In-Person Courses
The classes listed below are offered entirely in-person on the University of Richmond campus. Confirm classroom locations in BannerWeb.
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EDUC 507U Instruction and Assessment in Elementary Science
Course OfferingsDescription
August 25, 2025 through December 13, 2025
Patricia Stohr-Hunt
Monday 4:20 pm - 6:50 pm
CRN: 12202 (section: 1)
Semester hours: 3
Fee: $2,250In person
In-depth examination of fundamental science concepts and subject-specific pedagogy, focusing on Earth, life, and physical sciences, the nature of science and scientific inquiry, the social and cultural significance of science, the relationship of science to technology, and the historical development of scientific concepts and scientific reasoning. Course content emphasizes and integrates state and national standards, problem-solving approaches, curriculum integration strategies, content area literacy, and current research.
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EDUC 510U Concepts and Methods in Elementary Math
Course Offerings
August 25, 2025 through December 13, 2025
Patricia Stohr-Hunt
Tuesday 4:20 pm - 6:50 pm
CRN: 11335 (section: 1)
Semester hours: 3
Fee: $2,250In person
DescriptionAugust 25, 2025 through December 13, 2025
Patricia Stohr-Hunt
Tuesday 4:20 pm - 6:50 pm
CRN: 11335 (section: pd1)
Semester hours: 3
Fee: $800In person. Teachers seeking professional development only.
In-depth examination of fundamental mathematical concepts and subject-specific pedagogy, focusing on whole numbers and their operations, algebraic thinking in the early grades, and measurement. Content emphasizes and integrates state and national standards, problem-solving approaches, use of manipulatives and technology, current research and learning theory.
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EDUC 511U Assessment and Differentiation in Elementary Math
Course OfferingsDescription
August 25, 2025 through December 13, 2025
Allison Brenning
Tuesday 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
CRN: 11336 (section: 1)
Semester hours: 3
Fee: $2,250In person. Off-campus meetings required.
In-depth examination of fundamental mathematical concepts and subject-specific pedagogy, focusing on rational numbers, algebraic thinking, geometry, probability, and statistics. Content emphasizes meeting the needs of struggling students and integrates state and national standards, problem-solving approaches, use of manipulatives and technology, current research, and learning theory. A supervised practical experience using a Response to Intervention (RTI) approach will be incorporated into the course. Emphasis will be placed on using data to make decisions based upon students' needs, monitor progress, and develop individualized mathematical interventions. Note: Field experience required.
PrerequisitesEDUC 510U
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EDUC 523U Introduction to Coaching and Mentoring
Course Offerings
August 25, 2025 through December 13, 2025
Angela Stewart
Monday 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
CRN: 13494 (section: 1)
Semester hours: 3
Fee: $2,250In person
DescriptionAugust 25, 2025 through December 13, 2025
Angela Stewart
Monday 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
CRN: 13494 (section: pd1)
Semester hours: 3
Fee: $800In person. Teachers seeking professional development only.
Participants will build capacity in coaching and mentoring by engaging in authentic conversations and practical application activities with colleagues. The course text and selected readings provide foundational knowledge for practice and reflection on progress through individual and group activities during class and in school settings. Upon completion of the course, participants will have increased confidence and skill in facilitating coaching conversations as well as tools to continue developing themselves in the art of coaching.
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EDUC 526U Assessment, Intervention and Literacy Strategies for Elementary Readers
Course Offerings
August 25, 2025 through December 13, 2025
Tammy Milby
Wednesday 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Christina SaundersCRN: 10471 (section: 1)
Semester hours: 3
Fee: $2,250In person. Off-campus meetings required.
DescriptionAugust 25, 2025 through December 13, 2025
Tammy Milby
Wednesday 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Christina SaundersCRN: 10471 (section: pd1)
Semester hours: 3
Fee: $800In person. Off-campus meetings required. Teachers seeking professional development only.
In-depth examination of reading comprehension, vocabulary development, critical thinking, word study, and writing instruction within elementary classrooms. Exploration across the components of reading of the methods, materials, and assessment tools associated with elementary literacy instruction. Examines assessment tools and learn techniques for meeting the needs of struggling readers. A supervised practical experience will be incorporated into the course. Emphasis is placed on making decisions based upon students' individual needs and critical reflection to improve instructional effectiveness. Analysis of assessment data and use of this information to inform instructional practices including developing reading and writing interventions. Studies effective literacy techniques designed to support diverse learners. Note: Field experience required.
