Courses

This course addresses philosophical. historical, socio-politcal contexts of multiculturalism in the United States, with an emphasis on relationship to critical pedagogy and contemporary art practices. Current ideas about representation and identity will be considered specifically in relation to a critique of mainstream notions of multiculturalism and art. Topics may include the history of race in the United States, the role of ethnicity and class in shaping identity, and feminism and multiculturalism. The course of addresses pedagogy and curriculum in a variety of educational settings, including schools, museums, and alternative spaces.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

Introduction to the physical aspects of sound, psychoacoustics, basic electricity, principles and practice of magnetic recording and an overview of the recording studio, including an introduction to multi-track recording techniques. Students perform various duties just as they would in a professional recording session with live musicians in the recording studio. Open to students without previous experience in recording technology.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

In the last years of World War II, Albert Camus wrote his novel, The Plague, as a way to illuminate the deep personal and societal ills around him. The book has again become popular as people struggle to understand the ramifications of the COVID-19 plague. Students and faculty use Camus's work to explore what humans are experiencing and how they are reacting to this 21st century plague and its impact on frontline workers, marginalized communities, elections, and universities. Students write an extended review of The Plague to add their reflections to the conversation.

• Department: Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities

Core course for understanding the teaching of reading from early childhood through grade 6. Survey of reading theory, development, assessment, and related reading instructional practices. Focus on teaching the skills involved in reading words accurately and fluently to comprehend complex texts (literary, informational, digital media). Emphasis on providing appropriate instruction to students from linguistically and culturally diverse backgrounds and providing targeted intervention for struggling readers and students with dyslexia.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Core course for understanding the teaching of reading from grades 5 through 12. Survey of reading theory, development, assessment and related instructional practices. Focus on teaching the skills involved in reading words accurately and fluently to comprehend complex texts (literary, informational, digital media). Emphasis on providing appropriate instruction to students from linguistically and culturally diverse backgrounds and providing targeted interventions for struggling readers.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Study and analysis of significant current writing in national business and business education periodicals and books; consideration of solutions to inherent problems and application to business and classroom settings.

• Department: Administration, Leadership, and Technology

This course surveys the historical development and shifting definitions of documentary and reality television. We explore the ways in which television has understood and utilized non-fiction formats at specific historical moments; trace the formations and deployment of realist aesthetics; explore the ethical obligations/problematics of these forms and their practitioners; understand the impacts on and relationship to both their participants and viewers; examine the implications and meanings of documentary/reality hybrids; and consider the reception of and cultural meanings derived from particular documentary and reality texts and subgenres.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

For major recitals and accompanists, by advisement.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

For major recitals and accompanists, by advisement.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

For major recitals and accompanists, by advisement.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

For major recitals and accompanists, by advisement.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

For major recitals and accompanists, by advisement.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Recital is the capstone/terminal experience of the vocal performance program. Over the course of the semester, students - with the assistance of the instructor, in discussion, through written assignments, small group exercises, class performance and assessment, write, rehearse and present in a public forum a fully realized capstone program demonstrating the successful amalgamation of knowledge and skills acquired through the course of study.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

For major recitals and accompanists, by advisement.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Recital is the capstone/terminal experience of the vocal performance program. Over
the course of the semester, students - with the assistance of the instructor, in discussion, through written assignments, small group exercises, class performance and assessment, write, rehearse and present in a public forum a fully realized capstone program demonstrating the successful amalgamation of knowledge and skills acquired through the course of study.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

For major recitals and accompanists, by advisement.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Rehearsal techniques and special problems in ensemble performance.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

The concepts and principles of rehabilitation, habilitation, compensation, and adaptation as they related to individuals with physical disabilities. Development of clinical reasoning to assess and intervene in the areas of activities of daily living, including environmental control: communication, and mobility using assistive equipment and technology. Rehabilitative concepts will be examined and practices as they apply to persons with selected diagnoses

• Department: Occupational Therapy

Students participate in discussions of current research in interdisciplinary rehabilitation sciences by faculty and scholars. Doctoral students present results of their research.

• Department: Physical Therapy