Graduate Courses

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.




the role of specialists, ethical problems & relationships to other professions & educational sectors.

Multidisciplinary examination of seminal concepts of modernization, development and global analysis and their application to education. Students explore the mission of international education in different cultural, social and economic contexts and the underlying theoretical assumptions and models that inform development projects undertaken by international and regional development organizations.

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 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.

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.

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 teaches foundations of statistical inference in the context of applied research. Assuming some prior exposure to probability and statistics, this course covers topics such as the principles of estimation and hypothesis testing, and the application of these topics to the general linear model,including scientific computation. This course thoroughly explores the frequentist approach to inference by delving into mathematical theory and the implementation of related statistical algorithms.

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.

Theoretical and practical foundations for digital signal processing. Topics covered include signal representation in time and frequency domains, Fourier transform, spectrum analysis, transfer functions, convolution, filter theory and implementation. Lectures are reinforced with a co-requisite weekly lab.

Hands-on lab accompanying Fundamentals of Digital Signal Theory Lab E85.2599. Lab sessions will contain programming exercises to reinforce topics including signal representation, Fourier transform, spectrum analysis, transfer functions, convolution, and filtering.

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.

Leaders of mission driven educational organizations & networks that collaborate with schools & communities face the challenge of both understanding & securing funds for educational equity & social change. Restrictive government grants & the ever-changing grant making cycles of philanthropic foundations make fundraising difficult for mission driven organizations to sustain &/or grow programming. This course helps leaders 1) learn about the challenges of fundraising for organizations focused on educational equity, 2) identify sources of funding aligned with mission, 3) engage school & community stakeholders on resource sharing & 4) write effective grants that will lead to sustainable initiatives.

This course builds on the fundamentals of learning theory and interactive design by rethinking these issues in the context of dramatically evolving technology as well as new institutions and new social expectations about the learning process. A dominant theme is the tension between the relatively fixed limitations of the evolved human cognitive system and the dramatic changes in technology, institutions and social expectations.

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Video games are becoming ever-present in educational settings, with classrooms incorporating both commercial & educational games in curriculum, & educational technologists becoming ever more interested in developing “serious” or educational games. However, there are still many unknowns, such as, what genres of games may best be used for certain kinds of learning, & how we can go about studying how games affect players & learners. This course will prepare students to: understand the history of educational video games, & what shaped the development of certain genres; identify theories of learning & play; & describe how they relate to the educational potential of video games; analyze & evaluate commercial & educational video games; & design educational video games with history, theory, learning outcomes, & learner characteristics in mind.