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EDUC 6495 - Clinical - Student Teaching
Credit Hours: 4
Candidates in the Master of Arts in Teaching program complete 16 weeks of supervised student teaching in a public-school classroom.
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EDUC 6805 - Rights and Responsibilities in the New Media Age
Credit Hours: 3
This course is an introduction to the rights and responsibilities that relate to creating and using digital media in learning environments. Topics such as intellectual property law, confidentiality, privacy, and ethics will be explored.
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EDUC 6806 - Assessment in the New Media Age
Credit Hours: 3
This course will allow students to explore the role of assessment in the learning and teaching process with technology and digital media. Students will learn to design meaningful and authentic assessments with technology in their educational setting and to recognize the role that assessment and formative feedback plays in learning.
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EDUC 6809 - Teaching in the New Media Age
Credit Hours: 3
This course supports a broad perspective of literacy in the digital age grounded in social and cultural theories and how these perspectives support effective technology integration in schools and other contexts to support learning. Participants examine the social changes resulting from advancements in information and communication technologies; consider the role of multi-modality in literacy learning across content areas and contexts; and develop strategies for bridging digital literacies with the print practices valued in academic and work settings.
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EDUC 6810 - Critical Media Literacy and Digital Storytelling
Credit Hours: 3
Rapid advancements in digital technologies have increased the media saturation of our everyday lives. Citizens in the digital age require knowledge’s and strategies for engaging with and analyzing the multimodal texts they encounter on a daily basis. In this course participants will learn how to interpret and make informed judgments about media, as well as to become skillful creators of media messages as they develop instructional activities for teaching media literacy in higher education, K-12 classrooms, and workplace contexts.
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EDUC 6811 - Learning Communities in the Digital Age
Credit Hours: 3
This course will allow students to explore the role of communities in the learning and teaching process with technology and digital media. Students will learn to foster communities of learners with technology in their educational setting and to recognize the role that the larger community and society plays in learning and teaching.
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EDUC 6812 - Technology, Leadership, and Change
Credit Hours: 3
Students will study how to effectively mentor and collaborate with others. Students understand their role as “change agents” by encouraging collaboration and shared inquiry and helping novices build networks with other novices and their more experienced colleagues. In this course students take on a mentor, collaborator, or leadership role to help them integrate technology meaningfully into their school, workplace, or organization. Participants will examine the affordances and constraints of technology hardware and software to determine cost benefits in order to meet instructional goals or workplace needs.
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EDUC 6813 - Blended and Online Learning Environments
Credit Hours: 3
This course is an introduction to the principles of instructional design and its relationship to blended and online learning environments. Students will be introduced to how instructional design principles are used in and outside formal education to achieve outcomes for an intended audience.
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EDUC 6814 - Game Design and Learning
Credit Hours: 3
In this course participants will learn about the potential of gaming and game design for learning both in and out of the classroom. Throughout the course participants will examine research related to the effects of gaming and game design on cognition and learning and will design games to address an instructional or training dilemma in either a school or workplace setting.
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EDUC 6815 - Programming for Learning
Credit Hours: 3
This course will provide students with an overview of programming languages and how the underlying code impacts educational technology and learning. Through a problem-based approach, students will be introduced to several programming languages, working from programming as graphical puzzles to some basic written code.
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EDUC 6816 - Curriculum in the New Media Age
Credit Hours: 3
In this course participants will critically reflect on the nature of information in the digital age, and its social, cultural, and philosophical impact on society. Participants will come to understand how web-based information is organized in order to identify the best sources of information and effective strategies in locating, evaluating, synthesizing, using, creating, and communicating information for a given need. Participants will also identify differences between traditional school-based research projects and the information seeking behaviors used in workplace settings in order to create instructional materials that support information literacy that aligns more closely with the skills needed for 21at century workplace settings.
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EDUC 6817 - Tech Tools in Learning
Credit Hours: 3
This course addresses various technology tools that may be used in online courses. The course is designed to provide students opportunities to apply online technology tools to their particular areas of interest in online course development.
