EDUC 440 Educational Psychology
This course is designed to provide the theories and selected topics associated with the field of educational psychology. The major goal of the course will be to explore ways in which the theories relate to the students' personal experience and can be applied to classroom situations. Toward this goal, participants will be asked to reflect upon their own learning and/or teaching experiences, in an effort to help them understand these experiences may concur with or contradict the theories studied and how both will affect them as future teachers. Through reading, discussion, debate, reflection, and research, each student will become more comfortable and confident in their roles as burgeoning educators and learners, and develop a greater appreciation of the complexities of the classroom experience.