SPED at Fairfield University

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate SPED coursework.

• SPED 4534Skill Development for Individualized Educational Plansopens 2 courses (2 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate SPED work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 23 SPED and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 25 more SPED courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in SPED. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 3 courses deep, ending at SPED 4537

  1. EDUC 2201Explorations in Education
  2. SPED 4534Skill Development for Individualized Educational Plans
  3. SPED 4537Curriculum and Methods for Diverse Learners

• 2 courses deep, ending at SPED 6565

  1. EDUC 3350Special Learners in the Mainstream
  2. SPED 6565Evidence-Based Strategies in the Inclusive Classroom

• 2 courses deep, ending at SPED 6954

  1. SPED 6953Student Teaching in Special Education
  2. SPED 6954Student Teaching/DSAP Seminar in Special Education

• 2 courses deep, ending at SPED 6999

  1. SPED 5410Autism Spectrum Disorders: Theories and Interventions
  2. SPED 6999Comprehensive Examination in Special Education

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for SPED yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under SPED yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

SPED does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Fairfield campus feed.