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EDUC 6818 - Practicum
Credit Hours: 3
In this course, participants will serve as a technology mentor for either a K-12 teacher, university faculty member, or community member seeking to integrate technology into their teaching practices. Participants will document the technology integration process and products developed as a result of the collaboration. Special attention will be paid to overcoming barriers (i.e., access, policy, teacher attitudes, time constraints) to using new technologies in educational settings and improving the design of professional development experiences for educators.
Corequisite(s): EDUC 6395
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Engineering |
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MSET 5400 - Leadership in Engineering and Technology Management
Credit Hours: 3
Examination of leadership and management methodologies necessary to be successful in engineering and technology intensive organizations.
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MSET 5500 - Organizational Performance and Change Management
Credit Hours: 3
Examination of strategies for change management, developing an organizational culture, team development, use of internal and external consultants, ethical dilemmas, and diagnostic models to improve effectiveness and efficiency.
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MSET 5600 - Cross-Cultural Training and Performance Improvement
Credit Hours: 3
The design, implementation, and evaluation of strategies to improve functional capabilities, teamwork, and diversity in business and industry. Content areas addressed include the need for cross-cultural and diversity training, performance improvement, and evaluation methods.
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MSET 6100 - Engineering Economic Analysis
Credit Hours: 3
Study of the costs and benefits of engineering investments, products, technology developments, and capital purchases. An emphasis is placed on the analysis and frameworks for making decisions of economic worth with competing designs and managing technologies over their lifecycles.
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MSET 6200 - Engineering and Technology Management
Credit Hours: 3
Principles of engineering and technology management focusing on process and system analysis to evaluate strategies for business and industry transformation. Concepts addressed includes design and reliability, operations, optimization and efficiency techniques, testing and verification, manufacturing and supply chain constraints.
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MSET 6300 - Engineering Project Management I
Credit Hours: 3
Examination of project management from an engineering perspective with an emphasis on how a lead engineer must organize, plan, implement, and control tasks to achieve an organization’s schedule, budget, and performance objectives. Emphasis placed on the areas of project initiation, work breakdown structures, use of Gantt charts, networking diagrams, budgeting, quality and risk assessment, and contractual arrangements.
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MSET 6400 - Engineering in Production Systems
Credit Hours: 3
Study of quality control methods in production systems. Students will learn engineering methods for analysis, design, and continuous improvement of production systems.
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MSET 6500 - Total Quality Management and Policy
Credit Hours: 3
Examination of management strategies and policies used in industry, engineering, and technology activities to provide continuous improvement of quality, performance, and competitiveness. Course emphasis on implementing strategies beneficial for strategic management, globalization, sustainability, and decision-making.
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TECH 6000 - Research Methods in Engineering Technology
Credit Hours: 3
Study of research designs and methods applicable to industrial and engineering problems. Emphasis on defining
research problems, collecting, recording, analyzing, and interpreting data with implications for further research
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TECH 6700 - Action Research in Engineering and Technology
Credit Hours: 3
Culminating experience in graduate studies for students in the Department of Engineering Technology. Students
will be involved in a comprehensive study and development of a written report of an applied research problem
related to engineering or technology. The experience may be involved with a field and/or a laboratory research
endeavor.
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TECH 6998 - Thesis
Credit Hours: 3
Supervised research related to engineering or technology in the College of Science and Technology, by
arrangement.
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Exercise Science, Fitness and Wellness |
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PHED 6405 - Lab Techniques of Health Promotion/Exercise Science
Credit Hours: 3
Theoretical and practical understanding of physiological instrumentation and measurement in exercise science, including practical laboratory experiences, as preparation for graduate research or other clinical testing opportunities.
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PHED 6406 - Statistics in Exercise Science
Credit Hours: 3
The application and uses of statistics commonly used in the field of physical education/exercise science. Testing procedures include but are not limited determining appropriate statistical test to perform, interpreting results and determining appropriate follow-up test as needed. Emphasis is on design of experiments and appropriate statistical test usage, and interpretation of statistics.
