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HHS 500 - Mindfulness for Clinicians
Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally (Kabat-Zinn, 2005). This course offers the student the opportunity to use mindfulness and mindfulness-based stress reduction in their daily lives and clinical practice. Students will be given the opportunity to gain knowledge and practice techniques related to awareness, noticing, deep breathing, meditation, emotional regulation, active listening, and powerful communication skills.
Prerequisites & Notes
Cross-listed with HHS*400. Normal Cycle Offering: Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
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HRD 501 - Adult and Organizational Learning
This course will provide students with an introduction to HRD and the theory, principles, and models of human behavior and learning in organizations. The course will focus on the analysis of differences in adult learning styles/needs, and individual versus group processes in learning organizations.
Credits: 3
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HRD 502 - Career Planning and Development
This course will provide students with the tools for analyzing and evaluating career development plans or programs as a sub-system of performance management in organizations. It will provide students with the opportunity for individual career exploration and introduce key organizational career management processes that might be developed to increase job satisfaction and organizational commitment levels within the employee population of a firm.
Prerequisites & Notes
Normal Cycle Offering: Fall and Summer
Credits: 3
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HRD 560 - Training and Development
Students will examine the role of training and development in achieving organizational objectives. Needs assessment, design, methods, techniques, and evaluation are some of the issues to be explored through the course. Adult learning models will be incorporated as a means of improving employee performance.
Prerequisites & Notes
Pre or Co-requisite: HRD 501
Credits: 3
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HRD 583 - Human Resource Development Internship
A graduate level internship is a work experience of a minimum of 180 hours completed in a semester and offered only to matriculated students. Students must have approval of their academic advisor in order to apply for an internship and register for this course. Student Learning Outcomes: At the conclusion of this internship, students will satisfy academic requirements demonstrating: -a greater understanding of the role of the HR professional in the organization -improved skills and knowledge needed by HRD professionals in today’s organizations -applied research, theory and HRD concepts to what is being done in the ‘real world’ wtihin a project area (or case study of the organization) -appreciation for whether or not HRD is consistent with a future career interest.
Prerequisites & Notes
Chair Approval Required. Students must have the approval of their academic advisor in order to apply for an internship and register for this course. Normal Cycle Offering: Fall, Summer, and Spring
Credits: 3
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HRD 595 - Strategic Human Resource Development
This course is a comprehensive experience designed to integrate the knowledge, skills, and attitudes acquired through successful, prior course completion of core and elective courses. Case analysis,project managment, and research will play an important role in this capstone experience. The students will also examine the future of HR through the critical lense of trends and issues faced in the field.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Completion of 27 graduate credits
Credits: 3
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HRD 596 - Advanced Seminar in Human Resource Development
The Advanced Seminar in HRD presents the opportunity for students to demonstrate an integrated understanding of sound business principles, ethical standards, and best practices in human resource development. Students will complete an instructor-approved project that addresses a key performance area within their existing workplace or another organization as the focus for development of an idea or resolution of a business problem. Working in close consultation with the course instructor and project sponsor from the partnering organization, students will formulate and defend a plan of action for the identified opportunity or problem and prepare a formal presentation of the completed project.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Completion of 27 graduate credits
Credits: 3
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HRM 520 - Introduction to HR
This course provides an overview of the HR functions in modern organizations, special emphasis is given to improving productivity, quality of work life and engagement of employees given trends in diversity, technology, globalization, and other current HR issues.
Prerequisites & Notes
Normal Cycle Offering: Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
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HRM 523 - Hr Professional Certification Prep Certification Program
The primary emphasis of this course is to assist HR professionals in preparation for the SHRM-CP Certification examination sponsored by the Society for Human Resource Management. The secondary purpose is for the professional development of individuals interested in expanding their HR management knowledge. This course will cover the topics in the HR body of knowledge as defined by HRCI.
Credits: 3
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HRM 530 - Legal Environment of Human Resources
This course is an introduction to the study of law with special emphasis on employment law. Areas of study will include an overview of the legal environment, common law, statutory law, regulatory law, legal research, employment at will, employment contracts, equal employment opportunities laws, compensation, benefits, and labor law. Students will explore this complex and changing regulatory context from the perspective of the HR manager.
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Normal Cycle Offering: Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
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HRM 535 - Organizational Development and Change
The study of change theory and the practice of organization development provides grounding to this course in order to support the skill development,ethical advocacy, and application of change strategies for the workplace and in the community. Students will be able to identify and explain the important concepts of change theory and apply them to relevant challenges in their current and future professional roles.
