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CRSCAD 602L - Climate Change, Food & Water Resources
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course will examine the causes and consequences of climate change with a special focus on food and water resources. We will analyze proposals to prevent and mitigate global warming with both proactive and responsive policies. As a global society, food and water security is the most important goal we face, yet many people in the developing world lack even basic food security and more than a billion people worldwide lack access to safe drinking water. Food and water shortages are exacerbated and caused by climate change, environmental degradation and natural and human-caused disasters. It is projected that unless drastic efforts to cut greenhouse gas emission are implemented global warming will lead to massive crop failures as early as 2040 and become a worldwide phenomenon by 2080. Because poor nations will be most adversely affected by climate change it is incumbent upon the global society to prepare for and avert disaster. CRSCAD 602L and UPCD 602L are the same course.
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CRSCAD 603L - Reconstruction After the Cameras Have Gone
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course introduces the student to the complex process of post-disaster reconstruction and the roles of government, Non-Governmental Organizations, humanitarian and development agencies, multilateral establishments, and the private sector as well as the ways in which they can all support vulnerable populations during and after disasters. It also examines institutional, regulatory and policy frameworks for implementing reconstruction programs and projects. At the end of the semester, the student submits a research paper on a topic selected by him/her and approved by the instructor. UPCD 603L and CRSCAD 603L are the same course.
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CRSCAD 621L - Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Sustainable Post-Disaster Reconstruction
3 Credit(s)
Description:
The course will explore the intersection dynamics of human dignity, humiliation, and human rights in the context of post-disaster reconstruction. CRSCAD 621L and UPCD 621L are the same course.
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CRSCAD 624L - Survival Skills for the 21st Cent: Develop Personal, Organizational, & Community Resilience Skills.
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course will examine resilience and the power to adapt to stress, adversity, and trauma. Coping with and managing tragedy and crisis is important to the individual, his/her family and friends, employment, and other relationships that are part of our lives. CRSCAD 624L and UPCD 624L are the same course.
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CRSCAD 643L - The Political Economy of International Migration
3 Credit(s)
Description:
The aim of the course is to introduce students to the major issues associated with the economic consequences of migration. Students will gain an understanding of the theoretical reasons why people migrate. Many of these reasons are economic, but the resulting dynamic is a lasting relationship between the sending and receiving country. As a result of the development of transnational identities these ties include remittances, political participation, and economic opportunities for both countries. CRSCAD 643L and UPCD 643L are the same course.
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Rehabilitation Counseling |
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REHAB 602 - Medical, Psychological & Educational Aspects of Disabilities
3 Credit(s)
Description:
The course is designed to offer students with little or no exposure to advanced life sciences the opportunity to examine the physiological and anatomical basis for many chronic diseases they will encounter in a rehabilitation counseling setting. Students examine the etiology, progress, and potential resolution of a wide range of disorders, as well as the potential implications consequent on these disabilities.
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REHAB 603 - Foundations of Rehabilitation
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course seeks to provide students with basic information about the process of rehabilitation and its history and philosophy. Discussions also focus on the organizational structure of the rehabilitation system, the professional identity of the rehabilitation counselor, and legal and ethical issues in the practice of rehabilitation counseling.
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REHAB 609 - Psychiatric Rehabilitation
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course is designed to assist students to (1) begin to work with individuals who have mental illness; (2) collaborate effectively within the community “network of care;’ and (3) comprehend the experience of mental illness from a variety of perspectives. This course is designed to build student skills and knowledge in an array of areas including supported employment, social skills training, Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) development, co-occurring disorders, Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) and related modalities.
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REHAB 610 - Case Management and Planning in Rehabilitation
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course acquaints students with case management in rehabilitation counseling and with the range of community resources available to the counselor whose goal is the effective and comprehensive rehabilitation of individuals with disabilities. Topics include case finding and case planning, service coordination, and client advocacy activities.
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REHAB 611 - Rehabilitation Counseling Portfolio
1 Credit(s)
Description:
This course will meet once per month ONLINE during the fall semester and during the first year in which the student is enrolled in the Rehabilitation Counseling program. All students will be expected to attend and participate in each monthly online class meeting. Each class meeting will focus on the various topics relevant to portfolio and professional development in Rehabilitation Counseling, including: 1) Course overview and an introduction to Taskstream as an e-Portfolio took, 2) Professional credentialing in rehabilitation counseling (licensure and certification, 3) Field placement opportunities in rehabilitation counseling (practicum and internship), and 4) Professional identity of self-marketing in rehabilitation counseling and career planning.
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REHAB 612 - Vocational Rehabilitation and Placement
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course seeks to provide students with information about the total vocational rehabilitation process, including follow-up services. Topics include the referral process; eligibility criteria; comprehensive (medical, psychological, vocational) assessment; vocational training; and placement.
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REHAB 614 - Motivational Interviewing
3 Credit(s)
Description:
The purpose of the course is to provide the student with an understanding of the basic skills of counseling related to active listening and accurate empathy. In addition the course will provide students with the foundation of the theory and practice of motivational interviewing as an evidence based practice in the rehabilitation counseling profession. Professional ethical sociocultural issues in the client/counselor relationship will be discussed. Lecture, role play, and audio will be used to augment the student’s understanding of the process of change.
