Graduate
Course Offerings
Summer '12
Number in parentheses refers to credit hours.
Note: Course listings may be changed pending updates by individual departments.
Business Administration
ACG 5026
Financial Reporting and Managerial Control (3)
This course provides a basic understanding of accounting systems and financial statements as a foundation for analysis. The course also addresses cost systems and controls as they pertain to organizational control.
BUL 5810
The Legal and Ethical Environment of Business (3)
Will create an awareness of the laws and of the legal, political, and social institutions which impact upon business activity. Will emphasize public law and governmental regulation. Landmark legislation and judicial decisions will be examined.
FIN 5425
Problems in Financial Management (3)
An advanced case course including in-depth study of selected topics such as valuation theory and the investment, financing, and dividend decisions of the firm.
MAN 5245
Organizational Behavior (3)
A dynamic examination of managerial concepts of human behavior in work organizations.
MAN 5501
Operations Management (3)
Develops a conceptual framework which is useful in describing the nature of the operations function, with emphasis on identifying basic issues in managing the operations of a service organization.
MAN 5716
Business Conditions Analysis (3)
Problems of managing the firm in relation to the changing economic environment. Analysis of major business fluctuations and development of forecasting techniques.
MAR 5125
Marketing Strategy in the Global Environment (3)
Strategy applied to planning, analysis and control; emphasis on individual situation analysis involving consumer needs, market position, competition and public policy environment. Also, introductory level graduate survey of international business. Concepts of international economics blended with the marketing of goods and services in international markets. Current international events discussed.
MAR 5409
Business-to-Business Sales and Marketing (3)
This course focuses on building and managing relationships with business customers. It will cover business-to-business management issues, with an emphasis on topics at the mid-to-upper management level. Specific strategic marketing issues include problems and opportunities that leverage an understanding of the entire supply chain. Sales will deal primarily with complex, large/key account management and customer relations. Sales management issues will concentrate on managing a sales force focused on complex accounts.
MAR 5465
Purchasing and Supply Chain Management (3)
This course analyzes functions involved and variables needed to control flow of materials; emphasis is on economic environment for materials acquisition and allocation.
MAR 5935
Global Business Seminar (3)
This course is an in-depth study of current topics in marketing. May be repeated to a maximum of three times as topics vary.
REE 5305
Real Estate Investment (3)
This course introduces students to the procedures and analytical methods used to evaluate real estate markets and project-specific investments. The coures focuses on the topic of real estate investment analysis primarily from the private (equity) investor's perspective.
Civil & Environmental Engineering
CEG5115
Foundation Engineering 
(3)
Prerequisite: CEG 5115.
This course will explore the design of spread footings, pole and caisson foundations, retaining structures and waterfront structures. Slope stability will also be investigated.
ENV5105
Air Pollution Control (3)
Prerequisite: ENV 4001.
This course investigates analytical concepts for determination of sources, amounts, and transport of air pollutants; health and environmental effects; design of control devices and management programs.
Coaching
APK 5121
Sport and Exercise Psychology for Coaches (3)
This is a graduate level introductory course in sport psychology designed specifically for coaches. It presents the fundamental theoretical and practical knowledge needed in coaching of various sports. The focus is on critical thinking and application of scientific findings in coaching.
PET5235
Motor Learning for Coaches (3)
This course is to teach coaches the processes underlying the learning and performance of all kinds of movements. The course will teach the student how humans learn skilled actions and how the principles of motor performance and learning can be useful in coaching their particular sport.
Communication Disorders
SPA 5009
Language Development and Disorders (3)
This course provides an overview of the fundamental bases of language development and their disorders.
SPA 5033
Clinical Audiology (3)
Language Development and Disorders (3)
This course introduces the field and practice of audiology as a prerequisite to graduate studies in Communication Sciences and Disorders or as a supplement to studies in related fields.
SPA 5211
Voice Disorders (3)
This is an advanced course concerned with etiology, symptoms, and remediation of a variety of organic voice disorders.