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PHED 6412 - Cardiovascular/Pulmonary Exercise Physiology I
Credit Hours: 3
This course is designed to be comprehensive study of the physiological responses to human movement and chronic exercise. The course will encompass the acute physiological responses and chronic adaptations to exercise. Emphasis on will be placed bioenergetics, metabolic pathways, cardiopulmonary and hormonal response to acute and chronic exercise. The major goal of the class will be to develop a fundamental understanding of exercise physiology that will . a) allow the student to utilize exercise physiology in their daily lives and future profession, b) prepare the student to take additional graduate courses in exercise science major.
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PHED 6413 - Neuromuscular Exercise Physiology II
Credit Hours: 3
This course is designed to provide the student with a comprehensive study of important and basic concepts within structure and function of the motor unit. An emphasis will be placed on an advanced study of the normal function of skeletal muscle along with applications dealing with the response of skeletal muscle to exercise/overload, aging, disease, disuse and injury.
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PHED 6416 - Advanced Strength & Conditioning
Credit Hours: 3
This course examines the scientific principles and procedures involved in the assessment of physical fitness and exercise prescription. Special attention is given to understanding and implication of advanced methods and techniques associated with the design of strength and conditioning programs to enhance human performance in sport and fitness.
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PHED 6417 - Impact of Exercise on Health & Disease
Credit Hours: 3
A study of the role of exercise in the prevention and rehabilitation of cardiopulmonary diseases. Emphasis on patient/client education, programming, and assessment.
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PHED 6418 - Wellness Programming
Credit Hours: 3
This course is designed to introduce the student to the concepts and theories of wellness, how to conduct assessments and evaluations of individuals and programs, how to design a wide variety of health promotion programs and understand the model of behavior change.
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PHED 6480 - Seminar in Exercise Science
Credit Hours: 3
Discussion and presentations on current issues involving the discipline of Exercise Science. May be repeated for credit. Same seminar topic cannot be repeated.
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PHED 6490 - Internship in Exercise Science
Credit Hours: 3
The purpose of this internship is to provide students with the opportunity to gain practical experience in the field of exercise science. This experience allows students to gain practical real world experience and apply their theoretical knowledge under the supervision of professionals within the field of exercise science/wellness. 120 hours of actual clock time are required for completion of this internship.
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PHED 6499 - Thesis
Credit Hours: 3
This course allows a student the opportunity, with the guidance of the thesis chair, to independently design and complete a research study within the field of exercise science. This course requires a written paper and an oral defense presentation to the Thesis Committee.
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Healthcare Management |
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MHCM 5010 - Designing an Effective Care Continuum
Credit Hours: 1
This on-campus seminar focuses on patient transition from acute (e.g., community hospital, regional hospitals) to sub-acute (skilled nursing, rehab, LTCH) to home (home health, hospice, medical home model, outpatient services). It is an examination of challenges in care continuity, starting with basic access to primary care to ultimate issues dealing with length of stay, benefit days, and discharge planning to an appropriate level of care, as well as,the issues involved: family dynamics, physician/specialist coordination, and effective resource utilization by key healthcaremanagers and staff. A patient with at least 5 chronic health conditions (blood pressure, diabetes, lung disease, infection, kidney, etc.) can see up to as many as 10 different physicians directing care and not always in a coordinated fashion. A typical hospitalized inpatient (elderly, fragile) will have an admitting physician and at least 4 or 5 consulting specialists. Understanding the basics of the continuum of care at various levels, as well as impact of managed care on choice, length of stay, and where service is approved is addressed. The current directives for bundled payment initiatives and penalties for hospital re-admission will be discussed. This seminar covers post-acute services and how they are financed, and why coordination of patient transfer or handoff must be done so that readmission to the acute care hospital within 30 days does not occur.
