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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 after colonization. Students will be expected to research and write a scholarly paper on an American artist or art form. Graduate students will also be asked to serve as first reader for undergraduate papers.
Prerequisites & Notes
Session cycle: Variable. Yearly cycle: variable.
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. Session cycle: Fall and Spring. Yearly cycle: all years.
Credits: 1 to 3
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AMS 607 - Independent Study
Independent exploration of topic. Permission of Program Director is required.
Prerequisites & Notes
Session cycle: Fall, Summer, and Spring. Yearly cycle: all years.
Credits: 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 SOC 552, 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.
Prerequisites & Notes
Session cycle: Fall, Summer, and Spring. Yearly cycle: all years.
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.
Prerequisites & Notes
Session cycle: Fall. Yearly cycle: variable.
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.
Prerequisites & Notes
Session cycle: Fall. Yearly cycle: variable.
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
Session cycle: Variable. Yearly cycle: 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).
Prerequisites & Notes
Session cycle: Variable. Yearly cycle: variable.
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.
Prerequisites & Notes
Session cycle: Fall and Spring. Yearly cycle: all years.
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.
Prerequisites & Notes
Session cycle: Spring. Yearly cycle: all years.
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.
Prerequisites & Notes
Session cycle: Summer. Yearly cycle: variable.
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.
Prerequisites & Notes
Session cycle: Spring. Yearly cycle: variable.
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.
Prerequisites & Notes
Session cycle: Spring. Yearly cycle: variable.
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.
Prerequisites & Notes
Session cycle: Fall. Yearly cycle: all years.
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).
Prerequisites & Notes
Session cycle: Variable. Yearly cycle: variable.
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.
Prerequisites & Notes
Session cycle: Fall and Summer. Yearly cycle: all years.
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.
Prerequisites & Notes
Session cycle: Spring. Yearly cycle: variable.
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.
Prerequisites & Notes
Session cycle: Fall and Summer. Yearly cycle: all years.
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.
Prerequisites & Notes
Session cycle: Fall. Yearly cycle: all years.
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.
Prerequisites & Notes
Session cycle: Spring. Yearly cycle: all years.
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.
Prerequisites & Notes
Session cycle: Fall and Summer. Yearly cycle: variable.
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.
Prerequisites & Notes
Session cycle: Summer. Yearly cycle: all years.
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.
Prerequisites & Notes
Session cycle: Fall. Yearly cycle: variable.
Credits: 3
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HIS 553 - U.S. Constitutional History II: Rights and Liberties
This course examines U.S. constitutional history, politics, and law through the substantive focus on the Bill of Rights, freedom of expression, religious liberty, privacy, equal protection of the laws, and criminal justice.
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.
Prerequisites & Notes
Session cycle: Spring. Yearly cycle: all years.
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
Session cycle: Spring. Yearly cycle: all years.
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.
Prerequisites & Notes
Session cycle: Fall. Yearly cycle: all years.
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.
Prerequisites & Notes
Session cycle: Fall. Yearly cycle: variable.
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.
Prerequisites & Notes
Session cycle: Spring. Yearly cycle: all years.
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). Session cycle: Spring. Yearly cycle: all years.
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.
Prerequisites & Notes
Session cycle: Spring. Yearly cycle: all years.
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.
Prerequisites & Notes
Session cycle: Spring. Yearly cycle: all years.
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). Session cycle: Fall. Yearly cycle: variable.
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.
Prerequisites & Notes
Session cycle: Variable. Yearly cycle: variable.
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.
Prerequisites & Notes
Session cycle: Fall. Yearly cycle: all years.
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 organization, the influence of social class on religion, priests vs. prophets, secularization and the return of fundamentalism.
Prerequisites & Notes
Session cycle: Fall and Spring. Yearly cycle: variable.
Credits: 3
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SOC 552 - Social Research Methods for American Stu
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
Session cycle: Spring. Yearly cycle: variable.
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.
Prerequisites & Notes
Session cycle: Spring. Yearly cycle: all years.
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.
Prerequisites & Notes
Session cycle: Variable. Yearly cycle: all years.
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.
Prerequisites & Notes
Session cycle: Variable. Yearly cycle: all years.
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. Cross listed with AED 302. 15 hours fieldwork.
Prerequisites & Notes
Cross listed with AED 302. 15 hours fieldwork. Session cycle: Fall. Yearly cycle: all years.
Credits: 3
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AED 505 - Foundations of Learning in the Arts 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. Session cycle: Fall. Yearly cycle: all years.
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. Session cycle: Variable. Yearly cycle: variable.
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. Session cycle: Fall. Yearly cycle: all years.
