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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) Grade Basis

Contact Hour Change and or Credit Change Repeatability Change

Diversity Option Other:

General Education Option

area: Select one:GAGEGHGLGIGMGPGS *

* 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: {Select from drop down list}2123 (Summer 2012)2127 (Fall 2012)2130 (Winterim 2013)2131 (Spring 2013)2133 (Summer 2013)2137 (Fall 2013)2140 (Winterim 2014 )2141 (Spring 2014)2143 (Summer 2014)2147 (Fall 2014)2150 (Winterim 2015)2151 (Spring 2015)2153 (Summer 2015)2157 (Fall 2015)2160 (Winterim 2016)2161 (Spring 2016)2163 (Summer 2016)2167 (Fall 2016)2170 (Winterim 2017)2171 (Spring 2017)2173 (Summer 2017)2177 (Fall 2017)2180 (Winterim 2018)2181 (Spring 2018)

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): {Select from drop down list}Arts and CommunicationsBusiness and EconomicsEducationLetters and SciencesGrad Studies and Cont EdInterdisciplinary

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 They will be submitted in the future

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Proposal Information: (Procedures for form #4A)

I.  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 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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