SPA 5225
Fluency Disorders (3)
This course emphasizes theories of treatment of stuttering disorders, various therapeutic approaches.
SPA 5505
Advanced Clinical Practicum (2)
This course provides students with the opportunity to build and practice more advanced clinical skills as they continue their clinical rotations.
SPA 5526L
Child Diagnostics Lab (1)
This course provides completion of formal and informal evaluation procedures with children who have speech and/or language disorders.
SPA 5528L
Adult Diagnostics Lab (1)
This course provides completion of formal and informal evaluation procedures with adults who have speech and/or language disorders.
SPA 5553
Differential Diagnostics (2)
This course is a discussion of formal and informal assessment of a variety of speech and language disorders. Content discussed relates to people evaluated during accompanying laboratory.
SPA 5942
Community Clinical Practicum (2)
This clinical practicum provides students with supervised experiences in a variety of community-based settings.
SPA 5944
Internship (6)
This course provides intensive practical experience in the diagnosis and/or treatment of persons with speech-language and hearing disorders in service oriented professional settings under the close supervision of persons who have clinical certification from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
SPA 6930
Special Seminar: Needs of Young Children & Families with Multiple Needs (6)
Criminology & Criminal Justice
CCJ 5285
Survey of Criminal Justice Theory and Research (3)
An overview of the theoretical issues and research on the law and legal control of deviance in society.
CCJ 5636
Comparative Criminology and Criminal Justice (3)
This course offers a comparative analysis of crime issues worldwide and reviews criminal justice system responses to both localized and transnational crime.
CCJ 6920
Juvenile Delinquency (3)
Contents will vary as instructors present different developments, problems, and controversies. May be repeated to a maximum of nine semester hours as content varies. This seminar focuses on juvenile delinquency.
Educational Leadership & Policy Studies
CGS 5310
Technology and Communication in Education (3)
This course explores information and communication technologies for the management of administrative and instructional programs in educational systems, enhancement of community relations, and application of effective communication techniques, tools, and methodologies.
EDA 5191
Leadership for Diversity (3)
EDA 5192
Educational Leadership (3)
Identification of basic leadership theories, motivation, group dynamics, planning, and change processes in educational settings.
EDA 5219
Human and Fiscal Resources in Education (3)
This course examines public education as an economic institution, emphasizing the relationship between the purposes of schooling and the human and fiscal-resource allocation role of the principal. Issues involving recruitment, selection, retention of school personnel, and collective bargaining are examined as they relate to state and federal law.
EDA 5232
Legal Aspects of Public School Administration (3)
A survey of legal issues involving public schools, including the rights and responsibilities of students and teachers, risk management in the school setting, powers of local boards and superintendents, legal liability and accountability, and documentation and evaluation. Students review case law, state and federal statutes, constitutional provisions, and regulatory standards.
EDA 5423
Decision-Oriented Educational Research (3)
This course builds expertise in using data for a variety of school-improvement purposes, including instructional decision-making in grades K-12. Collaborative action-research skills are developed to solve school-based problems.
EDA 5503
The Principalship (3)
This course provides a systemic approach to leadership and management roles, responsibilities, opportunities, and challenges of school principals.
EDA 5504
Instructional Leadership (3)
This course examines the ways that school leaders bring multiple resources to focus on curriculum, instruction, and academic achievement. It focuses on how strong instructional leadership is achieved, how school leaders promote and sustain instructional leadership, and what factors undermine instructional leadership.
EDA 5945
Practicum In Educational Leadership I (3)
Under the guidance of an expert in the field, this course applies experiential learning and mentoring in a school context. Particular attention is paid to issues of diversity, decision-making, and effective communication.
EDF 5461
Introduction to Program Evaluation (3)
Overview of current evaluation theory and models; emphasis on role evaluation in needs assessment and planning phase of program development.
EDF 5887
Multicultural Education (3)
Prerequisite: graduate standing.
