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SOCI 655 - Advanced Studies in Criminology 3 Credit Hours
Intensive examination of selected topics in criminology.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 15 hours.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 505 or consent of instructor.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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SOCI 656 - Contemporary Critical Criminologies 3 Credit Hours
Explores current theories of crime and justice from critical perspectives.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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SOCI 657 - Alternative Visions of Justice 3 Credit Hours
Explores the pluralization of alternative forms of justice across time and space, including rights discourse, social justice movements, and their relationship to various forms of justice (criminal, racial, economic, environmental, etc.)
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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SOCI 661 - Environmental Theory 3 Credit Hours
Historical and contemporary studies of interaction between humans and their environment.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
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SOCI 665 - Advanced Topics in Environmental Sociology 3 Credit Hours
Topical seminar covering particular lines of research and theory within area.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 15 hours.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
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SOCI 674 - Identity and Society 3 Credit Hours
Examines the formation of identity in relation to self and society and along the axes of race, class, gender, sexuality, etc.
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SOCI 694 - Global Racism 3 Credit Hours
Idea of race globally. How sociological and interdisciplinary race scholars theoretically position race in different geographies. Special attention given to Latin America, Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the United States.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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SOCI 695 - Advanced Special Topics 3 Credit Hours
Topic of special interest or student-initiated courses that will not be regularly offered.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 15 hours.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
Registration Permission: Consent of department.
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SOCI 699 - Tutorials in Advanced Topics 3 Credit Hours
Individual instruction.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
Registration Permission: Consent of department.
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Spanish (SPAN) |
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SPAN 420 - Applied Linguistics 3 Credit Hours
Introduction to applied linguistics, with a special emphasis on the theoretical and practical aspects of the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language. Fundamental concepts in linguistics within the context of Spanish grammar and their use in the study of second language acquisition, foreign language learning and foreign language teaching. Conducted in Spanish, with readings in both English and Spanish.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 323.
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SPAN 421 - Phonetics 3 Credit Hours
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 323.
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SPAN 422 - Advanced Grammar and Translation 3 Credit Hours
Structure of the grammatical system of Spanish. In-depth analysis of selected syntactic phenomena with practical illustration/application and exercise in Spanish-English and English-Spanish translation. Emphasis on finer points of grammatical structures.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 323 and three additional Spanish courses above 323.
Comment(s): Not available to native or bilingual students of Spanish without consent of department.
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SPAN 423 - Advanced Composition and Conversation 3 Credit Hours
Develops writing and speaking skills to the advanced level, covering a wide range of topics and situations and including a variety of in-class and extra-class activities.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 323.
Comment(s): Not available for credit for students whose level of proficiency in Spanish is superior as defined by the ACTFL.
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SPAN 425 - Introduction to Descriptive Linguistics 3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: (See French 425.)
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SPAN 426 - Methods of Historical Linguistics 3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: (See German 426.)
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SPAN 430 - Topics in Hispanic Linguistics 3 Credit Hours
Introduction to the study of the Spanish language through different areas of linguistics such as phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics, dialectology, and second language acquisition.
Cross-listed: (Same as Linguistics 431.)
Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 323.
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SPAN 433 - Images of Woman in Hispanic Literature 3 Credit Hours
Examines major Hispanic texts (and/or women authors) in light of the relation of female individuality to a particular social context, the role of women in society, patriarchal tradition, woman as cultural and as aesthetic value (the feminine symbolic), and feminist theoretical issues.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 323 and 330.
Comment(s): Requires completion of major or minor requirements in 332, 333, 334.
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SPAN 434 - Hispanic Culture through Film 3 Credit Hours
Analysis of selected films on subjects concerning life, culture, and artistic traditions in the Hispanic world; exploration of ideological, philosophical, social, and political implications of films and a comparison of them with treatments of related subjects in other types of artistic production. Taught in Spanish.
Cross-listed: (Same as Cinema Studies 434.)
Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 323 and 330.
Comment(s): Requires completion of major or minor requirements in 332, 333, 334.
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SPAN 461 - Special Topics 3 Credit Hours
Focus on aspects of Hispanic literature, culture, linguistics, or foreign language pedagogy. Topics vary.
Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
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SPAN 465 - Latin American Film and Culture 3 Credit Hours
Explores Latin American and Latino/a films and videos from 1900s to present as works of art and in light of political, cultural, and social contexts. Taught in English.
Cross-listed: (Same as Cinema Studies 465; Latin American and Caribbean Studies 465.)
Contact Hour Distribution: 1 hour lecture, 2 hours screening, and 1 hour discussion.
Credit Restriction: May not be applied toward the Spanish major.
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SPAN 479 - Disenchanted Texts in Hispanic Literature 3 Credit Hours
Texts representing trends and periods of renewal in Spain and Latin American countries. Selected topics on traditions in crisis. Content will vary.
Cross-listed: (Same as Latin American and Caribbean Studies 479.)
Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 323 and 330.
Comment(s): Requires completion of major or minor requirements in 332, 333, 334.
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SPAN 480 - Social Forces in Hispanic Literary Expression 3 Credit Hours
Analysis of major Hispanic texts that address factors and events that influenced and/or continue to influence social and cultural evolution of the Hispanic world, including literature itself.
Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 323 and 330.
Comment(s): Requires completion of major or minor requirements in 332, 333, 334.
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SPAN 482 - Trends in Hispanic Thought 3 Credit Hours
Intellectual/philosophical currents represented in literary works, selected thinkers, or movements from historical periods of Spain and Latin American countries.
Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 323 and 330.
Comment(s): Requires completion of major or minor requirements in 332, 333, 334.
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SPAN 484 - Race, Ethnicity, and Nation in Hispanic Literature 3 Credit Hours
Close reading and analysis of literary texts that deal with issues of race and ethnicity in the Hispanic world, especially with regard to identity and concepts of nationhood. Among possible course topics - mestizaje; conceptual distinctions between race and ethnicity in Latin America; indigenismo; afrocentrism; issues of monarchy and empire; and relationship between Jews, Christians, and Moors in Spain.
Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 323 and 330.
Comment(s): Requires completion of major or minor requirements in 332, 333, 334.
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SPAN 486 - Literary and Artistic Movements in the Hispanic World 3 Credit Hours
Examination of relationships (thematic, cultural, socio-political, aesthetic, philosophical, etc.) between specific trends in literature and other artistic media, in light of historical contexts in which those relationships emerged.
Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 323 and 330.
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SPAN 489 - Topics in Hispanic Civilization 3 Credit Hours
Analysis of major trends, issues and/or movements in the civilizations of Spain and Spanish America. Political, literary, and cultural perspectives dealing with topics from the Middle Ages to present day may be explored.
Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 323 and 330.
Comment(s): Requires completion of major or minor requirements in 332, 333, 334.
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SPAN 500 - Thesis 1-15 Credit Hours
Grading Restriction: P/NP only.
Repeatability: May be repeated.
Credit Level Restriction: Graduate credit only.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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SPAN 502 - Registration for Use of Facilities 1-15 Credit Hours
Required for the student not otherwise registered during any semester when student uses university facilities and/or faculty time before degree is completed.
Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
Repeatability: May be repeated.
Credit Restriction: May not be used toward degree requirements.
Credit Level Restriction: Graduate credit only.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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SPAN 529 - Readings in Second Language Acquisition 3 Credit Hours
Includes critical reading of primary research in Second Language Acquisition (SLA). May include application of SLA models through original research. Topics of focus may vary.
Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): ENGL 476 or permission of instructor.
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SPAN 530 - Linguistic Research Design and Methods 3 Credit Hours
Includes research design, measurement, qualitative and quantitative date collection techniques and analysis.
Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
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SPAN 531 - Old Spanish 3 Credit Hours
Evolution of Spanish language from its origins through the 15th-century.
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SPAN 532 - Medieval Spanish Literature 3 Credit Hours
Literary works of the 11th through 15th-century. Application of literary theories to understanding of literature, nature and evolution of major literary genres during Spanish Middle Ages, and socio-historical contexts of medieval works.
Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
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SPAN 533 - Studies in Golden Age Prose 3 Credit Hours
Wide range of prose fiction in Spain during the 16th and 17th centuries: Moorish, picaresque, sentimental, pastoral and exemplary novels, and Cervantes.
Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
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SPAN 534 - Studies in Golden Age Drama and Poetry 3 Credit Hours
Major dramatists and poets of the period, which may include: Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, Calderon de la Barca, Garcilaso, Fray Luis de Leon, San Juan de la Cruz, Quevedo, and Gongora.
Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
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SPAN 540 - Spanish Romanticism 3 Credit Hours
Major dramatists and poets representative of Romantic movement in Spain studied in historical perspective of 18th and 19th centuries: Feijoo, Cadalso, Duque de Rivas, Larra, Espronceda, Zorrilla, Hartzenbusch, Bcquer, Rosala de Castro. Content varies.
Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
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SPAN 541 - 19th-Century Spanish Prose 3 Credit Hours
Costumbrismo, realism, and naturalism in the novel, short story, and essay as represented in major authors: Larra, Mesonero Romanos, Fernn Caballero, Alarcn, Valera, Palacio Valds, Pereda, Galds, Pardo Bazn. Content varies.
Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
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SPAN 542 - 20th-Century Spanish Literature: Generation of ‘98 through Civil War 3 Credit Hours
Principal achievements and representative directions in literature of Spain through Civil War years.
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SPAN 543 - 20th-Century Spanish Literature: Post-Civil War through Present 3 Credit Hours
Principal achievements and representative directions in literature of Spain from Post-Civil War period to present.
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SPAN 551 - Topics in Hispanic Linguistics 3 Credit Hours
Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
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SPAN 552 - Directed Readings 3 Credit Hours
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SPAN 553 - Topics in Peninsular Cinema, Cultural, and Literary Studies 3 Credit Hours
May include analyses of a variety of cultural productions from Spain, such as films, popular genres, the press, scientific, political, and philosophical discourses, and other non-canonical texts. Topics and approaches may include gender and queer studies, converso studies, new historicism, and other literary theories.
Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
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SPAN 563 - Colonization and Resistance 3 Credit Hours
Exploration of the literatures of Latin America and the Caribbean up to 1620. Possible readings will be taken from indigenous literatures existing before the arrival of Europeans in 1492, the works written by the early Spanish explorers and conquistadores and the texts created by indigenous, mestizo and criollo writers of the period. Topic varies.
Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
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SPAN 564 - Processes of Emancipation 3 Credit Hours
Examination of the literatures of Latin America and the Caribbean from 1620-1825. Topics may include: the Baroque of the Indies, indigenous literature, the discourses of science and the Enlightenment. Texts will be studied in their historical context and in the light of Latin American cultural identity leading up to the wars of Independence. Topic varies.
Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
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SPAN 566 - Latin American and Caribbean Literatures, Independence, and the Struggles of Nation-building 3 Credit Hours
Analysis of Latin American and Caribbean foundational texts published between 1825 and 1880 in light of independence and the struggles of nation-building and national identity. Topic varies.
Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
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SPAN 568 - Cosmopolitismo (Latin American Modernismo and Vanguardismo) 3 Credit Hours
Critical study of principal writers and literary works associated with Latin American modernismo and vanguardismo published between 1880 and 1940. Concepts and expressions of modernity as reflected in literature of period. Topic varies.
Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
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SPAN 581 - Literature and Historicity 3 Credit Hours
Analysis of the dynamic relationship between historical events and literary representations in Latin American and Caribbean works from the 1940s to the present, emphasizing the categories of “history” and “literature” as cultural constructs that are shaped according to chronological and artistic considerations. Topic varies.
Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
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SPAN 582 - Identity Discourses, 1940 to Present Day 3 Credit Hours
Analysis of texts that focus on identity formation, its social development, cultural processes and transformation in Latin America and the Caribbean. Topic varies.
Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
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SPAN 585 - Studies in Regional Approaches to Literatures of Latin America and the Caribbean 3 Credit Hours
Interpretation of Latin American and Caribbean literatures taking into consideration regional differences attributable to such factors as race, geography, immigration, and economic development. Key regions include Mexico and Central America, Caribbean, Andean countries, and the Southern Cone. Course readings vary between specific regional perspective and transregional one. Topic varies.
Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
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SPAN 586 - Studies in Literary Genres and Latin American and Caribbean Literatures 3 Credit Hours
Study of significant literary works within selected genres (including prose fiction, drama, poetry, etc.), and their relationship to the cultural and political practices in Latin America and the Caribbean. Topic varies.
Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
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SPAN 587 - Studies in Selected Topics from Latin American and Caribbean Literatures, Cultures, and Societies 3 Credit Hours
Studies in Latin American and Caribbean Literatures, Cultures and Societies. Topics may include gender, race, mestizaje, non canonical discourses, etc. Topic varies.
Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
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SPAN 589 - Latin American and Caribbean Literary Criticism 3 Credit Hours
Major works in which Latin Americans have developed strategies to define, organize, and catalog literatures published throughout continent. Critical approaches that surpass European and other non-Latin American critical perspectives. Topic varies.
Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
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SPAN 591 - Foreign Study 1-15 Credit Hours
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 15 hours.
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SPAN 592 - Off-Campus Study 1-15 Credit Hours
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 15 hours.
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SPAN 593 - Independent Study 1-15 Credit Hours
Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit or letter grade.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 15 hours.
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SPAN 600 - Doctoral Research and Dissertation 3-15 Credit Hours
Grading Restriction: P/NP only.
Repeatability: May be repeated.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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SPAN 621 - Seminar in Spanish Literature or Linguistics 3 Credit Hours
Topics vary in field of Peninsular literature.
Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 12 hours.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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SPAN 631 - Seminar in Spanish American Literature or Linguistics 3 Credit Hours
Topics vary.
Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 12 hours.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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Special Education (SPED) |
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SPED 402 - Professional Studies: Special Education and Diverse Learners 3 Credit Hours
Characteristics and needs of students with disabilities and diverse learners with emphasis on educational implications. Techniques, strategies and resources for teaching and assessing students with diverse learning, behavioral, medical and/or sociocultural characteristics, and the requirements of special education and other relevant laws.
Comment(s): Students in Communication Disorders or Educational Interpreting should register for Special Education 470 instead of 402.
Registration Restriction(s): Admission to teacher education.
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SPED 410 - Early Childhood Special Education Foundations 3 Credit Hours
Introduction to the field of early childhood special education, including the nature of disabling conditions; theoretical perspectives in the field; legislation; policies and procedures used in the field.
Registration Restriction(s): Qualification ― admission to teacher education.
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SPED 419 - Psychology and Education of Students with Mild Disabilities 6 Credit Hours
Nature and characteristics of persons with mild disabilities and the educational strategies appropriate for these persons.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 402.
(RE) Corequisite(s): 420 or 456.
Registration Restriction(s): Admission to teacher education required.
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SPED 420 - Field Experience in Special Education Programs 3 Credit Hours
Practicum in teaching special education. Planning, developing, implementing, and evaluating instruction for students with mild disabilities.
Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 402.
(RE) Corequisite(s): 419.
Registration Restriction(s): Admission to teacher education required.
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SPED 430 - Applied Behavior Analysis in School Settings 3 Credit Hours
Emphasizes the application of applied behavior analysis principles including the study of designing, implementing, and evaluating behavior analytic interventions relevant to alleviating significant problem behaviors in the classroom setting. Learners examine topics in the use of applied behavior analysis such as direct instruction, behavior reduction, functional analysis, positive behavioral supports, and ethical issues in the use of various procedures.
(DE) Corequisite(s): 432.
Registration Restriction(s): Qualification - admission to teacher education.
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SPED 432 - Psychology and Education of Students with Moderate/Severe Disabilities 6 Credit Hours
Nature and characteristics of persons with moderate/severe disabilities and the educational strategies appropriate for those persons.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 402.
(RE) Corequisite(s): 430 or Educational Psychology 515.
Registration Restriction(s): Admission to teacher education required.
