Summer Special Courses

EDUC 446/EDT 6464 Inclusion in Early Childhood: Practices and Experiences from the American and Israeli Cultures

This course introduces an inclusive, pedagogical framework with a focus on "special rights" in early childhood programs, birth -6, taught in a blended learning environment, including face-face and online instruction between American and Israeli participants.

Participants will examine inclusion of children with special rights through a Universal Design of Learning Framework, experience inclusive models within the US and Israel, and collaborate with early childhood, special educators, and families through interaction with educators and students from Ornamin College in Israel and The Ohio State University. Course is sponsored by the Global Learning Partnership to facilitate an interactive dialogic collaboration.

Participants: Junior and Senior Level; Graduate Students. (Course may be counted as an elective for the Walsh University MAED Program.)

Credits: 3
Dates: May 6-30
Days: Monday & Thursday
Time: 4:30-8 p.m.
Tuition: $250 per credit

ENG 401 Capstone Seminar in American Authors Frost, Stevens, and Carruth: Modern and Postmodern Poets of New England

Dr. John Kandl
This seminar will engage students in a profoundly exciting selection of the poetry of three major American poets: Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, and Hayden Carruth. Through discussion and close-reading, we will explore ways these poets present a modernist sensibility, extending and reacting against earlier 19th-century traditions, as well as ways they point forward to and help shape the postmodern. Considering the significance of these poets in American literary history, we will also explore their engagement with a New England literary heritage, tracing, for instance, ways they incorporate, critique, or reject the legacies of transcendentalism, self-reliance, nature-writing, puritan ethics, etc. We will also note ways they both embrace and sometimes seek to escape the regional connections in their work.