This course offers an introduction to the history and philosophy of educational policies and practices that respond to the realities of cultural diversity in the United States and abroad.
EDG 5250
Curriculum & Instruction (3)
This course provides the student with an in-depth view of curriculum and instruction as well as a knowledge base for planning, designing, organizing, and implementing an effective instructional program.
Emergency Management
PAD 5376
Introduction to Terrorism (3)
This course is designed to introduce students to the fundamental concepts, theories, principles, and practices of terrorism and terrorist events.
PAD 5397
Foundations in Emergency Management (3)
The Foundations course serves to introduce the student to the core principles of Emergency Management. Topics include the history and development of the field, planning, media, incident command, hazards, and the four phases of emergency management.
PAD 5398
Emergency Management Programs, Planning, and Policy (3)
The Planning and Policy course is an expanded look at all types of emergency management planning, program and policy development.
PAD 5835
International Comparative Emergency Management (3)
Recent data reflects growing trends in physical, social and economic impacts of disaster events. This course will discuss practical and theoretical issues associated with international disaster management.
PAD 5935
Public Health Emergency Management (3)
PAD 5935
Disaster Dollars (3)
This course is intended to provide you with an introduction to disaster risk, as well as with the various ways that we find ways to deal with that risk.
Event Management
LEI 5563
Event Marketing (3)
This is an advanced course in event marketing that focuses on the components required for development of marketing plans for the various venues in the special events industry, including sponsorship acquisition.
LEI 5942
Practicum in Events Management (3)
Prerequisites: LEI 5316, 5317, 5563.
This course provides students with an opportunity to apply knowledge, skills, and attitudes developed during their academic preparation. It is also aimed at helping students gain valuable experience in management of events. Students complete a minimum of 150 hours over an extended period of time, but not less than twelve (12) weeks.
Higher Education
EDH 5042
Student Success in College (3)
This class is examines the theories and research on student success and explores effective policies, programs, and practices that can be adopted to promote student success in higher education.
EDH 5055
Introduction to Institutional Research (3)
This course provides an introduction to institutional research as discipline in higher education. Course content is addressed within the context of organizational, administrative, political and ethical issues in institutional research. Practical experience with research databases and insights from currents practitioners in the field are integrated into the course content.
EDH 5645
Data Driven Decision Making for Institutional Researchers (3)
This course provides an introduction to the theoretical and practical application of data-driven decision making for institutional researchers. This course focuses on how to collect, analyze, review, and present data and information to decision makers.
Instructional Systems
EDF 5431
Classroom Assessment (3)
This course prepares prospective teachers for activities related to assessing students including establishing validity evidence, enhancing generalization of observing, using traditional and alternative assessment strategies, interpreting and using data to improve achievement, and utilizing assessment in the process of learning.
EDP 5935
Topics In Educational Psychology (3)
This course surveys major theories with respect to students' learning, motivation, individual differences in abilities, and development of cognitive and social skills as they apply to instructional decision making. The course components enable students to put research into practice and balance theoretical and practical perspectives of students' learning and teachers' practices.
EME 5608
Instructional Design (3)
What are the latest trends in the field of instructional technology? How do people design instructional programs today? What are some of the trends likely to affect the field in the future? This course will address the answers to those questions.
EME 6403
Designing Collaborative Learning Online (3)
In this course the student will work in groups to learn, explore, and apply some of the latest web technologies, research findings, principles, and instructional design techniques to design and develop collaborative learning activities and assignments in on-line environments. Through intense and direct hands-on experience, the student will learn and work collaboratively in both small and large groups throughout the course using video/audio desktop conferencing, Google Site web pages and widgets, Twitter, on-line spreadsheets and presentations with Google docs, Diigo web-annotation tools, collaborative diagrams with Gliffy, and YouTube's video annotation tools. Working in groups, the student will also design and conduct user tests on the group activities developed in the course to explore and learn how best to integrate one or more technologies to support specific group tasks and learning outcomes.
