Courses

Focus on particular subjects or techniques allows students to broaden skills & expression. Past topics have included the figure, the landscape, grisaille, pastels, & charcoal. Projects are chosen as a result of both faculty & student interest.

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.

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.

Focuses on particular subjects or techniques to allow students to broaden skills and expression. Projects are chosen as a result of both faculty and student interest.

Studio course with emphasis on the student’s evolving art practices in painting, interspersed within the standard studio class environment are lectures, class readings, guest artists & class trips. Class projects are a combination of specific prompts & self directed approaches. Concerns with “context” and “problem solving” factor heavily into the class dialogue. Projects also leave room for experimental approaches to art making, painting and non painting alike.

Students work directly with internationally recognized figures in photography. Topics for workshops range from the techniques of established photographers to discussions of issues in photographic theory, history, & criticism.

Students work directly with internationally recognized figures in photography. Topics for workshops range from the techniques of established photographers to discussions of issues in photographic theory, history and criticism.

Focuses on specialized materials & techniques allows students to broaden the range of their skills & expression. Projects are chosen as a result of faculty & student interest.

Focuses on particular subjects or techniques to allow students to broaden skills and expression. Projects are chosen as a result of both faculty and student interest.

Focuses on specialized materials & techniques allows students to broaden the range of their skills & expression. Projects are chosen as a result of both faculty & student interest.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.