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2018-2019 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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Global Inclusion and Social Development |
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GISD 619 - United States Disability Policy
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course will introduce students to the current structure of U.S. disability laws and policies, the historic trends that have brought us to this point, and newly emerging directions in disability policy. Trends in disability policies will be linked to trends in disability studies and the ever-changing societal concept of disability.
038893:1
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GISD 620 - International Disability Policy
3 Credit(s)
Description:
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is creating a common, international understanding of disability and the rights and opportunities that should be available to persons with disabilities. The course will look at variability among policy approaches as well as how these policies reflect evolving models of disability. Students will look at specific employment and education policies in-depth and conduct a policy analysis using contemporary models of disabilities as their framework for analysis. Issues related to the Millennium Goals United General Assembly (2000) and the inclusion of people with disabilities as well as the challenges of quantifying outcomes and their impact on goals within a disability context will also be addressed.
038894:1
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GISD 621 - Contemporary Issues Disability Policy
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Disability Studies perceives disability as an expression of social values, practices and structures, rather than a cognitive, psychological, or physical impairment. This class will explore how current social structures contribute to the economic, social, and political disenfranchisement of people with disabilities. These contemporary issues are both global and national. Emerging positive practices and counter - movements that redress these issues will also be examined. There is scope to include any immediate societal issues that arise or become politically volatile during the course.
038895:1
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GISD 622 - Representations of Disability in Society and the Media
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course focuses on issues related to disability and representation in society and the media, including journalism, TV, film, advertising, photography, documentary, comic art and the Internet. Additionally, this course will offer a sampling of the major scholarly perspectives and professional issues in disability studies, media studies, and social policy. This course will encourage students to engage with, as well as critique, disability studies scholarship and representations of disability in society and the media. Lastly, this course will provide a structure for student research and practice into societal and media representations of disability.
038896:1
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GISD 623 - Disability Culture and Identity
3 Credit(s)
Description:
The establishment of a culture begins with the coalescing of individuals who, thus, create a community. Over time, individuals with disabilities have transitioned from being identified as objects, to incomplete persons, to localized social circles, to national/international communities. Individuals with disabilities have claimed, and defined, a social identity based on personal life experiences, community-wide advocacy, systems change, policy development, and social perceptions/understanding. This course will draw on a wide range of disciplines to identify both the disempowering identities conferred on people with disabilities and the empowering identities emerging from Disability Studies theorists and activists. There will be a particular focus on disability culture as expressed through the arts and its significance in the expression of identity.
038897:1
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GISD 624 - International Human Rights Law, Policy and Practice
3 Credit(s)
Description:
The modern human rights movement began after World War II with the creation of the United Nations in 1945. One of the primary purposes of that organization is to promote and encourage respect for human rights for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion. This course provides an introduction to international human rights law, policy and practice, examining the progress since 1945 in developing standards and institutions to implement human rights. Students will become familiar with the core international human rights instruments and the United Nations human rights mechanisms as well as their relevance to current human rights challenges int he United States and around the world.
039144:1
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GISD 625 - Human Rights-Based Approaches to Social Justice
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Over the past two decades, nonprofit organizations and social justice activists around the world have adopted human rights frameworks, strategies and tools to advance their goals. At the international level, Oxfam and Action Aid, for example, have embraced human rights-based approaches to their work. National and local nonprofit organizations and activists from Vermont, Peru, South Africa and India and have also discovered that human rights provide a legitimate and coherent framework for analyzing public policy and organizing people to demand social justice. Drawing on case studies from the United States and globally, this course examines human rights-based approaches adopted by nonprofit organizations to advocate on social justice issues affecting marginalized groups, including women, children, racial and ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and migrant workers.
039145:1
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GISD 626 - Global Health and Human Rights
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Health and human rights are inextricably linked. This course examines the relationship between health and human rights, including (1) human rights violations that result in ill health, (2) human rights promotion that benefits health, and (3) health promotion that benefits human rights. Through these relationships the course illustrates the common goals and strategies of the health and human rights communities which both seek to advance the wellbeing of individuals, communities and populations. Much of the course focuses specifically on the right to health, its definition, normative content and methods of implementation. the course uses case studies from around the globe to consider the value of incorporating human rights generally and the right to health specifically into law, policymaking, programming and practice. Students prepare a final project by selecting one health issue and exploring frameworks, strategies and tools to address it from a human rights-based perspective.
039146:1
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GISD 695 - Independent Study
1 - 6 Credit(s)
039139:1
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GISD 696 - Independent Study
1 - 6 Credit(s)
039140:1
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GISD 697 - Special Topics
1 - 6 Credit(s)
039071:1
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GISD 801 - Innovations Seminar
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course will expose students to national and international leaders seeking to improve inclusion as well as social and economic development opportunities for all - particularly for vulnerable and diverse populations - through innovations and model development in policy and practice. This will be achieved by inviting these leaders (in person or via videoconference) as guest speakers to the seminars. Seminars are aimed at engaging leaders in the fields of disability, health and wellness, education, community and workforce development, international cooperation and development, public policy, administration, and other fields. They may be policymakers, practitioners, business leaders, researchers, scholars, community leaders, advocates, public officials, or others. Through exposure to this caliber of leaders and their innovative thinking, planning and actions, the seminars intend to provide student with real-live examples of leaders to whom they are encouraged to aspire. Students will maintain a journal throughout the course in which they reflect on the guest speaker events and discussion, what they have learned in general and about themselves, and what this means for their own personal development as a leader in global inclusion and social development. Students will also play an active role in the organization of the seminars - particularly the identification of additional topics and potential guest speakers, the preparation of background materials and questions for the guest speakers and group discussions, as well as the recording and archiving of the guest speaker presentations and related materials as a resource to the other and future students of the School. This is a required course for all master’s and doctoral student in global inclusion and social development.
