|
|
2018-2019 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
|
|
|
|
| |
Vision Studies |
| |
-
VISN 663 - Technological Methods of Accessibility and Accommodations for People with Visual Impairments
4 Credit(s)
Description:
This fully online course will provide an overview of best practices for providing assistive technology services to people with visual impairments, as well as digital accessibility and usability, accommodations, and universal design in educational, vocational, avocational, and home environments. Students will learn through demonstrations, hands-on activities, and independent learning exercises about strategies for creating accessible instructional materials, in a variety of formats and learning modalities, customizing screen readers on various operation systems for compatibility with third-party applications, and personalizing assistive technology options. This course explores a variety of assistive technologies, techniques, and strategies for working with people who have visual impairments, as well as additional disabilities.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: VISN 660 and 661 and 662
041191:1
|
| |
-
VISN 669 - Assistive Technology for People with Visual Impairments Practicum
4 Credit(s)
Description:
The assistive Technology for People with Visual Impairments Practicum consists of a supervised practicum for pre-service professionals within the Assistive Technology Program working with students who are visually impaired, ranging from school aged students to adult vocational and geriatric populations. Pre-registration for the Assistive Technology for People with Visual Impairments Practicum is required on semester prior to enrollment, along with documentation of completion of all required courses and successful completion of a minimum of 25 integrated field hours for assistive technology experiences. The practicum site must be approved by the Program Coordinator. In addition to the field-based experience, students are expected to obtain a passing score on the national professional certified Assistive Technology Instructional Specialist for People with Visual Impairments (CATIS examination through the Academy for Certification for Vision Rehabilitation and Education Professional (ACVREP)
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: VISN 660 and 661 and 662 and 663
041192:1
|
| |
-
VISN 697 - Special Topics
1 - 6 Credit(s)
Description:
An advanced course offering intensive study of selected topics in this subject area.
038120:1
|
Women’s and Gender Studies |
| |
-
WGS 501 - Advanced Topics in Human Rights
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This seminar aims to provide students with a deeper knowledge of human rights as both an intellectual discourse and a realm of political action. The first part of the course deals with the emergence and institutionalization of human rights in the 20th century. Beginning with an overview of its roots in political theory, moving to the first and second generation of rights, to debates over universality and cultural relativism and ending with exploration of human rights frameworks’ applicability and implications across nations and cultures, the course offers an in-depth interdisciplinary understanding of the field and its practices. Topics of study include torture, genocide, race gender and law, visual culture, humanitarian intervention and protection.
039658:1
|
| |
-
WGS 581 - Seminar in Gender, Power, Politics/Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course investigates theories, methodologies and practices of feminist inquiry in the social sciences. We look at the many ways in which feminist scholarship has sought to understand and theorize power and politics. It is designed as a seminar for students who are motivated to think critically about a range of issues related to gender and politics and relations of power. It introduces students to feminist theoretical frameworks for thinking about power, as well as to empirical explorations of a variety of key topics within the larger field of gender and politics.
039506:1
|
| |
-
WGS 583 - Seminar in Gender, Culture, Society/Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course investigates theories, methodologies and practices of feminist inquiry in the humanities. We look at the many ways in which feminist scholarship has sought to understand and theorize society and culture. It is designed as a seminar for students who are motivated to think critically about a range of issues related to gender and socio-cultural norms, institutions and relations of power. It introduces students to interdisciplinary and intersectional perspectives to knowledge, agency, social and structural inequalities.
039507:1
|
| |
-
WGS 591 - Feminist Inquiry: Strategies for Effective Scholarship/Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course investigates theories and practices of feminist inquiry across a range of disciplines. Doing feminist research involves rethinking disciplinary assumptions and methodologies, developing new understandings of what counts as knowledge, seeking alternative ways of understanding the origins of problems/issues, formulating new ways of asking questions and redefining the relationship between subjects and objects of study. The course will focus on methodology, i.e., the theory and analysis of how research should proceed. We shall be especially attentive to epistemological issues–pre-suppositions about the nature of knowledge and in their connections to methodologies and research methods. Further, we shall explore how these connections are formed in the traditional disciplines and raise questions about why they are inadequate and / or problematic for feminist inquiry.
034855:1
|
| |
-
WGS 597 - Special Topics in Women’s Studies/Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies
1 - 6 Credit(s)
Description:
This course offers intensive study of a selected topic in Women’s Studies offered through the Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies. Course content varies according to the topic, which will be announced prior to the registration period.
033314:1
|
| |
-
WGS 599 - Dissertation Workshop/Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies
3 Credit(s)
Description:
A writing workshop for dissertation writers at all levels, beginning with preparation of the proposal. Class will include rotating discussion in each meeting of pre-circulated material by on or two students. In addition to a constructive critiques of student writing, we will focus on; theoretical and methodological concepts in Women’s and Gender Studies across disciplines; research, argumentation, and writing; practical matters such as; the Dissertation Committee, looking toward eventual publication, and writing with an eye to a professional position. This class meets every other week.
034856:1
|
| |
Page: 1 <- Back 10 … 7
| 8
| 9
| 10
| 11
| 12
| 13
| 14
| 15
| 16
| 17
|
|
|
Print this Page