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. Session cycle: Variable. Yearly cycle: variable.
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. Session cycle: Variable. Yearly cycle: variable.
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. Session cycle: Summer. Yearly cycle: all years.
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, arts-based, and narrative methodologies are included. Students complete training on ethical human-subject research (CITI) and are introduced to IRB procedures.
Prerequisites & Notes
Open only to Art Ed students. Session cycle: Spring. Yearly cycle: all years.
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. Session cycle: Variable. Yearly cycle: variable.
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. Session cycle: Variable. Yearly cycle: variable.
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. Session cycle: Variable. Yearly cycle: variable.
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. Session cycle: Variable. Yearly cycle: variable.
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. Session cycle: Variable. Yearly cycle: variable.
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. Session cycle: Variable. Yearly cycle: variable.
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. Session cycle: Spring. Yearly cycle: all years.
Credits: 3
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AED 551 - Classroom Management
Studies theoretical models employed in the practice of classroom management; emphasis on problem solving techniques; explores classroom organization, instructional curriculum and diagnosis and correction of behavioral patterns as related to the total classroom instructional design.
Prerequisites & Notes
Course limited to Art Ed and Music Ed students; open to others on a space-available basis. Session cycle: Fall and Summer. Yearly cycle: all years.
Credits: 3
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AED 554 - Issues in Art Education
Expand knowledge of contemporary issues and curriculum in art education. Primary focus expands practical experience implementing curriculum in Saturday Art School. Reflecting on this in the context of readings and discussions about contemporary issues in art education including issues of assessment, art room management, and diversity, etc.
Prerequisites & Notes
Pre-requisite: AED 505, AED 508. Cross-listed with AED 354. Co-requisite AED 354L. Session cycle: Spring. Yearly cycle: all years.
Credits: 3
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AED 554L - Saturday Art School Teaching Lab
This course provides 35 hours of field placement teaching in Nazareth’s Saturday Art School program.
Prerequisites & Notes
Cross-listed with AED 354L and AED 308L. Co-requisite: AED 554. 35 hours field work. Session cycle: Spring. Yearly cycle: all years.
Credits: 0
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AED 555 - Computer Graphics
Introduction to digital imaging for the artist-teacher, with an emphasis on developing technical skills, on integrating imaging technology and art curriculum, and on developing instructional strategies for diverse classrooms and instructional levels. Exposure to imaging technologies that enhance creative abilities and experience on projects with practical applications.
Prerequisites & Notes
Additional course fee required. Open only to Art Education and Art Therapy students. Session cycle: Variable. Yearly cycle: variable.
Credits: 3
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AED 560 - Advanced Studio Thesis
Advanced level art work in a studio area; emphasis on development of a thesis that clearly articulates the conceptual focus of an individual’s work in terms of process, form, image and content; evolution of a personal artistic vision and direction as manifested in a cohesive body of work. Prerequisite: A minimum of 6 credits of graduate level studio art; three of these credits must be in the studio area chosen for thesis work.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: A minimum of 6 credits of graduate level studio art; three of these credits must be in the studio area chosen for thesis work. Session cycle: Fall, Summer, and Spring. Yearly cycle: all years.
Credits: 3
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AED 571 - Art History, Criticism and Aesthetics
An exploration of ways to integrate art history into the curriculum through conceptual and technical means with an emphasis on museum visits, nontraditional resources, multiculturalism, and contemporary issues.
Prerequisites & Notes
Session cycle: Spring. Yearly cycle: all years.
Credits: 3
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AED 580 - Arts Across the Curriculum
Despite current educational policies that emphasize standardized testing and core subject areas, the arts remain a vibrant part of education practice. In this interdisciplinary theory course open to all disciplines-students will explore topics including the aesthetic foundations of education, arts integration, art as cultural practice, and the role of the arts as social and cultural transformation.
Prerequisites & Notes
Open to any graduate student. Session cycle: Spring. Yearly cycle: all years.
Credits: 3
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AED 654 - Professional Development in Art Education
Taken as part of the professional semester (with AED 665 and AED 666). Students expand and reflect upon their student teaching experiences in order to connect theory to practice. Students create developmental and professional portfolios that assess and display their growth as beginning art teachers. Students will reflect, synthesize, evaluate, identify, and document in video and in an essay, the elements of teaching practice that are of specific interest to them.
Prerequisites & Notes
Corequisites: AED 665 & AED 666. Session cycle: Fall. Yearly cycle: all years.
Credits: 3
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AED 665 - Student Teaching in Art
Taken as part of the professional semester (with AED 654 and AED 666). The field-based practicum consists of two, six week school placements: one elementary and one secondary.
