Graduate Courses

Policymakers allocate a considerable proportion of federal, state and local budgets to K-12 education yet questions remain about the equitable distribution of funding and the returns on the investment in public education. The focus of this course is the core concepts of K-12 education finance. Topics to be covered include but are not limited to: human capital and signaling theory, education production function, approaches to adequacy, the differences between adequacy and equity in school finance, and types of funding.

An exploration of the history and development of art education and its role and function in the museum. Strategies for teaching and addressing different populations in various environments are studied. Various programs and educational materials are explored and analyzed. Classroom lectures are supplemented by site visits.

Develops an understanding of legal principles and procedures affecting the work of the teacher, administrator and school board member.Consideration of legislation and court decisions arising in connection with organization, policies, and administration of school and districts. Major topics are certification, tenure, tort liability, academic freedom, civil rights, religion and the schools, legal implications of fiscal policy for the creation of learning opportunities, and consideration of powers of the commissioner, school boards, legislatures, superintendents, principals, and trustees.

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This intensive laboratory course will focus on doing data analysis projects with real data selected by the students. The core skills are oriented around first framing good research questions, then having these guide interacting with data of all types and varying quality (e.g., web-scraped, or clickstream-based rather than large national surveys) via visualization, principled modeling and evaluation of models using statistical learning techniques such as regression, classification and clustering, and presentation of results, using "reproducible research" tools (e.g., knitr, sweave) in the R programming language.

Students will develop an understanding of the ways in which they may inquire about policy issues relevant in their academic & professional lives. By exploring in depth a substantial body of knowledge drawn from selected cases & current theoretical issues, students will study the development of policy, the instruments used to effect policy, & some analyses of implementation.

In this doctoral seminar, students will develop an understanding of the ways in which they may inquire about policy issues relevant in their academic and professional lives. By exploring in depth a substantial body of knowledge drawn from selected cases and current theoretical issues, students will study the development of policy, the instruments used to effect policy, and some analyses of implementation.

Exploration of educational reform and leadership in the context of fundamental economic, cultural and technological changes that have occurred globally particularly in the last 30 years. Study of its impact on the policy, organizational, and classroom levels, as well as implications for the concept of an “educated person,” private and public social spheres, racialized and gendered identities, and youth culture. Classical liberal and neo-liberal economic and political issues will be explored along with their impact on educational institutions.

Educational technologies have become essential for international exchange as a "leapfrog" technology for development, as a way of bridging distance in education, and as an important means for the preservation and dissemination of local cultures and contexts. Educational technology is a significant and growing force worldwide, and not only in industrialized nations. E-learning, open educational resources, m-learning, and educational media are transforming not only formal primary, secondary, and postsecondary education, but also rural economic development, agriculture, and women's empowerment. In this course, we look at how educational communications and technology shape, and are shaped by, their context internationally.

This course provides a link between teachers' mathematical knowledge & understanding of college level mathematics & the use of handheld & computer instructional technology to effectively & appropriate teach many of the important skills & concepts of mathematics in grades 7 through 12.

This course focuses on electronic music synthesizer techniques. Concepts in the synthesis of music, including generation of sound, voltage control, and treatment of sound and tape techniques. Included is a short synopsis of the history and literature of analog electronic music. Students complete laboratory tasks and compositions on vintage synthesizer modules and create one or more final projects that demonstrate(s) the application of these concepts.

Through discussions with guest performers, students study the conceptualization and production of live electronics performance pieces. Individual proposals for several pieces are created, followed by a final live performance project, in which live electronics are an integral part of the concept.

This is a multidisciplinary course in which students with previous experience with analog and digital electronics create a novel hardware--based electronic musical instrument, controller, effects unit, or other device related to their interests in music and audio. Student projects may be analog, digital, or a hybrid, and should be unique in some way from devices currently in the commercial marketplace. Students present their designs and functioning physical prototypes with the class as they evolve throughout the semester for feedback.

Application of electrotherapeutic modalities, including alternating, direct, and pulsed current (e.g. high voltage galvanic stimulation, interferential current), neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES), functional electrical stimulation (FES) for improving posture for movement, transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS), iontophoresis, electrical muscle stimulation, and biofeedback in order to: modulate or decrease pain; reduce or eliminate soft tissue inflammation caused by musculoskeltelal, neuromuscular, peripheral vascular, or integumentary injury, disease, developmental delay, or surgery; maintain strength after injury or surgery; decrease unwanted muscular activity; assist muscle contraction in gait or other functional training; or increase the rate of healing of open wounds.

This course is designed to introduce occupational therapy students to the concept of leadership in complex and emerging practice environments. The course integrates leadership theory with practice through topical readings, reflection, discussion, and guest presentations. Students will develop a personal leadership philosophy to help guide their future leadership roles.

A survey of post-industrial business models and regional/global markets that will under gird the production and distribution of music and music-related cultural goods and services in the first decades of the 21st century. The course lays out the major theoretical, historical, technological, and socioeconomic threads linking popular music and networked communications systems and media. Mixed contemporary theory with analyses of real-world.

Occupational therapists have always and will continue to respond to the emerging needs of society. This course examines how changes in society and health care influence and expand the provision of occupational therapy services in nontraditional settings- explores the history of emerging practice in the profession and teaches students how to develop theoretically based programs or services for emerging practice opportunities.

Focuses on the way that emotion develops over the course of a lifespan in relation to cognition. Topics include the organization model of emotional development; the neural basis of emotion and cognition; the relation of emotional and cognitive development to temperament and personality.

Focus is on theoretical and practice-based understandings of admissions and retention programming in U.S. colleges. Links between practice and the theory and research relating to college choice, access, and retention will be explored. Variations by student population and institutional type will be presented and implications for programming will be considered.

Students will acquire a basic framework for understanding the discipline of entrepreneurship and how to apply it to the music industry. The course is organized around the creation, assessment, growth development, and operation of new and emerging ventures in the for-profit music environments. Key concepts will be explored using the case methods.