SNE4200 – Education for Learners with Special Needs

Schedule, syllabus and examination date

Course content

This course is compulsory for students registered on the Special Needs Education Programme.

The course runs together with SNE3200 – Education for Learners with Special Needs

Areas of study include:

  • Innovation in special and inclusive education.
  • The process of planning, implementing and evaluation of individual and environmental conditions for learning.
  • Individual educational planning related to different impairments and/or disabilities in
    • cognition, speech and language
    • reading and numeracy
    • sensory functions (vision and hearing)
    • movement related functions and specific health conditions
    • psychosocial functioning
    • mental impairment

Learning outcome

Knowledge:

The course aims to enable students to understand

  • the complexity of learning conditions, with a focus on the interaction between context and individual conditions.
  • individual conditions for learning development related to different impairments and/or disabilities.

Skills:

The students shall acquire skills in planning, implementing, evaluating education plans for learners with disabilities in an inclusive setting.

Competence:

After having completed the course, the students should be able to understand the principles of inclusive education and implement innovation in practice.

Admission to the course

Students who are admitted to study programmes at UiO must each semester register which courses and exams they wish to sign up for in Studentweb.

If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures.

This course is also open for international exchange students at Master`s level with a relevant Bachelor`s degree or equivalent.

Number of places for programme students: approximately 20

Number of places for exchange students: approximately 15

Suitability assessment:

All teaching in special needs education are covered by the Norwegian regulations relating to suitability assessment in higher education.

In special cases, a report of concern/doubt can lead to exclusion from the study. See information about suitability assessments at the Department of Special Needs Education

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