EME 6414
Web 2.0 Learning & Performance (3)
This course focuses on how the widespread use of social networking/media have influenced learning and human performance. Additionally, the course covers how instructional learning experiences and performance supports might be designed to take advantage of participatory culture.
Library and Information Studies
LIS 5020
Foundations of the Information Professions (3)
This course provides background information about the information profession and aims to facilitate optimal information management. Topics include librarianship, the disciplines of library-information science (LIS) and of information technology (IT), the organizations and institutions of the information-provision environment, as well as the applications of technology to information provision.
LIS 5241
International and Comparative Information Service (3)
Explores the political economy of information, including those factors which encourage or discourage free exchange of information within and among inhabitants of countries worldwide. The unit of analysis is an individual country in comparison with others chosen from along the spectrum of development. Attention is given to the legal, economic, and infrastructural conditions from a culturally sensitive point of view. Practical preparation for work abroad is provided.
LIS 5271
Research in Information Studies (3)
Examines the principles and methods of systems analysis and research in the context of library and information studies. Considers problem identification and definition and techniques of data collection and analysis, including statistical analysis. The course also discusses typical problems studied.
LIS 5362
Design and Production of Network Multimedia (3)
Examines the theory, concepts and techniques for designing, producing, and evaluating network multimedia resources to meet specific information needs. Students engage in collaborative design projects applying theoretical constructs from communication, education, engineering, graphic design, and information science to the provision of resources using emerging multimedia network technologies.
LIS 5408
Management of Information Organizations (3)
Designed to develop a conceptual framework for integrating fundamental management concepts, principles, theories, and practices into an effective, personal management process that relates to information organizations of the 21st century.
LIS 5411
Introduction to Information Policy (3)
Examines selected fundamental policy questions relating to information use, access, and dissemination. Particular attention is given to complex policy issues that involve value conflicts among information ownership rights, personal privacy rights, and public access rights to information in a societal context.
LIS 5441
Leadership in Reading (3)
This course focuses on the knowledge and skills necessary for informational professionals to provide collaborative leadership in reading across the K-12 spectrum. Special emphasis is placed on how reading for achievement and reading motivation, a traditional focus of the information professional, can be successfully reconciled as essential components of information literacy.
LIS 5528
Storytelling (3)
This course provides instruction for the practice and application of the oral tradition of storytelling. The overall intent of the course is to faciliate the oral tradition of storytelling within Library and Information Studies (LIS).
LIS 5564
Information Needs of Children (3)
Materials for children in relation to their needs, interests and abilities. Evaluation and use of printed and audiovisual materials.
LIS 5566
Multicultural Literature and Information Resources for Children and Young Adults (3)
Course identifies and evaluates multicultural literature and information resources for children and young adults in relation to ethnicity and culture of ethnic minorities in the United States. Students will locate, access, read, evaluate, and develop strategies to use multicultural literature and other resources to meet information needs of children and young adults.
LIS 5603
Introduction to Information Services (3)
Introduction to reference work using both print and online sources. Also addresses the relationship of reference work to other information services in libraries and other information-providing agencies.
LIS 5631
Health Information Sources (3)
A practical introduction to a variety of printed and electronic sources used to locate information in medicine, consumer health, nursing, and alli-ed health. Course material is intended for those interested in medical and consumer health information resources in medical, public or academic libraries where clients need health-related information.
LIS 5703
Information Organization (3)
Establishes the conceptual and theoretical framework for organizing and retrieving information, including the study of systems, their objectives and structure, formats. standards, and vocabularies; and the information object and its relationship to organizing systems and to other information objects.
LIS 5786
Introduction to Information Architecture (3)
Recommended prerequisites: LIS 5362 and LIS 5703. This course provides instruction and learning experiences in the user-centered design of information spaces, especially Web sites. The entire information-architecture process is covered, as follows: determining the user's needs, organizing the information to be presented, and specifying the final design parameters. The culmination of the course is for students to offer a technical solution to a specific information-system need that takes into account social and organizational contexts.
