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May 15, 2024
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EDSP 2710 - Introduction to Special Education
Designed to be a broad introductory level course in special education for students with little or no background and experience in this area. The course is appropriate for students from various fields that are related to education and for those who are simply interested in and curious about learners who are exceptional. The course will present a brief general overview of learners with exceptional needs along with educational and social issues that surround them. Not for education majors.
Requisites: WARNING: No credit for this course if the following is taken (keeps credit for the following course, as defined by department): EDTE 2010
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Demonstrate a general understanding of services, strategies, settings (continuum of placements), and materials used in the education of learners who have exceptionalities.
- Demonstrate cultural sensitivity to misconceptions, generalizations, and stereotypes regarding people with disabilities as well as the cultural factors that intersect with exceptionality.
- Demonstrate knowledge of etiology/differential characteristics of learners with exceptionalities and the effects on an individual’s life, including interpersonal, social/emotional, intellectual, psychological, and language factors.
- Demonstrate knowledge of terminology relevant to the education of people who are exceptional.
- Outline current and historic foundations, legal issues and mandates, theories, and philosophies of special education as well as overviews of current issues and controversies.
- Use texts effectively, as well as professional journals, media, and other resources and reference materials relevant to persons with exceptionalities.
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