038279:1
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GISD 802 - Social Innovations in Domestic Settings Seminar
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course will expose students to local and national leaders seeking to improve inclusions as well as social and economic development opportunities for all - particularly for vulnerable and diverse populations - through innovations and model development in policy and practice. This will be achieved by inviting these leaders (in person or via videoconference) as guest speakers to the seminars and working in conjunction with local NGO’s to identify areas of need and develop a plan for community engaged activity. Each student will work directly with an NGO of their choosing throughout the course of the semester.
040958:1
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GISD 898 - Transdisciplinary Research to Practice Group
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Students will engage in mentored independent research for up to 4 semesters (12 credits) with a transdisciplinary research to practice group. This research practicum will be an opportunity for students to apply what they have learned in their core and elective coursework to real-life research settings. Specifically, students will join a research group for one to two years. Each student will either be affiliated with one of the ICI’s research or practice activities or with the research team of a faculty member associated with the school. A student may also be paired with a faculty member engaged in relevant research or practice activities in another department at UMass Boston, a related institution of higher education affiliated with the school, or a related research center in another country.
038285:1
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GISD 899 - Dissertation Research Seminar
6 Credit(s)
Description:
This course provides support for the dissertation proposal, research, and writing. It introduces students to all aspects of the dissertation process and relevant University of Massachusetts Boston and School for Global Inclusion and Social Development (SGISD) policies, procedures, and guidelines. The course addresses broad dissertation areas, yet allows flexibility based upon students’ particular topics, progress, and needs. The course will help students a) identify or refine their dissertation topics, conduct a literature review and create a conceptual framework, develop a research design and a plan for completing the proposed research and dissemination the results; b) form a dissertation committee; c) develop and submit an application to receive ethics approval for human subject research (if appropriate); d) prepare the oral defense of their proposal; e)identify potential funding sources and develop research funding application. The course uses a combination of instructional approaches and learning methods intended to help students complete their proposal. Additionally, the course intends to foster student peer interactions as a source of academic and personal support for students as they are embarking on the dissertation process. This is a core course for doctoral students in Global Inclusion and Social Development.
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GREEK 601 - Attic Orators
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course offers intensive study of orators, including Lysias, Antiphon, Andocides and Demosthenses, with attention to rhetorical techniques, historical context and the implications for our understanding of Athenian law and society.
Enrollment Requirements:
300 level GREEK course
038268:1
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GREEK 602 - Plato
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course offers intensive study of the dialogues of Plato with attention to his confrontation with the sophists, political thought, theories of art, and moral teachings.
Enrollment Requirements:
300 level GREEK course
038264:1
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GREEK 603 - Aeschylus
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course offers a study of selected tragedies of Aeschylus, with attention to political context, poetic imagery, and dramatic techniques.
Enrollment Requirements:
300 level GREEK course
038545:1
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GREEK 604 - Sophocles
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Students will read, in Greek, selected tragedies of Sophocles, will discuss the social, historical, and political background of the plays, and will become familiar with scholarship concerning them.
040524:1
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GREEK 605 - Euripides
3 Credit(s)
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Students will read, in Greek, selected tragedies of Euripides, will discuss the social, historical, and political background of the plays, and will become familiar with scholarship concerning them.
040525:1
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GREEK 606 - Aristophanes
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course offers intensive study of the comedies of Aristophanes with careful attention to political context, literary conventions, and his Attic Greek.
Enrollment Requirements:
300 level GREEK course
038265:1
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GREEK 607 - Herodotus
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course offers intensive study of the Histories of Herodotus, with special attention to the balance he struck between historical accuracy and literary artifice.
Enrollment Requirements:
300 level GREEK course
038266:1
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GREEK 608 - Thucydides
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course focuses on Thucydides’ history of the Peloponnesian War. Students will read the entire work in English translation and highlights in Greek. Attention is given to Thucydides’ distinctive prose style, his innovative approach to historical analysis and narration, and the contemporary political and philosophical context.
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GREEK 609 - Lyric Poetry
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course is devoted to the study of the Greek lyric and elegiac poets from the seventh to the fifth centuries B.C.
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GREEK 610 - Epic Poetry
3 Credit(s)
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This course offers intensive study of selections of epic poetry; readings could include Homer, Hesiod, Homeric Hymns and later hexameter poetry. Attention will be given to historical context, literary conventions, and manipulation of mythological tradition.
