EDU 563 - Advanced Topics in Special Education, 3 credit hours

Notes: Required of all Mild/Moderate Educational Needs candidates.

Prerequisite(s): EDU 573
This course provides the Master’s candidate an opportunity to critically analyze and evaluate contemporary issues impacting the field of Special Education. The proponents of issues will be discussed as well as potential explanations of their opinions. The issues will be discussed by considering their impact on student, parent, general and special educator, public school systems, and government. Discussions will consider present and future effects upon Special Education. Students will be conversant in pressing issues of Special Education and able to coherently relate these issues to colleagues. The course will help prepare the graduate student as a leader in the field.