Simon Fraser University

This minor enhances understanding of learning disabilities, and provides competence in identification and non-clinical treatment of learning disabilities.

Requirements effective September 2007

This minor enhances understanding of learning and developmental disabilities, and explores an interdisciplinary approach to the health, education and care of infants, children and adults with disabilities.

Lower Division Requirements

 

Students must complete one of:

  • EDUC 220-3 Introduction to Education Psychology
  • PSYC 250-3 Introduction to Developmental Psychology

Recommended Lower Division Courses

It is strongly recommended that minor program students complete at least one of the following.

  • LING 220-3 Introduction to Linguistics
  • PSYC 221-3 Introduction to Cognitive Psychology

Upper Division Requirements

Students must complete a minimum of 15 credit hours as specified below.

  • EDUC 422-4 Learning Disabilities
  • EDUC 424-4 Learning Disabilities: Laboratory

plus one of:

  • EDUC 315-3 Individual and Developmental Differences in Language Acquisition
  • EDUC 473-4 Designs for Learning: Reading

plus one of:

  • EDUC 426-4 Teaching Children and Youth with Special Needs
  • EDUC 427-4 Teaching Children with Special Needs in Inclusive Classrooms
  • EDUC 428-4 Nature and Nurture of Gifted Students
  • EDUC 475-4 Designs for Learning: Elementary Mathematics
  • PSYC 354-4 Development of Children’s Thinking
  • PSYC 355-3 Adolescent Development
  • PSYC 356-3 Developmental Psychopathology
  • PSYC 491-3 Developmental Disabilities

Requirements prior to September 2007

Lower Division Requirements

  • EDUC 220-3 Introduction to Educational Psychology

Recommended Lower Division Courses

It is strongly recommended that minor program students complete at least one of the following.
  • KIN 110-3 Human Nutrition: Current Issues
  • PSYC 100-3 Introductory Psychology I
  • PSYC 102-3 Introduction to Psychology II
  • PSYC 221-3 Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
  • PSYC 250-3 Introduction to Developmental Psychology

Upper Division Requirements

Students must complete a minimum of 14 credits as specified below:
  • EDUC 422-4 Learning Disabilities
  • EDUC 424-4 Learning Disabilities: Laboratory
plus one of
  • EDUC 320-3 Instructional Psychology
  • EDUC 473-4 Designs for Learning: Reading
plus one of
  • EDUC 326-3 Classroom Management and Discipline
  • EDUC 367-4 Teaching Children from Minority Language Backgrounds in Elementary Classrooms
  • EDUC 428-4 Nature and Nurture of Gifted Students
  • EDUC 467-4 Curriculum and Instruction in Teaching English as a Second Language
  • EDUC 475-4 Designs for Learning: Mathematics
  • PSYC 325-3 Memory and Mind
  • PSYC 355-3 Adolescent Development

For more information contact the Undergraduate Advising Office, 8631 Education Building, (778) 782-3436.



Last Updated November 9, 2009 FOE