Enrollment Requirements:
300 level GREEK course
038267:1
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GREEK 611 - Menander and Hellenistic Drama
3 Credit(s)
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Students will read fragments of Middle Comedy, selections from plays of Menander in Greek, and Greek Mime, in order to explore the rich dramatic traditions of Hellenistic Greece.
040812:1
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GREEK 680 - Topics in Greek Literature
3 Credit(s)
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This course focuses on readings in important authors, genres, or eras of classical Greek literature. Significant attention is paid to historical, cultural and literary contexts, as well as to relevant secondary literature. Topics may vary. Advanced proficiency (300 level of above) in classical Greek required.
035300:1
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GREEK 695 - Independent Study
1 - 6 Credit(s)
Description:
Directed projects in Greek language and literature.
038171:1
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GREEK 696 - Independent Study
1 - 6 Credit(s)
Description:
Directed projects in Greek language and literature.
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Higher Education |
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HIGHED 601 - Educational Leadership Skills
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This core course focuses on a set of the individual, interpersonal and group skills that leaders of educational institutions must acquire if they are to effectively promote organizational change. At the individual level, the course focuses on five major areas of self-awareness: trust and trustworthiness, personal values and moral development, orientation toward change, interpersonal orientation and personal temperament (including cognitive style). At the interpersonal level, the course assists students in forming accurate interpersonal perceptions and building communication skills. At the level of the group, students learn to diagnose group problems using theory and research about (1) group size, composition and characteristics of group members; (2) stages of group development and team culture; (3) cognitive and relational roles in teams; and (4) patterns of intra-group communication. Particular attention is given to developing skills that enable students to function effectively in committees, interdepartmental working groups and leadership teams. In all coursework, students are encouraged to consider the impact of gender and culture on skill development and practice.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate students in HIGHED only
018316:1
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HIGHED 610 - Administration and Governance in Higher Education
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This core seminar introduces students to the organizational structure and systems of colleges and universities, including governance, strategic planning, assessment, and accreditation. A major goal of the course is to ensure that students learn about and are able to describe the functions of an institution of higher education. Key debates in governance and administration are framed in the context of understanding how institutional cultures and external accountability pressures shape organizational behavior. Special emphasis is placed on strengthening analytic skills.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate students in HIGHED only
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HIGHED 611 - Access and Equity in Higher Education
3 Credit(s)
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This core seminar is designed to allow students to explore issues in higher education access and equity for students. Issues are place into the context of fiscal affairs and policy, including financial aid and admissions. The seminar also addresses the broader frameworks and language within which specific problems of access and equity are considered. Particular emphasis is given to the effect of current institutional practices in urban higher education.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate students in HIGHED only
018319:1
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HIGHED 612 - Research on Students
3 Credit(s)
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This doctoral-level course is aimed at providing students with an opportunity to develop and understanding of the theory and research focused on college students. There are three intended outcomes. Students in this course will (1) develop an understanding of the theory and literature focused on college students; (2) increase their current levels of knowledge about areas of critical research on students in higher education, and; (3) apply their increased understanding of the theory and literature on college students to efforts aimed at the improvement of higher education policy and practice.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate students in HIGHED only
035543:1
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HIGHED 615 - Critical Race Theory in Higher Education
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course is designed to provide students with an opportunity to understand Critical Race Theory (CRT) and its application to the field of higher education. In doing so, students will explore how race intersects with ethnicity, class, gender, sexual, orientation, and citizenship to shape the experiences of individuals in higher education. Specifically, students in the course will (1) understand and critically analyze the primary tenets of Critical Race Theory and (2) apply the tenets of Critical Race Theory as a conceptual lens to think critically bout higher education research, policy, and practice.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate students in HIGHED only
038236:1
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HIGHED 620 - Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum in Urban Contexts
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This core course investigates common concerns in addressing the needs of urban learners, both in K-12 and in community and four-year colleges. It considers questions of human development in several domains, current problems and controversies about learning and responsive curricula and pedagogies. Readings frame issues across age groups and educational contexts, with additional material for each topic focusing on particular age groups and levels of schooling.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate students in HIGHED only
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HIGHED 622 - Community Engagement in Higher Education
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course will review the philosophical, historical and programmatic antecedents of this movement in higher education along with current examples of community engaged campuses. We will critically review engagement across the domains of teaching, scholarship and service and in regard to various types of campuses. We will also grapple with the particular challenge of assessing community engagement.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate students in HIGHED only
037848:1
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HIGHED 624 - Globalization in Internationalization in Higher Education
3 Credit(s)
Description:
The purpose of this doctoral-level course is to help students develop an in-depth understanding of the debates concerning globalization, with a particular focus on higher education. Although the course will focus primarily on institutions of higher education in the United States, examples and case studies will also be taken from other countries and world regions. Students in this course will expand their understanding of 1) theories of globalization, 2) theories of globalization in education and higher education, 3) internationalization in higher education,and 4) research related to various aspects of globalization’s impact on colleges and universities. Students will also learn to apply their increased understanding of theory and literature to research, policy, and practice in higher education.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate students in HIGHED only
038237:1
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HIGHED 628 - Gender in Higher Education: Research, Theory, Policy, and Practice
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course offers the opportunity for students to develop an understanding of issues surrounding gender in higher education, with a focus on the experiences of women, men, and transgender students, faculty, administrators, and staff as well as the institutional contexts and practices that shape those experiences. An especially important goal of the course is to provide students with the opportunity to engage in these topics through developing critical understandings of theories used to understand gender in higher education, along with implications for research, policy, and practice.
