Graduate Courses

What is writing for? How do writers and writing develop? In this doctoral-level seminar, students explore the nature of writing as a tool for organizing
consciousness, along with cognitive, sociocultural, and critical perspectives on the teaching and development of writing. We will pay particular attention to research methods and technological tools available to study and facilitate these literacy processes. Applying concepts and methods covered in this course, students pursue independent projects in areas of professional interest.

Doctoral-level forum at which speakers & students address current topics in developmental science including neurobiological, behavioral, & contextual processes across infancy, childhood, adolescence, & early adulthood. Topics are aimed at consolidation of doctoral students' advanced understanding of theoretical foundations & empirical innovations in the study of human development. Focuses on
social development, emotional development, & cognitive development within multiple cultural & socioeconomic contexts. Areas of research may include children’s language development, development of executive function & effortful control, & cultural & ethnic identity development.

Nature of work, career patterns, occupations choice, job satisfaction, work & leisure as problems of education & vocational development.

Methods of developmental stimulation, selection, creation, and evaluation of materials, group management, and program planning. This course is one of four parts of an interdepartmental offering in infant and toddler group care.

Course focuses on creating live and/or mediated ethnotheatrical verbatim performances using various source materials such as interview transcripts and recorded broadcasts. Through theoretical readings, performance viewings, source material selection, and performance creation, participants acquire analysis skills and ethnoacting techniques used to create verbatim performances. Participants gain insights into the aesthetics, ethics, opportunities, and challenges associated with the verbatim style, and an understanding of its value as a tool for education and activism.

This course introduces students to the global arts ecosystem across for-profit, nonprofit, and hybrid areas. Students examine galleries, museums, art fairs, biennials, and other formats that engage different contexts and cultural economies. The course strengthens critical and creative thinking about trends and challenges in the visual arts. Students complete a gallery business analysis, reflective essay about museum culture, an analysis on the role of biennials and art fairs, and a final team project that maps the arts ecosystem based on course content.

This course examines historical and contemporary issues surrounding the internationalization of higher education in the United States, focusing on how the production of knowledge about international issues changes according to transformations in global political, economic, social, and cultural contexts. The course first establishes a theoretical foundation in issues related to the production of knowledge, national interests, universities, and globalization and education and then turns to the history of university internationalization in the U.S. Readings and discussion will trace the early “borrowing” of educational models from Europe, the historical development of the U.S. research university, the establishment of area studies centers after World War II, the explosion of student interest in study abroad, and the increasing establishment of satellite campuses and university partnerships in places such as the Persian Gulf and Singapore.

This course focuses on how the drinking of spirits shaped human history and expressed cultural values. Students will examine the relationship between beverages and power, exploring how the dynamic changed over time in response to evolving political, social, and religious institutions. To complement the historical perspective of how and why popular spirits changed over time,
students learn to mix and taste the cocktails being studied.

This course examines how college impact students. Specifically, it is designed to introduce graduate students to those pre-&-existing institutional conditions, educational practices, & campus experiences that influence student decision-making, ranging from college choice to retention. Students will learn about major theoretical perspectives explaining the formative relationship between the college environment & the student, the research informing & emerging from these perspectives, & how each can be used to inform their own processes of decision-making regarding what constitutes the effective educational policies & practices.

This seminar is designed for advanced doctoral students working with interview data or other narrative materials and asking questions about internal, psychological processes. The listening guide method will be taught In a workshop format covering the entire research process from posing a question to writing up findings. Psychodynamics and cultural factors integral to research will be discussed. Students may work on their own data as well as on interviews conducted as part of the class. Weekly assignments will follow the steps of the Listening Guide and a final paper is required demonstrating the student’s mastery of the method.

This seminar is designed for advanced students working with interview data or narrative texts and asking psychological questions. The listening guide method will be taught in a workshop format covering the research process from asking a question to writing up findings. Psychodynamic and cultural factors impinging on what can and cannot be spoken will be discussed. Students may work with their own data or with interviews conducted as part of the class. Weekly exercises and a final paper are required.

The course will enable the student to: provide patient related instruction; educate others using a variety of teaching methods that are commensurate with the needs and unique characteristics of the learner; provide consultative services using the physical therapist's skills to individuals, businesses, schools, government agencies, or other organizations; expressively and receptively communicate with patients, clients, family caregivers, practitioners, consumers, payers and policy makers; and take responsibility for communication or discussion of diagnoses or clinical impressions with other practitioners.

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.