Schools (2)
Problems of improving classroom instruction and learning procedures in the secondary school.


300. Methods and Materials in Secondary Teaching (2)
Psychological and social foundations of methods; instructional aids and resources for teaching in the- student's major field; comparison of newer and traditional practices; classroom organization and management; evaluative techniques. Accompanies Ed. 331. (Refer to 300 course listed in each field not offering a special secondary credential: e.g. English-Speech, Social Science, Biological Sciences, and Physical Sciences.) Prerequisite: provisional approval by Committee on Admission to Teacher Education.

301. Secondary School Methods in Reading (2)
A study of methods and materials for the teaching of both developmental and remedial reading at the secondary school level with special emphasis on procedures applicable by the classroom teacher. Whenever possible the course will be based on existing problems in the classrooms of the teachers enrolled. (Same as English 301.)

331. Observation and Participation in the Teaching
of Biological Sciences in Secondary Schools (2-3)
Directed exercises in observation and participation to prepare for teaching, reveal personality problems, and provide basic experiences for interpreting theories developed in parallel education courses. (Refer to 331 course listed in each field not offering a special secondary credential.) Prerequisite: provisional approval by Committee on Admission to Teacher Education.

332. Directed Teaching in Secondary Schools (4)
Responsible teaching of secondary pupils, achieving fulfillment of certain teacher functions and responsibilities; one each, elementary psychological case study and community survey. (Refer to 332 course listed in each field not offering a special secondary credential.) Prerequisite: full approval by Committee on Admission to Teacher Education.

For methods and professional courses in special departments, see department concerned.

 

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