Prerequisites & Notes
Normal Cycle Offering: Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
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HRM 540 - Talent Acquisition & Retention
Students will learn about the challenges of designing and managing a successful staffing process. The course operates from the perspective that effective planning, sourcing, and selection of human resources is a key driver of an organization’s ability to achieve its strategic objectives.
Credits: 3
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HRM 550 - Compensation and Benefits
The general structure of an organization and the rewards employees seek in exchange for the contribution they provide will be examined. Topics include: people and work; rewards and a motivating work environment; government and market influences; job content analysis; development pay structures; measure performance and pay for performance; employee benefits and administration of the compensation plan.
Credits: 3
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HRM 570 - HR Metrics and Analytics
This course provides the opportunity to develop individual and managerial skills in varied workforce metrics utilized in the HR profession. Students will assess their skills and compare and contrast measurement systems (scorecards, analytics, dashboards and more) in a range of HR functional areas. Implications for organizational and individual performance will be evaluated.
Credits: 3
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HRM 583 - HRM Internship
A graduate level internship is a work experience that is completed during one semester. It requires the student to work 12-20 hours per week for a minimum of 180 hours. Successful completion of the internship earns the student three hours of academic graduate credit.
Prerequisites & Notes
Chair Approval Required. Students must have the approval of their academic advisor in order to apply for an internship and register for this course. Normal Cycle Offering: Fall, Summer, and Spring
Credits: 3
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HRM 596 - Advanced Seminar in Human Resources Management
The Advanced Seminar in HRM presents the opportunity for students to demonstrate an integrated understanding of sound business principles, ethical standards, and best practices in human resources management. Students will complete an instructor-approved project that addresses a key performance area within their existing workplace or another organization as the focus for development of an idea or resolution of a business problem. Working in close consultation with the course instructor and project sponsor from the partnering organization, students will formulate and defend a plan of action for the identified opportunity or problem and prepare a formal presentation of the completed project.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Completion of 27 graduate credits
Credits: 3
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MGT 503 - Management and Behavior in Organizations
The effective management of people is a critical component of organizational competitiveness. This course prepares students to manage organizations and their human capital in a rapidly-changing global environment. Topics covered include leadership; teamwork; power, politics, and influence; how to structure more effective organizations; and, how to manage organizational change. Tying all of these elements together, the course will devote particular attention to the competencies, skills and behaviors that are indicative of good management and how organizations and managers can be transformed for better alignment with the business demands of the future.
Prerequisites & Notes
Normal Cycle Offering: Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
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MGT 505 - Quality and Performance Management
Students will explore the basic principles of continuous quality improvement and its impact on the management of people and organizations. Students will work in teams to gain initial experience in problem solving, using statistical and management quality improvement techniques and applying these to manage individual, team, and organizational performance.
Credits: 3
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MGT 507 - Marketing Management
Students will study marketing principles and will apply them to case studies involving various marketing problems. Students will also gain a working knowledge of marketing management from guest speakers, who will offer expertise in specific areas.
Prerequisites & Notes
Pre-requisite: Undergraduate course in Principles of Marketing is required.
Credits: 3
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MGT 509 - Accounting & Finance for Non-Financial Managers
In this course students will learn about the key financial information contained in balance sheets, income statements, cash flow statements, budgets and forecast, and annual reports. Emphasis is placed on how to interpret the information and its relation to the overall performance and financial health of the organization.
Prerequisites & Notes
Normal Cycle Offering: Fall and Summer
Credits: 3
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MGT 511 - Information Systems Management
The study of management information system concepts through the examination of both traditional and advanced software methodologies. Students will gain hands-on experience in practicing and managing tools for making information system’s decisions for the workplace.
Credits: 3
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MGT 513 - Globalization and Cultural Competency
Students will benchmark and enhance their competencies in the effective management of challenges and issues facing organizations in the current global environment. Students will have the opportunity to critically explore, clarify, and test their own conceptual framework, attitudes, values, and behavioral patterns rooted in one?s own cultural context.
Credits: 3
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MGT 515 - Organizational Performance and Design
An examination of design and management of organizational structures and systems. Students will use case analysis to learn how to evaluate an organization and how to improve its efficiency by aligning structures and systems to strategies for effectiveness.
Credits: 3
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MGT 527 - Ethics and the Practice of Management
Students will explore the complex role of ethical considerations in management decision-making. Students will read relevant philosophical texts and will complete case studies to consider related ethical problems in business.
