Courses

The purpose of this course on religion and public education in an international context is for us to engage together in a critical analysis of what continues to be an important contemporary issue. The seminar is designed especially for students preparing for careers in teaching - in both public and private/religious schools, educational administration, educational research, or other professions which will involve them in the ongoing public debates about the uneasy relationship of religion and public education in the United States and other countries. The course will examine these issues historically and in terms of current policy debates and students will be asked to make connections to their own educational practice. Liberal Arts Core/CORE Equivalent - satisfies the requirement for Context and Cultures.

• Department: Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities
• Liberal Arts Core: Cultures and Contexts

This course examines the ways in which conventional and non-conventional media recreate religious experience. Increasingly, religion is experienced not one in sacred spaces, and through ritual and scripture, but is also communicated through radio, TV, and the Internet, as well as in consumer culture and political campaigns. This course examines the significance of religion in modern life from historical and contemporary perspectives, paying attention to questions of religious and national difference, as well as material and symbolic practices.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

This course will examine some key writings on the topic of religion. The changing modes of religion's mediation will be addressed by examining key historical controversies over the place of religion, including the growth of practices of religious and political action that are apparently fueled and partly enacted via technological media.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

Practical aspects of research on topics related to nutrition, foods, or food management. Students assist a faculty member with an ongoing research project. Depending on the nature of the specific project and the time available for assistance, qualified students may participate in one or more components of the research: study design bibliographic retrieval, data collection, data analysis, or writing for publication. Permission of sponsoring professor required.

• Department: Nutrition and Food Studies

This course explores current theories on the teaching of academic writing for multilingual students. Topics include: cultural perspectives on academic writing; typical genres in academic writing; issues related to providing formative feedback; and an exploration of writing as a process.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This class will explore research and practice in supporting the development of academic writing for English language learners. Topics covered will include the nature of the challenge for non-native writers in terms of lexicon, grammar, and rhetorical structure. Pedagogical options for supporting English L2 writing development including the use of multiple drafts, feedback, options, writing conferences, individual and peer editing. Problematic issues such as rhetorical transfer and what constitutes plagiarism will also be considered.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Analyzing & evaluating research studies in the behavioral sciences. Focus on research across the lifespan including in relation to children, adolescents, & adults. Emphasis on the science of research, developing hypotheses, sampling, defining & measuring variables, types of experimental & non experimental designs, qualitative designs, evaluation designs, & ethics in research.

• Department: Applied Psychology

Course focuses on how research informs policy for children and families in the US and the UK. The course will include topics such as poverty, welfare reform, child care, assessment, literacy instruction, education for language minorities, and intervention programs. What is the history of policy in the US and UK? What research findings are relevant in formulating or evaluating the policy? When does research shape policy? What further research is needed to inform future policies addressing these issues?

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Students apply theory, research design, data analysis, and interpretation to develop and conduct an independent research project. Students analyze, summarize, and present their research findings, culminating in a written paper and oral presentation. This course should be taken in the last semester of study in the master's program.

• Department: Nutrition and Food Studies

The purpose of this course is to develop good consumers of educational research in both postsecondary & workplace settings. As part of an action research proposal, students will develop data collection procedures & instruments appropriate to investigating problems in practice settings.

• Department: Administration, Leadership, and Technology

This course provides a forum for the presentation of research by eminent researchers in the field of communication sciences and disorders and related disciplines. Students and professional participants are invited to comment, ask questions, and engage in an array of topics in basic science as well as clinical areas. Research papers will be read in advance to prepare for upcoming colloquia. Students in the course will develop their writing skills and learn to formally and concisely write papers about research in CSD.

• Department: Communicative Sciences and Disorders

Planning & implementing research in the behavioral sciences; analysis of data; interpretation of findings. Formulating problems & hypotheses; specification of types of variables & operational definitions; experimental & non experimental research designs; use of randomization & controls; sampling problems basic to statistical inference.

• Department: Applied Psychology

Understanding research as disciplined inquiry by focusing on theoretical concepts, primary issues, and techniques of research in art education with specific emphasis on qualitative research methods. Examination of the social, political, philosophical, and ethical issues involved in doing research.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

An introduction to research methods used in art therapy with an emphasis on qualitative research design. Students work on the formulation of research questions and develop a thesis proposal.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

This course provides guidance on process and methodology in preparation for the thesis. Students define the subject of their thesis research, share their work in progress, and participate in discussions, working sessions, and critiques. By the end of the semester, students will have completed several crucial steps in the thesis process including bibliography, proposal, and outline.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

Examines theoretical perspectives, modes of inquiry, methodologies and procedures for conducting research in dance and education. Focus on developing qualitative research and writing skills, and tools in movement assessment. Case study applications in dance education are stressed.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Examines both theoretical and applied aspects of research design, data analysis, and interpretation. Through readings, class discussion, guest lectures and written assignments, student will gain a thorough understanding of and practice in the components of good food-focused research. Topics include: articulating a research question, locating and using primary and secondary source information, conducting original research, and structuring and executing a research project.

• Department: Nutrition and Food Studies

A review of current research and the development of research projects based on previous training and course work. Focus on evaluating research in such areas as education in other cultures, global communications, modernization, educational transfer, and international cultural relations.

• Department: Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities

A review of current research and the development of research projects based on previous training and course work. Focus on evaluating research in such areas as education in other cultures, global communications, modernization, educational transfer, and international cultural relations.

• Department: Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities

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• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions