Courses

A sequence of activities to develop and expand students' career planning skills and abilities. With guidance and support from the instructor, students design and pursue an individualized set of experiences -- attending workshops and seminars, completing targeted career development activities, and more -- to help them achieve their professional and personal goals.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This integrated seminar focuses on the process of psychological research and its applications. Includes discussions with distinguished leaders in the field exploring issues, challenges, and questions related to professional field settings and research experiences. Topics include conducting ethical social and behavioral research, participating in an experiential site, and professional learning. Students work on independent projects with faculty or site supervisor. Prerequisite for APSY-GE 2838.

• Department: Applied Psychology

This integrated seminar focuses on the process of psychological research and its applications. Includes discussions with distinguished leaders in the field exploring issues, challenges, and questions related to professional field settings and research experiences. Topics include conducting ethical social and behavioral research, participating in an experiential site, and professional learning. Students work on independent projects with faculty or site supervisor. A prerequisite for this course is APSY-GE 2837.

• Department: Applied Psychology

This course provides students with information to transition from academic learning to critical reasoning in varied fieldwork settings and practice areas.

• Department: Occupational Therapy

Developing the professional behaviors necessary to be competent, ethical occupational therapists. Issues related to working in community healthcare arenas are addressed. Preparatory factors for fieldwork are addressed, including interviews for fieldwork placements.

• Department: Occupational Therapy

This course provides students with information to transition from academic learning to clinical reasoning in varied fieldwork settings and practice arenas.

• Department: Occupational Therapy

This course provides students with information to transition from academic learning to critical reasoning in varied fieldwork settings and practice arenas.

• Department: Occupational Therapy

This course provides an overview of the regulations and requirements for professional practice in the field of communicative sciences and disorders. Students explore major contemporary issues related to employment as a clinician in various settings, including payment systems, billing, documentation, professional competencies, ethical issues, conflict resolution, decision-making, and interdisciplinary collaboration.

• Department: Communicative Sciences and Disorders

An orientation to the American School Counseling Association & American Counseling Association ethical guidelines & legal issues related to work with children, adolescents, & families. The course will include the role of professional organizations in professional development & identity. Attention to processes & models of ethical decision-making related to various issues including group counseling, child abuse, sexual harassment, bullying GLBT, social justice & advocacy.

• Department: Applied Psychology

This is the fourth in a four-course sequence in which students create, assess and refine their portfolios. Portfolios are web-based and include performance observations, case studies, peer ratings, specialty certification, documentation of professional activities, publications, and presentation summaries. At the end of the program, students present their portfolio to a panel of faculty members. The portfolio must document how the student integrated knowledge and skills learned in the curriculum to his or her specialty practice area.

• Department: Occupational Therapy

This is the second in a four-course sequence in which students create, assess and refine their portfolios. Portfolios are web-based and include performance observations, case studies, peer ratings, specialty certification, documentation of professional activities, publications, and presentation summaries. At the end of the program, students present their portfolio to a panel of faculty members. The portfolio must document how the student integrated knowledge and skills learned in the curriculum to his or her specialty practice area.

• Department: Occupational Therapy

This is the third in a four-course sequence in which students create, assess and refine their portfolios. Portfolios are web-based and include performance observations, case studies, peer ratings, specialty certification, documentation of professional activities, publications, and presentation summaries. At the end of the program, students present their portfolio to a panel of faculty members. The portfolio must document how the student integrated knowledge and skills learned in the curriculum to his or her specialty practice area.

• Department: Occupational Therapy

Research on mathematics teacher practice and development is examined through Issues and problems of curriculum, instruction, and evaluation and are considered in relation to sociological, scientific, political insights and influences.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Advanced theory-research integration seminar. Designed to examine, compare, & evaluate theories & conceptual models applicable to the study of complex organizations. Explorations of the relationships between the conceptualization & the design of research. Emphasis placed on the development by students of theoretical bases for doctoral dissertation research.

• Department: Administration, Leadership, and Technology

This course complements the second semester of Student Teaching (MTHED-GE 2922), providing students a professional community of practice for continued learning as their teaching responsibilities increase. The course will focus on specific aspects of planning and intended instruction, enacted teaching, and the impact of teaching. Students will develop practices of deliberate reflection and analysis of their teaching, making explicit connections between their knowledge of theory and practical experiences. There will be an additional focus on pressing local issues in education and education research at the various levels, and their impact on teaching and learning. Students will make sense of these issues and develop informed stances, demonstrating their emerging abilities to do so in connection with their coursework and student teaching experiences in a culminating project.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Advanced theory-research integration seminar. Designed to examine, compare, & evaluate theories & conceptual models applicable to the study of complex organizations. Explorations of the relationships between the conceptualization & the design of research. Emphasis placed on the development by students of theoretical bases for doctoral dissertation research.

• Department: Administration, Leadership, and Technology

Introduces students to graduate study in educational leadership. Students develop habits of schoarlship while exploring the lived realities of children and their school experiences. This dual focus deepens understanding of educational leadership and practice, e.g., student outcomes and the State learning standards, effects of testing, implications of reform policies.

• Department: Administration, Leadership, and Technology

The seminar reviews the history & scope of higher education & student affairs; studies structure & function of administrative & professional norms & ethics; issues of professional practice & supervision; case studies pertinent to student roles & responsibilities

• Department: Administration, Leadership, and Technology

This course is meant to integrate skills & knowledge acquired during the master’s program to achieve a professional level of competency in several areas: writing for professional journals or websites; developing survey or other instruments for data production; surveying the scholarly literature; writing scholarly abstracts; understanding the processes of self-editing and peer reviewing; & giving polished oral presentations of final writing &/or web-based projects.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

Principles & practices of program development & evaluation for professional counselors in various counseling settings. Consideration is given to program development & evaluation of one-to-one, small group, large group (e.g., classroom) & institutional intervention by counselors working in schools & mental health settings.

• Department: Applied Psychology