LIS 5916
Introduction to Information Technology (3)
This course takes the consideration of selected topics and issues in information studies not included elsewhere in the curriculum. Credit is, and enrollment may be, determined by the instructor. Different sections may be taken in the same semester. May be repeated to a maximum of twelve semester hours.
LIS 5916
Graphic Novels (3)
A survey of graphic novels, including manga and manhwa, for readers of all ages—children, young adults, and adults. Focuses on issues related to evaluation, collection development, organization, promotion, readers' advisory, programming, intellectual freedom, and the use of graphic novels in school and college classrooms.
LIS 5916
Social Media Management (3)
The purpose of this course is to provide students with experience in social media information management and communication through hands-on work with designing and managing of social media sites.
LIS 5916
Educational Strategies for School Librarians (3)
RED 5337
Supervision & Instruction in Secondary School Reading (3)
Application of the reading process to the secondary school curriculum. Diagnostic procedures and instructional strategies useful in developing school reading programs.
Management Information Systems
ISM 5021
Information & Technology Management (3)
Applied course in concepts and techniques used in the design and implementation of management information systems and decision support systems, with emphasis on management of these systems.
ISM 5428
Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence (3)
This course examines knowledge management and business intelligence from an organizational perspective covering principles of knowledge management and business intelligence. Topics include strategic issues; systems design and development; and knowledge creation, capture, sharing, and application.
Multicultural Marketing
ADV 5605
Account Planning (3)
This course prepares students to connect consumers with advertising and marketing in public relations and other communication fields.
Nursing
NGR 5172
Pharmacology for Advanced Practice (3)
Prerequisites: NGR5102, NGR5135.
This course provides a broad overview of pharmacology using a lifespan approach. Emphasis is placed on facilitating pharmacologic management of patients for advance practice nurses in independent and collaborative practice.
NGR 5800
Methods in Nursing Research (3)
Prerequisite: Admission to the graduate program of the College of Nursing or instructor permission.
This course builds upon the knowledge of the research process learned at the baccalaureate level and focuses on the importance of empirical investigation in the development of nursing theory and the formulation of testable hypotheses in nursing practice. Emphasis is directed to the nurse as consumer and practitioner in the area of research and evidence-based practice.
NGR 5852
Evidence-Based Practice: Appraisal & Application (3)
Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor.
Seminar topics may include advanced technique in critical care nursing, emphasis on special populations, emphasis on specific identified nursing phenomena. May be repeated as topics change to a maximum of nine (9) semester hours.
Project Management
COM 5450
Intro to Project Management (3)
This course covers the processes, tools and techniques for managing projects of any size while preparing students to sit for the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification exam.
COM 5451
Adv Top: Project Management (3)
This course covers the theories of several important project managers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, including Edward Deming, Peter Drucker, Thomas Peters, Eli Goldratt, Philip Crosby and others.
Risk Management/Insurance
RMI 5017
Fundamentals of Risk and Insurance (3)
This course develops concepts such as time value of money, statistical analysis, information technology, and management of risk exposure. Topics include risk fundamentals, risk management, insurer operations, and insurance regulation.
RMI 5087
International Risk Management (3)
This course addresses risk management and insurance from an international perspective.
RMI 5720C
Insurance Accounting & Finance (3)
This course is a survey of accounting and finance, financial statement analysis, and statutory requirements for insurance companies. The course also includes important elements of finance such as coverage of present value and incorporating coverage of expected values and expected rates of return for both individual securities and portfolios of securities.
Social Work
SOW 5125
Psychopathology in Clinical Practice (3)
The course provides an overview of mental health assessment and diagnostic tools, including the Diagnostic Statistical Manual diagnostic categories, and touches on treatment strategies and techniques. Building on the knowledge base acquired in the foundation course SOW 5105, this course examines the relationship between the biological, psychological, social, environmental, and cultural influences and emotional and mental health from ecological context. Particular attention is given to variations in the assessment process and access to treatment for populations at social and economic risk. In addition, students examine the political and social implications of mental health and their relations to social work values and ethics.
