List Of Courses Offered In Montfort Special Needs Education College MSNEC
Diploma In Special Needs Education
Curriculum
Student teachers will take common and specialisation courses simultaneously. The common courses are grouped into Foundation studies (FS) and General Studies (GS) while the specialisation courses are divided into three groups of subject areas namely: Hearing impairment (HI), Learning Difficulties (LD) and Visual Impairment (VI). Teaching Practice (TP) will be conducted after studying the common and specialisation courses. Table 1outlines the course combination and Semesterisation of the five Curriculum subject areas.
Course Combination and Semesterisation in the Five Subject Areas
Subject areas |
SEMESTERISATION |
Total |
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YEAR ONE |
YEAR TWO |
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First semester | Second semester | First semester | Second semester | ||
Foundation Studies |
1 |
2 |
3 |
2 |
8 |
General Studies |
1 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
5 |
Hearing Impairment |
3 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
7 |
Learning Difficulties |
3 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
7 |
Visual Impairment |
3 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
7 |
Teaching Practice |
1 |
1 |
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Total |
11 |
9 |
7 |
7 |
35 |
Common Courses
There are a total of 13 common courses of which 8 are Foundation Study (FS) Courses and 5 are General Study (GS) Courses (Table 1). Foundation Study Courses include: Introduction to Special Needs Education, Special Needs Education Related Services, Inclusive Education, Psychology of Exceptional children, Sociology of Exceptional Children, Early Childhood Special Needs Education, Assessment and Curriculum Adaptation in Special Needs Education and Teaching Methodologies. The General Study Courses include: Academic Writing, Research in Special Needs Education, Information and communication Technology, Life Skills Education, and Instructional Technology.
Specialisation Courses
There are 7 specialisation courses for each of the three specialisation subject areas (table 1).Outlined below is a list of courses for each subject area:
Hearing Impairment:
Anatomy and Physiology of the Ear, Phonetics and Speech, Didactics of Teaching, Pathology of the Ear, Audiometry, Aural Rehabilitation, and Electro Acoustics.
Visual Impairment:
Braille Language, Ophthalmology, Orientation and Mobility, Braille Mathematics, Computation, Vision Assessment, and Activities of Daily Living.
Learning Difficulties: Anatomy and Physiology of the Nervous System, Physical and Health Impairments, Emotional and Behavioural Management, Specific Learning Disabilities, Intellectual Disabilities, Communication Difficulties, and Education of the Gifted and Talented.
Semesterisation, Course combination and Course Coding
Course Combination
The diploma programme courses are designed to be taught in 4 semesters in two years. The programme will cover 20 courses in 4 semesters with an average of 5 courses per semester (table 1 and table 2). Each student teacher therefore will be required to complete 20 courses of which 8 will be foundation courses, 5 general courses while 7 will be specialisation courses. Table 2 below shows a matrix of the subject combination for the two year period.
Table 2: Course combination Matrix for SNE Diploma Course
Semester |
FS |
GS |
HI/LD/VI |
Total |
|
Year One |
First |
1 |
1 |
3 |
5 |
Second |
2 |
1 |
2 |
5 |
|
Year Two |
First |
3 |
1 |
1 |
5 |
Second |
2 |
2 |
1 |
5 |
|
|
Total |
8 |
5 |
7 |
20 |
Target groups and study route
There will be three groups of specialty areas where student teachers will specialise in hearing impairment, learning difficulties and visual impairment. The course has also been designed to target two groups of teachers. These two groups of teachers will take different routes of study, conventional and distance learning modes, but in the end they will all graduate together in the second year.
Course coding
All courses are coded using five elements (see table 3). The first two elements are letters while the last three are numerals. The two letters represent abbreviations for the subject areas: FS for Foundation Studies, GS for General Studies, HI for Hearing Impairment, LD for Learning Difficulties and VI for Visual Impairment. The three numerals are serial numbers which also represents the years of study. The courses with 100 are for the first year while those with 200 are courses which are covered in the second year.
The table below shows how subjects will be taught for each semester for a period of two years.
Programme Outline and Semesterisation
Year 1
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Year 2 |
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Semester 1 | Semester 2 | Semester 1 | Semester 2 |
Common Courses
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FS101: Introduction to Special Needs Education | FS 103: Psychology of Exceptional Learners | GS 201: Research in Special Needs Education | GS 202: Life Skills Education |
GS 101: Academic Writing | FS 105: Early Childhood Special Education | FS 201: Sociology of Exceptional Learners | GS 203Instructional and Assistive Technology |
GS 102: Information & Communication Technology | FS 202:Assessment & Curriculum Adaptation | FS 204: Inclusive Education | |
FS 203:Teaching Methodologies | FS 205: Special Needs Education Related Services | ||
Hearing Impairment Courses
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HI 101: Anatomy & Physiology of the Ear | HI 104: Pathology of the Ear | HI 201: Aural Rehabilitation | HI 202: Electro Acoustics |
HI 102: Phonetics and Speech | HI 105: Audiometry | ||
HI 103: Didactics of Teaching | |||
Visual impairments Courses
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VI 101: Braille Language | VI 104: Braille – Mathematics and Science | VI 201:Vision Assessment | VI 202: Activities of Daily Living Skills |
VI 102: Ophthalmology | VI 105: Computation | ||
VI 103: Orientation and Mobility |
Learning Difficulties Courses
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LD 101: Anatomy and Physiology of the Nervous System | LD 104: Specific Learning Disabilities | LD 201: Communication Difficulties | LD 202: Education of the Gifted and Talented |
LD 102: Physical and Health Impairments | LD 105:Intellectual Disabilities | ||
LD 103: Behavioral Management |
Key:
FS: Foundations of Special Needs Education
GS: General Studies in Special Needs Education
HI: Hearing Impairment
LD: Learning Difficulties
VI: Visual Impairment