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SPED 456 - Effective Instruction of Students with Learning Disabilities and Other High Incidence Disabilities 3 Credit Hours
Determining and implementing best practices in instruction, both remediation and accommodation strategies, for students with learning disabilities. Emphasis is placed on language-based disabilities, dyslexia, math disabilities, comorbid disorders such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and Asperger’s Syndrome. Assessment of cognitive and academic skills and response to intervention (RTI) are addressed.
(DE) Prerequisite(s): 402 or consent of instructor.
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SPED 459 - Physical and Health Impairments: Educational Implications 3 Credit Hours
Characteristics of students with neuromotor, orthopedic, and musculoskeletal impairments, degenerative and terminal conditions, health impairments including infectious diseases, and sensory losses and the impact of these disabilities on student learning. Adaptations and teaching strategies for meeting the needs of students with physical, health, and sensory impairments in general and special education contexts.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 402 or 470.
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SPED 471 - Early Childhood Special Education 6 Credit Hours
Assessment, curriculum planning and development and teaching approaches used in early childhood special education.
Registration Restriction(s): Admission to teacher education required.
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SPED 472 - Field Experience in Early Childhood Special Education 3-15 Credit Hours
Practicum in educational settings serving young children with disabilities. Provides experience in assessment, curriculum planning and teaching.
Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 15 hours.
Registration Restriction(s): Admission to teacher education program.
Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
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SPED 506 - Internships in Teaching in Special Education 3-15 Credit Hours
Designed to provide participants with internship experiences in teaching special education. Experiences will include the planning, delivery of special services, instruction, and evaluation across various educational environments and levels.
Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 15 hours.
Comment(s): Admission to graduate program and consent of instructor.
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SPED 553 - Assessment of Exceptional Students 3 Credit Hours
Current issues related to assessment; advanced study of evaluation models for special education; dynamic and other innovative assessment approaches; advanced study of application to educational programming; basic statistics and application in assessment.
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SPED 555 - Methods of Teaching Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders 3 Credit Hours
Provides an in-depth description of students with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), including differentiating characteristics among the various subtypes of pervasive developmental disorder. Appropriate assessment practices, programming considerations, and effective instructional methods are addressed.
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SPED 556 - Methods of Teaching Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders 3 Credit Hours
Examines educational strategies and techniques for individual and class wide behavior management as well as curriculum and teaching strategies for promoting the social and emotional development of students with behavior and learning exceptionalities. Both reactive and proactive strategies for working with students are addressed.
Comment(s): Admission to graduate program or consent of instructor.
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SPED 557 - Classroom Management 3 Credit Hours
Designed to examine validated methodology of classwide and individual strategies for successfully managing a classroom across a variety of learning environments and levels. Participants will develop an understanding of motivation and behavior to create a learning environment that encourages positive social interactions, active engagement in learning, and self-motivation.
Comment(s): Admission to graduate program or consent of instructor.
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SPED 570 - Psychology and Characteristics of Individuals with Disabilities/Exceptionalities 3 Credit Hours
General characteristics of individuals with disabilities/exceptionalities. Educational and community supports and services for children and into adulthood.
Comment(s): Admission to graduate program or consent of instructor.
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SPED 574 - Nature and Characteristics of Gifted Learners 3 Credit Hours
Introduction to foundational concepts related to giftedness and talent development in students K-12. An overview of characteristics of gifted children, the history and philosophy of gifted education, and the manner in which the needs of such students, including those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and those with disabilities, are served in schools. Serves as one of the course requirements for the employment standard and the endorsement in gifted and talented education although it is also a viable elective for general education.
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SPED 575 - Strategies for Teaching K-12 Students Who Are Gifted and Have High Ability 3 Credit Hours
Topics include measurement and assessment issues implicit in the identification process and methods for assessing educational progress and growth of children who are gifted including those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and those with disabilities. Teaching methods, curriculum design, and programming options for content delivery. This is one of the course requirements for meeting the employment standard and add-on endorsement in gifted and talented education. It is also a viable elective for general education.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 574.
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SPED 587 - Seminar: Issues and Theories in the Education of the Exceptional Child 3 Credit Hours
Current trends. Analysis of timely research and theoretical issues.