Prerequisites & Notes
Normal Cycle Offering: Fall and Summer
Credits: 3
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MGT 529 - Organizational Psychology
This course will focus on the study of human behavior in organizations, including the analysis of individual and group processes in organizational settings. Understanding and improving the performance of individuals and the organizations in which they work will be emphasized.
Credits: 3
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MGT 531 - Leadership Theory and Practice
This course will provide students with the concepts, models and techniques of leadership. Participants will apply learning to their own development of leadership style and the process for building and supporting teams, organizations and other individuals in leadership.
Credits: 3
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MGT 560 - Management Behavior and Team Dynamics
This course provides the opportunity to develop individual and interpersonal skills that enhance managerial effectiveness in today’s high-performance, team-based environments. Students will assess their work preferences and compare those with the performance expectations of tomorrow’s managers. Feedback will be provided and implications for performance impacts on individuals, teams, and the organization, as a whole, will be evaluated. This will include the range of development and motivational challenges from building a multi-cultural workforce to managing virtual teams.
Credits: 3
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MGT 583 - Management Internship
A graduate level internship is a work experience that is completed during one semester. It requires the student to work 12-20 hours per week for a minimum of 180 hours. Successful completion of the internship earns the student three hours of graduate level academic credit.
Prerequisites & Notes
Chair Approval Required. Student must have the approval of their academic advisor in order to apply for an internship and register for this course. Normal Cycle Offering: Fall, Summer, and Spring
Credits: 3
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MGT 595 - Advanced Seminar in Management
The Advanced Seminar in MGT presents the opportunity for students to demonstrate an integrated understanding of sound business principles, ethical standards, and best practices in management. Students will complete a instructor-approved project that addresses a key performance area within their existing workplace or another organization as the focus for development of an idea or resolution of a business problem. Working in close consultation with the course instructor and project sponsor from the partnering organization, students will formulate and defend a plan of action for the identified opportunity or problem and prepare a formal presentation of the completed project.
Prerequisites & Notes
Chair Approval Required. Prerequisite: Completion of 27 graduate credits Normal Cycle Offering: Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
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MGT 596 - Advanced Seminar in Management
The advanced seminar in management presents the opportunity for students to demonstrate an integrated understanding of sound business principles, ethical standards, and best practices in management. Students will complete an instructor-approved project that addresses a key performance area within their existing workplace or another organization as the focus for development of an idea or resolution of a business problem. Working in close consultation with the course instructor and project sponsor from the partnering organization, students will formulate and defend a plan of action for the identified opportunity or problem and prepare a formal presentation of the completed project.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Completion of 27 graduate credits
Credits: 3
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MGT 604 - Project Management
This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of project management theory and a working knowledge of the tools used for project planning, scheduling, and control.
Credits: 3
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MGT 610 - Seminar in Management: Executive Lecture Series
Students will interact with senior level executives from a variety of industries and organizations. The primary purpose is to identify similarities and differences that exist in the management and leadership styles of successful executives. Students will also attempt to identify the skills, knowledge and outlook needed to successfully guide organizations in the 21st century.
Credits: 3
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MKT 507 - Marketing Concepts and Strategy
Students will study the process of creating, distributing, promoting and pricing goods, services, and ideas to facilitate satisfying exchange relationships with customers along with the development of favorable relationships with the relevant stakeholders.
Prerequisites & Notes
Normal Cycle Offering: Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
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MKT 547 - Marketing Research & Analytics
Students will learn about process and techniques that are used to gather, record, and analyze data as an aid to making marketing and communication decisions. Specific topics will include the development of research designs for collecting primary and secondary data, sampling and data analysis and analytics.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite/Co-requisite: MKT 507 Normal Cycle Offering: Spring
Credits: 3
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MKT 549 - Global Buyer Behavior
The course is designed to provide you with a basic understanding of the principles of business-to-business and business-to-consumer buying behavior on a global perspective and how to apply it to the practice of marketing. Global Buyer Behavior borrows heavily from the study of psychology, sociology, anthropology, and economics. Changes in buyer decisions across multiple cultures are explored.
Prerequisites & Notes
Normal Cycle Offering: Fall
Credits: 3
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MKT 551 - Persuasive Communications
This course focuses on persuasive communication, defined as the use of messages to alter or strengthen attitudes, values, beliefs, or behaviors. In order to accomplish these goals, the messages first need to attract others’ time and attention. Throughout the semester, students will learn humanistic and social scientific theories about persuasion and apply these theories to craft and critique statements.
