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• Department: Nutrition and Food Studies

This course will build on a core concept of Lewis Mumford who understood media ecology as a component of spatial and urban ecology. Emphasis will be given on how space socially organizes human meaning and on the “inscription” of space. How do people, throUEh, their practices and their being in the world, form relationships with the locales they occupy (both the natural world and the build environment)? How do they attach meanings to spaces to create places? And how do the experiences of inhabiting viewing and hearing those places shape their meanings, communicative practices, cultural performance memories and habits? Course themes include; mapping and the imagination; vision and space, soundscape, architecture and landscape; new media and space/time compression; space and identity; spatial violence; spatialization of memory.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

This course is a Dean’s Global Honors Seminar and available by application only.Eligible students are contacted directly. It includes travel to Florence, Italy during January 2018 and requires a $400 fee. This course explores the implications of having a disability in global contexts. Students will explore and identify factors, which can influence a community’s view of disability, including enablers and barriers to participation in daily life especially for people with disabilities.

• Department: Occupational Therapy

Employing a global perspective, this course introduces students to the major issues and concepts regarding food and culture. Examining food and diet from historical and transnational perspectives, we examine the effect of colonialism and immigration on agriculture, food technologies, diets, and health. Through field trips, guest speakers, discussions, hands-on activities and eating, students explore how food influences and is influenced by myriad factors, including politics, economics, climate, geography, technology, and culture.

• Department: Nutrition and Food Studies

This course will examine the origins, development, and meaning of cultural conflicts around the world. How have cultural issues divided human beings, within their own countries and across them? How have these issues changed during our contemporary era of globalization, with its rapid spread of people and ideas across borders? How have these developments created new global alliances as well as fractures? And, most of all, how can we find common ground across our profound cultural and national differences? Special topics may include abortion, same-sex marriage, sex education, pornography, and drug regulation. Liberal Arts CORE Equivalent - satisfies the requirement for Cultures and Contexts.

• Department: Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities

Deep learning, a sub-field of machine learning and artificial intelligence, has promoted breakthroughs in managing and creating media content. This course provides a hands-on, project-oriented introduction to deep learning for the classification, retrieval, and creation of media content, with emphasis in audio-visual content. Students create and work with deep learning models using Python libraries, and think critically about their application for media. Students develop an understanding of how to use these tools in the context of their work.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Develops understanding and skills in the analysis & interpretation of demographic data using U.S. census, regional, & local data sets. Uses forecasting & strategic analysis methods as a basis for long-range planning of school facilities, programs, & client needs. Includes the use of computer-based methodologies, geographic information systems, & community asset mapping to formulate processes that connect schools with a wide array of higher education & community resources, including social service & health providers.

• Department: Administration, Leadership, and Technology

This seminar will introduce students to some of the central questions in history, the social sciences, the humanities, and the arts.

• Department: Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities

Doctoral seminar focusing on selection of an area of study for dissertation and review of the literature therein. Critical examination of scientific and philosophical issues related to student's areas of study.

• Department: Occupational Therapy

Seminar for doctoral students.

• Department: Physical Therapy

Graduate seminar for students who are planning to teach or do research in psychology. Aims & objectives, content, methods of instruction, preparation & use of materials for evaluation, & a survey of research, literature, & methods.

• Department: Applied Psychology

Builds on a basic understanding of graphic design to help students refine their skills & develop more personally expressive ways to solving problems through visual communication. Assignments, readings, & research projects will allow students to consider the complex nature of graphic design. Both traditional & digital approaches to typography & layout will be incorporated with a wide range of assignment. A priority is placed on the use of concepts to dictate design techniques & on the pursuit of a genuinely creative vision

• Department: Art and Art Professions

Design for today's stage in period and modern styles. Methods of originating and presenting a design conception. Practice in scene sketching. Three hours of laboratory per week.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Design for today's stage in period and modern styles. Methods of originating and presenting a design conception. Practice in scene sketching. Three hours of laboratory per week.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course serves to familiarize the student with the fundamentals of typography. Typography forms the basis of our contemporary communication. Students will gain design abilities based on analogue techniques as well as digital software. The class explores letterform design & moves subsequently to typesetting exercises performed using the letterpress printer & computer. Compositions exploring typography as color, form, & image will be examined for visual impact as well as meaning. The history of typography is incorporated beginning with Guttenberg in the 1400’s through the classic designers of the 17th & 18th centuries, type-design through Russian Constructivism, the Bauhaus, & Modernism to contemporary digital type design.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

This class acquaints the student with the fundamentals of Design by focusing primarily on layout, composition & color through use of the grid. The grid is a fundamental building block for publication design (print & digital), website design, & animation design. This class focuses primarily on Graphic Design but proposes basic concepts that can be extrapolated into other design fields. Classes will be client & solutions-based and will assume a professional career orientation. Additionally the class will provide a current overview of what’s happening in the contemporary design world through field trips, readings & presentations.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

A continuing exploration of graphic design to help students refine their skills & develop more personally expressive ways to solving problems through visual communication. Assignments, readings, & research projects will allow students to consider the complex nature of graphic design. Both traditional & digital approaches to typography & layout will be incorporated with a wide range of assignment. A priority is placed on the use of concepts to dictate design techniques & on the pursuit of a genuinely creative vision.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

Research in education, technology, and other applied areas of social science ofteninvolves studying the combination of the properties of designed interventions and human behavior. This research methods course takes up design-based research methodology and some of its variants including social design experiments and design-based implementation research. Students learn both the epistemology of design-based research methods and techniques for conducting research with these methods, as well as studying when and why the methods are appropriate or inappropriate for particular aims.

• Department: Administration, Leadership, and Technology

A guide in the design, development, management, and evaluation of learning programs in organizational settings. Topics include the development of learning program proposals, innovative instructional techniques, and the best practices in learning management.

• Department: Administration, Leadership, and Technology

Designed for students interested in the evolving fields of online & technologically enhanced pedagogy in all academic & professional disciplines. Course focuses on post-secondary teaching & reviews the fundamental theories & best practices in online instruction including instructional design, assessment techniques, models of peer instruction, learning management systems, evaluating learning modalities, gamification, & interaction design

• Department: Administration, Leadership, and Technology