Special emphasis is given to the development of the communication process, appropriate techniques, and skills. Special emphasis is given to criteria for evaluation, analysis of literary elements, reader response theory, and the use of literature in developing units of study across the curriculum. A study of means to assess classroom conditions and pupil behaviors, and to produce such conditions and behaviors to provide a good learning environment. Special emphasis is given to collaboration with school colleagues, parents, and community agencies to support students' learning and well-being. Special emphasis is given to major epochs such as absolutism, enlightenment, French Revolution and Napoleon, industrialism, nationalism, imperialism, and totalitarianism.
Special emphasis is given to analyses of issues and implications of alternative decisions.
The course includes scholarly presentations in oral and written forms. Special emphasis is given to logic, axioms and applications from groups and non-Euclidean geometry.