Undergraduate Certificate in Instructional Design and Delivery

This course is designed to focus on communications within the workplace, personal relationships, and family life in order to establish and maintain healthy interpersonal relationships. Topics will include issues such as anger, deception, jealousy, insecurity, sexual harassment and other barriers to effective communication. This course serves as an introduction to major theories and empirical research regarding the role of interpersonal communication as it relates to personal, contextual, and cultural variables in the development of various types of relationships.

This course provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to establish a classroom learning community in which they can organize and conduct effective instruction, and in which their students can be challenged and highly involved in the learning activities. Successful classrooms exist because teachers have clear ideas about the most effective classroom conditions and student behaviors necessary for a healthy and intellectually stimulating learning environment. Course content will focus on the differences between teacher-centered and learning-centered activities, as well as addressing the needs of both the traditional and online learning environments.

This course provides students with a foundation and perspective on the nature of adult learning, particularly adult learning across the human life cycle. Students will examine the ideas of learning theorists and practitioners from the fields of education and address the relationship between theories of adult learning and teaching methods in applied settings. Students also address learning methods used by adults in everyday life and the incorporation of such natural methods into a concept of “lifelong learning” for adults.

This course focuses on the knowledge and skills necessary for the effective development of curriculum materials and the organization and implementation of those materials as a learning program with students. Students will address the leading theories and concepts of contemporary curriculum design as advocated by its leading scholars and practitioners.

This course is a study of the theory, concepts, and practices of learning measurement and evaluation in instructional settings. Course topics include reliability theory, test and evaluation development, validation, and assessment.

This course examines basic learning processes within the context of classical, instrumental, and operant learning situations. Course content focuses on classical conditioning, instrumental learning, principles of reinforcement, punishment and avoidance conditioning, stimulus generalization and discrimination, retention and forgetting, nature and functioning of memory, and learning and performance of motor skills.