Courses

Focus on particular subjects or techniques allows students to broaden the range of their skills & expression. Projects are chosen as a result of both faculty & student interest.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

This course explores relevant issues in contemporary dress, with a different focus each semester; details on the topic to be examined are found in the Notes section. Each iteration will involve student research in a variety of media and methods. This class is a seminar with significant participation expected of all participants.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

Examination of family centered care for families with special needs. Review theoretical approaches and explore the views and experiences of parents and other care providers. Evaluate the importance of the environment to clinical decision making and service delivery.

• Department: Occupational Therapy

A thorough investigation of product support through traditional & new media. Promotional, publicity, & marketing plans are prepared using promotional strategies such as cooperative advertising, merchandizing, public relations, contests, sweepstakes, in-stores, television, & radio appearances, & tour support. Sales application through retail & distribution of prerecorded product are also examined.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This department-wide doctoral seminar in the advanced study of teaching and learning serves as an induction into the practices of critical thinking, reading, and writing about the evolving landscape of educational research. It also serves as a foundation for further coursework, candidacy requirements, and the dissertation study, and for developing the disposition, knowledge, and practices associated with being a scholar, tailoring these to individual learners’ interests and goals, while cultivating a professional community of colleagues.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Explores the subject of desire in modern media and culture. Freud's ideas have had a profound influence on everything from the earliest manuals on public relations to the struggles of modern feminism. We will read a range of psychoanalytic theorists while studying how their insights have been put to work by both the culture industry and its critics.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

The practice of psychodrama and sociodrama are examined as a treatment modality for use in drama therapy. Classroom experiences include participation in the psychodramatic process, group leadership training, and the further development of the aims and principles of drama therapy.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Introduces students to key topics in psychological measurement, including validity, reliability and generalizability, scaling, standard setting, criterion-referenced tests, item response theory, linking and equating, growth and vertical scaling, and bias and differential item functioning. It draws on classical and modern test theory. The first part of the course seeks to develop students' understanding of these questions, why they matter, and how to approach them.
The second part offers students an opportunity to engage with cutting edge research in various fields.

• Department: Applied Psychology

Theory & research of infant behavior & development with an orientation toward professional application. Infant observation & evaluation techniques included.

• Department: Applied Psychology

Theory and practice of individual clinical psychological assessment, including assessments of cognitive ability, personality, psychopathology, and overall functioning. Emphasis on administering, interpreting, and integrating psychological tests, measures, and methods within a cultural-contextual framework and producing a comprehensive diagnostic report.

• Department: Applied Psychology

Application of individual clinical psychological assessment principles to actual clinical cases (typically one child and one adult). Continued introduction of different types of tests, including psychoeducational, neuropsychological, and vocational assessment instruments and methods. Continued work with comprehensive reports, as well as the feedback process.

• Department: Applied Psychology

Overview of major areas in psychology that are critical to education; discussion of concepts & principles fundamental to the learning process & their application to teaching.

• Department: Applied Psychology

Overview of psychological theoretical frameworks, concepts, strategies & tactics of intervention & social change at different levels of analysis. Emphasis is placed on designing & implementing social change interventions in the domains of environmental behavior, poverty, inequality, health, education, conflict & peace, collective action & social movements.

• Department: Applied Psychology

This course considers the effect of music on the human mind. Concepts discussed include our perception of music, psychoacoustics, expressive performance, representations of music, computational models, and the relations between music theory and our perceptions of music.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course considers the effect of music on the human mind. Concepts discussed
include our perception of music, psychoacoustics, expressive performance, representations of music, computational models, and the relations between music theory and our perceptions of music.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course analyzes a wide range of published research on relationships between music education and (1) behaviorism, (2) cognitive development theory, (3) constructivism, (4) humanism, (5) human consciousness studies, (6) self-identity formation, (7) motivation theory, and (8) tests of musical intelligence and achievement. Music education contributes importantly to this dialectical exchange among competing and complementary theories.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Surveys psychology of women. Topics include psychoanalytic conceptions of women; theories of sex-role development; sexuality & psychological health; mothering, fathering, & gender arrangements; ways of knowing; abuse , dominance, violence, & power, & achievement.

• Department: Applied Psychology

The study of psychological difficulties throughout the lifespan (i.e., childhood through adulthood). Behavioral, developmental and ecological perspectives are used in looking at specific problems such as depression, ADHD, autism, and other difficulties. Students explore theoretical perspectives, use of the DSM and practical applications.

• Department: Applied Psychology

The course will enable the student to: independently examine and reexamine a patient or client with ob/gyn, integumentary or endocrine problems by obtaining a pertinent history from the patient or client and from other relevant sources, by performing relevant systems review, and by selecting appropriate age related tests and measure; synthesize examinations and to complete the physical therapy evaluation; engage in the diagnostic process in an efficient and cost-effective manner consistent with the policies and procedures of the practice setting; engage in the diagnostic process to establish differential diagnoses for patients across the life span; and determine patient or client prognoses based on evaluation of results of examinations and medical and psychosocial information.

• Department: Physical Therapy

Students will establish a safe and effective physical therapy plan of care; establish goals and functional outcomes that specify expected time duration; define achievable patient or client outcomes with available resources; monitor and adjust the plan of care in response to patient or client status; provide direct physical therapy intervention of achieve patient or client outcomes based on the examination and on the impairment, functional limitations, and disability; promote optimal health by providing information on wellness, impairment , disease, disability and health risks related to age, gender, culture and lifestyle; provide primary, secondary or tertiary care to patients in collaboration with other practitioners in settings supportive of comprehensive and complex services based on patient's or client's goals and expected functional outcomes and on knowledge of one's own and other's capabilities,

• Department: Physical Therapy