Prerequisites & Notes
Normal Cycle Offering: Fall
Credits: 3
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MKT 553 - Leading Innovation
This course is designed to provide students with a basic understanding of the evolution of innovative teams; the differences between innovation dealing with products versus services or processes; and the leadership and organizational behaviors that help or hinder creative development. Additionally this course will challenge students assess their individual leadership behaviors along with developi
Prerequisites & Notes
Normal Cycle Offering: Spring
Credits: 3
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MKT 559 - Primary Media
MKT 559 Primary Media is designed to provide students with a basic understanding of media most frequently used in marketing, how to evaluate it in relation to client criteria, implement it, and weave various media options into a successful marketing campaign. Primary media is the stable media used in the majority of advertising and public relations including traditional options, like newspapers
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisites: MKT 507, MKT 547 Normal Cycle Offering: Summer
Credits: 3
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MKT 561 - Emerging Media
MKT 561 Emerging and New Media is an array of innovative digital media that is rapidly entering the marketplace. It includes creative, but untested, medium, like Vine, new options from primary digital media, like Facebook or Google, and new trends, like engaging in customer conversations. Some of these emerging options will mature into tested primary media while others will fall away.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisites: MKT 507, MKT 547, MKT 559 Normal Cycle Offering: Summer
Credits: 3
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MKT 600 - Marketing Program Management
Marketing Communications Program Management is the capstone experience for graduate applied marketing communications candidates in their final semester of study. The objective is to integrate learning’s from the preceding seven program core courses and apply those skills and experience toward improving a local non-profit firm’s marketing capabilities.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisites: MKT 507, MKT 547, MKT 559, MKT 549, MKT 561, MKT 551, MKT 553 Requires 24 hourse of filed work. Normal Cycle Offering: Spring
Credits: 3
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AHI 579 - American Art
This course explores the evolution of art as a reflection of the political, economic, religious and cultural changes that occurred in the United States. Students will be expected to select one historical period (Colonial, Revolution, Federal, American Renaissance) as the subject for an in-depth analysis and research paper. Graduate students will also be asked to serve as first reader for undergraduate papers.
Credits: 3
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AMS 543 - American Studies: Special Topics
The Special Topics course provides students and faculty with the opportunity to explore areas of particular interest relating to the literature, music, history, politics and culture of America.
Credits: 3
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AMS 583 - American Studies Internship
A graduate internship in AMerican Studies gives you the opportunity to connect the theoretical ideas you have learned in class with practical work experience as an intern at local organizations.
Prerequisites & Notes
Chair Approval Required. This is a variable credit course, from 1 - 3 credits.
Credits: 1 to 3
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AMS 690 - American Studies Capstone Thesis/Project
The capstone thesis/project allows students to pursue a substantial research project of their own design that builds on and utilizes the skills learned in AMS 500, as well as synthesizes the knowledge learned in their other course work. The final project can be either a traditional 40-50 page research thesis or a project of a more creative nature (e.g. an original work, exhibition, performance, or teaching unit) accompanied by a 20-30 page scholarly essay. In either case, the thesis/project should include empirical research, broadly construed to include textual analysis,primary archival research, and/or data collection.
Credits: 3
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COMM 510 - Gender, Sexuality, and the Media: Theories and Methods
Utilizing a critical/cultural studies approach fused with media theory, in this graduate level course students will examine the intersection of contemporary media and the theoretical models associated with feminism, queer theory, masculinity, the notion of the erotic, and identity in order to analyze the intertwining roles of the media and our constructions of gender, sexuality, and sexual orientation.
Credits: 3
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CYD 590 - Trauma-Informed Youth Development & Services
The purpose of this interdisciplinary course is to increase students’ understanding of trauma-informed and resillency-based positive youth development. Students will deepen their understanding of perspectives and approaches that can be taken to understand trauma, resilency and the philosophy and praxis of positive youth development. There will be a particular focus on the Native American community.
Prerequisites & Notes
Cross-listed with CYD 490
Credits: 3
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ENGL 520 - Highlights of American Literature
This course is designed to deepen graduate students’ experience of American literature and expand their knowledge of various literary and artistic features of American Studies. This course presumes that students will already have some exposure to the traditional works of the early explorers and settlers, Puritan culture, the Revolutionary War, Transcendentalism, and the major figures of the American Renaissance. Specifically, students will be able to: 1) demonstrate broad and deep thinking about literature(s) in America 2) raise questions about the definition and nature of American literature(s) 3) research auxiliary areas of interest in American Studies 4) make connections between works and between texts and life.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 521 - Modern America Through Literature
This graduate course offers a sampling of modern American literature from the early to late twentieth-century. Students will examine the concepts of America and The American, how writers have positioned themselves in relation to society, and have represented The Other in their construction of a modern American culture, and the development of a quintessentially American aesthetic sensibility.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 530 - Reading_The Wire_: Representing Urban America Under Siege
This seminar will engage with The Wire, David Simon’s 65-hour HBO epic of urban America and the War on Drugs. In addition to analyzing the program’s five seasons, students will grapple with film and TV theory, critical analyses of the program, and background readings from history, sociology, and urban studies.
