Graduate Courses

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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A production course for teachers, recreation leaders, language specialists, actors, directors, and students of educational theatre. Focuses on the creation and performance of projects with special educational content. Students survey the history of T.I.E. programs, as well as research, devise, and present their own original productions.

Provides foundation knowledge underlying occupational therapy practice for the formulation and use of conceptual practice frameworks. The course focuses on the theories supporting current and emerging areas of occupational therapy practice.

How theoretical information is formulated, refined, tested, and assessed relative to its suitability for use in sets of guidelines for occupational therapy practice.

Examination of theoretical literature commonly employed and debated within the humanities and social sciences. Through the work of established social theorists and scholars, students explore on-going debates in traditional academic disciplines and understand their usefulness to recent scholarship in developing food studies.

This course introduces first-year doctoral students to the empirical study of higher education. Students examine the ways that scholars in the field have framed lines of inquiry, with particular attention paid to the role of theory in research. Students review and analyze several major topics in higher education, including the relationship between postsecondary institutions and societies, workers, and students.

This course will develop students’ ability to synthesize key theories & concepts in the study of media, culture, & communication, through the mapping of conceptual fields & development of syllabi aimed at core theories & individual research areas, drawing out relationships—logical, epistemological, historical, & methodological between relevant concepts, theories, schools of thought, & subdisciplines.

This seminar consists of readings, writings, and discussion. The course is divided into weekly units covering theories and philosophies relating to art and new media, as well as geo- and spatial politics, social justice, literature, environment, race, gender, and other topics. The course bibliography is tailored specifically to current MFA students and their art practices. Readings span a range of historical periods, with emphasis on how these texts relate to the contemporary moment, exposing students to both canonical and new ideas in art and theory.

Students use learning theory to develop their own teaching philosophy and apply both to the development of instructional methods appropriate for their content and teaching environment. Includes examination of learning theory, instructional techniques, tools, strategies, and issues related to effective teaching and adult learning in academic and organizational settings.