Graduate Courses

Focuses on particular subjects or techniques to allow students to broaden skills and expression. Projects are chosen as a result of both faculty and student interest.

Focus on particular subjects or techniques allows students to broaden the range of their skills and expression. Projects are chosen as a result of both faculty and student interest.

This course explores relevant issues in contemporary dress, with a different focus each semester; details on the topic to be examined are found in the Notes section. Each iteration will involve student research in a variety of media and methods. This class is a seminar with significant participation expected of all participants.

Examination of family centered care for families with special needs. Review theoretical approaches and explore the views and experiences of parents and other care providers. Evaluate the importance of the environment to clinical decision making and service delivery.

A thorough investigation of product support through traditional & new media. Promotional, publicity, & marketing plans are prepared using promotional strategies such as cooperative advertising, merchandizing, public relations, contests, sweepstakes, in-stores, television, & radio appearances, & tour support. Sales application through retail & distribution of prerecorded product are also examined.

A department wide, two semester, doctoral seminar in the advance study of teaching and learning. For first year students it will serve as an induction into scholarly reading, writing and thinking culminating in the completion of a mentored project leading to candidacy. The fall semester addresses basic questions concerning scholarship and its relationship to practice. The spring semester focuses on the variety of the educational research and involves reading a variety of scholarly texts. Other doctoral students will take it as an opportunity to stay in contact with a scholarly community as they work on their dissertations.

The practice of psychodrama and sociodrama are examined as a treatment modality for use in drama therapy. Classroom experiences include participation in the psychodramatic process, group leadership training, and the further development of the aims and principles of drama therapy.

Introduces students to key topics in psychological measurement, including validity, reliability and generalizability, scaling, standard setting, criterion-referenced tests, item response theory, linking and equating, growth and vertical scaling, and bias and differential item functioning. It draws on classical and modern test theory. The first part of the course seeks to develop students' understanding of these questions, why they matter, and how to approach them.
The second part offers students an opportunity to engage with cutting edge research in various fields.

Theory & research of infant behavior & development with an orientation toward professional application. Infant observation & evaluation techniques included.

This course considers the effect of music on the human mind. Concepts discussed include our perception of music, psychoacoustics, expressive performance, representations of music, computational models, and the relations between music theory and our perceptions of music.

This course analyzes a wide range of published research on relationships between music education and (1) behaviorism, (2) cognitive development theory, (3) constructivism, (4) humanism, (5) human consciousness studies, (6) self-identity formation, (7) motivation theory, and (8) tests of musical intelligence and achievement. Music education contributes importantly to this dialectical exchange among competing and complementary theories.

Surveys psychology of women. Topics include psychoanalytic conceptions of women; theories of sex-role development; sexuality & psychological health; mothering, fathering, & gender arrangements; ways of knowing; abuse , dominance, violence, & power, & achievement.

The study of psychological difficulties throughout the lifespan (i.e., childhood through adulthood). Behavioral, developmental and ecological perspectives are used in looking at specific problems such as depression, ADHD, autism, and other difficulties. Students explore theoretical perspectives, use of the DSM and practical applications.

This course offers an intensive walkthrough of a qualitative research method design with a heavy focus on practical application during asynchronous learning. This course is a reduced mini module tailored for the Ed.D. Online students who are considering using qualitative research method for their Capstone Project. Topics covered include (1) Conceptual and Theoretical Frameworks, (2) Qualitative Research Design, and (3) Making Sense of Qualitative Data.

Course provides an intensive introduction to qualitative methods used in comparative education and the social sciences in international settings. It includes training in research design (e.g., ethnography, case studies), data collection methods (e.g., semi-structured interviews; observations), and analysis most commonly associated with qualitative research.

Doctoral students in this course will engage in a collective, semester-long project involving the analysis of a qualitative data set. The emphasis is not only to gain in-depth knowledge of an important research methodology, but to provide a more in-depth initiation to working with qualitative data, modifying research designs and research goals, and documenting the research project. This course complements the work done in Qualitative Research in Mathematics Education I, which primarily emphasizes the design of mathematics education qualitative research.

The course is oriented to the unique aspects of doing research in mathematics education. It involves an exploration of the processes of doing qualitative research in mathematics education from development of the research question through writing the research report. The course emphasizes the purpose and interconnectedness of each part of the research process. Particular methodologies are explored and research skills are developed.

This course offers the tools and a practical application of developing a research design for the EdD in Leadership and Innovation. Topics covered include (1) Introduction to qualitative research methods and (2) Research design and developing questions for generating and defending a POP proposal. This course also builds on topics/themes from the Research Methods course.

This is the second in a sequence of quantitative research methods for Ed.D. in Leadership and Innovation students. This course is for Ed.D. students who are using quantitative methods for their Problem of Practice Capstone Project and have completed Quantitative Methods I

This course offers an intensive walkthrough of a quantitative research method design with an extensive lab component for asynchronous learning. This course is a reduced mini module tailored for the Ed.D. Online students who are considering using quantitative research method for their Capstone Project. Topics covered include (1) Univariate Statistical Inference, (2) Regression, (3) Multiple Linear Regression, and (4) Statistical Models for Causal Analysis.