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REHAB 615 - Counseling Theories
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course will focus on the range of different counseling theories and their application to different situations and needs of different individuals. Students will not only learn the theory behind the counseling approach, they will have the opportunity to practice the different approaches. Role-playing will be used to demonstrate different concepts. Throughout the class, students will begin to develop their personal approach toward counseling and will discuss how to integrate the different theories into their counseling. Students will learn how to integrate these theories into practice in developing a therapeutic relationship and in supporting individuals in crisis.
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REHAB 688 - Rehabilitation Practicum
3 Credit(s)
Description:
The purpose of the practicum is to expose the student to his/her particular field in counseling through actual placement in a facility where appropriate supervision is provided. Class discussions include a review onsite observations and experiences and discussions of current issues in the field.
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REHAB 698 - Rehabilitation Internship
4 Credit(s)
Description:
The purpose of the internship course is to provide students with actual work experiences. The internship consists of supervised field experience in a rehabilitation setting, such as a hospital, a state agency, a community agency or a private company. Additionally, students are required to attend a weekly seminar at the University which will be conducted by the instructor. The focus of the on-campus seminar is to ‘review and critique students’ implementation of rehabilitation counseling theory and practice, and to provide a forum for students to discuss issues arising at internship sites and to help each other with insights and emotional support. Video/audio tapes will be a major source of information for the review and critique.
Enrollment Requirements:
REHAB 603 and REHAB 607 and REHAB 608
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School Psychology |
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SPY G 601 - Issues and Ethics in School Psychology
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course addresses the professional identity and function of the psychologist in the public school setting. An intensive analysis of philosophical, technical, and administrative issues is conducted. The organization and operation of schools, federal and state educational laws, ethical issues and dilemmas, APA standards, and nondiscriminatory assessments are explored in depth. The course also examines contemporary educational issues that go beyond the role of the individual psychologist. The most current issues in the field are discussed. A pre-practicum field component is required.
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SPY G 602 - Standardized Assessment and Report Writing
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course focuses on the administration, scoring, and interpretation of standardized cognitive instruments such as Wechsler scale and the Woodcock Johnson. It also lays the groundwork for writing psycho-educational reports based on the data collected. Topics include ethical, professional, and legal aspects of psycho-educational assessment, bias in testing, and issues related to testing linguistic and ethnic minorities.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in School Psychology
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SPY G 603 - Foundations of Educational Assessment and Data-Based Decision Making
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course focuses on the assessment of core achievement domains (e.g., reading, mathematics) and the use of curriculum-based assessment and measurement procedures. It emphasizes educational assessment as a means of problem solving and on using data from educational measures to inform instructional and entitlement decisions. Students are expected to demonstrate proficiency in the administration and interpretation of achievement tests, in using assessment data to directly inform intervention recommendations and in reporting findings both orally and in writing.
Enrollment Requirements:
SPY G 602 and Graduate degree student in School Psychology
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SPY G 604 - Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Assessment and Intervention
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course develops competence in administering and scoring selected personality, behavioral, social/emotional, and adaptive behavior measures, and in preparing meaningful interpretations of those test results. Topics include psychological theory and practical issues involved in clinical assessment. Close attention is paid to the psychometric adequacy of various assessment methods, ethical aspects of assessment, and issues of clinical judgment. Emphasis is placed on multi-method, multi-source strategies using approaches such as direct observation, interviewing techniques, rating scales, and self-report measures. The projective hypothesis and projective methods are reviewed, including storytelling and drawing techniques. Special issues in cross-cultural assessment and in assessing minority students and students with disabilities are considered. Links between assessment results and intervention recommendations are stressed.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in School Psychology
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SPY G 607 - School-Based Interventions and Data-Based Decision Making
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Attention is focused on the techniques of synthesizing educational, child development, and psychological information into effective prevention programs as well as individual and group interventions for students at-risk for special education and with disabilities. The course uses a problem solving approach and the theoretical and practical underpinnings of the evidence-based practice movement to facilitate student development, monitoring, and evaluation of effective academic, social, emotional, and behavioral intervention strategies with emphasis on direct and indirect evidence-based interventions. The course will also emphasize data-based decision making pertaining to matching treatments to reasons for problems students are experiencing, progress monitoring, as well as determining student responses to intervention.
Enrollment Requirements:
SPY G 602 and 604 and COUNSL 614
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SPY G 608 - Systems Consultation, Prevention, and Organizational Change
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course is designed to provide students with competencies regarding system-level prevention programming in schools and organizational change. The course will provide theoretical, empirical, and practical foundations for school prevention programming as it related to the academic, behavioral, socio/emotional, mental health and crisis related problems in grades k-12.
Enrollment Requirements:
SPY g 603 and SPY G 604 and COUNSL 614 and Co-Req COUNSL 632
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SPY G 610 - Neuropsychological Theory and Practice in Education
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course examines neuropsychology, the study of the brain and of nervous-system functions, in relation to adaptive behavior and learning, from a developmental viewpoint. The course looks at organismic versus specific localization theories about normal and dysfunctional conditions that affect moving, sensing, perceiving, assimilating, recalling, and expressing through diagnostic-prescriptive studies. Participants study learning abilities and disabilities from a neuropsychological perspective, allowing them to apply the analysis of learning styles to the implementation of individual instruction methods and education plans.