Prerequisites & Notes
Normal Cycle Offering: Variable
Credits: 3
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ENGL 531 - Radical Women Playwrights
This course uses a multidisciplinary approach to study American feminist playwrights and, in particular, experimental drama. Students will explore feminist theory, especially in the areas of theater and performance, and apply it to drama across history. The study of the development of feminist theater will include a variety of perspectives (e.g., socio-economic, psychological, multicultural, etc.).
Credits: 3
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ENGL 544 - African American Experience I
This is a study of African American literature from the antebellum period to the Harlem Renaissance. It examines the formal qualities of selected texts (slave narratives, song lyrics, essays, speeches, sermons, poetry, fiction), as well as the historical and cultural contexts in which they were created and received. Special attention is given to the African roots (oral tradition, spirituality, communal values, etc.) of the literary work; the Double-Consciousness, as W. E. B. Du Bois phrased it, of the African-American experience; and the problem of racism against African Americans dating from the antebellum period to the present day and the corresponding struggle for equal rights. The texts are diverse in artistic form, gender (male and female authors and issues of gender relations), and socio-economic class (African-American bourgeois and folk traditions).
Credits: 3
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ENGL 545 - African American Experience II
This course will focus on works by African American writers from the Harlem Renaissance (1920’s) to contemporary times. In addition to examining the aesthetic qualities of the selected texts, students will consider the historical and cultural contexts in which they were created and received. Readings will include novels (Hurston, Wright), drama (Wilson), short stories (Jones, Packer), autobiography (Dickerson), and poetry (Every Shut Eye Ain’t Asleep). The course will also give attention to the authors’ biographies. Video clips of author interviews and adaptations of the literary works will supplement discussion and lecture.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 546 - U.S. Latino/a Literature
This course examines how individual, social, and national identities are developed and how such identity constructions fuel contemporary notions of ‘Americanness.’ More specifically, this course focuses specifically on the Latino/a experience in the United States and it strives to help us discern what it means to be ‘Latino’ in a predominantly mainstream Anglo-American cultural, political, and national milieu.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 547 - Ethnic American Literature
This course will explore the experience of various ethnic groups in America through their literature. Work focuses primarily, but not exclusively, on cultures with non-Western aspects: Native Americans, African Americans, Latino/as, and Asian Americans.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 548 - American Nature Writers
This course is intended to build upon previous literary and scientific study in American literature, as well as student current interests. In our reading and discussions that will go beyond the boundaries of literature to explore science, sociology, theology, and philosophy, some attention will also be given to the historical transformation of US governmental policy from exploitation to conservationism to environmentalism. Graduate students will have the additional opportunity to read and report on a book of their choice (from a suggested list) and participate in one extra field trip.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 570 - Seminar on Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright
This course will focus on literary works by Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright. It will offer an opportunity to study two major American authors in depth and investigate a variety of issues in African-American literature and culture. In addition to examining the formal qualities of the selected texts, we will consider the historical and cultural contexts in which they were created and received. Our reading will include novels, short stories, autobiographies, folklore, and a photo-essay. The expectation is that the student will be both intellectually stimulated by Hurston and Wright?s works, and prompted to think critically about race in the United States, not only during their time period, but in the present day, as well.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 589 - Imagetexts: Expository Graphic Narratives and Comics Theory
This course examines non-fiction graphic (verbal and visual) texts through various disciplinary lenses (aesthetics, comics studies, literary and film theory, linguistics, history, gender studies, memory studies, ethnic studies, and cultural criticism). Graduate students will apply these critical approaches to graphic memoirs, reportage, comic essays, graphic histories, wordless texts, and monographs written in comic form.
Credits: 3
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HIS 505 - The American Presidency
This graduate level course in the American Presidency studies the political and historical evolution of the office of the president from Washington to Obama. Attention is given to campaigning and elections, theories of presidential leadership, the role of the president in the U.S. political system, the politics of the Oval Office, and the development of the powers of the president.