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MHCM 5020 - Lean Six Sigma
Credit Hours: 1
This on-campus seminar focuses on the knowledge and skills required to interpret quality standards, design effective data collection systems, and utilize concepts known as Lean Six Sigma. Six Sigma(6σ) is a set of techniques and tools for process improvement. Developed in the mid-1980s for manufacturing, it has been adapted to healthcare as it seeks to improve the quality of the output of a process by identifying and removing the causes of defects and minimizing variability in processes. The goal is to identify problems, create solutions, monitor outcomes in a follows a defined sequence of steps. The seminar will look at issues in reporting outcomes and strategies from various perspectives - administrative, consumer and societal (government and organizations in the private sector that influence the source and use of funds). Effective use of data currently existing within the healthcare organization that is often overlooked, or not reported effectively, is also a key focus.
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MHCM 5030 - Healthcare Quality
Credit Hours: 1
This on-campus seminar series continues to define models for assessing healthcare quality with practical application to various testing measures such as analysis of variance, statistical relevance, and data gathering. Use of Excel to model trends and other analysis will be included. Methods for making dashboards and other reporting summaries will be demonstrated.
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MHCM 5100 - Leadership and Organization
Credit Hours: 3
This is a critical examination of leadership and organizational theories,and corresponding practices within the context of healthcare continuum (public health, community, acute care, post-acute continuum, home based services, medical home model, etc.). Emphasis is on theory, and application of theory, at the individual, interpersonal and group levels. Focus will be on critical assessment, practical application and exploration of effective and ethical leadership practices by senior level managers and executives, and understanding systems theory, culture, and change processes as they relate to individuals and systems that drive healthcare organizations. The interplay of human, technological, and structural factors in organizations will be examined. Important issues to be considered will also include motivation theories, communication, and group decision theories for managerial applications. This includes job design and organizational structures and techniques to be used for evaluating and rewarding performance. Similarly, the class will look at techniques for the development of team building, leadership and conflict resolution skills. Focus is given to leadership approaches, job enrichment, quality of work life, and employee attitudes and achievement.(This course corresponds to MSBA 5110 ).
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MHCM 5200 - Healthcare Finance and Strategy
Credit Hours: 3
This course is designed as an examination of standard cost accounting methods, financial monitoring and strategic planning in healthcare organizations. It also focuses on evaluation in the planning-implementation-evaluation cycle for return on investment as part of the financial planning process. Topics include various business perspectives, alternative evaluation designs and related methodologies including collaborative action research and issues related to design, measurement and utilization, whether the task is designing internal financial controls, contracting for out sourcing, or critically reviewing financial performance compared to benchmarks. Alternative payment and provider models are reviewed, along with current healthcare reform efforts and legislative proposals. Each participant will prepare a departmental budget/project budget inself-selected area of concentration.
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MHCM 5400 - Medical/Legal Issues in Healthcare Delivery
Credit Hours: 3
This course examines the complex intersection of law and health systems, as well as, common legal issues encountered by healthcare leaders such as laws pertaining to professional liability, patient privacy and payment system management. It provides historical and contemporary discussions of legal issues that have, and will continue to shape medical care coordination, delivery and strategy in the United States. Legal issues regarding the healthcare organization and its trustees, administrators and medical staff are key focus points. The course investigates the legal basis of healthcare risk management in the United States to include constitutional provisions and federal statutes that influence public payment policy. It also prepares senior administrators for preventative measures in an increasingly litigious environment. It will include a general review of Stark III/IV, Office of Inspector General activities related to healthcare fraud and abuse, Sarbanes Oxley and other pertinent laws affecting federal payment and accounting practices. Major topics include state and federal regulation of healthcare providers and institutions; tort liability in the context of medical care; patient and provider rights and obligations; public and private insurance systems; and basic issues in bioethics and public health and the social forces that have shaped its historical development. Other topics may include ethical and legal challenges of telemedicine.
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MHCM 5500 - Epidemiology and Population Health
Credit Hours: 3
The first half of this session serves as an introductory course in epidemiologic methodology covering study design for investigation of both infectious and chronic diseases. Evaluation of screening programs and health services research will also be discussed. Overview of community monitoring and role of public health for outbreak investigation, natural history of infectious diseases, validity of clinical tests, and overview of data collected by states (vital statistics) as well as the role of community responsiveness (disaster and high risk preparation/Homeland Security). The second half of the course involves developing a project that addresses an identified community need. The role of Community Health Needs Assessment as part of the Affordable Care Act is included as well as methods in conducting them to comply with IRS requirements.