Prerequisites & Notes
Required for Initial Certification. An application for a Student Teaching placement will be made to the Office of Field Placement Services in AED 554. Session cycle: Fall. Yearly cycle: all years.
Credits: 6
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AED 666 - Reflective Seminar in Art Education
Taken as a part of the professional semester (with AED 654 and AED 665). Students critically analyze and synthesize their experiences in student teaching as they strive to become reflective practitioners.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: AED 554. Corequisites: AED 654 & AED 665. Session cycle: Fall. Yearly cycle: all years.
Credits: 3
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AED 690 - Capstone Seminar
In this culminating experience, students will examine current issues and trends, and acquire an orientation to on-going professional development. This seminar is a collaborative forum for refining and presenting inquiry projects and professional portfolios to an audience of colleagues representing a wide variety of disciplines and school/community settings. Should be taken during the last semester of coursework. Students are required to participate in a graduate Art Exhibition.
Prerequisites & Notes
Co-requisite: AED 699. Cross-listed with MED 690. Session cycle: Spring and Summer. Yearly cycle: all years.
Credits: 3
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AED 699 - Master’s Portfolio Presentation
Degree candidates must successfully complete and exhibit a master’s portfolio at the time of completion of the graduate program. Open to students in the Art Education Initial and Professional certification programs.
Prerequisites & Notes
Co-requisite AED 690. For students completing final semester of MS.Ed. in Art Education program. Students must also complete a Commencement Information Form by the start of the semester in which this course will be taken; form available in the Registrar’s Office (Smyth 1) or online. Session cycle: Fall, Summer, and Spring. Yearly cycle: all years.
Credits: 0
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ATR 504 - Art Therapy and Counseling Internship I
A minimum of 10 hours weekly of supervised contact with clients in a clinical setting, including a two and a half hour weekly group supervision seminar with art therapy faculty, and with on-the-job supervision for these courses; beginning, intermediate, and advanced supervision corresponding with numbers 504, 505, 506 and 508, respectively.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisites: ATR 528 and PSY 535. Students much achieve a grade of B or better to continue with these Internship courses. If a grade is below a B, the student must retake the course. Session cycle: Fall, Summer, and Spring. Yearly cycle: all years.
Credits: 3
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ATR 505 - Art Therapy and Counseling Internship II
A minimum of 10 hours weekly of supervised contact with clients in a clinical setting, including a two and a half hour weekly group supervision seminar with art therapy faculty, and with on-the-job supervision for these courses; beginning, intermediate and advanced supervision corresponding with numbers 504, 505, 506 and 508 respectively.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisites: ATR 528 and PSY 535. Students much achieve a grade of B or better to continue with these Internship courses. If a grade is below a B, the student must retake the course. Session cycle: Fall, Summer, and Spring. Yearly cycle: all years.
Credits: 3
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ATR 506 - Art Therapy and Counseling Internship III
A minimum of 16 hours weekly of supervised contact with clients in a clinical setting, including a two and a two hour weekly group supervision seminar with art therapy faculty, and with on-the-job supervision for these courses; beginning, intermediate, and advanced supervision corresponding with numbers 504, 505, 506, and 508, respectively.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisites: ATR 528 and PSY 535. Required co-requisite: CAT 598. Students much achieve a grade of B or better to continue with these Internship courses. If a grade is below a B, the student must retake the course. Session cycle: Fall and Spring. Yearly cycle: all years.
Credits: 2
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ATR 508 - Art Therapy and Counseling Internship IV
A minimum of 16 hours weekly of supervised contact with clients in a clinical setting, including a two and a half hour weekly group supervision seminar with art therapy faculty, and with on-the-job supervision for these courses; beginning, intermediate, and advanced supervision corresponding with numbers 504, 505, 506, and 508, respectively.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisites: ATR 528 and PSY 535. Students much achieve a grade of B or better to continue with these Internship courses. If a grade is below a B, the student must retake the course. Session cycle: Fall and Spring. Yearly cycle: all years.
Credits: 3
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ATR 522 - Assessment Diagnosis and Counseling I
The study of psychological projective tests and art therapy tests designed specifically for the purpose of determining whether or not a client is appropriate for treatment and type of treatment and counseling techniques (individual, group and/or family).
Prerequisites & Notes
Session cycle: Spring. Yearly cycle: all years.
Credits: 3
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ATR 523 - Assessment, Diagnosis, and Art Therapy Counseling II
The study of the major clinical syndromes with emphasis on the use of art materials, techniques and testing instrumentation. Students are also instructed in the meaning of line, form, space, and color usage in cross-cultural populations. Students will learn how to translate artwork of clients as well as present their findings in a comprehensive oral lecture and written papers.