040953:1
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HIGHED 628 - Gender in Higher Education: Research, Theory, Policy, and Practice
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course offers the opportunity for students to develop an understanding of issues surrounding gender in higher education, with a focus on the experiences of women, men, and transgender students, faculty, administrators, and staff as well as the institutional contexts and practices that shape those experiences. An especially important goal of the course is to provide students with the opportunity to engage in these topics through developing critical understandings of theories used to understand gender in higher education, along with implications for research, policy, and practice.
040953:1
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HIGHED 630 - The History of Higher Education in the United States
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This core course surveys the history of higher education in the United States with a dual focus on mainstream collegiate institutions and non-traditional alternatives. Early class sessions explicate the development of traditional higher education from its liberal arts origins through the growth of the research university. Subsequent sessions explore how, over two centuries, various groups such as women, blacks, working-class, immigrant and older students contended for places within higher education. Participants explore how institutions and their leaders responded to these challenges, sometimes creating accommodations or changes in traditional settings, and other times prompting new structures that often marginalized the newcomers. Several questions guide inquiry through the various eras and subjects: Whom do we educate? Why do we educate (our purposes and expectations)? How do we educate (in what sorts of institutions)? Where does responsibility lie for education? With what effects (or results) do we educate? The course does not presume a strong background in history.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate students in HIGHED only
018323:1
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HIGHED 632 - Organization and Leadership in Educational Institutions
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This core course focuses on educational institutions as complex organizations. It pays attention to the operation of institutions with few resources, as well as those with more plentiful resources. Drawing on readings and examples from many sources, participants look both inside and outside educational institutions, especially those that affect resources; the industry as a whole and sectors within it and social definitions of educational institutions. Close attention is also given to the internal structures in these institutions, especially the interactions between bureaucratic structures and professionals; to organizational cultures; and to governance and decision-making. The course then turns to a close analysis of organizational change from several points of view.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate students in HIGHED only
018324:1
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HIGHED 634 - Public Policy Issues in Higher Education
3 Credit(s)
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This core course explores the development of higher education policy. It is both a primer in how economics and politics form public policy and a critical look at this fusion in higher education. The course examines the formation of higher education policy at the federal, regional, and state levels or government.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate students in HIGHED only
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HIGHED 636 - Sociological Perspectives on Higher Education
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This discipline-based elective course will examine higher education from the viewpoint of a sociological lens. We will begin with a brief review of key sociological concepts and then move to readings in the sub discipline of Sociology of Higher Education, including its foundational documents. We will then examine and discuss key themes in higher education from a sociological perspective. Students will apply sociological concepts to an issue of challenge in higher education organizations and will frame a research topic using sociological theories.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate students in HIGHED only
038387:1
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HIGHED 641 - Effecting Change in Higher Education: Strategies and Processes
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This core seminar analyzes and evaluates both the challenges to change and the strategies and processes designed to effect change in higher education. It is an interactive seminar, consisting of lectures, case studies and student reports. Each student is responsible for a seminar presentation and the completion of a term project.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student
018326:1
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HIGHED 652 - Finance and Management in Higher Education Administration
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course examines both policy issues and operational procedures involved in the effective financial management of higher education. Major topics include the economic analysis of higher education, policy development, building and managing a budget, financial accounting and reporting, human resource management and fundraising.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student
018328:1
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HIGHED 691 - Case Studies in Higher Education
3 Credit(s)
Description:
The goal of this course is to assist practitioners in their efforts to become more systematic observers and analysts of their organization. Through the use of qualitative research techniques, students improve their ability to make sense of complex organizational settings and situations. Emphasis is given to learning techniques for conducting interviews and developing case studies. Through readings and field study, students acquire an understanding of the stages of qualitative investigation, including research design, data collection, data analysis and the interpretation of findings.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate students in HIGHED only
000549:1
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HIGHED 692 - Capstone in Higher Education
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course comes at the end of a student’s coursework. It is designed to help students assess their development as educational leaders as they move toward the independent work of the qualifying paper and dissertation. Emphasis is given to clarifying various theoretical frameworks that contribute to the study and practice of educational leadership. The course is also designed to help students evaluate ways in which the doctoral program has influenced their leadership development and to assist them in thinking about how completing the program will enhance their work as educational change agents.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate students in HIGHED only
000548:1
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HIGHED 696 - Independent Study
1 - 6 Credit(s)
Description:
Study of a particular area of this subject under the supervision of a faculty member. Students wishing to register must do so through the department.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate students in HIGHED only
018269:1
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HIGHED 740 - Research Methods in Higher Education I
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This core course is the first in a two-semester research sequence. The first semester’s goal is to provide students with an overview of both the philosophical and the fundamental issues involved in conducting research in higher education. The course takes a systematic look at critical concepts in research methodology. In addition, it explores how various methodologies can be used to explore different types of data. Doctoral students taking the course become conversant with research paradigms and are able to understand the factors critical to formulating well-designed research studies. During the course, each student initiates exploration of a research topic, with the expectation that such an endeavor will lead to a dissertation topic.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate students in HIGHED only