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MHCM 5600 - Healthcare Policy, Trends and Public Financing
Credit Hours: 3
This examination of the politics of federal and state health policy process includes effects of political structure and institutions on various social factors, interest groups, classes and social movements. Unfunded mandates such as some provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that affect state budgets (e.g., expansion of Medicaid eligibility) are reviewed. Course participants examine the influences and functions of government agencies, legislative processes and procedures and executive branch rule-making. Course participants will objectively evaluate how policy changes occur at the federal and state levels and then how they subsequently affect your functioning as a citizen and a professional.
Class lecture will focus on the legislative path of federal law and then follow it through to the outcomes at the state level. Course participants will explore the importance of developing relationships, communication and advocacy strategies with elected officials and various stakeholdergroups that interact with the federal and state legislative processes.A historical overview of American health policy will set the framework from the turn of the century to current or proposed payment systems and initiatives.
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MHCM 5700 - Healthcare Economics
Credit Hours: 3
This course covers micro-economic theory focusing on patient demand for services and supply of services based on the complex regulatory environment in healthcare organizations. Course participants will learn to analyze health policies, as well as, the behaviors of patients, insurers, and physicians in varying healthcareorganizations. Issues will be explored such as fee structuring; controversial policy issues, such as, access to care and/or the medically under-insured or uninsured; the demand and mandate of health insurance; and the increased presence of governmental control that impacts healthcare economics. The interrelationships of value, quality, and price are analyzed. The importance of transparency of quality and its effect on value is articulated. Compensation and payer models are compared including the role of employer benefits, private health insurance plans, Medicare and Medicaid, and various mechanisms used to cover the costs of prescription drugs. Current issues, such as pay for performance, costsaving through prevention, cost shifting, and healthcare for the aging, are discussed.
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MHCM 5800 - Healthcare Information Exchange and Information Systems
Credit Hours: 3
There are myriad information systems used across the spectrum of healthcareorganizations. This course focuses on need for effective information processing, including documentation and coding. Overview of privacy issues, use of protected information, and integration of health records are provided. Course will also educate key leadership on understanding Diagnostic Related Groups, International Classification of Disease (ICD 10), as well as common procedural terminology (CPT) used by physicians, as these are all factors in reimbursement. Federal mandates and initiatives will be included for electronic medical record integration and the future. The cost of technology and the demands on an organization are also included in what support is needed for effective management. Discussion will include regional and state health information exchanges, applicable laws related to privacy and portability of records. It also examines the business aspects of computer systems management including business productivity software.
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MHCM 6000 - Introduction to Research Methods
Credit Hours: 3
This course develops competency in principles of research and measurement for use in the professional setting. Course participants will learn research methods to apply to program and systems design and evaluation to achieve successful measurement of outcomes and goals. Course participants will become critical consumers of pertinent literature to provide background and support for the choice and application of proper qualitative and quantitative research methods and data analysis for professional application. The course content includes an overview of research concepts, ethics in research, literature searches and reviews, quantitative and qualitative research methods and designs, IRB procedures, data collection, analysis and interpretation techniques. Basic concepts of statistics and the diverse approaches to performance improvement inquiry and practice to affect change in behaviors needed are emphasized for practical application. Practices of inquiry, analysis and evaluation will be applied as well asintegrated throughout the course of study. In addition, a research manuscript will be demonstrated and achieved in the culminating capstone work of the MHCM degree.
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MHCM 6200 - Strategic Management Capstone
Credit Hours: 3
In this final course, participants will utilize the skills, knowledge, and education gained in this program in creating a capstone project. The work is centered on selecting a topic and writing an original case study or developing a program proposal or business plan. All reading materials, discussions, activities, and assignments provide the necessary information and direction needed to write and share an original case in the field of health administration. Interactive sessions are scheduled to discuss and review this content, providing additional learning opportunities to master the course objectives. There are three assignments for the course, all to be done individually, with an arranged in-class presentation culminating the course. This can include those wishing to complete 250 hours of an externship with an individualized plan of work (e.g.,including completion of AIT).