Credits: 3
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HIS 507 - Forging Latin American National Identities in America’s Backyard
This course explores the history of Latin America during the national period (post-independence, 1820s - 1990s) and its conflicted relationship with the United States. The course covers the different phases of U.S. intervention in Latin America over the last two centuries. These take the form of and include: the Monroe Doctrine, direct military and economic intervention, CIA covert operations, the National Security Doctrine, counter-insurgency programs (guerrilla warfare), and support of authoritarian regimes (dictatorships).
Credits: 3
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HIS 512 - U.S. Foreign Policy
American diplomacy from 1776 to recent times. This course consists of a survey of some of the major decisions in U.S. Foreign Policy from the early days of the republic to contemporary times.
Credits: 3
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HIS 516 - History of Science in America
The study of science and medicine in the United States and its impact on American values, behavior, and institutions.
Credits: 3
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HIS 520 - American Women’s History
Historical experiences of American women from the colonial era through the Cold War; female reformers; suffrage; feminism; the relationship between women, work, family and gender roles.
Credits: 3
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HIS 523 - Native American History I
This course is designed to introduce students to Native American History from the pre-Columbian period through the removal era. We will also examine major paradigms in Native American history during this era and students will develop an appreciation for the variety of methods used by scholars in the field. Readings of seminal works in the field and an independent research project and paper will be required.
Credits: 3
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HIS 524 - Native American History II
This course is designed to introduce students to Native American history from the end of the Removal Era to the present. We will also examine major paradigms in Native American history during this era and students will develop an appreciation for the variety of methods used by scholars in the field. Readings of seminal works in the field and an independent research project and paper will be required.
Credits: 3
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HIS 542 - Civil War and Reconstruction
An examination of the causes, evolution and aftermath of the Civil War with an emphasis on the major figures and reform currents of the era.
Credits: 3
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HIS 547 - Social History of Medicine and Disease in the Americas, 1780-1960s
This course explores how the rise of the medical profession, the laboratory, germ theory, and bacteriology affected public health and redefined disease in the Americas from the latter half of the nineteenth century through the first half of the twentieth century.
Credits: 3
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HIS 548 - Presente! - History of Latinos in the United States
This course explores the history of Latinos and Latinas in the US. It covers identity, politics, immigration, nation building and empire. Connections are made between Latin American history and United States history. Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans and Dominicans will be the main focus.
Credits: 3
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HIS 560 - Special Topics in Historical Study
Seminar which explores in-depth topics of particular interest in historiography, significant intellectual, social or political movements. Students admitted with permission of the instructor.
Credits: 3
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HIS 570 - Public History
An introduction to the theory and practice of public history. This course will also feature strategies for community outreach and civic engagement.
Prerequisites & Notes
Normal Cycle Offering: Spring
Credits: 3
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HIS 581 - Historical Methodology
Examination of the concepts, skills and methods by which historians research, analyze, and write about historical events and issues.
Credits: 3
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HIS 607 - The Early National Period
The first part of the course will consist of introductions to major events or themes in the Early Republic and will be buttressed with student-facilitated discussions. The final weeks of the class will be devoted to student presentations of their research projects. Readings of seminal works in the field and an independent research project and paper will be required.
Credits: 3
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HIS 608 - American Colonies
This course examines the European expansion into the Americas, with a considerable portion of the class spent discussing the roles of Africans and Native Americans in the colonial world during this era. Readings of seminal works in the field and an independent research project and paper will be required.
Credits: 3
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HIS 609 - The American Revolution
This course examines the military, cultural and social history of the Revolution in addition to the political and economic causes and consequences of the conflict. Readings of seminal works in the field and an independent research project and paper will be required.
Credits: 3
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HIS 613 - Natural Disasters in American Society
This course examines extreme events to reveal the inner dynamics of American society and its political system. Learners will explore how natural disasters illuminate and reshape social structures and act as a focusing event for public policy.
Prerequisites & Notes
Course Codes: R. Cross-listed with PSC*413 and HIS*413. Spring offering (even numbered years). Normal Cycle Offering: Spring
Credits: 3
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PHL 590 - American Philosophy
This graduate course in American philosophy will focus on the idea of pragmatism in modern American thought. Graduate students in this course will develop an understanding of key concepts in Emerson, Peirce, James, Royce, Dewey, and Rorty. There will be a particular focus on the pragmatic notion of truth, ideas of education, and the relationship between the individual and the community.
Credits: 3
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PSC 501 - American Federal Government
Analysis of American Federal Government describing institutions, ideologies and power structures inherent to the US system of government.