018344:1
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HIGHED 741 - Research Methods in Higher Education II
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This core course is the second in a two-semester research sequence. It guides students in modes of quantitative and qualitative data analysis. In quantitative analysis, it instructs students in descriptive statistics and works through problems utilizing tests of differences, association, the analysis of variance and correlation analysis. In qualitative analysis, it focuses on the framing of hypotheses, the analysis of content, coding, graphic displays and ways of utilizing data from observations and interviews. Connections with dissertation research in higher education are also explored.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate students in HIGHED only
018345:1
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HIGHED 751 - Research Methods in Higher Education: Quantitative Analysis
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This core course, as the first part of the Higher Education Doctoral Program’s research methods sequence, introduces students to quantitative research methods. With a focus on educational research, students become familiar with a variety of statistical techniques and data analysis methods. The course emphasizes descriptive and inferential statistics, including t-tests, ANOVAs, chi-squares, correlations, and linear and multiple regression.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate students in HIGHED only
038238:1
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HIGHED 752 - Research Methods in Higher Education: Qualitative Analysis
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course, the second part of the Higher Education Program’s research methods sequence, addresses issues related to qualitative research methods in education and, more specifically, higher education. The main focus of the course is to familiarize students with the philosophical and theoretical underpinnings of qualitative inquiry and some of the major approaches to qualitative research, including ethnography, phenomenology, grounded theory, narrative inquiry, case study, and participatory action research. The course gives an opportunity for students to critically consider their own research interests in light of qualitative inquiry, design and conduct a small-scale research study reflecting those research interests, and read and interpret both theoretical and research literature on qualitative methods. In addition, during the course, students will have a range of opportunities to reflect on and question their own assumptions about the nature of knowledge and knowledge creation through qualitative research.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate students in HIGHED only
038239:1
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HIGHED 753 - Research Design in Higher Education
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course, as the third part of the Higher Education Doctoral Program’s research methods sequence, introduces students to research design in educational and social science research, with specific emphasis on higher education. In this class, students will learn how to identify and frame research problems and how to select appropriate research methods. During the course, we will review purpose statements and research questions, experimental and quasi-experimental research designs, survey research, qualitative approaches to data collection, trustworthiness in qualitative research, reliability and validity in quantitative research, sample selection and recruitment, data analysis, and research proposal development.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate students in HIGHED only
038240:1
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HIGHED 793 - Research Seminar on the Qualifying Paper
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This seminar examines issues related to research proposal development. Students will develop skills in framing research problems, defining research questions, and using theoretical and empirical literature to guide the development of a research proposal. The goal of this course is to prepare students for developing their Qualifying Papers, which are submitted during the students third year in the doctoral program.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate students in HIGHED only
036488:1
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HIGHED 797 - Special Topics
1 - 6 Credit(s)
Description:
This course offers study of selected topics within this subject. Course content and credits vary according to topic and are announced prior to the registration period.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate students in HIGHED only
033154:1
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HIGHED 891 - Dissertation Seminar
2 - 3 Credit(s)
Description:
This seminar is designed to assist students in developing research ideas, writing their their research plan, preparing a dissertation proposal and forming a dissertation committee. Satisfactory completion of the seminar requires submission of a dissertation proposal acceptable to the instructor and ant the chair of the student’s dissertation committee.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate students in HIGHED only
000547:1
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HIGHED 892 - Dissertation Seminar
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This seminar follows Dissertation Seminar 891, providing structured support as students gather data, research and analyze their dissertation topics; write the dissertation; prepare for it’s defense; and submit the final dissertation
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate students in HIGHED only
032983:1
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HIGHED 893 - Dissertation Seminar
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This seminar follows Dissertation Seminar 891, providing structured support as students gather data, research and analyze their dissertation topics; write the dissertation; prepare for it’s defense; and submit the final dissertation
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate students in HIGHED only
032984:1
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HIGHED 899 - Dissertation Research
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Research conducted under the supervision of faculty and the dissertation committee leading to the presentation of a doctoral dissertation.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate students in HIGHED only
018351:1
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History |
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HIST 597 - Special Topics
1 - 6 Credit(s)
032548:1
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HIST 600 - Research and Methods
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This introductory course in historical research methods is required for all tracks in the History MA program. The course will focus on archival research skills, analysis of primary sources, and the development of critical writing skills. Among the assignments, all students will complete a 20-25 page research paper in which students will utilize primary sources in order to develop an historical argument. Specific topics will vary from semester to semester based on the expertise and interests of the instructor.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student
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HIST 602L - Historical Sequence I: American Society and Political Culture: 1600-1865
3 Credit(s)
Description:
The course follows the evolution of American society and political culture from the colonial period to the Civil War. The concept “political culture,” as used here, embraces institutions, public behavior, and above all, attitudes-beliefs, values, expectations, fears-regarding the distribution and exercise of political power. Two momentous events, the wars for independence and union, are major course milestones at which the development of political culture is assessed from the perspective of different social groups, including leaders, artists, writers, women, workers, and slaves. A central theme is the interplay between regional divergences and national convergences. Thematic questions running through the course are: Did a common political culture emerge? Who was included, who excluded? Was American political culture distinctive? AMST 602L and HIST 602L are the same course.