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PHSC 5599 - Special Topics in Science Education
Credit Hours: 1-6
The purpose of this course is to explore new research-based developments, pedagogical content knowledge, or content in science education. Students will enhance their knowledge of teaching science in K- 12 classroom settings. This course may be repeated for credit in different special topics.
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READ 6300 - Foundations in Reading and Writing
Credit Hours: 3
The elements of emergent literacy, phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary development, fluency, and comprehension are explored. Assessment techniques and the reading/writing needs of all learners, including the exceptional and culturally diverse are also examined. Research based approaches, practices and materials are emphasized, as well as the importance of professional development, modeling, and leadership.
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READ 6308 - Survey of Literacy Instruction and Assessment for Individuals with Exceptionalities
Credit Hours: 3
This course provides special educators with an understanding of evidence-based literacy instruction for individuals with exceptionalities at the elementary at the elementary and secondary levels. The course includes an overview of effective assessment and instruction in the five essential components of reading: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension, with specific emphasis on how these practices are beneficial to students with learning disabilities, behavior disorders, intellectual disabilities, and autism. Required
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READ 6310 - Teaching Reading to Special and At-Risk Learners
Credit Hours: 3
A study of the cause of reading difficulties and procedures used to support students with reading difficulties, emphasizing those with learning disabilities, behavior disorders, intellectual disabilities, and autism. Approaches reading difficulty from a holistic view. Attention is given to assessment strategies and remedial procedures for correction. This course includes a 40-hour field-based semester long experience must be completed in a public school setting. This field experience will allow the candidate the opportunity to apply and reflect on content and pedagogical knowledge and knowledge of learners who struggle with literacy skills.
Prerequisite(s): READ 6308
Corequisite(s): READ 6310L - Teaching Reading to Special and At-Risk Learners Lab is required
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READ 6310L - Teaching Reading to Special and At-Risk Learners Lab
Credit Hours: 0
Students will register concurrently for both the course, READ 6310 , and this READ 6310 lab. The lab section of the course connects course participants to the Clinical Office for placement and clinical evaluation. This lab is for paperwork to the Clinical Office only.
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READ 6315 - Teaching Content Area Literacy
Credit Hours: 3
This course focuses on literacy in the content-area subjects. The importance of reading and writing literacy in the content areas is emphasized as well as the integration of literacy into a variety of instructional areas. The development of speaking and listening skills is also included as a part of literacy development. A variety of literacy strategies and skills is presented and examined. Approaches for developing and applying these strategies in various subject-matter areas are explored.
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READ 6320 - Psychological, Sociological, and Linguistic Factors in Reading and Writing Ability
Credit Hours: 3
This course provides an overview of the psychological and social factors that affect reading and writing ability. Focusing on reading as a linguistic process, the course helps teachers understand how cognitive processes, motivational factors, and brain mechanisms interact to contribute to success in reading and writing.