Enrollment Requirements:
SPY G 602 and COUNSL 608 and Graduate degree student in School Psychology
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SPY G 611 - Diag&Mgt Neuro Diord
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Diag&Mgt Neuro Diord
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SPY G 612 - Learning and the Curriculum
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course uses theoretical and applied perspectives to explain how children and adolescents develop skills and knowledge in schools. Theoretical perspectives emphasize ecological, behavioral, and cognitive models of learning. With regard to application, theoretical perspectives on learning point to curriculum as a source of learning objectives and goals intended to guide instruction and assessment. Empirical research pertaining to instruction, assessment, and curriculum will be reviewed for purposes o using a rigorous evidence base to evaluate curriculum programs in core content (e.g., English language arts, mathematics).
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SPY G 635 - Behavior Therapy in Schools
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Understanding and managing student behavior is critical for educator to establish a positive and effective learning environment. Research supports the use of positive behavior supports and interventions to address challenging behaviors in order to increase active academic engagement and adaptive behaviors for all students, especially high risk populations. The purpose of this course will be to develop knowledge and skills int he principles of applied behavior analysis and to apply these principles and procedures to individuals and classrooms. Functional behavior assessment procedures covered include indirect assessments, descriptive assessments, and functional analysis. Treatments covered include antecedent intervention, differential reinforcement procedures, extinction, and punishment among others. Mastery in this course will be obtained through readings, participation in lecture/discussions, preparing for exams, and completing assigned projects.
Enrollment Requirements:
COUNSL 614 and SPY G 602 and SPY G 604
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SPY G 653 - Cultural Competence for School Practitioners
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course is designed to provide an introduction to cultural, socioeconomic, and ethnic variables that impact service delivery by counselors and school psychologists in schools. Students will develop an appreciation for and understanding of their own cultural, socioeconomic, and ethnic backgrounds. From there, they will develop appreciation for and understanding of their clients-children and adolescents in schools, their families, and entities that support them-as well as other educators and professionals in the educational systems.
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SPY G 685 - Practicum I: School-Based Assessment & Intervention
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Each student is matched with a practicing school psychologist 1.5 days per week in order to apply the skills consistent with the NASP blueprint. 125 clock hours of field experience are required in addition to the weekly seminar. The twofold purpose of this course it sot provide graduate students in school psychology: 1. A field-based practicum experience in an urban setting with students of diverse backgrounds. Activities focus on individual and systemic variables as well as policies and practices while engaging in the implementation of consultation, assessment, prevention and intervention activities. Formal and informal needs assessments will also be a continuous aspect of this practicum with services determined by the needs identified by students, staff, and administration. 2. A field-based practicum experience that focuses on the assessment of children and adolescents.
Enrollment Requirements:
SPY G 601 and 602 and COUNSL 614 and Co-Req SPY G 603 and SPY G 604 and SPY G 607 and Graduate degree student in School Psychology
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SPY G 686 - Practicum II: School-Based Assessment & Intervention
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Each student is matched with a practicing school psychologist 1.5 days per week in order to apply the skills consistent with the NASP blueprint. 125 clock hours of field experience are required in addition to the weekly seminar. The twofold purpose of this course is to provide graduate students in school psychology: 1. Field-based practicum experience in an urban setting with students of diverse backgrounds. Activities will focus on individual and systemic variables as well as policies and practices while engaging in the implementation of consultation, assessment, prevention and intervention activities. Formal and informal needs assessments will also be continuous aspect of this practicum with services determined by the needs identified by students, staff, and administration. 2. Field-based school psychology practicum experience that focuses on the assessment of children and adolescents.
Enrollment Requirements:
SPY G 601 and SPY G 602 and COUNSL 614 and Co-Req: SPY G 603 and SPY G 604
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SPY G 687 - Practicum in School Psychology III
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This Practicum is a continuation of Practicum I and II and integrates assessment and intervention services provided. It provides student with the opportunity to attain additional field work hours prior to the 1200 hour internship. Students are assigned to a school site, with a supervising school psychologist, and complete 250 field work hours over the course of a semester. Additionally, they meet with the university supervisor/seminar instructor on a weekly basis after school hours. Student performance on site is assessed via evaluation by the field supervisor; student skills in conducting psychoeducational evaluations and case studies is assessed by the university supervisor/seminar instructor. This course can be repeated for credit.
Enrollment Requirements:
SPY G 685 and SPY G 686
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SPY G 688 - Internship in School Psychology
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This full-time practicum/internship placement consists of at least 600 clock hours of full-time fieldwork experience at both the elementary and secondary school levels, under the supervision of a practicing certified school psychologist. The two required repetitions of this course provide the 1,200 clock hours of supervised fieldwork required for state and national certification. The first internship must be in an approved school setting. The second may be in a school setting or a clinical setting (under the supervision of a licensed or certified psychologist). University supervision and the approval of the program coordinator are required. May be taken twice for credit.
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SPY G 689 - Internship in School Psychology
6 Credit(s)
Description:
This internship placement consists of at least 600 clock hours of full-time fieldwork experience at the elementary, middle, and secondary levels under the supervision of a practicing licensed school psychologist. The 2 required repetitions of the course.
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SPY G 691 - Seminar in School Psychology
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This seminar is taken in conjunction with the Internship in School Psychology (SPY G 688). It includes lectures and discussions about state and national certification requirements, case studies, assessments and multidisciplinary evaluations, legal and ethical concerns, cultural diversity factors, and general topics related to the internship experience. Capstone portfolio and daily log required. May be taken twice for credit.
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SPY G 696 - Independent Study in School Psychology
1 - 6 Credit(s)
Description:
Research and reading in an area of school psychology chosen by the student and approved by the instructor. Open only to matriculants in the School Psychology program. A detailed proposal must be submitted to and approved by the program coordinator before registration for this course.
