Graduate Courses

Students explore how to develop a protocol for a systematic review of an intervention for their health profession. Topics covered include formulating questions, identifying populations, intervention/comparisons, and outcome measures with consideration of health inequities in underrepresented populations, planning search strategies, using multiple databases, collecting records, conducting screenings and data extractions, evaluating risk of bias, statistical review, and introduction to meta-analysis and GRADE. Final project is a complete protocol for a full review.

This course enables students to use their own data to assess and synthesize the effects and quality of evidence of outcomes for a systematic review. Topics include evaluating risk of bias across studies, assessing heterogeneity, using GRADE to evaluate quality of evidence, conducting meta-analyses, assessing publication bias,
completing a Summary of Findings Table (SoF table), writing up results, discussion, and implications for practice and research with consideration for health inequities. The final project is a completed systematic review.

The course combines theory and practice for researching, designing, and
prototyping tangible educational technology. Students will gain experience applying theoretical frameworks for learning and design as they develop an educational experience with a client. Learners will analyze a learning context, conduct primary & secondary research, engage in ideation & prototyping, and iterate on their designs with stakeholders. Students will learn how to use microcontrollers to interface with sensors and actuators, in order to implement their designs and gain feedback.

Basic course in jazz tap, waltz clog, & soft-shoe styles of tap dance. Relates the cultural & generic origins of these styles to their introduction to & development in theatre as performing art. Includes fundamental skills & traditional steps & sequences for creating tap dance choreography.

This class introduces students to the art of tap dance, including its history, artists and technique. Beginning students develop a working tap dance vocabulary of steps and sequences, including classic repertory, as well as the rudiments of tap improvisation and choreography. More advanced students focus on more difficult steps as well as on developing virtuosity and expressiveness in their dancing.

Foundational course that explores the connections among research, theory, and practice in teaching second/world languages. Students explore guiding principles and methodology in approaches to the teaching of language; how additional and world languages are learned, taught, and assessed in different contexts; and theories and practices related to teaching reading, writing, speaking, listening, and grammar in a meaning-based, communicative, and contextual framework. Students develop skills in motivation, teacher-student interaction, and classroom management.

Developing mathematics sense through problem solving and procedures while developing skills and intuitions for creating rich learning environments for elementary school children to explore, discover, and understand mathematics. Trends in mathematics education will be researched as well as the implications for student learning and accountability.

Explores multiple materials - including technology - for involving students in purposeful reading, writing, speaking and listening. Considers innovative approaches for organizing the classroom to address a range of abilities and disabilities and diverse cultural perspectives. Emphasizes the process whereby individual talent contributes to the building of democratic communities. Develops flexible ways, both formal and informal, for assessing literacy development over time.

Students plan, conduct and evaluate a teaching apprenticeship for ages 5-12 in which they demonstrate proficiency in use of biomechanics, artistic imagery, musical accompaniment and insight on the needs of the developing dance student's professioanl and recreational tracks of study.

Examines theories, methods and assessment tools in the teaching of creative movement to children in grades K-6. Concentrates on basics of movement learning, developmentally appropriate activities , lesson planning, and skill in classroom instruction. Integration of dance in K-6 curriculum and multicultural environment is discussed. Observation of dance classroom settings required.

Mathematical foundations & concept development for children in elementary school grades. An examination of what constitutes a rich mathematical environment that fosters exploration, discovery, & understanding for beginning learners of mathematics will be the focus.

This course investigates the connections between the surrounding cultural context and the EWL classroom. Applying their knowledge of those cultural-linguistic links, students learn how to develop curricula and lessons for a wide variety of international EWL contexts.

Focuses on the social, political, cultural, and sociolinguistic issues related to teaching adolescents in urban schools. Explores how issues of race, class, ethnicity, and priviledge affect learning and instruction. Topics include: multicultural literature, linguistic diversity, and issues surrounding high-stakes testing.

This course focuses on examining a research-driven approach to pedagogy utilizing the principles of adult learning theory and best practices related to teaching and learning in the health professions. The course will allow for the development and improvement of the students’ instructionalskills from both a theoretical and practice-based understanding of excellence in teaching. All educational topics are considered through the lens of teaching as a scholarly practice as students develop a teaching portfolio that encompasses their teaching philosophy and practices.

This course will introduce participants to ways of using drama to develop literacy skills. The twelve-hour intensive will involve both theoretical and practical drama work designed to enhance a range of work in the language arts classroom. Students will be required to complete a written assignment.

This course introduces students to music teaching and learning, focusing on curricular strategies and models that foster creativity and problem solving in the elementary music classroom setting. Themes of constructivism, interdisciplinarity, and culturally responsive teaching will inform our work together. Format will includes a combination of discussion, workshop activities, reading, student presentation, and performance.

Music in the general curriculum. Developing an understanding and perception of the process of musical thought appplicable to youth. Students observe in selected schools.

This course provides a link between teachers' mathematical knowledge & understanding of the major skills & concepts of algebra to the effective & appropriate teaching of these topics in grades 7 through 12.

Course is designed to introduce students to the pedagogical approaches & practices associated with teaching computer science at the secondary level. Students will learn methods of teaching secondary CS, but also to become practitioner researchers, taking an evidence-based, questioning, design oriented, analytical, & reflective lens on their teaching practices. Topics include developing learning objectives, theories of learning in CS & computational thinking, instructional approaches, lesson design & implementation, & assessment.

Developing the skills of classroom planning, management, & implementation for effective instructional practices in grades 7-12. Topics include lesson plan development & implementation, different models of teaching, assessing student understanding & the use of instructional technology. Students also visit schools, observe teachers in the classroom & use these observations as the basis for discussions of effective teaching practice. Allows students enrolled in certification programs to accumulate required pre-student teaching fieldwork hours.