PrerequisitesEDUC 524U
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EDUC 538U Technology-Enhanced 21st Century Teaching and Learning
Course OfferingsDescription
August 25, 2025 through December 13, 2025
Andrew Baker
Monday 4:20 pm - 6:50 pm
CRN: 10567 (section: 1)
Semester hours: 3
Fee: $2,250In person
Instructional design is the systematic and reflective process of translating principles of learning and instruction into plans for instructional materials, activities, information, resources and evaluation (Smith, 1999). This course combines knowledge of learning theory with technology skills to maximize the effectiveness of instructional design. Using hands on learning experiences students will acquire knowledge of instructional methods, digital tools and the principles of design.
PrerequisitesEDUC 542U
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EDUC 542U Curriculum and Instruction in Secondary and Comprehensive Classrooms
Course Offerings
August 25, 2025 through December 13, 2025
Robert Spires
Tuesday 4:20 pm - 6:50 pm
CRN: 10544 (section: 1)
Semester hours: 3
Fee: $2,250In person
DescriptionAugust 25, 2025 through December 13, 2025
Robert Spires
Tuesday 4:20 pm - 6:50 pm
CRN: 10544 (section: pd1)
Semester hours: 3
Fee: $800In person. Teachers seeking professional development only.
Comprehensive introduction to pedagogy to include principles of learning; application of skills in discipline and grade-specific methodology; selection and use of materials; state and national curriculum standards; and evaluation of student performance.
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EDUC 560U Assessment, Intervention and Literacy Strategies for Adolescents
Course OfferingsDescription
August 25, 2025 through December 13, 2025
Kendall Hunt
Wednesday 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
CRN: 11338 (section: 1)
Semester hours: 3
Fee: $2,250In person. Off-campus meetings required at Brookland Middle School.
Investigates reading comprehension, vocabulary development, critical thinking, word study, and writing instruction within the classroom. Study of the methods, materials, and assessment tools associated with elementary and secondary literacy instruction will be explored across the components of reading. Participants will examine assessment tools and learn techniques for meeting the needs of struggling readers. A supervised practical experience will be incorporated into the course. Note: Field experience required.
PrerequisitesEDUC 550U
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EDUC 575U Teaching Internship
Course OfferingsDescription
August 25, 2025 through December 13, 2025
Deborah Napoli
CRN: 10382 (section: 1)
Semester hours: 12
Fee: $7,200In person. Off-campus meetings required.
Direct contact with students in a classroom on a full-time basis for 15 weeks under the direction of a cooperating teacher and a University supervisor. Student assumes full teacher responsibility for all instructional periods and school activities.
PrerequisitesCompletion of all professional studies coursework.
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EDUC 583U Contracted Teacher Internship
Course OfferingsDescription
August 25, 2025 through December 13, 2025
Deborah Napoli
CRN: 11719 (section: 1)
Semester hours: 6
Fee: $4,500In person. Off-campus meetings required.
Culminating clinical experience of teacher preparation for those who participate in the STEP Residency program. Residents spend a full academic year as the teacher-of-record in a partnering school division Title 1 classroom. A specially trained resident coach provides support throughout the school day to two residents placed at the same school site. Students must take two semesters of the Teaching Residency in order to complete the residency program.
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EDUC 585U Capstone Seminar
Course OfferingsDescription
August 25, 2025 through December 13, 2025
Deborah Napoli
Tuesday 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
CRN: 10384 (section: 1)
Semester hours: 1.75
Fee: $1,313In person
This weekly seminar for student teachers provides a forum for discussion and examination of critical issues related to students' teaching responsibilities and competence. Also provides guidance in the preparation of the Teacher Work Sample.
PrerequisitesCompletion of all professional studies coursework.
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EDUC 601U Foundations of Educational Leadership Studies
Course OfferingsDescription
August 25, 2025 through December 13, 2025
Thomas Shields
Wednesday 5:00 pm - 7:40 pm
CRN: 12583 (section: 1)
Semester hours: 3
Fee: $2,250In person
A survey of the fundamental leadership theories and models as they apply to educational leadership. Includes historical and contemporary conceptions, collaborative case study work on current educational leadership approaches, personal reflection and leadership development, and bridging theory and practice in twenty-first century schools.
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EDUC 602U Data for Decision-Making
Course OfferingsDescription
August 25, 2025 through December 13, 2025
Sarah Calveric
Thursday 5:00 pm - 7:40 pm
CRN: 12584 (section: 1)
Semester hours: 3
Fee: $2,250In person. ELPS majors only.
A survey of tools and techniques used in conducting and utilizing assessment data. Includes current research approaches, project design, and data collection. Also included are methods for using data to identify school needs, evaluate personnel, track student performance, and develop strategies for increasing performance as necessary.
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EDUC 603U Leading and Supervising Instruction
Course OfferingsDescription
August 25, 2025 through December 13, 2025
Katherine Cassada
Monday 5:00 pm - 7:40 pm
CRN: 12585 (section: 1)
Semester hours: 3
Fee: $2,250In person. ELPS majors only.
