Courses

This fieldwork course is designed to integrate academic learning with clinical practice. Students are assigned to two clinical placements during the course of the semester. The first assignment is for 8 consecutive Mondays & the second is for 8 consecutive days. Weekly seminars focus on discussing students’ experiences as well as clinical, ethical, & professional issues; & practicing clinical skills, problem solving, & documentation.

• Department: Occupational Therapy

This is the first of two full-time Level II fieldwork placements. Under the supervision of a state-licensed and certified occupational therapist, students gain and apply knowledge in a range of practice settings and treat clients/patients across the lifespan. Progressively higher levels of performance and responsibility are demonstrated as fieldwork advances. Students must also show ethical, professional behavior and entry-level competency with their assigned population.

• Department: Occupational Therapy

This is the second of two full-time Level II fieldwork placements. Under the
supervision of a state-licensed and certified occupational therapist, students gain and apply knowledge in a range of practice settings and treat clients/patients across the lifespan. Progressively higher levels of performance and responsibility are demonstrated as fieldwork advances. Students must also show ethical, professional behavior and entry-level competency with their assigned population.

• Department: Occupational Therapy

Social justice and advocacy are central to the work of the counseling and helping
profession. It is imperative that mental health counselors utilize their voice, power, and privilege to advocate for communities that are negatively impacted by hateful rhetoric. This course provides students with an overview of social justice and advocacy standards, as well as practical tools to advocate for clients in the LGBTQ+ community. In particular, students gain knowledge and practical skills in writing letters of support for LGBTQ+ clients.

• Department: Applied Psychology

This course provides students with opportunities to learn the healthy foundations of sex, relationships, and community for LGBTQ+ clients. Students develop foundational knowledge, skills, and awareness when addressing sexual health and relationship well-being with LGBTQ+ clients through research and clinical case examples. In particular, students also increase their knowledge of consensual nonmonogamy to help clients form secure relationships with their partner(s).

• Department: Applied Psychology

In-depth knowledge of human development throughout the life cycle. The student will be given the foundation upon which typical and atypical behavior may be compared.

• Department: Physical Therapy

Not Available.

The systematic study of phonological, grammatical, and discourse systems and of principles of language use across languages.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This course examines phonetics, phonology, syntax, sociolinguistics, morphology, and language acquisition. Students explore the phonetics and syntax of their primary language and have the opportunity to research a topic in current linguistic theory.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Immersion in contemporary sound and music creation practices in France.
By combining sound design, spatialization, and creation, this course explores artistic, cultural, scientific, and musical dimensions of sound writing through the prism of technology. Students discover the history of electroacoustic and electronic music and technologies developed at IRCAM, are introduced to field recording and soundscaping, and participate in workshops, concerts, and cultural visits. Students experiment with IRCAM software and conduct documentary research.

This course examines theories, technologies, and practices of listening in the modern world. How has our experience of sound changed as we move from the piano to the personal computer, from the phonoautograph to the mp3? How have political, commercial, and cultural forces shaped what we are able to listen to, and how we listen to it? Finally, how have performers, physiologists, and philosophers worked to understand this radical transformation of the senses?

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

Explores the ways in which literary works, in whatever media, contribute to the adolescent's sense of himself and his society. Examines a wide range of literary and sub literary representations of the adolescent experience and the equally wide range of the adolescent's expectations, responses, and attitudes toward the literary experience and its relationship to his life.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Designed to develop an understanding of the literary experiences as an encounter between reader and text, and of interpretative problems related to each of the major literary genres. Liberal Arts Core/CORE Equivalent - satisfies the requirement for Expressive Culture.

• Department: Teaching and Learning
• Liberal Arts Core: Expressive Culture

Seminar for English majors of a personal and critical perspective. The goal is to help students develop into not only informed and reflective readers of literature but to prepare them to be informed and reflective teachers of literature as well.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Survey of principles and practices of formative and standardized literacy assessments. Review of measurement concepts, psychometric principles, and the communication of test results to school personnel, caregivers, and other stakeholders. Practical experience applying a variety of assessments to inform, monitor, and evaluate instruction in classroom, intervention, or special education setting.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This course addresses instructional practices for integrating disciplinary content learning and literacy, fostering conceptual vocabulary development, and utilizing new media technologies. Special attention is provided for meeting the wide-ranging academic and linguistic needs of children in the intermediate grades. Field experiences provide opportunities for application of instructional practices in intermediate classrooms.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This course addresses instructional practices for integrating disciplinary content learning and literacy, fostering conceptual vocabulary development, and utilizing new media technologies. Special attention is provided for meeting the wide-ranging academic and linguistic needs of children in the intermediate grades. Field experiences provide opportunities for application of instructional practices in intermediate classrooms.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

• Department: Teaching and Learning

An introduction to foundation literature and research methodologies in costume studies. Includes sessions on academic writing, interpretation of material culture, the use of visual and literary sources, theories of fashion, and the role of museum and gallery exhibitions in furthering scholarship in this field. The course requires written work in diverse formats as well as presentations that prepare students for subsequent coursework.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

This course studies an experience that is at the heart of the original idea of education: the experience of living a life as if one were journeying along a path. With the aid of works of literature and the arts. we will examine various feature of this experience and their philosophical implications. Liberal Arts Core/CORE-MAP Equivalent - satisfies the requirement for Expressive Cultures.

• Department: Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities
• Liberal Arts Core: Expressive Culture