Prerequisites & Notes
Session cycle: Fall. Yearly cycle: all years.
Credits: 3
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ATR 524 - Art Therapy and the Chemically Dependent Substance Abuse Client
The class focuses on utilizing art therapy while working in a group setting with CD/SA clients. The model used is congruent with the disease model of addiction and recovery. Art therapy is utilized as an adjunct to more traditional forms of addiction therapy and is to foster the existing treatment plan for CD/SA clients. During the class, special needs populations will be explored.
Credits: 3
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ATR 528 - Art Therapy: Theories, Practice and Counseling
Addresses the current theories in art therapy, the pioneers in the field, and the successful exploration of various media with specific populations.
Prerequisites & Notes
Session cycle: Fall. Yearly cycle: all years.
Credits: 3
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ATR 546 - Phototherapy and Counseling Techniques
Students couple the didactic components of phototherapy concepts with direct application via assignments using instant and digital cameras computer software, specialty papers and transfer solvents. In addition to this experiential component, students exit well-versed in phototherapy and counseling techniques and its direct employment when working with various patient populations.
Prerequisites & Notes
Session cycle: Summer. Yearly cycle: all years.
Credits: 3
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ATR 650 - Methods and Materials in Art Therapy
This course covers counseling practices and specific art methodologies with various populations. Course will focus on materials and methods employed when working with a variety of populations and counseling scenarios. The safe use of art materials as art therapy interventions is addressed.
Prerequisites & Notes
Session cycle: Fall and Summer. Yearly cycle: all years.
Credits: 3
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CAT 050 - Child Abuse Workshop
This workshop focuses on detection and reporting of child abuse, and meets the New York State mandated requirement for Identification and Reporting of Child Abuse.
Prerequisites & Notes
Completion of this course is required for New York State licensure.
Credits: 0
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CAT 500 - Human Development and Assessment Across the Creative Arts Therapies
This course presents an overview of the Creative Art Therapies methods of assessment. Students will become familiar with commonly used creative arts therapy and psychological batteries and methods of observation used in art and music therapy to understand the relationships among assessment, diagnosis, and treatment.
Prerequisites & Notes
Session cycle: Summer. Yearly cycle: all years.
Credits: 3
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CAT 524 - Creative Arts Therapy and the Chemically Dependent Substance Abuse Client
The class focuses on utilizing creative arts therapy while working in a group setting with CD/SA clients. The model used is congruent with the disease model of addiction and recovery. Creative art therapy is utilized as an adjunct to more traditional forms of addiction therapy and is to foster the existing treatment plan for CD/SA clients. During the class, special needs populations will be explored.
Prerequisites & Notes
Session cycle: Summer. Yearly cycle: all years.
Credits: 3
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CAT 525 - Cat With Adult Survivors of Sexual Abuse
This course is designed to provide an opportunity to learn how to use creative arts therapy interventions with a specific population, i.e. art therapy with adult survivors of sexual abuse. The student will have an opportunity to process experiences and address professional and clinical issues within a peer group supervision format.
Prerequisites & Notes
Open to students in Creative Arts Therapy programs. Open to students in other graduate programs with permission of instructor. Session cycle: Summer. Yearly cycle: all years.
Credits: 3
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CAT 526 - Family Therapy and Counseling Techniques
This is an overview of the family therapy field as well as the pioneers in family creative arts therapy. Students learn various counseling techniques (such as structural, strategic, communications, paradox, etc.) and apply this knowledge directly to family cases with whom they are working.
Prerequisites & Notes
Session cycle: Fall. Yearly cycle: all years.
Credits: 3
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CAT 530 - Culminating Project Seminar I and Externship
This yearlong (MT) or semesterlong (AT) course is an in-depth study or research project dealing with the aspect of creative arts therapy. This research process includes writing a proposal and in-depth literature review. This can be further development of a case study undertaken in previous coursework, enriched by research or a project demonstrating excellence in other clinical areas (e.g. the development of a new clinical battery or illustrated children’s book slated for future publication).
Prerequisites & Notes
In Music Therapy, this thesis work is done concurrently with the student’s last field placement, a 20-hour externship component. In Art Therapy, this first part of the thesis work is one semester long. Prerequisite: CAT 677. Session cycle: Fall and Spring. Yearly cycle: all years.