Prerequisite(s): READ 6315
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READ 6325 - Technology and Instruction Designed to Support Struggling Readers
Credit Hours: 3
In this course, participants learn to facilitate the use of various types of technologies to enhance learning for struggling readers. Course participants will analyze elements of literacy, the brain’s process of learning to read, transfer of information from working to long-term memory, and instructional design encompassing technology as a tool, instructional technology, and assistive technology. Course participants will demonstrate an understanding of how technology is used to support and manage all phases of planning, implementation, and evaluation of reading instruction. Required
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READ 6330 - Diagnosis and Correction of Reading and Writing Difficulties Practicum I
Credit Hours: 3
Interpreting psychological, sociological, and educational factors affecting the reading process. A case study will be developed for identifying and analyzing reading disabilities. Focuses on procedures and materials for correction of reading difficulties, evaluation of pupil progress, and differentiation of instructional techniques. A capstone action research project is required. Required
Prerequisite(s): READ 6310
Corequisite(s): READ 6330L (Lab) and READ 6340
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READ 6330L - Diagnosis and Correction of Reading and Writing Difficulties Practicum I Lab
Credit Hours: 0
This semester-long clinical accompanies READ 6330 - Diagnosis and Correction of Reading and Writing Difficulties Practicum I and must be completed in a public school setting. Students will be placed or approved for placement at the appropriate grade levels with students who have reading and writing difficulties. Experiences include development of a portfolio, a collection of artifacts and assignments related to work with school-aged student who struggles with reading Required
Prerequisite(s): READ 6310
Corequisite(s): READ 6330 and READ 6340
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READ 6340 - Literacy Coaching and Professional Development Practicum II
Credit Hours: 3
A practicum course designed to support reading specialist candidates’ development of literacy coaching skills, strategies, and dispositions in working with in-service teachers, administrators, school system staff, and parents. Experiences will include the development of a professional development portfolio. Required
Prerequisite(s): READ 6310
Corequisite(s): READ 6330 and READ 6330L
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READ 6360 - Literature and Response
Credit Hours: 3
Examines literature for children and adolescents and their responses to it. Students investigate the types of, and influences upon, response patterns such as motor, oral, written, and expressive-art. Students will learn to use authentic assessment of the various responses. Literature in all genres will be read.
Prerequisite(s): READ 6320
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READ 6370 - Administration and Supervision of Reading/Writing Programs
Credit Hours: 3
This course provides an overview of the challenges that reading specialists face in their roles as administrators and supervisors of reading/writing programs. Students will come away from this course with guidelines and tools that will help ensure the creation and implementation of strong reading programs at the classroom, school, and district levels.
Prerequisite(s): READ 6340
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SPED 5323 - Math Strategies for Special Learners
Credit Hours: 3
This course provides students with specific research based teaching strategies, assessment tools, classroom management techniques, and technology applications to support individuals with mild to moderate disabilities in math. An emphasis will be placed on math processing skills such as reason, representation, communication, and problem solving. Students will consider the unique needs of individuals with intellectual disabilities, learning disabilities, behavior disorders, and autism when designing instructional interventions. Required
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SPED 5599 - Special Topics in Special Education
Credit Hours: 1-6
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SPED 6317 - Instructional Design I for Special Educators
Credit Hours: 3
This course examines essential theories in human growth and development, and educational psychology that serve as the foundation for our current approach to teaching and learning in American schools. Specific evidence-based instructional approaches and classroom management strategies will be studied. The Individualized Education Plan (IEP) will be introduced.
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SPED 6318 - Schoolwide Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports
Credit Hours: 3
This course offers students an introduction to school- and class-wide positive behavior support. Students are introduced to (a) the theoretical and empirical support for positive behavior support, (b) a three-tiered model of school-wide positive behavior support (SWPBS), and (c) implementation strategies appropriate to each tier of the model. The primary focus is on tier 1 (primary) supports in school, classroom, and non-classroom settings. Instructor(s) present course content through readings, lectures, small group discussion, and practice activities. Students are responsible for participating in these activities and providing the instructor(s) with information that indicates an understanding and mastery of the course content. The instructor(s) is(are) responsible for presenting course content, evaluating student performance, and providing feedback that enables students to meet course objectives. This course is designed for PK-12 classroom teachers, support staff, principals, and leadership teams at all levels.