SOW 5235
Social Welfare Policy and Programs (3)
This course provides an initial opportunity to investigate the relationships among individual and collective social welfare and public policy in American society from a social work perspective, with emphasis placed on understanding these relationships in terms of social and economic justice.
SOW 5335
Theories and Models of Social Work Research (3)
This class introduces students to a range of theories and models of social work practice within an ecological systems framework. The empirical bases of each theory and model are examined, along with applications to generalist social work practice with various size systems. Attention is given to how theories and models incorporate working with ethnic minorities, women, gays and lesbians, and disabled people.
SOW 5369
Integrative Seminar in Advanced Social Work Practice (3)
Corequisite: SOW 5353.
This course integrates theoretical models and concepts with practice gained in internships. The course utilizes an ecosystems perspective, focusing on the dynamic interaction between the individual, family, communities, organizations, and other social systems. A major focus is on the social worker's role in responding effectively to the challenges of working with these systems and exploring their own personal views of such issues as ethics, gender, ethnic minorities, gays, lesbians, and disabled people.
SOW 5377
Personnel Administration in the Social Services (3)
This course develops students' skills in personnel management in human service organizations to ensure effective service delivery to clients. Attention is given to staff management approaches, staff supervision, employee recruitment and retention, motivation, job design, staff development, and issues of diversity.
SOW 5432
Evaluation of Social Work Practice (3)
Prerequisite: SOW 5404 or equivalent.
In this course, students consider the philosophical and ethical aspects of an evaluative approach to treatment and examine the policy implications of professional participation (or lack thereof) in evaluation processes.
SOW 5532
Graduate Field Instruction I (3)
(S/U grade only.) Prerequisite: SOW 5308.
This course is required for first-year graduate students and taken concurrently with coursework. Students are provided with a supervised generalist social work practice experience in a variety of settings. May be repeated to a maximum of ten semester hours.
SOW 5535
Graduate Field Education II (3)
The purpose of field education is to provide students with structured learning opportunities in agency-based settings, supervised by professionally-trained social workers. Field education allows students to apply knowledge, values, and skills learned in the classroom to social work practice settings.
SOW 5535
Graduate Field Instruction II (3)
SOW 5603
Health Care Settings (3)
This course focuses on social work practice in health settings from a "person-in-environment" perspective, preparing students with an understanding of the roles that social workers play in health settings; the structure of health care delivery systems; organizational and professional ethics and standards; challenges we face in health care policy; patient issues and how to help to address these issues. Specific knowledge and skills in a health care setting are addressed, including biopsychosocial assessments, chart documentation, treatment planning, and discharge planning.
SOW 5611
Family Counseling in Social Work (3)
This course introduces students to various theoretical models of family counseling and presents assessment and intervention strategies and techniques.
SOW 5648
Physical Aspects of Aging (3)
This course covers age and health demographics, as well as attitudes toward aging and health. Topics include basic cellular or molecular theories of aging, how the human body's organ systems typically change over time, pathologies associated with aging, as well as psychological responses to normal and pathological changes.
SOW 5656
Child Welfare Practice (3)
This course is designed to provide a framework of values, knowledge, and skills necessary to practice with vulnerable children and their families. The major focus is on social work in public child welfare agencies and children's mental health agencies.
SOW 5659
Mental Health and Child Welfare (3)
This course provides students with knowledge and skills related to the theory, research, and implications of child and adolescent maltreatment for child development and psychopathology.
SOW 5785
International Social Work and Social Welfare (3)
The course prepares students for international social-work practice and for transnational work with immigrants, refugees, international migrants, etc. It introduces international perspectives in the social-work field and offers varied examples of social-work practice in the U.S., Western and Central European and Caribbean nations.
Special Education
EEX 5017
Typical and Atypical Development (3)
Focuses on typical and atypical development in the early years.