This course will prepare students to effectively oversee instructional practices in their school. These include aligning curriculum and instruction with assessment to achieve high academic success, innovative instructional techniques, strategies for monitoring instruction and providing feedback, and encouraging academic freedom and innovation while respecting benchmarks and standards.
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EDUC 605U School Law and Policy for Ethical Leadership
Course OfferingsDescription
August 25, 2025 through December 13, 2025
Wendell Roberts
Wednesday 5:00 pm - 7:40 pm
CRN: 12586 (section: 1)
Semester hours: 3
Fee: $2,250In person. ELPS majors only.
This course will examine the legal and moral aspects of educational leadership. Includes evolution of school law, major ethical spheres of thought, current trends and school law, and critical thinking and problem-solving strategies. Course will utilize case studies and consider Virginia School Code.
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EDUC 610U Reflective Leadership Seminar I
Course OfferingsDescription
August 25, 2025 through December 13, 2025
Dana Jackson
Monday 5:00 pm - 6:15 pm
CRN: 12589 (section: 1)
Semester hours: 1
Fee: $750In person. ELPS majors only.
Students will apply their coursework to modern education settings and reflect on where and how the lessons and theory from those courses are relevant to working and leading in today's schools. This includes assessing how and where strategies and ideas explored in previous coursework can be infused into school leadership.
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EDUC 611U Reflective Leadership Seminar II
Course OfferingsDescription
August 25, 2025 through December 13, 2025
Dana Jackson
Thursday 5:00 pm - 7:40 pm
CRN: 12590 (section: 1)
Semester hours: 6
Fee: $4,500In person. ELPS majors only.
The second of two required seminars to complete the practicum. Students will continue the reflective process by studying leadership first-hand in a school. Students will spend a minimum of 170 hours in a designated school and regularly report on a series of online reflection prompts addressing various issues affecting educational leadership.
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EDUC 620U Advanced Children's Literature
Course Offerings
August 25, 2025 through December 13, 2025
Tammy Milby
CRN: 13492 (section: 1)
Semester hours: 3
Fee: $2,250In person
DescriptionAugust 25, 2025 through December 13, 2025
Tammy Milby
CRN: 13492 (section: pd1)
Semester hours: 3
Fee: $800In person. Teachers seeking professional development only.
The course provides a survey of children's literature with emphasis on recent trends and evaluative criteria used in selecting books based on school and recreational needs and interests of young readers. Course participants will explore multiple genres, including historical fiction, realistic fiction, fantasy, traditional literature, nonfiction, and multicultural, and ways of integrating these books into curricula.
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EDUC 630U School Technology
Course OfferingsDescription
August 25, 2025 through December 13, 2025
Karen Richardson
Tuesday 5:30 pm - 8:10 pm
CRN: 12587 (section: 1)
Semester hours: 3
Fee: $2,250In person. ELPS majors only.
This course is designed to advance technological literacy for school leaders. This includes running software, using programs to generate and manipulate data, compiling data in order to present it, troubleshooting basic computer challenges, using technology to communicate and collaborate with others, and using technology to support instruction.
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EDUC 635U Strategic Improvement and Effective Communication in Schools
Course OfferingsDescription
August 25, 2025 through December 13, 2025
Stephen Geyer
Thursday 5:00 pm - 7:40 pm
CRN: 12588 (section: 1)
Semester hours: 3
Fee: $2,250In person. ELPS majors only.
Effective leadership demands continuous improvement and effective communication. These two endeavors share an irrefutable connection.This course examines school improvement through the dynamic relationship among the community, the school, and all stakeholders with emphasis on the critical role of effective communication. We will study planning, managing, and then building communication around significant issues in schools. Students will become competent and confident consumers of research to be utilized in school improvement, goal setting, and decision making. We will examine the impact of purposeful, meaningful, well-crafted communication in building trusting relationships with all stakeholders. We will explore the degree to which such strong communication is instrumental to school leaders in finding success throughout the crucial school improvement process.
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ENGL 201U Critical Writing and Research I
Course OfferingsDescription
August 25, 2025 through December 13, 2025
Christopher Alimenti
Tuesday 6:30 pm - 9:15 pm
CRN: 10379 (section: 1)
Semester hours: 3
Fee: $1,794In person
This course focuses on academic writing, critical reading, and research. Throughout the semester, it will require students to write on a range of topics for a variety of purposes and audiences, emphasizing writing as a process. It will also introduce a broad array of texts that are intended to improve students' critical reading skills. Finally, it will include training in research and proper methods of documentation.
PrerequisitesSatisfactory ACCUPLACER score or completion of ENGL 101U with a grade of 'C' or better.