Credits: 3
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PSC 540 - Campaigns, Voters and Elections
Electoral politics in the United States are examined in a study of national, state and local elections. Topics include a study of historical and contemporary political campaigns, theories and patterns of voting, the expansion of sufferage,electoral reform, media coverage and opinion polling, and the interpretation of electoral outcomes. 10 hours of fieldwork required.
Prerequisites & Notes
Course Codes: BR. Prereq: PSC.Q 101. Fall offering (even years).
Credits: 3
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RES 531 - Walking in the Footsteps of the Prophets: Discovering Your Spiritual Roots in the Holy Land
Focus on the similarities and differences between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam with an emphasis on the interrelationship of geography, history, political science, culture, sacred text, religious ritual, and ethics as formative dimensions of religious identity and spiritual practice. Dialogue with diverse communities within Israeli, Palestinian, and Turkish societies.
Credits: 3
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RES 545 - Religion in America
This course examines the epic saga of religion and religions in America - from that of native peoples to the religions introduced by immigrants to new religions and religious movements that emerged in America - as well as how that saga is recorded in primary sources and recounted in comprehensive histories of religion in America. Special attention will be given to the contemporary religious landscape and issues of religious pluralism, interreligious conflict and cooperation, and religion in public life.
Credits: 3
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SOC 521 - Environmental Sociology
Environmental Sociology explores the relationship between society and the natural environment, and the impact that each has upon the other. The course will consider the social nature of environmental issues; culture and ideology, science and technology, societal inequalities, and population increase as important factors in environmental issues; the environmental movement and countermovement; and some ideas about the future. It will also focus on several specific environmental issues.
Credits: 3
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SOC 543 - Sociology of Religion
The effects of society on religion and of religion on society, including forms of religious orginazation, priests vs. prophets, secularization and the return of fundamentalism.
Prerequisites & Notes
Normal Offering Cycle: Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
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SOC 552 - Social Research Methods
This course will introduce the interdisciplinary approach to the study of American culture and history. The perspectives and methods of the participating disciplines will be explored along with criteria for successful academic research.
Prerequisites & Notes
Normal Cycle Offering: Spring
Credits: 3
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SOC 609 - Crime and Justice
This course will explain the social origins of crime; will explore the nature and extent of the various types of crime in contemporary America; will explore approaches to solving the problem of crime; and you will understand the history and current organization of the criminal justice system.
Credits: 3
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SOC 610 - Race, Ethnicity and Society
Examination of race and ethnicity with an emphasis on groups in the United States.
Credits: 3
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SOC 613 - Social Movements
This graduate level course will examine various sociological aspects of social movements. In addition to learning about major social movements in American history and focusing on the strategies and tactics of specific social movements, graduate students will critique conventional American notions of social change, organize a presentation on a particular American social movement, and practice basic participant observation research skills.
Credits: 3
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AED 502 - History and Theory of Teaching Diverse Learners in Visual Art Education
This course is designed as an introduction to the field of teaching art to diverse learners at both the elementary and secondary levels. The course will prepare the student with the historical and theoretical knowledge that will then be linked to linked 15 hours of field work with students with special needs.
Prerequisites & Notes
Cross listed with AED 302. 15 hours fieldwork. Normal Cycle Offering: Fall
Credits: 3
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AED 505 - Foundations of Learning in the Arts
Focus on understanding, detecting, and analyzing the practical application of learning theories used to promote effective, active learning, and assist in the development of lifelong learners. Students will synthesize, analyze, and apply their knowing and understanding of major art/education theories to a 50 hr field experience, the analysis of an art education curriculum.
Prerequisites & Notes
Cross-listed with AED*305 (previously AED 407). 50 hours fieldwork required. Normal Cycle Offering: Fall
Credits: 3
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AED 506 - Drawing
An exploration of traditional and contemporary approaches to drawing in a variety of media. Emphasis will focus on the development of conceptual and aesthetic skills and their application to the classroom situation.
Prerequisites & Notes
Additional course fee required. Open only to Art Education and Art Therapy students.
Credits: 3
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AED 508 - Intro to Curriculum and Lesson Planning
The purpose of this course is to explore and examine the practice of curriculum writing in art education. The primary focus of this course is to introduce pre-service teachers to past and present orientations to curriculum writing in art education in order to contextualize constructivist, qualitative approaches to art education curriculum. The secondary focus of this course is to build pre-service teachers’ practical skills in conceiving, designing, and writing lesson and unit plans in preparation for teaching.
Prerequisites & Notes
Open only to Art Ed students. Cross-listed with AED*308. Normal Cycle Offering: Fall
Credits: 3
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AED 511 - Painting
The development of technical skills, handling of media materials; emphasis on problems in composition, development of visual acuity, and application of essential skills for art instructors.
Prerequisites & Notes
Additional course fee required. Open only to Art Education and Art Therapy students.
Credits: 3
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AED 513 - Watercolor
In this course, the student will learn to use watercolor as another tool with which to express a deeper level of personal expression, individual creativity, and sophisticated contemporary content through form. The student will also explore classroom applications.
Prerequisites & Notes
Additional course fee required. Open only to Art Education and Art Therapy students.
Credits: 3
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AED 516 - Printmaking
An exploration of traditional and alternative printmaking techniques, including relief and monotype, with an emphasis on aesthetic development and classroom application.
Prerequisites & Notes
Additional course fee required. Open only to Art Education and Art Therapy students.
Credits: 3
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AED 520 - Qualitative Research Methods
The purpose of this course is to present and consider theoretical and practical issues designing and proposing qualitative research concerning curriculum, teaching, and/or learning. Ethnographic, visual, arts-based, and narrative methdologies are included. Student complete training on ethical human-subject research (CITI) and are introduced to IRB procedures.
Prerequisites & Notes
Open only to Art Ed students. Normal Cycle Offering: Fall
Credits: 3
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AED 521 - Photographic Concepts
This course will address the principles of photography as an expressive art form. Students will become familiar with the history and application of photography as a means of communication, information, and personal expression, with particular emphasis on recent artists and discourse about cultural identity. This course will include exploration of traditional black and white processes, alternative non-silver processes and digital applications appropriate for the classroom.
Prerequisites & Notes
Additional course fee required. Open only to Art Education and Art Therapy students. Cameras are available for loan.
Credits: 3
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AED 522 - Digital Photographic Concepts
Through a combination of demonstrations, field assignments and critiques, students will explore the basic tools, techniques, and aesthetics of digital photography. Creative use of camera controls, exposure, digital imaging software, output options, and classroom applications will be emphasized.
Prerequisites & Notes
Additional course fee required. Open only to Art Education and Art Therapy students.
Credits: 3
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AED 526 - Three-Dimensional Concepts
Students work to build a visual awareness, an understanding of three-dimensional space/art by analyzing and drawing from a diverse history of sculptural sources, traditions, processes and materials. Emphasis is placed on developing technical skills and craftsmanship in combination with teaching methodologies, experimentation, and spontaneity of expression in the areas of assemblage, woodworking and welding. Students will be asked to share ideas, collaborate in critique situations, and explore classroom applications.
Prerequisites & Notes
Additional course fee required. Open only to Art Education and Art Therapy students.
Credits: 3
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AED 531 - Ceramics
Students will explore ceramic history, traditions, trends and a variety of forming and finishing processes to build an awareness of the technical and cultural diversity of ceramic art. The course combines wheel throwing, hand building and kiln firing techniques with teaching methodologies. Students will be asked to share ideas, collaborate in critique situations, and explore classroom applications.
Prerequisites & Notes
Additional course fee required. Open only to Art Education and Art Therapy students.
Credits: 3
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AED 535 - Visual Books
This course will introduce the graduate student to the basic techniques and materials of book making as an art form. Students will explore traditional book binding techniques resulting in creative new ideas and approaches to the development of a visual book. Emphasis will be placed on how the process can be used to examine cultural, personal, and artistic expressions. Students will be encouraged to work with visual ideas as well as constructing blank book models to be used for reference, and explore classroom applications.
Prerequisites & Notes
Additional course fee required. Open only to Art Education and Art Therapy students.
Credits: 3
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AED 537 - Fibers and Innovative Craft Traditions
This course will introduce students to the techniques, theories, and innovation in contemporary crafts. Emphasis will be placed on craftspersonship, technical proficiency, the object sophistication in conjunction with developing an understanding of the historical and diverse cultures that integrate those techniques into their art. Students will explore classroom applications.
Prerequisites & Notes
Additional course fee required. Open only to Art Education and Art Therapy students.
Credits: 3
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AED 541 - Jewelry and Metalsmithing I
An exploration of traditional metalsmithing processes as well as nontraditional and lo-tech materials used in body ornamentation, introduction of historical, contemporary and cultural ideologies that shape the craft aesthetic of jewelry and metalsmithing; development of a personal direction and creative problem solving; application of knowledge, skills and attitudes of teaching at all levels, and classroom applications.
Prerequisites & Notes
Additional course fee required. Open only to Art Education and Art Therapy students.
Credits: 3
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