Graduate Courses

Introduces students to graduate study in educational leadership. Students develop habits of schoarlship while exploring the lived realities of children and their school experiences. This dual focus deepens understanding of educational leadership and practice, e.g., student outcomes and the State learning standards, effects of testing, implications of reform policies.

The seminar reviews the history & scope of higher education & student affairs; studies structure & function of administrative & professional norms & ethics; issues of professional practice & supervision; case studies pertinent to student roles & responsibilities

This course is meant to integrate skills & knowledge acquired during the master’s program to achieve a professional level of competency in several areas: writing for professional journals or websites; developing survey or other instruments for data production; surveying the scholarly literature; writing scholarly abstracts; understanding the processes of self-editing and peer reviewing; & giving polished oral presentations of final writing &/or web-based projects.

Principles & practices of program development & evaluation for professional counselors in various counseling settings. Consideration is given to program development & evaluation of one-to-one, small group, large group (e.g., classroom) & institutional intervention by counselors working in schools & mental health settings.

The practice of selected projective techniques used frequently in drama therapy, such as puppetry, mask, make-up, and video. Projective techniques are demonstrated in class and examined theoretically. Applications to special and normal populations.

A seminar, with particular emphasis on discussing & clarifying students, research ideas & in enabling progress towards the second year project proposal. Emphasis on issues such as selecting & formulating a research problem, generating testable hypotheses, understanding the strengths & limitations of students' selected methods & measures, & strategies for writing clear, concise, & compelling research proposals.

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. Aesthetic and technical experiences that will enable the student to advance their understanding of the limitless possibilities inherent in the ceramic medium. Emphasis will be placed upon a sculptural/nontraditional approach to making objects in clay and will encourage invention, creative risk, and a personal interoperation of subject matter.

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

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.

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.

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.

This department-wide doctoral seminar in the advanced study of teaching and learning serves as an induction into the practices of critical thinking, reading, and writing about the evolving landscape of educational research. It also serves as a foundation for further coursework, candidacy requirements, and the dissertation study, and for developing the disposition, knowledge, and practices associated with being a scholar, tailoring these to individual learners’ interests and goals, while cultivating a professional community of colleagues.

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.

Theory and practice of individual clinical psychological assessment, including assessments of cognitive ability, personality, psychopathology, and overall functioning. Emphasis on administering, interpreting, and integrating psychological tests, measures, and methods within a cultural-contextual framework and producing a comprehensive diagnostic report.

Application of individual clinical psychological assessment principles to actual clinical cases (typically one child and one adult). Continued introduction of different types of tests, including psychoeducational, neuropsychological, and vocational assessment instruments and methods. Continued work with comprehensive reports, as well as the feedback process.

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.