Graduate Courses

This required course serves as a forum to address academic and clinical requirements of the MS in CSD by providing students: 1) a thorough overview of university, departmental/program and national/state accreditation requirements, 2) advisement for academic/professional pursuits, 3) program/university resources, and 4) a map of the field placement life-cycle and supports to successfully navigate the process. This course promotes opportunities for student/faculty interactions to enhance interpersonal and professional skill development and improve student satisfaction.

An introduction to the history, theory and practice of social studies education. Using approaches drawn from history, the humanities, cultural studies, and political science, it aims to guide students through a study of the social studies curriculum; pedagogical theories and goals; educational methods and practices, including technology-based skills; and assessment philosophies and strategies. In doing so, the course seeks to provide students with the resources, tools, and support necessary for them to develop effective educational practices of their own.

This course takes place during Residency II requirement of the Online Ed.D. Program. Students will be exposed to industry experts in the education field of various sectors and learn how the theories learned in the last two years of the program are applicable to the current state of education.

The emphasis in this class in on the student performance & analysis of string music. Students prepare & perform literature from the 17th to the 21st century for Artist Teachers who offer insights into technical & interpretive topics including phrase shaping, expressive timing, ornamentation, & extended techniques.

The emphasis in this class in on the student performance & analysis of woodwind music. Students prepare & perform for Artist Teachers who offer insights into technical & interpretive topics including phrase shaping, expressive timing, ornamentation, & extended techniques.

Introduces students to seminal ideas and perspectives that inform our discipline. Begins inquiry into several complex questions: How might English be conceived as a school subject? How might language be learned and used? How and why might literature be read and experienced? What are the possible relationships among reading, talking, listening and thinking? What issues are influencing the teaching of English today? What are the possible roles for the English teacher?

Students use and apply principles of nutrition for healthy mothers, infants, children, and adolescents using an equity lens with an emphasis on current research related to normal growth and development from a community and public health perspective.

This course covers material that is required as prerequisite knowledge for many of the advanced courses offered by ASH in their APSTA sequence. Concepts covered include the following: advanced algebra, pre-calculus, basic matrix algebra, and basics in calculus (derivatives and integrals); probability of events, simple probability rules, common probability distributions, expectations; exploratory statistics, correlations, law of large numbers, t-tests, and regression; basic coding in R,
RMarkdown conventions, loops, functions, and simple statistical operations.

Graduate mathematics course targeted to students in mathematics education to develop mathematical knowledge for research & teaching in mathematics education. This knowledge includes developing skills in problem solving- problem posing- extending problems- & deeply exploring K-12 mathematics from a disciplinary perspective.

The course focuses on significant aspects and perspectives of mathematical proof and proving, e.g.: The need for proof; Various types of mathematical proofs and their logical foundation; Communicating and presenting proofs coherently and flawlessly; Visual proofs; Alternative ways of proving a given statement; Mathematical fallacies. Lessons will be structured around activities that engage students in constructing formal proofs, searching for multiple ways of proving various mathematical statements, evaluating each others' proofs, attending to visual entailments, and detecting flaws in mathematical fallacies.

Programming for MIDI, C, and other appropriate techniques. Design and implementation of software sequencers, interface drivers, and hardware applications will be the focus.

The theoretical basis, principles, and techniques of kinesiological electromyography and motion analysis of normal and abnormal human motion.

The theoretical basis, principles, and techniques of dynamometry; the integration of kinesiological electromyography, motion analysis, and dynamomtry.

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This course investigates the ways human & natural environments have been shaped by media representations & technologies, extending from newspapers, photography, & popular literature, to film, television, & video games. Integrating eco-cinema, eco-criticism, environmental communication, & environmental studies, the course explores how environments are represented in visual media through different historical & social contexts, beginning with the rise of landscape photography, scientific representations of nature, & “fictional” wildlife films, to environmental media works in the 1960s to the role of contemporary interactive & “recycling” based aesthetics.

Explores theoretical, methodological, and archival strategies for research on early or obsolete media artifacts. This seminar functions as an ongoing research studio while discussing central texts in the field of media archaeology.

This course examines the role played by media events and spectacle in the shaping of belief, attitudes, and actions, with particular attention paid to the concept of the masses and its changed meaning over time. The course examines concepts of mass culture, the decentralization of cultural forms, and the rise of convergence culture. It explores the history of the media event and the theories that have shaped it, and the role of spectacle in society from the Renaissance to modern society to the age of digital media.

This class is designed to equip MCC students with the ability to translate their academic background in media and cultural analysis into a career working within a facet of the media industry and to expose them to the latest industry practices from a master media practitioner. Students are guided by an alumni instructor to make
connections between their academic coursework and current industry practice with the goal to help them understand the media industry application of their intellectual studies. Industry focus is dependent on alumni instructor’s expertise.

This course focuses on enhancing classroom practice through exploration of the uses of media and technology. The course addresses the development of media literacy skills with an added focus on developing methods to utilize media as a tool to enhance content in the art classroom. The potential of media and technology to assist in the development of innovative curricula in all content areas is examined, with attention to interdisciplinary curricula integrating the arts. There is a substantial lab component to this course, providing extensive hands-on experience in available technologies. Additional topics include the changing classroom in the information age; visual literacy; the role of media technologies for communication in a diverse, democratic society; authenticity and reproduction; inquiry-based learning and technology.