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SPY G 697 - Special Topics in School Psychology
1 - 6 Credit(s)
Description:
This course focuses on research and reading in a particular topic in school psychology. Course content varies according to the topic and will be announced prior to the pre-registration period.
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SOCIOL 598 - Field Experience Project
1 Credit(s)
Description:
This course includes site visits and observation time spent in the field at state or social service agencies.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate student in Forensics
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SOCIOL 600 - Foundations of Applied Sociology
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course is required for all formally accepted first-year students. The purpose of the course is a) to engage students in the field and substance of applied sociology, in order to strengthen their understanding of how theories, concepts, and sociological research are central to social problem-solving, policymaking, and the skills required in a variety of occupational settings; b) to involve students at the beginning of their graduate education in designing their studies to meet their educational, career, and personal objectives; and c) to maximize and facilitate student utilization of the curriculum, faculty, and departmental/university resources.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in Applied Sociology or Sociology PhD
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SOCIOL 601 - Complex Organizations
3 Credit(s)
Description:
The course acquaints students with studies of complex organizations that throw light on decision-making and conflict in the setting of formal organizations. Students will study how policies emerge and how they are translated into action. They study research illuminating the nature and functions of rules, the initiation and consequences of political processes, the role and problems of street-level bureaucrats, and the impact of social, political, and economic conditions on organizational behavior. Theories and concepts are applied to human service organizations, and their distinctive features are discussed.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in Applied Sociology or Sociology PhD
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SOCIOL 605 - Applied Sociological Theory
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course examines the nature and aims of applied sociological theory. Of special interest is the bearing of pure or basic sociological theory on applied research and problem solving, the differences between pure and applied sociological theory, and the relevance of applied theory for basic sociological theory. Other topics include the theoretical implications of moral and ethical concerns and restrictions in applied social research and employment and the nature of the values and assumptions involved in efforts to devise and implement policy intended to treat social problems.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in Applied Sociology or Sociology PhD
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SOCIOL 606 - Social Semiotics and Cultural Analysis
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This doctoral level sociology seminar is intended to provide participants with an introduction to semiotics and cultural analysis. We will look at modes of expression and expressiveness; explore how culture manifests numerous modes of expressiveness, and how they are also embedded within culture. We will discuss the process through which cultures develop meaningful links in terms of sensibility, understanding, and meaning making. Our discussions will be associated with an in-depth analysis of the role of semiotics in culture and society and in doing so we will analyze the parallel between the function of the sign and the function of the signifying objects.
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SOCIOL 607 - Contemporary Sociological Theory
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Social theory is trained reflection on ways of knowing social life. But it is not only this, and it never begins purely as trained reflection. Social theory arises first and foremost from everyday life, from an enormous variety of contexts of conversation, discussion, and interaction between ordinary people. These are the same contexts that lead to the formation of such things as social movements, political parties, trade unions, and organized mass actions such as consumption, strikes, and revolutions. Social theory emerges from these contexts and is only a more reflective expression of the disputes and agendas that dominate ordinary communication about social and political issues. It is itself a social and political issues. It is itself a social product with a multitude of everyday contexts of origination.
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SOCIOL 608 - Urban Sociology
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This sociology seminar covers theoretical perspectives and empirical research on how cities are shaped by social and economic forces, as well as various (e.g., racial, political) ideologies. We will also investigate how cities, in turn, shape social life - in both positive and negative ways.
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SOCIOL 609L - Qualitative Methods and Field Research
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course is designed to introduce students to qualitative research methods; its specific focus is on policy research and aging. Students practice the skills needed to observe the world around them by attending to social phenomena, descriptively and analytically. The course functions as both a seminar and a research workshop, and students learn by engaging in a field work project. GERON GR 609L and PPOL-G 609L and SOCIOL 609L are the same course.
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SOCIOL 610 - Teaching Sociology: Theory & Practice
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This seminar is designed for graduate students who are interested in teaching careers at the college and university level and/or in the scholarship about teaching and learning. Teaching assistants who are involved in classroom practice are also welcome. The course will address both the theory and practice of teaching with a focus on the kinds of backgrounds, experiences, and learning styles that UMass Boston students bring to the classroom.
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SOCIOL 618 - Psychiatric Epidemiology and Forensic Services
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course provides necessary professional skills and helps students understand forensic evidence and its use in courts. Topics include research in psychiatric epidemiology, sources of violence, recidivism, and risk assessment.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate student in Applied Sociology, Counseling, or Forensics
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SOCIOL 620 - Social Problems
3 Credit(s)
Description:
An analysis of theories to explain the historical development of social problems. Theories include Marxian and non-Marxian analyses, micro- and macro-theoretical approaches such as functionalism, conflict, interactionism and deviance perspectives. Special attention is given to the application of theories for the understanding of such contemporary social problems such as unemployment and poverty, problems of urban communities, inter-group conflict/relations, individual deviance and others.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate Students Only
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SOCIOL 621 - Social Psychiatry
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Sociological analysis of psychiatric theories and practices; examination of the effect of social structure on the construction, diagnosis, and treatment of mental disorders.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in Applied Sociology or Sociology PhD
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SOCIOL 623 - Alcohol,Drugs&Crime
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course focuses on the multi-faceted associations among alcohol, drug use, and crime in America. It distinguishes legal and policy issues from competing paradigms and contrasts criminal justice and public health models. State- of-the-art etiology, epidemiology, prevention, and treatment studies correlating criminality and substance misuse are assessed and evaluated in historical and sociocultural contexts. The course highlights social service systems in relation to current practices and institutionalized definitions of health and illness, crime and criminals.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate student in Applied Sociology, Counseling, or Forensics
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SOCIOL 630 - Applied Social Psychology
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course has been designed to introduce students to sociological theories about interaction and to motivate students to explore how the theories about which they learn can make change in the `real world’. During the seminar, the class will cover a mixture of contemporary and classical research literature in the attempt to make sense of interactions in everyday social life and to use the ideas and concepts from the literature to address social problems.
