Graduate Courses

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.

The course will enable the student to: independently examine and reexamine a patient or client with ob/gyn, integumentary or endocrine problems by obtaining a pertinent history from the patient or client and from other relevant sources, by performing relevant systems review, and by selecting appropriate age related tests and measure; synthesize examinations and to complete the physical therapy evaluation; engage in the diagnostic process in an efficient and cost-effective manner consistent with the policies and procedures of the practice setting; engage in the diagnostic process to establish differential diagnoses for patients across the life span; and determine patient or client prognoses based on evaluation of results of examinations and medical and psychosocial information.

Students will establish a safe and effective physical therapy plan of care; establish goals and functional outcomes that specify expected time duration; define achievable patient or client outcomes with available resources; monitor and adjust the plan of care in response to patient or client status; provide direct physical therapy intervention of achieve patient or client outcomes based on the examination and on the impairment, functional limitations, and disability; promote optimal health by providing information on wellness, impairment , disease, disability and health risks related to age, gender, culture and lifestyle; provide primary, secondary or tertiary care to patients in collaboration with other practitioners in settings supportive of comprehensive and complex services based on patient's or client's goals and expected functional outcomes and on knowledge of one's own and other's capabilities,

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 & 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), & 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.

Course serves as an introduction to the analytic & empirical methodologies employed in contemporary quantitative analyses of international, comparative, & US education. Covering various sub-fields & topics, this course emphasizes a basic understanding of the statistics & theory behind different methods, a thoughtful consumption of literature that uses quantitative methods, & application of common statistical techniques.

The application of quantitative methods to organizational analysis, problem-solving, & research. Utilizes appropriate computer hardware & software technology for analyzing empirical data drawn from practical organizational & administrative settings.

This course examines the political movement of queer and transgender artists and programmers who are creating games and computational media. Throughout the semester, we will read work by queer, trans, and feminist scholars and game designers and play the games they designed in order to situate today’s queer and trans games movement within the histories, contributions, and politics of queer and trans people and people of color. How might we re-imagine the radical potentiality of video games by centering game studies on queer and trans life, history and
experience?

This course explores queer and transgender identity through the lens of film and
visual media. Through readings, films, and assignments, students investigate key historical moments of queer representation across a range of aesthetic genres, including Hollywood films, television, documentary, and New Queer Cinema, with emphasis on the American cultural context. Using key tools and insights from queer theory, we “read” these works as cultural texts that shed light on the ongoing struggle over gender representation, identity, and appropriate sexual behaviors.

In this course, an advanced seminar, students will deepen their understanding of the concepts of race, ethnicity, and racism across multiple contexts, such as the nation-state, region, schools, and others, with a focus on the United States. Through a range of texts drawn from the social sciences and humanities, students examine the processes of the social construction of race and inequality reproduction, engage historical ideas of race and racism, and consider future recalibrations of the forms of race and racism.

This course focuses on the ways that media have shaped public discourse about race and racism both within and beyond the confines of the United States. The course considers a variety of media - television sitcoms and drama, television and print news, film, popular music, the internet and others - for the purpose of investigating how media have and continue to variably influence the public's 'racial agenda,' and the general content, tone and tenor of racial conversation in the public sphere.

This course addresses philosophical. historical, socio-politcal contexts of multiculturalism in the United States, with an emphasis on relationship to critical pedagogy and contemporary art practices. Current ideas about representation and identity will be considered specifically in relation to a critique of mainstream notions of multiculturalism and art. Topics may include the history of race in the United States, the role of ethnicity and class in shaping identity, and feminism and multiculturalism. The course of addresses pedagogy and curriculum in a variety of educational settings, including schools, museums, and alternative spaces.