Graduate Courses

Additionally, its description should be updated to: Examines the interrelationships across society, culture, economics and education in policy and practice globally and locally. Focusing on democracy, representation and belonging in pluralistic communities, students explore how power in economic, cultural and social relations shape education and influence, norms and values, as well as how these shape relationships between individuals, communities and society.

Analysis of the relationship between higher education & the development of political policy, with particular attention to both federal & state interest in university activities; impact of federal aid on the structure & development of universities & colleges; emergence of academic interest groups on the national & state levels & their role in shaping higher education policy.

Practices and applications of the various areas of international education at the tertiary level of the United States. Examines key areas in the field: international student and scholar services; study abroad; international recruitment and admissions; institutional linkages; and governance, development, leadership, and protocol.

Course examines the practice of education abroad and international
student services in higher education. Topics include the historical
development and current state of the field, an analysis of various
types of study abroad programs and innovative programs that involve
“outbound” student mobility, assessment of study abroad programs,
international student flows into the United States, international
student recruitment, visa and immigration services, support structures
for international students, and the transition from education to work
for international students.

Students will examine the sources, content, and flow of racial and radicalized discourse on the web, as well as a broader variety of issues related to race and digital media. Central themes of racial formation and critical race theory, coupled with foundational concepts from graph theory and social network analysis will guide explorations into the multifaceted ways in which racial disadvantage , exclusion, segregation and disparate treatment get produced and reproduced in cyberspace.

Explore how food is used as a tool in social movements across cultures and time. Course themes include food and revolutions, food as social resistance, weaponizing food and food as an apparatus for government policies. Students will learn that food can be both a force for change as well as oppression.

By exploring the development of the musical traditions found within specific regions of the US & beyond, this class will focus on people & events that helped shape the evolution of jazz music. We will explore the circumstances & coincidences that propelled jazz into the world as viewed through the lens of cultural, social, technological, political & religious implications.

This course is designed to help students identify, understand, and manage the diverse language needs, abilities and interests of adult learners essential for teaching, planning and assessing effective classroom practices. Instructional issues and concepts for teaching and designing curriculum are explored theoretically and experientially to incorporate and support the cultural, linguistic, cognitive, professional, pragmatic, experiential and personal perspectives of adult learners.

Study of approaches, methods, and techniques used in teaching language skills and developing cross-cultural understandings to second/foreign language learners at the elementary and secondary levels The emphasis of the course includes curriculum development, language development through different development stages and through content areas, language testing, lesson planning, and micro-teaching.

This course explores instructional approaches and resources appropriate for multilingual learners in elementary and secondary classrooms. Students develop skills in curriculum-, unit- and lesson-planning, and creating a safe and inclusive classroom environment. Concrete tools for working in the classroom are explored via frameworks such as culturally-sustaining pedagogy, sociocultural approaches to learning, and communicative language teaching.

The needs of the preschool child with disabilities is explored through an examination of the child, family, and environmental characteristics. Atypical language, speech, emotional, motor, and cognitive development is presented with a focus on the interdependent nature of these domains. A major focus is transdisciplinary collaboration of educators and specialists from occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech and language, psychology, and recreation and health in making educationally relevant decisions.

An increasing number of arts institutions, community based organizations, schools and colleges are recognizing the important role of the arts as an essential part of the educational process. The course will introduce students to the basic issues implicit to the collaboration between artists and teachers in an educational setting. It will examine the different perspectives from which artists and teachers often view each other and their work; and will encourage students to identify the common ground that exists in respect to both aims and processes. It will introduce students to some of the fundamental pedagogical issues that confront teachers and artists alike (e.g. the role and relative merits of didacticism, self-discovery, creative expression, freedom, discipline, structure, and cultural relativity etc.) and equip them with some practical strategies and approaches to such tasks and challenges as defining objectives, planning lessons, leading discussions, general classroom management, and the maintenance of a productive learning environment.

The first method course for foreign language education majors.Course contents include guiding principles and methodology in a variety of approaches to the teaching of foreign languages, specifically in developing auditory comprehension and oral production; teaching, reading and writing, impact of culture; heritage, socioeconomic level, and educational background on language and literacy development as well as human development processes and variations. Also included are skills in motivation, communication, and classroom management.

This course provides a link between teachers' mathematical knowledge and understanding of the major skills andconcepts of pre-calculus mathematics to the effective and appropriate teaching of these topics in grades 7 through 12.

This course provides a link between teachers' mathematical knowledge and understanding of the major skills and concepts of ratios, proporations, percents, decimals and fractions to the effective and appropriate teaching of these topics in grades 7-12.

This class focuses on the use of the voice and singing in music therapy practice. Students explore the importance of the voice in a person's development as well as the many ways to use the voice in music therapy. The students are introduced to a wide range of vocal uses and expression through improvisation and songs and are helped to increase their spontaneity and free their natural voice.

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