Graduate Courses

One semester supervised student teaching in a world language classroom in middle or high school settings for a minimum of 180 hours with 20 days. Student teaching experiences will be used to support theoretical and practical applications of planning and implementation of the curriculum. Participation is required in a weekly student teaching seminar which offers a practical examination of teaching challenges and practices as they relate to actual classroom teaching.

One semester supervised student teaching in a world language classroom in middle or high school settings for a minimum of 180 hours with 20 days. Student teaching experiences will be used to support theoretical and practical applications of planning and implementation of the curriculum. Participation is required in a weekly student teaching seminar which offers a practical examination of teaching challenges and practices as they relate to actual classroom teaching.

This course examines a range of techniques for the reflective theatre director, focused on, but not limited to: context-responsive production pedagogy, critically engaged text selection, differentiated preparation/planning, flexible navigation of rehearsal processes, and the creation of person-first, living/breathing theatrical moments. Student directors navigate the paradoxes of the profession at each stage of development, reconciling the innate complexities and emergent rewards inherent in the collaborative-autonomy demanded by the discipline.

This course examines organization communication and the influences that create and define organizational climate. Topics include: diagnosing organizational cultures; the effects of gender, culture and race on organizational communication; communication and leadership; and organizational conflict.

This course explores the etiology, nature, progression, and intervention of developmental stuttering and other fluency disorders (i.e., neurogenic/psychogenic stuttering, cluttering). Students develop a foundation of knowledge for application in their clinical practice.

Scenes from period plays (Greek, Roman, Elizabethan, neoclassical French, Restoration, eighteenth-and-nineteenth-century European) are studied and acted. A course in performance styles and techniques for actors, directors, designers, teachers, and those interested in theatre history and criticism. Additional hours of rehearsal.

Scenes from period plays (Greek, Roman, Elizabethan, neoclassical French, Restoration, eighteenth-&-nineteenth-century European) are studied and acted. A course in performance styles and techniques for actors, directors, designers, teachers, and those interested in theatre history and criticism. Additional hours of rehearsal.

Considers constructs & theories related to legalized & illicit drug use, abuse & addiction across the lifespan. Focuses on biological, psychological, social antecedents of drug use, & on biopsychosocial consequences of drug use & dependence within developmental contexts. Examines specific drug addictions & treatment approaches. Health psychology, counseling psychology, developmental psychology, neuropsychology, medicine, health education, & public health perspectives are considered. Emphasizes the interplay of the knowledge & understandings developed from these perspectives, & applies this knowledge to research & counseling practice.

Examine therapist’s perceptions that have an impact on therapy in the classroom and early intervention centers. Students will learn to identify strategies and methods that will assist in designing intervention plans that can be implemented in these settings. Research effective strategies for ensuring best practice in a wide variety of educational systems.

Students provide therapy and assessment services under supervision (group and individual) of licensed faculty in the department. In addition to weekly seminars, individual and group supervision, and peer supervision, students prepare and present case reports for feedback from supervisors and peers.

Students provide therapy and assessment services under supervision (group and individual) of licensed faculty in the department. In addition to weekly seminars, individual and group supervision, and peer supervision, students prepare and present case reports for feedback from supervisors and peers.

Classification and clustering are important statistical techniques commonly applied in many social and behavioral science research problems. Both seek to understand social phenomena through the identification of naturally occurring homogeneous groupings within a population. Classification techniques are used to sort new observations into preexisting or know groupings while clustering techniques sort the population under study into groupings based on their observed characteristics. Both help to reveal hidden structure that may be used in further analysis. This course will compare and contrast these techniques, including many of their variations, with an emphasis on applications.

Deals with research & practice regarding school leadership & teacher work, including analysis of current policies, practices, standards of ethical behavior, & trends in professional & student development. The conditions of teachers’ work, support for ongoing professional learning, engagement in planning & decision making are explored. Also focuses on workforce development (recruitment, staffing, tenure, promotion, & retirement); fiscal issues (salary, welfare, & fringe benefits); distributed power (academic freedom, teacher unionism, negotiations, grievance procedures); development of staff, board, & community relationships, collaboration with colleges & universities in teacher preparation.

Optical and auditory powers of inspection, traversing, facial recognition algorithms, drone overflights and surveillance capitalism have historically and politically rendered residual concepts of movement, communication and privacy anachronistic. History can be surveilled and reedited through counterfactuality. The technocratic, political and corporate centralization of exposure precipitates counter-surveillance activism or sousveillance such as Black Lives Matter, new aesthetic strategies of evasion and new cognitive mappings of public/private space.

Nature of psychological development in childhood & adolescence considered & attention paid to developmental implications for adulthood & old age. Rigorous analysis of developmental theories is undertaken with emphasis on research findings & methods as reported in current literature.

This course reviews etiology, pathology, and sequela of selected medical, orthopedic, and neurological conditions of adults and children, that frequently necessitate occupational therapy intervention. Standard diagnostic systems and somatic treatments are reviewed.

This course reviews the etiology, pathology, and sequela of selected psychiatric and psychological conditions that frequently necessitate occupational therapy intervention. Standard diagnostic systems are reviewed.

The survey is the leading mechanism for collecting information on a wide array of topics in our data-driven world. This course is designed to introduce students to the fundamental aspects of the survey & ways for evaluating this form of data collection. Principal topics include: survey design; coverage, sampling, & non-response; modes of data collection; questionnaire construction & evaluation. Throughout this course, students will be given opportunities to engage in actual survey research activities.

Urban policy makers embrace local food systems as a solution to a myriad of urban problems, including lack of green space and a dearth of healthy food availability. At the local and state levels, policies are often based on visions of how food might be grown in a city without considering logistic feasibility or economic viability. This course probes the practical implications of growing food within urban environments.

Students will learn and practice the design and organization of the nature park experience. Course is designed to deepen student awareness of human-nature relationships and develop professional skills in environmental advocacy. The course involves class meetings on campus- followed by a required field visit to the study site- and production of a final deliverable consisting of key elements of a nature park master plan. Students in Environmental Conservation Education will evaluate and design environmental education elements- and students from other disciplines can develop a sustainability reporting plan for the site.