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SOCIOL 642 - Issues in Contemporary Social Policy
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course provides special emphasis on contemporary social policy issues. It examines principals of social policy analysis and the impact of social policy decisions on recipients and non-recipients of social services. Special attention is given to research on contemporary problem areas such as immigration, homelessness, public sector health and mental health, social justice issues, and crime and delinquency.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate Students Only
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SOCIOL 643 - Immigration Policy: Global and North American Perspectives
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This class offers a global perspective on immigration policy that is weighed toward issues and concerns that have defined the recent history of immigration policy in North America. It includes case studies from Western, Eastern and Southern Europe, Central and South East Asia, Canada, Australia, Africa, and the Caribbean.
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SOCIOL 644 - Gender, Ethnicity, and Migration
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Why do people migrate? Do immigrants assimilate into host countries or maintain ties with their home countries? What factors shape the work experiences of (im)migrants? A gendered perspective, critical to the study of these topics, is still poorly integrated into international migration theory. This course will challenge us to keep gender at the center when answering the classic questions of migration studies. Students will be asked to consider how the feminization of migration and a perspective that includes the intersection of gender, ethnicity, class, and nation challenge the theoretical tools used to make sense of migration and its effects.
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SOCIOL 645 - Sociology of Migration
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This class offers a sociological perspective on migration by looking at why people migrate and explores the theoretical tools sociologists have developed for understanding migration. The course emphasizes the global context of international migration and examines the institutions that shape migration flows and the experiences of immigrants. These import issues will be examined from both the perspective of the receiving and sending countries.
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SOCIOL 646 - Sociology of Gender
3 Credit(s)
Description:
How are gender and gendered identities socially constructed? In what ways does gender intersect with and influence issues of power and inequality in society? Gender is one of the most central axes of inequality, along with class, race, ethnicity, nationality, citizenship, and sexuality. We will examine gender as an ever-present organizing principle of social life that has broad-ranging effects, from micro-level individual interactions up to macro-level economic and political processes. We will consider different theoretical approaches and discuss the ways in which gender is social and cultural, rather than “natural” and “biological.” Next we will look at the construction of gendered identities, sexuality, and the performance of masculinity and femininity in everyday life. Furthermore, we will explore how gender relations are being shaped by, as well as are shaping, larger processes of globalization. By the end of this course, you should be familiar with sociological perspectives on gender and the social construction and reproduction of gender categories.
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SOCIOL 647 - Sociology of Race and Racism
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course introduces students to the major sociological theoretical perspectives and current empirical research on racial inequality. We will mostly examine how social analysts have framed race and racism in the USA since about the 1950’s, with a few examples from non-US contexts to push our thinking beyond American constructions. At the end of the semester, students should have attained a clear and comprehensive view of how issues around race and the intersection of race, class, and gender have been framed by social analysts over the last several decades.
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SOCIOL 650 - Meth Of Research I
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Focuses on methods of collecting information about social beliefs and social process, including the operation of social services and other programs. The course requires students to conduct exercises that will give them first hand experiences in various approaches to data collection and management. Emphasis is given to techniques of survey, field, and experimental research. Students are introduced to the use of computers.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in Applied Sociology or Sociology PhD
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SOCIOL 651 - Methods of Research II
3 Credit(s)
Description:
A continuation of SOCIOL 650, focusing on the interpretation, analysis, and presentation of quantitative data. Course exercises use descriptive statistics, cross-tabulation and regression analysis, as well as related inferential statistics, to analyze social data. Procedures for computer-based statistical analyses are introduced and used throughout the course. No prior experience with computers or knowledge of statistical formulae are required. (Course offered in the spring only.)
Enrollment Requirements:
GRADUATE Degree Students Only
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SOCIOL 652 - Advanced Quantitative Methods
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This class provides training in quantitative analyses that moves beyond the more basic techniques covered in the preceding course SOCIOL 651. The course begins with a review of multiple regression before spending the rest of the semester covering specialized regression techniques.
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SOCIOL 655 - Evaluation Research
3 Credit(s)
Description:
An advanced course in the theory and practice of evaluation of public policy and social service programs for social science students and practitioners. Basic knowledge of research methods is assumed, but relevant issues in research design and implementation are reviewed. The course provides general overview of evaluation theory and landmark evaluation studies, as well as analysis of commonly used evaluation models and of practical and political issues involved in design and implementation of evaluations. Design of an evaluation of a social agency program is required.
Enrollment Requirements:
GRADUATE Degree Students Only
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SOCIOL 660 - Fundamentals of Survey Methodology
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course introduces students to the principles of survey design that are the basis of standard practices in the field, providing tools to design and implement survey data collection and for evaluating surveys. Topics include: sampling, nonresponse, survey instrument development and evaluation, survey interviewing, post survey data processing, and research ethics.