EEX 5087
Middle and Secondary Curriculum for Special Educators (3)
SPEC ED STUDIES SES MAJORS
This course assists participants to develop curricular planning skills for middle and high school students with disabilities. Emphasis is placed on evidence-based instructional strategies.
EEX 5248
Positive Behavior Support (3)
This course provides participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to develop, implement, and evaluate the impact of positive behavior supports in keeping with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 1997. SES ESE and VIS DIS MAJS or with Permission.
EEX 5704
Early Childhood and Elementary Education Curriculum for Special Educators (3)
STE MAJORS
This course provides students with the knowledge and skills to collaborate and team with professionals from a variety of disciplines in the schools and other community agencies, to include family members in the collaboration process, and to support families of children with disabilities throughout the life cycle.
EEX 5774
Transition for Students with Severe Disabilities (3)
PROJECT SEE & SPEC ED STUDIES, ESE & VIS DIS STUDENTS
This course teaches the planning and implementation of appropriate transition services for students with severe and profound disabilities in the schools at the secondary and post-secondary levels.
EEX 8966
MASTERS COMPREH EXAM (0)
(P/F grade only.) Permission of Instructor Req. VIS DIS MAJORS
EMR 5235
Teaching the Student with Profound Disabilities (3)
PROJECT SEE & SPEC ED STUDIES, ESE & VIS DIS STUDENTS
Knowledge and skills to implement and evaluate intervention for students with profound disabilities.
EVI 5227
Health Considerations in Orientation & Mobility (3)
VIS DIS MAJORS
This course teaches future O&M specialists unique and creative strategies for teaching the alternate skills that are necessary for individuals who are blind and have additional disabilities to be safe, efficient travelers. The course also emphasizes how to apply critical thinking and problem solving to conditions not covered specifically in this course, that may arise in one's practice as a professional in the field of visual impairment.
EVI 5325
Technology for Individuals with Visual Impairment (3)
VIS DIS MAJORS TAUGHT WITH EVI5325-01
This course is designed to acquaint students with a variety of electronic hardware and software alternatives that are utilized by individuals with visual impairments to access information in school, home and vocational environments. This course will include lecture, demonstration, peer-teaching and hands-on activities.
EVI 5355
Issues of Blindness in Society (3)
The purpose of this course is to examine the many issues related to being blind in a society predicated on the presumption that people can use vision to manage societal demands. The losses unique to visual impairment are explored and students are provided instructional strategies to assist individuals in living with visual impairment in a world designed for sighted people.
LAE 5867
Enhancing Teaching with Technology (3)
Prerequisite: EME 2040 or equivalent.
This course surveys the issues and uses of technology to improve the teaching and achievement of students in the classroom. Course includes the most current instructional technology methods available to teachers. MoST degree and ENG ED majors.
LAE 5932
Special Topics: Applied Linguistics (3)
Investigations of topics of current concern to English teachers, supervisors, and teacher trainers. May be repeated to a maximum of twelve semester hours. ENG ED Applied Linguistics for English Teachers.
MAE 5865
Using History in the Teaching of Mathematics (3)
The course examines the historical origins and evolution of key mathematics concepts. Topics are chosen from number systems, numeration, computation, number theory, algebra, geometry, analytic geometry, and calculus.
RED 5337
Literacy across the Content Area (3)
Application of the reading process to the secondary school curriculum. Diagnostic procedures and instructional strategies useful in developing school reading programs.
TSL 5325
ESOL in the Content Area (3)
VIS DIS, SCHOOL MEDIA AND SCHOOL PSYCH majors.
The course is designed to prepare non-ESOL teachers to instruct English language learners in public school content areas (i.e., science, math, social studies) and noncontent areas (i.e., physical education, art). Emphasis is on language-sensitive instructional planning and delivery, adaptation of instructional materials for enhanced comprehension, testing and placement of students, and cross-cultural awareness. It satisfies the teacher certification requirements for content area teachers. It is not part of the ESOL Endorsement required of primary language providers.