Enrollment Requirements:
Student in HIST-MA
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HIST 605 - Introduction to Historiography
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This introductory course in historiography is required for all tracks in the History MA. It is designated as a reading course in which students will explore critical theoretical approaches in history. The study of historiography involves both the study of the methodologies used by historians, as well as the study of the development of the discipline of history over time. Students will learn how a field of historical study is defined, study dominant historical approaches and themes over time, and understand how to position research within a larger historiographical debate. Specific topics will vary from semester to semester based on the expertise and interests of the instructor.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student
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HIST 610L - Greek and Roman Historians
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Beginning with the “Father of History” Herodotus and ending with Ammianus Marcellinus, this course will consider all of the major Greek and Roman writers of historical accounts. Topics will include: variations of genre and the role of audience; the author’s motivation, narrative style, and use of sources; the sociological impact of histories; and the differing traditions of Greek and Roman historiography. Requirements include extensive consideration of both the ancient texts and modern scholarship on each author and on the historiographical process. CLSICS 610L and HIST 610L are the same course.
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HIST 616L - Thucydides: War and Human Nature in Ancient Greece
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course focuses on Thucydides’ history of the Peloponnesian War. Students will study his innovative approach to historical analysis, the political and military events he describes, and the intellectual context. The course will also consider Thucydides’ place in later historiography and political thought.
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HIST 620 - Introduction to Public History and Popular Memory
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course will introduce students to the historical origins of the public history field, the historiography and major paradigms in the field, and the debates that have emerged surrounding the public role of historians. Students will be required to engage in seminar discussions, evaluate two current public history artifacts (i.e. exhibitions, walking tours, oral history program, digital project, etc.), and complete a project proposal where students discuss the theoretical and practical aspects of public history work and locate themselves in the larger paradigms of the field. By the end of the course, students are expected to understand the following: the evolution of the public history field; historians’ engagement with various publics, and more specifically historians’ involvement in the public constructions of history; major theoretical constructs such as memory, heritage, community, commemoration; and current issues, trends, and theories that continue to change within the public history field.
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HIST 625 - Interpreting History in Public Approaches to Public History Practice
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course gives students an overview of the history, best practices, and cultural debates that provide the context for museum and historic site interpretation in the United States. Students will learn how versions of the past are created, communicated and institutionalized as history at historic sites, museums, historic houses, landscapes, and the web. They will explore successful models of interpretation in public venues and examine dilemmas in community collaboration and interpretation for and with the public. Students examine the roles of evidence, history and politics in interpretation; venues, cultures and histories that shape interpretation; interpretive methods and practices in using historical evidence in public history venues; and issues and practices that challenge the practice of public history now and into the future. The course offers students several opportunities to engage in this exploration through readings, assignments, class discussion, guest speakers, case studies, visits to actual and virtual sites, written and oral assignments, and practicum experiences with a community partner.
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HIST 626 - Introduction to Archives and Information Management
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This seminar provides an introduction overview to managing archival resources, the essential principles of the profession, and the core work archivists do, including appraisal, acquisitions, preservation, arrangement, description, providing access, research services, and outreach. The course explores the history of manuscript collection in the United States; discusses current issues and new technologies int he field; explores trends in archival processing and access; and discusses theories that shape the nature of archival management. Students may gain some hands-on experience with manuscript processing, open source collection management software, and digital methodologies.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student
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HIST 627 - Archival Methods and Practices
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course explores the fundamental principles of archival practice and methodology, focusing largely on basic preservation, arrangement, description and access standards. Issues, topics, and technologies explored include the development of descriptive standards for traditional materials and for special formats. The course may include some hands-on work: curating manuscripts, audiovisual materials, and/or digital collections; learning and applying preservation techniques; and creating a finding aid.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student
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HIST 630 - Transforming Archives and History in the Digital Era
3 Credit(s)
Description:
In a rapidly changing electronic age, archivists must learn to preserve and provide long-term access to materials and also learn to create, present, and archive history online. This seminar explores digitization as a means of preserving traditional archival materials; students may also create a digital archive and learn preservation techniques for various types of digital media (textual, image sound, moving images, and web sites); and examine the unique challenges posed by electronic records, including copyright issues, and digital asset management.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student
019156:1
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HIST 632 - Women’s Health and Healing
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This graduate seminar investigates the history of medicine for and by women spanning the 1600s-1900s in Europe and America. Course readings include primary and secondary sources that trace changing ideas about women’s health and bodies, as well as women’s roles as healers and patients. More specific topics include childbirth and motherhood, experiences of breast cancer, ideas about race, slavery, and women’s bodies, the history of birth control, and women’s roles in the reform of public health.
