Graduate Courses

This course combines practical lessons in writing for a popular audience with a bird’s eye view of the tradition of food writing; an engagement with craft; and a contemporary understanding of food’s place in our culture and politics. We address social trends and movements including political upheaval, racial and economic justice, gender and identity, and intense social change through writing about food. Students learn the publishing and editing process.

We explore the intersection of gender, sexuality, identity, culture and food. Students analyze sexual identity, human sexuality, sexual orientation and gender on real and perceived cultural views of food and consumption. Topics include how society assigns gender to food by investigating historical and contemporary texts. Employing advertisements, menus, cookbooks, TV, films and packaging, students
critically analyze gendering practices. Theoretical frameworks include queer theory, early feminist theory, Whiteness theory and male studies and transgender studies.

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Introduces colleges and universities as a career professional field. Emphasis on historical development, philosophical and sociological foundations, the structure and variety of students and institutions; governance and administration, professional standards, the role of specialists, ethical problems and relationships to other professions and educational sectors. The role of specialists, ethical problems and relationships to other professions and educational sectors.

Introduction to cognitive science applied to teaching, learning, and the design of instructional media. Readings include developments in cognitive science and analysis of instructional programs developed in a cognitive science framework. The design and implementation of cognitive learning and teaching strategies are examined through class demonstrations, discussions, online activities, readings and projects.

Interventions aimed at ameliorating mental illness & promoting wellness are examined. Integration of research & treatment models that consider mental health well-being in terms of pathology with models of wellness broadly conceived as optimal psychological & physical development. The meanings of “wellness,” “health,” & “illness” across lines of identity (e.g. ethnicity, culture, gender, sexuality, class, & age) are explored. Pathological outcomes (e.g., depression, anxiety, psychosis) are examined in tandem with such constructs as resilience, hope, wisdom, & spirituality, & considered at the individual, interpersonal, & community level.

Overview of current and past theories and practices in educational models and curriculum development, instructional planning, and assessment as they relate to knowledge about learning processes, motivation, communication and classroom management models. Examination of appropriateness of various educational models for students with diverse needs and characteristics. Overview of formal and informal methods of assessment and their role in instructional decision making.

Overview of current theory and practice in curriculum development and assessment. Application to Pre-K through 6th grade classrooms in urban settings emphasized.

Introduces the systematic study of language. Prepares educators to understand theory and research on language use and development. Explores implications of such study for English teaching- reading and composition teaching- foreign language teaching- and working with people with language disorders.

Major conceptions of nature as an ecological system that have arisen in science, history, & philosophy. Attention focuses on interpretations of relationships of human to non human natures as a basis for examining methods & objectives of knowing, learning, & valuing appropriate to educational & social practice.

Introduces colleges & universities as a career professional field. Emphasis on historical development, philosophical & sociological foundations, the structure & variety of students & institutions; governance & administration, professional standards, the role of specialists, ethical problems & relationships to other professions & educational sectors.

Course offers multidisciplinary examination of seminal concepts of modernization & global analysis & their application to education. It focuses on the mission of international education in different cultural contexts & the underlying theoretical assumptions & models that inform development projects undertaken by organizations such as the UN Development Program, the World Bank, the Council of Europe, & the US Agency for International Development.

This course is designed to introduce students to a framework of affirmative
psychological practice with LGBTQ+ clients. Students will learn about interventions,
assessment, diagnosis, education, and research with LGBTQ+ clients across the lifespan. Students will also be exposed to scholarship and clinical applications that center the identities of LGBTQ+ clients.

This course focuses on the foundational skills required for beginning to read, as well as on how to foster and assess the overall literacy development of diverse learners in the early elementary grades. A wide range of instructional strategies, texts, lesson formats, and digital resources are explored. Classroom field experiences provide opportunities for application of instructional practices in beginning reading.

This course orients students to the profession of occupational therapy & its historical & philosophical development. The course examines activities & occupations in the contest in which humans engage & participate in them. Tools of practice, service delivery models, practice settings, & current issues that influence the profession are also examined. Concepts in this foundational course are taught via lecture, discussion, field experiences & lab practica.

This course orients students to the profession of occupational therapy, including its historical and philosophical development. The course further examines activities and occupations in their associated context, including an in-depth examination of the therapeutic value of activities and occupations through activities analysis, synthesis, and gradation. Tools of practice, teaching and learning process, service delivery models, practice settings, and current issues that influence the profession are also examined.

This course focuses on the history & changing role of school counselors, including innovative roles & modes of intervention (e.g., direct service, consultation, program development & use of data). In addition, the counselor’s role in career development, school reform & social advocacy will be emphasized in accordance with the American School Counseling Association National Model.

This course focuses on the social and cultural issues of learning as they relate to individual and group cognition in the context of media-rich technology learning environments. The course delves deeply into constructivism/constructionism, scaffolding, apprenticeship, distributed cognition, computer-supported collaborative learning, knowledge-building communities, the learning sciences, perspectivity and identity formation as they relate to the creation of successful and equitable learning environments for diverse populations of learners.

This is a course in the intermediate and advanced foundations of statistical inference in the context of applied research. Assuming some prior exposure to probability and statistics, this course will first cover topics such as the principles of estimation and hypothesis testing, and the general and generalized linear models, including scientific computation. This course thoroughly explores the frequentist approach to inference. The student will be expected to understand the mathematical theory, implement related statistical algorithms in statistical programming language such as R, and interpret models and parameters in the context of applied statistical analysis of real data.

Prepares emerging music teachers to conduct and rehearse ensembles. Focuses on gestural patterns, cuing, score preparation, score analysis, instrumental transpositions, as well as rehearsal and performing techiniques for ensembles found in school settings. Pre-requisite to MPAME-GE
2115 Instrumental Materials, Techniques, and Conducting.