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SOCIOL 661 - Designing and Evaluating Survey Questions
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course will teach students what is known about how the characteristics of survey questions affect the likely validity of the resulting data. It will also teach them how to evaluate how well questions meet the standards that we set for them. Tee course will introduce students to the underlying science of how to design and evaluate questions and will provide them with experience in actually carrying out question design and evaluation.
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SOCIOL 662 - Applied Survey Sampling - Design and Analysis
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course is designed to teach students the principles of probability sampling for general populations. It will teach them about the various types of sampling methods including simple random, stratified, cluster, and probability proportionate to size. It will help them to understand when certain methods are preferable and how adding complexity to a sample design can affect data analysis. Topics will also include developing survey weights and analyzing data from complex samples.
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SOCIOL 663 - Survey Experiments
1 Credit(s)
Description:
This course is designed to introduce students to both the long history of experimental work in a survey research as well as to the rapidly developing research program in population-based survey experiments. The course will briefly review the main components of experimental and survey methods before focusing on the ways in which they are brought together, including split ballot experiments, the randomized response technique, the list experiment/item count technique, and others.
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SOCIOL 664 - Practicum in Survey Research Techniques
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course offers students hands-on experience in planning and conducting a survey, focusing on sampling, questionnaire development, and interviewing techniques. Students will put survey best practices into action in the development of a survey instrument by planning and moderating focus groups. They will evaluate questions by conduction cognitive interviews and completing behavior coding of recorded interviews. Students also participate in a sample listing exercise in the Boston area and conduct face-to-face pretest interviews.
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SOCIOL 665 - New Techniques in Survey Data Collection
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course is designed to introduce students to the newest and most state-of-are methods of survey data collection, an appreciation of their history and development, as well as their rapidly developing research programs. Purposes both methodological (to improve the instrument and forward the state-of-the-art in survey techniques) and substantive (addressing research questions in sociological frameworks) will be addressed.
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SOCIOL 667 - Sociology of Law
3 Credit(s)
Description:
A general analysis of the social origins and consequences of law and legal process; special emphasis on law as a method of conflict resolution and as a social control structure, and on law and social change. Attention also given to law in other societies, including non-literate societies, to the evolution and development of legal structures, and to patterns of due process and criminal law.
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SOCIOL 670 - Population Dynamics in a Changing World
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Many of the important political and social discussion going on in this country an worldwide revolve around issues related to population size, structure or composition. This graduate level course will begin by putting population into historical perspective and introducing the tools necessary to describe a population’s size, structure, growth. As students learn these demographic tools and concepts, we will use them to describe on-going issues and more recent developments that are influenced by population size, structure, or composition.
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SOCIOL 671 - Sexuality, Gender, & Society
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This graduate level course explores how sexuality and gender are perceived, defined, and experienced in the context of society. This course will also investigate how sexuality and gender influence our lives, are reflected in social norms, attitudes and beliefs, through public and private policies and practices, and social institutions. Through this course, students will learn the various theories sociologists have developed to explain sex and gender arrangements and to apply these theories appropriately to contemporary social issues as well as how to design, conduct, and analyze a research project or proposal related to the sociology of gender and sexuality.
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SOCIOL 682 - Sociology of Health and Illness
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course highlights the role of the social sciences in dealing with problems of health care practice, focusing on research contributions to health maintenance, prevention, treatment, and quality of care. Topics include the nature and goals of client-practitioner relationships, health education, behavioral and psychosomatic medicine, and the linkages between social problems and medical problems.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in Applied Sociology or Sociology PhD
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SOCIOL 690 - Classic and Contemporary Views of the Nature of Crime
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course examines the social nature of crime. It explores a variety of theoretical perspectives, including anomie/strain theory, social disorganization theory, social control theory, social learning theories, opportunity theory, deterrence theory, and conflict theory. The various theories are examined through an extensive review of recent empirical studies. Special attention is given to methodological problems in specifying theories for empirical study. Discussion topics also include the adaptability of these theories to social policy and their varying political and social acceptability during particular historical periods.
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SOCIOL 691 - Contemporary Issues in Responding to Crime
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This seminar focuses on responses to crime. As individual citizens and as a community, we respond to crime in a variety of ways. The issues covered in this course may therefore include anything from informal responses-such as fear of crime, the reporting of crime to the police, and the organizing of neighborhood watch groups and crime stopper programs-to formal responses, which include police decisions to arrest or handle informally, bail decisions, issues of sentencing, the use of imprisonment, community corrections, parole and probation, and the death penalty. The course emphasizes the social nature of responses to crime and generally focuses on one or a few of these topics each semester
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in Applied Sociology or Sociology PhD
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SOCIOL 692 - Communities and Crime
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This class focuses on the nature of the social structures and group dynamics that shape neighborhood context, which in turn influence other social processes, like crime and responses to crime. Other foci include the intellectual development of the study of crime and communities, inequality, and contemporary issues in community development and change.
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SOCIOL 694 - Master’s Research Seminar
6 Credit(s)
Description:
This course guides students in their design and completion of the master’s paper. It operates as an intellectual workshop where throughout the semester students share with the group the process as well as the results of their research. Special attention is given to the formation of research questions, research methodology, and writing appropriate literature reviews.