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SPED 6319 - Introduction to Learning Exceptionalities and Behavioral Disorders
Credit Hours: 3
This course provides an introduction to special education as an evolving and changing discipline based on philosophies, evidence-based principles and theories, policies, historical points of view that continue to influence the field of special education. The course addresses aspects of diversity for individuals with exceptionalities and their families, and how these complex issues can each interact with the delivery of special education services. The course provides an introduction to procedures for identifying and supporting individuals with intellectual disabilities, learning disabilities, emotional behavioral disorders (EBD), and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Required
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SPED 6323 - Behavioral Support for Special Students
Credit Hours: 3
This course presents basic principles and practices in the use of research-based applied behavior analysis and other strategies with both normal and exceptional learners, emphasizing those with learning disabilities, behavior disorders, intellectual disabilities, and autism. Students will be required to demonstrate competence in using a variety of techniques in field settings. Required
Prerequisite(s): SPED 6319
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SPED 6324 - Instructional Techniques in Special Education
Credit Hours: 3
This course emphasizes strategic instruction across curricular content areas to individualize learning for students with mild to moderate exceptionalities ranging from kindergarten through twelfth grade. Course participants will select a variety of formal and informal assessments and will analyze information from assessments to develop evidence-based comprehensive instructional programs that support mastery, promote generalization, and enhance critical thinking for individuals with mild to moderate exceptionalities. Procedures for consulting and collaborating with other professionals to support students will be emphasized throughout the course. This course includes a 75-hour field-based semester long experience must be completed in a public school setting. This field experience will allow the candidate the opportunity to apply and reflect on content and pedagogical knowledge and knowledge of learners with special needs to demonstrate proficiencies in the role of a special educator.
Prerequisite(s): SPED 6319 SPED 5323 and READ 6310 or Instructor Permission
Corequisite(s): SPED 6324L - Instructional Techniques in Special Education Lab is required.
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SPED 6324L - Instructional Techniques in Special Education Lab
Credit Hours: 0
Students will register concurrently for both the course, SPED 6324 , and this SPED 6324 lab. The lab section of the course connects course participants to the Clinical Office for placement and clinical evaluation. This lab is for paperwork to the Clinical Office only.
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SPED 6330 - Introduction to Autism
Credit Hours: 3
This is a web-based course established to review definitions, rates of incidence, conceptual models, and educational designs relating to individuals with autism. The course is designed to introduce the student to a general view of autism spectrum disorders. In the field of autism the research is constantly changing, therefore the student will have current developments presented through the use of research material and weekly assignments. The educational treatment of students with autism requires that the learner be presented with a variety of approaches. Required
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SPED 6331 - Methods and Strategies for Autism
Credit Hours: 3
This is a web-based course designed to provide students with an understanding of the learning characteristics of individuals with autism. This course also focuses on research-based assessment and instructional techniques for individuals with autism and promotes evidence-based strategies for managing challenging behaviors. Clinical hours required. Required
Prerequisite(s): SPED 6330
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SPED 6331L - Methods and Strategies for Autism Lab
Credit Hours: 0
This is a web-based course designed to provide students with an understanding of the learning characteristics of individuals with autism. This course also focuses on research-based assessment and instructional techniques for individuals with autism and promotes evidence-based strategies for managing challenging behaviors. This course includes a 30 hour field-based semester long experience that must be completed in a public school setting.
Corequisite(s): SPED 6331 - Lab is required.
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SPED 6390 - Special Education Practicum
Credit Hours: 3
This course combines practicum experiences in special education with written assignments related to these experiences. This semester-long practicum experience must be completed in a public school setting. Fulltime involvement in the teaching/ learning process is required for successful completion of this practicum. Teacher candidates will be placed or approved for placements at the appropriate grade levels with students who have mild to moderate disabilities (LD, ID, BD, and autism). Teacher candidates will be expected to participate in all activities and duties generally expected of a special education teacher. Course assignments focus on the development and implementation of an action research project and video analysis of teaching and student learning. Emphasis is placed on using student data to enhance instruction and improve outcomes for individuals with exceptionalities.
Prerequisite(s): EDUC 6301 SPED 6324 and SPED 6330
Corequisite(s): SPED 6390L - Special Education Practicum Lab is required.
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SPED 6390L - Special Education Practicum Lab
Credit Hours: 0
Students will register concurrently for both the course, SPED 6390 , and this SPED 6390 lab. The lab section of the course connects course participants to the Clinical Office for placement and practicum evaluation. This lab is for paperwork to the Clinical Office only.
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