Credits: 3
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CAT 532 - Culminating Project Seminar II Externship
This semester-long course is the second part of the thesis work that could involve an in-depth study or research project dealing with the aspect of Creative Arts Therapy. This semester usually involves data gathering, data analysis, and writeup of results. Results are reported in a written and poster format. This can be further development of a case study undertaken in previous coursework, enriched by research or a project demonstrating excellence in other clinical areas (e.g. the development of a new clinical battery or illustrated children’s book slated for future publication).
Prerequisites & Notes
In Music Therapy, this thesis work is done concurrently with the student’s last field placement, a 20-hour externship component. In Art Therapy, this second part of the thesis work is one semester long. Prerequisites: CAT 677 and CAT 530. Session cycle: Spring and Summer. Yearly cycle: all years.
Credits: 3
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CAT 542 - Group Creative Arts Therapy and Counseling Techniques
Introduces the student to both the theoretical and practical nature of group therapy. Group process, ethical and professional issues, dimensions of leadership and stages of groups and counseling will be highlighted and reviewed.
Prerequisites & Notes
Open to students in Creative Arts Therapy programs. Open to students in the MSW graduate program with permission of the instructor. Session cycle: Spring. Yearly cycle: all years.
Credits: 3
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CAT 548 - Alcoholic Family Systems and Counseling
Provides students with basic knowledge and practice with family and alcoholism issues. The course will examine family systems theory and how it applies under the impact of alcoholism. The curriculum is divided into 5 sections: family structure, function, systems; impact of alcoholism on family members; assessment of familial problems; critical issues and strategies in treatment; children of alcoholics and their addicted children.
Credits: 3
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CAT 598 - Contemporary Issues in Interprofessional Team Practice
The purpose of this course is to provide graduate students in various health and education programs with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to be effective as inter-professional team members. Students are introduced to core values and competencies derived from multiple professions, which prepares them for collaborative practice in diverse settings. This course covers research and theories that guide effective team development and interactive problem solving.
Prerequisites & Notes
Required co-requisite: ATR*506 (Art Therapy students) or MTR*506 (Music Therapy students). Session cycle: Fall and Spring. Yearly cycle: all years.
Credits: 1
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CAT 613 - Intercultural Issues in Creative Arts Therapy
This intensive course emphasizes the expansion of creative arts therapy techniques and processes, as well as cultural competency, in a variety of country offerings. Participants will demonstrate knowledge of the country’s history, cultural arts, and application of the creative arts through lecture, tours, experiential workshops and service. Immersion in the visiting country’s way of life enriches human development. Practical experience will facilitate therapeutic communication in shared expressive art activities.
Prerequisites & Notes
Session cycle: Summer. Yearly cycle: all years.
Credits: 3
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CAT 620 - Creativity, Symbolism, and Metaphor
This course is designed to provide an opportunity to learn how to use creative arts therapy interventions with a specific population, i.e. art therapy with adult survivors of sexual abuse. The student will have an opportunity to process experiences and address professional and clinical issues within a peer group supervision format.
Prerequisites & Notes
Open to students in Creative Arts Therapy programs. Open to students in other graduate programs on a space available basis. Session cycle: Summer. Yearly cycle: all years.
Credits: 3
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CAT 650 - Ethical and Multicultural Issues in Clinical Documentation and Practice
Students will increase their awareness of issues related to clinical work within a multicultural setting and develop an understanding of ethical practice, standards, and laws, as well as regulatory and governing bodies. Students will become familiar with case management, documentation procedures, and tools utilized within the clinical setting.
Prerequisites & Notes
Session cycle: Spring. Yearly cycle: all years.
Credits: 3
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CAT 677 - Methods and Research
A study of the various types of research designs, hypothesis formation, data collection, treatment and analysis of data. Students examine the role of computer information systems, conduct computer searches, and design a research project.
Prerequisites & Notes
Session cycle: Spring. Yearly cycle: all years.
Credits: 3
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CAT 681 - Current Topics in Creative Arts Therapy
These elective courses will survey a variety of current methodologies and specializations within the creative arts therapies. Topics such as yoga/somatic movement/cross-patterning bodywork, substance and alcohol related topics, new methods in art therapy and music therapy are among some of the related theoretical and didactic methods that will be offered.
Prerequisites & Notes
Session cycle: Summer. Yearly cycle: variable.
Credits: 3
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CAT 682 - Fundamental Elements of Dance/Movement Therapy for Creative Arts Therapists
This course is designed as an introduction for Art Therapy students to experience in themselves and recognize in others, the benefits of movement as a therapeutic modality. We will use experiential structures, discussions, videos and self-reflection to learn about Dance Movement Therapy theories and techniques on a body level. Beginning applications of movement with clients will be discussed and practiced.
Credits: 3
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