Enrollment Requirements:
GRADUATE Degree Students Only
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SOCIOL 696 - Independent Study
1 - 6 Credit(s)
Description:
In-depth study of a particular topic according to the student’s interests. Independent study projects are expected to make an important contribution to a student’s training in applied sociology. All projects are under the supervision of a faculty advisor, who is responsible for guiding and evaluating the student’s work. An application and detailed proposal must be submitted to the graduate program director not later than two weeks before the end of the semester previous to that in which SOCIOL 696 is to be taken.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate Students Only
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SOCIOL 697 - Special Topics in Applied Sociology
1 - 6 Credit(s)
Description:
An advanced seminar on selected topics in applied sociology. The course content and credit vary according to topic. Details on special topics courses will be announced during the advance registration period.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate Students Only
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SOCIOL 698 - Field Work
3 - 6 Credit(s)
Description:
Intensive field work and/or internship in a public or private research or practice setting jointly supervised by faculty and agency-based staff. Placements made according to student interest and internship availability.
Enrollment Requirements:
GRADUATE Degree Students Only
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SOCIOL 699 - Thesis Research in Applied Sociology
6 Credit(s)
Description:
Supervised thesis research open to students who elect the thesis option. The research is conducted under the supervision of a faculty committee consisting of a primary faculty advisor and two additional faculty members, who are responsible for advising the student in preparing and carrying out the thesis project and for evaluating and judging its acceptability.
Enrollment Requirements:
GRADUATE Degree Students Only
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SOCIOL 700 - Proseminar I: Introduction to Graduate Sociology
1 Credit(s)
Description:
The goal of this proseminar is to introduce students to UMass Boston and to life as a graduate students.
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SOCIOL 701 - Proseminar II: Planning a career in Sociology
1 Credit(s)
Description:
The goal of this preseminar is to help you think about the develop plans for your particular career plans in sociology. We will discuss upcoming program requirements (comprehensive exams, dissertation), and well as how to think about graduate school as an opportunity for professional development, both within your courses and TA/RA experiences and beyond.
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SOCIOL 702 - Proseminar III: Developing professional skills and preparing for job market
1 Credit(s)
Description:
The goal of this proseminar is to help you think about and develop plans for your particular career plans in sociology. Much of our time will be spent talking about the job market (academic and applied) and how to tailor your work to fit different types of jobs.
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SOCIOL 894 - Dissertation Seminar
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This seminar is designed for sociology graduate students who are formulating their research question and preparing their proposal for their dissertation. The seminar is to assist students in developing dissertation proposals having the strongest feasible theoretical frameworks and research designs, thus leading to dissertations that make important contributions to understanding social processes. Students read insightful, critical works of social theory and social methodology, engage in critical examination of their own and other participants’ dissertation plans, and secure frequent feedback from the course instructor through both in-class discussion and short writing assignments.
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SOCIOL 897 - Special Topics
1 - 6 Credit(s)
Description:
Various topics in Sociology.
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SOCIOL 899 - Dissertation Credits
1 - 9 Credit(s)
Description:
This is a course for students working on their dissertations. Students may only enroll in dissertation credits after they have completed the other credit requirements for the PhD.
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SPAN 501 - Theories, Methods, and Practices in the Teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course is specifically designed for pre-service and in-service teachers. It will provide an overview of second-language acquisition theory as well as an in-depth study of current foreign language methodology as it applies to the teaching of Spanish in middle school and high school environments. The philosophy of this methodology centers on the use of language in meaningful contexts for real-world communicative purposes. It is firmly grounded in the National Standards for Foreign Language Learning and the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks for Foreign Languages. Students will gain practice in evaluating textbooks, writing lesson plans, and designing instructional units, as well as in classroom management procedures.
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SPAN 502 - Technology for the Spanish-Language Classroom
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course is specifically designed for pre-service and in-service teachers of Spanish as a foreign language. The primary goal of the course is to explore the pedagogical implications of using a wide array of technological resources in the Spanish language and culture classroom. This class will also explore how Internet technology can be used as a springboard for cultural analysis and comparison. Students will examine current pedagogical theories related to language teaching and learning and will design a curricular unit that includes samples of all technologies examined. All coursework will be based on the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks for Foreign Languages and the National Educational Technology Standards for Students.
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SPAN 503 - Perspectives on the Spanish-Speaking Worlds
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course, taught entirely in Spanish with occasional reading in English, is specifically designed for pre-service and in-service teachers of Spanish. It will examine the various geographic and cultural traditions that make up today’s Spanish-speaking worlds. In so doing, the course will prepare teachers to develop connections between course content and the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks for Foreign Languages and the National Standards for Foreign Language Teaching. The course is interdisciplinary. Topics to be studied in depth include issues of national and cultural identity, social life, and cultural production.
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SPAN 512 - Assessing Foreign-Language Learners (Spanish)
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Designed for pre-service and in-service teachers, this course will provide an in-depth study of different types of assessment, emphasizing performance assessment and the achievement of standards. Explicit connections to the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks for Foreign Languages and the National Standards for Foreign Language Learning will be made. The format of the course will be interactive discussion sessions with topics drawn from reading assignments. Students will gain practice in designing assessments and accompanying rubrics, projects, and portfolios, as well as self-assessment tools.
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SPAN 515 - Latin American Film for the Spanish-Language Classroom
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course is specifically designed for pre-service and in-service teachers of Spanish. By using film and readings in the literatures of Spanish America, it will develop historical, social, and cultural context for language instruction. Explicit connections to the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks for Foreign Languages and the National Standards for Foreign Language Learning will be made. Class meetings will be conducted entirely in Spanish. The course is organized as a series of film-viewing and discussion sessions based on the films and the reading assignments. Students will gain experience researching film background, drawing critical connections to history, society, and culture, and designing units integrating film into language curriculum.
