University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Curriculum Proposal Form #4A
Change in an Existing Course
Type of Action (check all that apply)
Course Revision (include course description & former and new syllabus)
Contact Hour Change and or Credit Change
Diversity Option
General Education Option
area: Select one: *
Grade Basis
Repeatability Change
Other:
* Note:
For the Gen Ed option, the proposal should address how this course relates to specific core courses, meets the goals of General
Education in providing breadth, and incorporates scholarship in the appropriate field relating to women and gender.
Effective Term: 2143 (Summer 2014)
Current Course Number (subject area and 3-digit course number): SPECED 785
Current Course Title:
Topics in Special Education: Pre-Institute
Sponsor(s):
Amy Stevens Griffith
Department(s):
Special Education
College(s):
Education
List all programs that are affected by this change:
None
If programs are listed above, will this change affect the Catalog and Advising Reports for those
programs? If so, have Form 2's been submitted for each of those programs?
(Form 2 is necessary to provide updates to the Catalog and Advising Reports)
NA
Yes
Proposal Information:
I.
They will be submitted in the future
(Procedures for form #4A)
Detailed explanation of changes (use FROM/TO format)
FROM: Number of times the course may be taken for credit-3
TO: Number of times the course may be taken for credit- unlimited
II.
Justification for action
The Summer Institute Series was created to bring ongoing professional development to UWW
education graduate students and teachers within driving vicinity of UWW. There are a number
of licensed teachers in the vicinity of UWW that use the Summer Institute series as a primary
source of professional development and meeting requirements for continued licensure. The topic
for the Institute Series is chosen by the Department of Special Education in response to research
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and policy in the field of special education. The topic changes every year as do instructors.
Participants will never get the same course content more than once.
III.
Syllabus/outline (if course revision, include former syllabus and new syllabus)
Topics by years prior:
2013 Educational Technology
2012 Prevention of Bullying
2011 Positive Behavioral Intervention and Support (PBIS)
2010 Co-Teaching
2009 Response to Intervention
2008 Self-Determination
2007 Special Education Law
2006 Poverty
2005 Literacy
2004 Autism
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