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HIST 635 - Internship in Archives and Information Management
3 Credit(s)
Description:
The internship provides students with an opportunity to acquire direct practical experience. Students enrolled in this course will complete 120 hours of work at an approved institution (either a traditional archive, special collections library, or museum, or a repository specializing in electronic records), under the supervision of a professional archivist or information manager. Enrolled students will complete an approved project and meet regularly with the Program Director, periodically submit written reports, and, at the end of the semester, submit a final project report and assessment.
Enrollment Requirements:
HIST 626 & HIST 627
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HIST 636 - Weimar Germany
3 Credit(s)
Description:
An examination of German life and culture under the Weimar Republic, chiefly through studies of diverse primary sources ranging from memoirs and public addresses to literature, the arts, and architecture. Each student investigates one aspect of Weimar history using the available primary source material (in translation) and delivers an oral presentation and a final major paper.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student
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HIST 638 - World War I
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course analyzes the causes and development of World War I and its aftermath. The discussions will include the diplomatic origins of the conflict, the power relationships among the different powers, expansion of the Great War, the most important military operations, and the historiographical debate regarding the conflict. The aftermath of the war will also be examined, including the Paris Peace Conference, the complex developments that produced the postwar world, and the debate over their relationship to the outbreak of the next World War.
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HIST 639 - World War II
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course examines the European origins and course of World War II, the most destructive conflict in history. Readings and discussions will emphasize the origins of that war, military developments, its impact on civilians, and the aftermath.
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HIST 640 - The Science, Diplomacy, and Politics of the Atomic Bomb
3 Credit(s)
Description:
The Atomic Bomb changed the history of the world bu had its beginnings int he laboratories of scientists who were trying to understand how the world works. In the process, they built a new weapon that revolutionized warfare and unlocked what promised to be a limitless form of energy. The class will examine how these events unfolded by doing readings on important themes and discussing the evolution and politics of the bomb. Four short papers on the major ideas emerging from the readings will be required.
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HIST 641 - Socialism: The International History of a Revolutionary Idea
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course will discuss one of the most important movements in modern history. Readings and discussions will give students an idea of Socialist ideology and the different strains that emerged from it, including anarchism, revolutionary socialism, social democracy, and communism. They will consider the different interpretations that have produced conflict among adherents of different varieties of socialism and how they have affected the world.
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HIST 642 - Fascism
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course examines the origins and development of Fascist ideology and practice, from rise from a local to a major international force, and its fall, in the twentieth century. Readings and discussions will present different interpretations of the Fascist phenomenon and whether its core style is being revived in the twenty-first.
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HIST 644 - Topics on the History of the American Revolution
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This seminar will focus upon a specific question, theme, or emphasis on the history of the American Revolution. It may engage a historiographic problem–Beard’s economic interpretation of the Constitution; a thematic question–the economic or social consequences of the Revolution; or a single event–The Stamp Act Riots or the Boston Tea Party, as vehicles for a deeper understanding of the causes and consequences of American independence.
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HIST 655 - Themes in American Indian History
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Scholars have recently reframed American Indian History. The last two decades of publication have expanded from basic Native agency to exploring American Indians on their own terms and within their own historiographical framework. This graduate seminar examines the themes and literature emerging from the newest transformation of the field. Each week, we will read and discuss books and articles illustrating major themes and historical debates in this field. For your final project, you will craft a polished historiographical piece analyzing the important works on a topic of your choice within American Indian History.
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HIST 662 - Immigration and Ethnicity
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This graduate-level seminar will provide students with an in-depth look at the history of American immigration and ethnicity. The course will look at four basic themes: the diverse experiences of immigrants; the reaction to immigrants from native-born Americans; the policies and laws directed towards immigrants; and the creation of ethnic and national identities. The readings will present students with a broad overview of American immigration history, as well as some pertinent topics in recent historiography. We will read the works of historians, sociologists and political scientists.
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HIST 663 - History of New York City
3 Credit(s)
Description:
“The Big Apple.” “Gotham”. Whatever you choose to call it, New York City has played an outsized role in American history. This reading-intensive, discussion-based seminar will explore the history, from the time of the Dutch colonists to the politics of urban renewal in the post-World-War-Two years. Through a variety of readings by historians and journalists, we will examine issues of race and ethnicity, capital and labor, culture, politics, and religion.
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HIST 664 - Boston History
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This reading-intensive seminar will provide a broad overview of Boston history. We will pay close attention to the issues of race, ethnicity, religion, and class in understanding the larger issues that have shaped modern-day Boston. We will also examine the physical development of the city over that time and the major political issues that have defined Boston.
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HIST 667 - The Progressive Era
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course covers a volatile period in which Americans came to grips with the social and political consequences of industrial and urban transformation. A generation of reformers and political activists reorganized cities, confronting issues of poverty and dangerous working conditions, and looking to government to regulate the unbridled power of large corporations. Artists challenged European traditions in art, music and literature. The period also saw racial polarization and a new, rights-oriented African American movement. Unprecedented immigration and the massive influx of so-called “new immigrants” from southern and eastern Europe stirred nativist and racial exclusionist sentiment.