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SPAN 520 - Ling Pers Span Lang
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course, taught in Spanish with occasional readings in English, is specifically designed for pre-service and in-service teachers of Spanish. It will examine the main Spanish-language variants of today’s Spanish-speaking worlds and the grammatical traditions of Spanish. The course presents accessible research on fundamental problems of Spanish grammar that teachers deal with on a daily basis. Topics include the origin of differences among variants of Spanish, and how various historical times answered this question, with far-reaching implications for language teaching and specifically for the teaching of Spanish.
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SPAN 530 - Don Quixote
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course, designed for pre-service and in-service teachers, provides an in-depth analysis of Cervantes’ Don Quixote (original Spanish version). The course will examine the cultural production as well as the social conditions of 16th- and 17th-century Spain as expressed in the life and work of Miguel de Cervantes.
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SPAN 532 - Latin American Popular Culture
3 Credit(s)
Description:
The course introduces students to concepts, contexts, and case studies of Latin American popular culture and prepares them to develop connections between course content and the Massachusetts Foreign Languages Curriculum Framework and National Standards for Foreign Language Learning. Classes are conducted in English but assignments require advanced mastery of Spanish.
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SPAN 550 - Spain: Past & Future
3 Credit(s)
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SPE G 602 - Language Acquisition and Theories of Reading
3 Credit(s)
Description:
The focus on theory in this course is designed to help the pre-service special educator understand the relationship between oral language development and reading. The course looks first at language acquisition in the normally developing child, with particular emphasis on the developmental stages of communicative competence and on other factors, including second-language learning and influences of varying disabilities, which may affect language structure. The course goes on to examine the subsequent role of oral language, as part of both learning to read and reading to learn. Field work components are included.
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SPE G 607 - Behavioral and Classroom Management
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course identifies major theorists, techniques, and procedures for facilitating constructive behavior in the classroom. Topics include observational recording systems, contingency contracting, and monitoring of behavioral progress. Emphasis is on pro-social skill development and classroom structures conducive to collaborative learning. Field-work components are included.
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SPE G 621 - Introduction to Disabilities for Educational Professionals
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course focuses on the physical, cognitive, behavioral, and psychological aspects of the atypical developmental patterns of children and adolescents with varying disabilities. Emphasis is given to the conceptual frameworks for understanding normalcy, including cultural, racial, ethnic and linguistic expectations, family, community, and peer group norms, and gender roles and stereotypes within the context of today’s urban schools. Legal definitions of disabilities are stressed as well as the range of learning differences within typical development. This course includes a fieldwork component
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SPE G 624 - Standardized Assessments for Students with Moderate Disabilities, PreK-12
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course examines standardized assessment procedures and tools for nondiscriminatory screening and identification of students with special educational needs (PreK-8 and 5-12). Primary emphasis is given to appropriate administering, scoring, and interpreting norm-referenced and criterion-referenced tests designed to assess student learning styles and academic achievement. Through field-based experiences participants administer a test battery to an individual student and learn how to analyze patterns of strength and weakness, how to synthesize findings into professional reports, and how to determine appropriate goals, objectives, and instructional recommendations.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate Degree Student in Special Ed
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SPE G 625 - Reading and Writing Assessment and Instruction for Students with Moderate Disabilities, Pre K-8
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course explores the major causes of difficulties in reading, spelling, and writing (PreK-8). Topics include the description and evaluation of a variety of effective teaching approaches, methods, and materials used in teaching students with diverse special needs in these areas. Attention is given to matching appropriate methods of teaching to the student’s learning style; to models of teaching and learning in inclusionary settings; and to the mechanics of writing an effective IEP. The course includes a field-work component.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate Degree Student in Special Ed
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SPE G 626 - Math, Science, and Social Science Assessment and Instruction for Students with Moderate Disabilities
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course explores the major causes of difficulties in math and the content areas (Pre-K-8). Topics include the description and evaluation of a variety of effective instructional approaches, methods, and materials used in teaching students with diverse special needs in these areas. Attention is also given to career education and social skills training and their infusions within an across-the-curriculum framework. The course includes 15 pre-practicum hours.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate Degree Student in Special Ed
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SPE G 629 - Consultation and Interpersonal Skills
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Students demonstrate an understanding of the principles involved in consultation and interpersonal skills. Intervention strategies and interviewing techniques will be stressed. Discussions include dynamics of the team process, roadblocks to communication, and analysis of a school system, with subsequent in-service recommendations. Students have an opportunity to apply these learned skills while examining theory concurrently. The course includes a fieldwork component.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate Degree Student in Special Ed
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SPE G 630 - Building Collaborative Partnerships with Families of Students with Disabilities
3 Credit(s)
Description:
The course focuses on implementing effective strategies in working with parents of exceptional children. Participants become sensitive to the issues of parenting a child with special needs and learn to establish a collaborative relationship with parents that makes the best possible use of available resources.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate Degree Student in Special Ed
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SPE G 631 - Clinical Teaching: Secondary
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course focuses on the development of teaching strategies to be used with the secondary learner with special needs (5-12) in the basic academic skill areas. The mechanics of writing an effective IEP are addressed. In addition, the critical issues of adolescent development are examined with respect to choosing appropriate alternative strategies. The course includes a fieldwork component.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate Degree Student in Special Ed
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