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GEOL 322U The Global Impact of Climate Change
Course OfferingsDescription
August 25, 2025 through December 13, 2025
David Kitchen
Wednesday 6:30 pm - 9:15 pm
CRN: 12607 (section: 1)
Semester hours: 3
Fee: $1,794In person
Rapid climate change is causing an increase in the temperature of the atmosphere and oceans. This is a truly global problem that requires international research and collaboration to resolve. The USA is a major producer of the atmospheric "greenhouse" gases that make a significant contribution to this global "anthropogenic" warming. Students investigate the global environmental impact of anthropogenic climate change, explore the science that explains our observations, and are challenged to find solutions that offset the impact of climate change on poor, marginalized and at-risk communities around the world.
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GEOL 522U Global Impact of Climate Change
Course OfferingsDescription
August 25, 2025 through December 13, 2025
David Kitchen
Wednesday 6:30 pm - 9:15 pm
CRN: 12606 (section: 1)
Semester hours: 3
Fee: $2,250In person
Rapid climate change is causing an increase in the temperature of the atmosphere and oceans. This is a truly global problem that requires international research and collaboration to resolve. The USA is a major producer of the atmospheric "greenhouse" gases that make a significant contribution to this global "anthropogenic" warming. The aim of this course is to introduce students to the global environmental impact of anthropogenic climate change, and to challenge students to think about the possible impact of the way we live in the USA on poor, marginalized and at risk communities around the world.
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HRM 645U Organization Development and Change
Course OfferingsDescription
August 25, 2025 through December 13, 2025
Janet Ann Nelson
Monday 6:30 pm - 9:15 pm
CRN: 13485 (section: 1)
Semester hours: 3
Fee: $2,250In person
Exploration of organizational change, an ongoing reality in today's organizations. Human resource practitioners need to understand the theories and processes of organizational development and change, in addition to having a robust set of resources, tools and personal capabilities to lead and support change in their organizations. This course will focus on building HR practitioner knowledge and capabilities. Therefore, the course will be taught with a mixture of assigned readings, class discussion, case studies, in-class group exercises, and short lectures.
PrerequisitesHRM 531U
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LA 303U Legal Research and Writing I
Course OfferingsDescription
August 25, 2025 through December 13, 2025
Bruce McKechnie
Thursday 6:30 pm - 9:15 pm
CRN: 10475 (section: 1)
Semester hours: 3
Fee: $1,794In person
Introduction to legal research and writing. Understanding of the use of legal terminology, the basics of legal research, and the styles of various legal documents, including exercises in research and writing.
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NPS 501U Understanding the Nonprofit Sector
Course OfferingsDescription
August 25, 2025 through December 13, 2025
Grant Rissler
Tuesday 5:50 pm - 8:30 pm
CRN: 13033 (section: 1)
Semester hours: 3
Fee: $2,250In person
Focuses on the origins, size, scope and composition of the nonprofit sector; operational issues encountered in the management of nonprofits; and the development of strategic solutions to manage and move the sector forward. Topics include theory, public policy, advocacy, management, collaboration, culture, strategy and innovation.
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NPS 530U Law, Ethics and Governance
Course OfferingsDescription
August 25, 2025 through December 13, 2025
Charles Schmidt
Thursday 5:50 pm - 8:30 pm
CRN: 10743 (section: 1)
Semester hours: 3
Fee: $2,250In person
Examines legal and ethical issues as they apply to nonprofit organizations.
PrerequisitesNPS 501U
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NPS 540U Resource Development and Promotion
Course OfferingsDescription
August 25, 2025 through December 13, 2025
Abbi Haggerty
Wednesday 5:50 pm - 8:30 pm
CRN: 10896 (section: 1)
Semester hours: 3
Fee: $2,250In person
Provides a comprehensive examination of all major components of marketing strategy and their integration to build awareness of the nonprofit services and support for fundraising. Examines the policies, concepts and methods of marketing communication and fundraising including major gifts, annual giving, planned giving, comprehensive campaigns, stewardship and strategy.
PrerequisitesNPS 501U
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NPS 571U Social Entrepreneurship
Course OfferingsDescription
August 25, 2025 through December 13, 2025
Kelly Merrill
Monday 5:50 pm - 8:30 pm
CRN: 13480 (section: 1)
Semester hours: 3
Fee: $2,250In person
Interdisciplinary exploration of the field of social entrepreneurship and the structures used by social entrepreneurs to affect change.
PrerequisitesNPS 501U
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NPS 590U Integrative Seminar
Course OfferingsDescription
August 25, 2025 through December 13, 2025
Rachel Reynolds
Wednesday 5:50 pm - 8:30 pm
CRN: 10811 (section: 1)
Semester hours: 3
Fee: $2,250In person
Integrative seminar with community-based learning project (or critical issues facing nonprofits). This course integrates the skills and knowledge obtained within the curriculum.
PrerequisitesNPS 501U and NPS 520U