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HIST 668 - Age of FDR: Depression, War, and the Birth of Modern America
3 Credit(s)
Description:
When Franklin Roosevelt became President in 1933 in the depths of the Great Depression, unemployment was 25 percent and most banks were closed. Over the next eight years the nation climbed gradually out of depression. Millions of Americans earned paychecks through public works programs. Between 1942 and his death in 1943, Roosevelt was at the center of Allied war planning, and American factories churned out unprecedented amounts of war goods. The class will examine FDR’s policies, his opponents, and the lives of American citizens in depression and war.
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HIST 670 - Cold War America, 1945-1989
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This graduate-level seminar will provide students with an in-depth look at American history during the period of the Cold War, roughly between 1945 and 1989. The United States found itself on the side of the victorious Allies in World War Two, but in the war’s aftermath a new and different war against the Soviet Union began to take shape. This course will look at American politics and society during the Cold War. We will cast a wide net thematically, but will focus mainly on three areas: 1) how anti-Communism affected America both in terms of foreign affairs as well as domestic politics; 2) the trajectory of post-war economic growth and the increasingly globalized nature of the economy; and 3) the expansion of individual freedoms and civil rights.
040526:1
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HIST 681 - Topics in European History
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Examinations of important themes in European political, social, cultural, and intellectual history. Topics vary.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student
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HIST 682 - Topics in American History
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Examinations of important themes in American political, social, cultural, and intellectual history. Topics vary.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student
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HIST 685 - Topics in Atlantic History
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course is an examination of important themes in the history of the Atlantic world between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. Such themes will involve economic, cultural, social, and/or political interactions between peoples and countries on both sides of the Atlantic.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student
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HIST 687 - Genealogy and Family History
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course introduces students to the vast array of materials available for researching the histories of individuals, families, and communities in the United States, Canada, Britain and Ireland over the past three centuries. It focuses on locating records and then “unpacking” them to ask not only what they can tell us but how, why and for whom they were created. The goal of the course is to give students the opportunity to learn to use the “building blocks” of history, the millions of records available online and the millions more being added every day, and “see” the past for themselves.
040959:1
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HIST 688 - Oral History
3 Credit(s)
Description:
The practice of oral history is an important counterpart to traditional archival research methods. This course examines what it means to be a practitioner of oral history. The course will explore in depth the contributions that oral history can make to the understanding of the past. Throughout the course we will think critically about the nature of narrative an memory and work extensively to develop interview skills. The course will also explore the design of an oral history archive.
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HIST 689 - Capstone Project
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course is for students in the Archives and Public History Tracks who choose to take the Capstone route instead of Thesis. In this course, those students will complete a substantial Archives of Public History project. Students will choose their topics and complete their projects under the supervision of a faculty advisor.
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HIST 690 - Thesis Preparation
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This is a one-semester supervised individual course to help students develop a viable thesis topic. Subjects will vary according to the student’s interest and will include extensive guided reading.
Enrollment Requirements:
At least 18 graduate credits
000536:1
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HIST 691 - Teaching History
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Students in this course will analyze historical thinking and work to learn those skills that contribute to effective college teaching. The course is designed for students who will be Teaching Assistants and for those who hope to teach at the Community college or University level.
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HIST 692 - Teaching the Advanced Placement History Course
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Teaching the Advanced Placement History course addresses the teaching in the College Board’s Advanced Placement program and explores the problems associated with teaching across the K-12 and higher education divide. It also will provide the student with a research opportunity in a subject that will address the problems associated with teaching a collegiate subject in a school setting.
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HIST 694 - Teaching History to English Language Learners
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course is intended to provide teachers of English Language Learners with an understanding of the distinctive way in which historians approach the study of history, a sense of how the narratives of the past are derived and constructed, and skills to use this knowledge to enable them to teach the subject to English Language Learners.
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HIST 696 - Independent Study
1 - 6 Credit(s)
Description:
Advanced course of independent readings under the guidance and subject to the examination of the instructor. Areas and topics according to student need. May be taken only once.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student
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HIST 697 - Special Topics
1 - 6 Credit(s)
Description:
This course offers study of selected topics within this subject. Course content and credits vary according to topic and are announced prior to the registration period.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student
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HIST 698 - Internship in Public History
3 Credit(s)
Description:
In order to gain direct experience with the problems and applied solutions in the field, students in the Public History Track will conduct tan Internship of at least one semester in length in which they will be asked to participate in a project or activity with a public history group or institution. The students will be given close supervision by a UMB History Department faculty member and will be required to meet the same requirement as graduate students meet in laboratories. In other words, the three-credit internship will require 2.5 hours of work per week, per credit, or a total of 7.5 hours of intern work per week. In the process of the internship, students will learn from public history practitioners such as museum professionals, tour guides, re-enactors, documentary film makers as well as from scholars of history. These practitioners will guide students through the problems and solutions involved in planning and funding public history projects as well as the problems in selecting, conducting and oral and community history projects and interpreting and presenting historical information in various venues in order to engage and educate public audiences.
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HIST 699 - Master of Arts Thesis
6 Credit(s)
Description:
Under the supervision of the appointed advisor. All topics must be previously approved by the program’s graduate committee. The thesis will be defended before a committee of three faculty members who will also judge its suitability as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the master of arts degree.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student
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