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SPED 590 - Application of Assistive Technology 3 Credit Hours
Application of assistive and instructional technology for students in all disability categories and across all chronological and functioning age ranges. Adaptive software, hardware for access, and strategies for technology usage, assessment, and instruction.
Comment(s): Admission to graduate program or consent of instructor.
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SPED 601 - Seminar in Education of Exceptional, Diverse and At-risk Learners 3 Credit Hours
The purpose of this course is becoming an informed researcher, teacher educator, and/or leader in the field of education, the goals of this course are: a) to ensure students’ awareness and understanding of content that is grounded in the foundational literature of the field of special education (including deaf education and interpreter education); b) to develop awareness of the historical, legal, and philosophical underpinnings of special education and its current status within the United States and internationally; c) to develop awareness of the intersection of special education with poverty, race, culture, and language; and d) to become cognizant of foundational and current research and evidence-based instructional and assessment practices that characterize special education as a discipline.
Cross-listed: (Same as Education of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing 601.)
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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SPED 602 - Reading and Applying Research for Diverse Learners: Group and Correlational Approaches 3 Credit Hours
Will focus on seminal readings in policy and research related to education of diverse learners using group experimental and quasi-experimental and correlational research designs. The goals of this course are: (1) to increase students’ familiarity with seminal readings in educational research focusing on diverse learners, (2) to increase students’ understanding of educational research focusing on diverse learners, (3) to develop students’ skills for analyzing and critiquing educational research with diverse populations, and (4) to further development of a research agenda by honing skills in preparing research proposals targeting needs of diverse learners.
Cross-listed: (Same as Education of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing 602.)
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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SPED 603 - Reading and Applying Research for Diverse Learners: Single-Subject Approaches 3 Credit Hours
This course has four goals: (1) to increase students’ familiarity with policy and seminal readings in educational research focusing on diverse learners (2) to increase students’ understanding of educational research concepts and procedures in the context of education of diverse learners, (3) to develop students’ skills for analyzing and critiquing educational research related to diverse learners, and (4) to develop skills in preparing research proposals and manuscripts. Specifically, this course is designed to help students build a research agenda by preparing them to conduct research using single subject methodologies designs within the context of current and/or promising, theoretical, applied and/or evidence-based practices in instruction and/or curriculum related to diverse learners.
Cross-listed: (Same as Education of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing 603.)
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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SPED 604 - Reading and Applying Research for Diverse Learners: Meta-Analytic Methodology 3 Credit Hours
Introduces methods for conducting a quantitative research synthesis using meta-analysis. Will focus on (a) statistical methods for meta-analysis (summarization of data from multiple existing studies to make an overall conclusion) and (b) strategies for interpretation of meta-analysis results. Settings will include studies with continuous, binary and correlations coefficient outcomes. The focus of the course is both practical and methodological and includes background on all parts of the research synthesis process, including: problem formulation, conducting a literature search, data evaluation, effect size coding, data analysis, and reporting the results. Statistical methods will include fixed-effects, random-effects models, measures of heterogeneity, prediction intervals, meta regression and power assessment. Strategies for interpretation will include subgroup analysis and assessment of publication bias. Will emphasize basic theory and underlying statistical methods, computational approaches, and the interpretation of results from published studies.
Cross-listed: (Same as Education of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing 604.)
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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SPED 605 - Reading and Applying Research for Diverse Learners: Secondary Data Analyses 3 Credit Hours
Designed to provide doctoral students with an opportunity to explore a wide range of trends in the field of educating diverse learners and introduces students to methods for transferring and processing existing data sources in the social science field. Intended to help students solidify their knowledge, skills, and dispositions related to research design, research methods, and scholarly writing by applying and expanding these skills in the context of educational research, particularly as concerning diverse learners, through the secondary data sources. Will also provide students with the background necessary to develop skills in conducting research and writing scholarly manuscripts.
Cross-listed: (Same as Education of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing 605.)
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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SPED 620 - Internship in Research in Special Education 3-9 Credit Hours
Placement with professional engaged in theoretically-based research: public school, institutions, agencies or university settings.
Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
Recommended Background: 9 hours in statistical research methods.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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SPED 630 - Internship in Institutional Leadership in Special Education 3-9 Credit Hours
Advanced level field experiences under supervision of practitioner.
Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
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Sport Studies (SPST) |
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SPST 504 - History and Sociology of International Sports 3 Credit Hours
Using scholarship in the history and sociology of sport this class studies the development of sport in selected countries throughout the world. Students examine the impact of globalization processes on sports and a variety of issues including the origins of sport, globalization, class, disability, education, ethnicity, gender, labor migration, nationalism, politics, race, religion, and sexuality.
Registration Restriction(s): Must be majors within the Department of Kinesiology, Recreation, and Sport Studies or permission of instructor.
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SPST 507 - History of Sport in America 3 Credit Hours
Provides an in-depth analysis of the development of sport in America and how it intersected with and was embedded in broader socio-cultural contexts. Covers developments from pre-colonial America to the recent past with an emphasis on the role of power minorities.
Registration Restriction(s): Must be majors within the Department of Kinesiology, Recreation, and Sport Studies or permission of the Instructor.
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SPST 515 - Social Theories of Sport 3 Credit Hours
Examines a range of social and cultural theories that underpin the study of sport in society. Among the possible approaches are functionalist, conflict, critical, feminist, interactionist, post-structural, and postmodernist theories. Students will learn how the works of key social theorists have influenced research in sport studies and how these theories can be used to critically examine the culture of sport.
Registration Restriction(s): Must be majors within the Department of Kinesiology, Recreation, and Sport Studies or permission of the Instructor.
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SPST 542 - Sociological Aspects of Sport 3 Credit Hours
Using sociological theories and scholarship to examine social and cultural influences on sport and physical activity. Course is based on a social justice framework and a cultural studies perspective.
Registration Restriction(s): Must be majors within the Department of Kinesiology, Recreation, and Sport Studies or permission of the instructor.
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SPST 543 - Women, Sport, and Culture 3 Credit Hours
Critical examination of the experiences of girls and women in American sport from a psycho-socio-cultural perspective with a particular emphasis on the constructs of gender, race, class, and sexuality and how these constructs both independently and collectively mediate the female sport experience. Explores theories and interpretive frameworks from sport studies, feminist studies, race studies, psychology and cultural studies.
Cross-listed: (Same as Kinesiology 543.)
Registration Restriction(s): Must be in major within the Department of Kinesiology, Recreation, and Sport Studies or
permission of instructor.
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SPST 600 - Doctoral Research and Dissertation 3-15 Credit Hours
Grading Restriction: P/NP only.
Repeatability: May be repeated.
Registration Restriction(s): Must be majors within the Department of Kinesiology, Recreation, and Sport Studies or permission of the instructor. Minimum student level – graduate.
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SPST 602 - Research Seminar 1 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: (See Kinesiology 602).
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SPST 680 - Special Topics 1-3 Credit Hours
Study for doctoral students in selected aspects of sport studies.
Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit or letter grade.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
Registration Restriction(s): Must be majors within the Department of Kinesiology, Recreation, and Sport Studies or permission of instructor. Minimum student level – graduate.
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SPST 693 - Independent Study 1-3 Credit Hours
Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit or letter grade.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
Registration Restriction(s): Must be majors within the Department of Kinesiology, Recreation, and Sport Studies or permission of the Instructor. Minimum student level – graduate.
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SPST 694 - Directed Reading 1-3 Credit Hours
Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit or letter grade.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
Registration Restriction(s): Must be majors within the Department of Kinesiology, Recreation, and Sport Studies or permission of the instructor. Minimum student level – graduate.
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SPST 695 - Special Topics 1-3 Credit Hours
Study for doctoral students in selected aspects of sport studies.
Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit or letter grade.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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STAT 500 - Thesis 1-15 Credit Hours
Grading Restriction: P/NP only.
Repeatability: May be repeated.
Credit Level Restriction: Graduate credit only.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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STAT 502 - Registration for Use of Facilities 1-15 Credit Hours
Required for the student not otherwise registered during any semester when student uses university facilities and/or faculty time before degree is completed.
Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
Repeatability: May be repeated.
Credit Restriction: May not be used toward degree requirements.
Credit Level Restriction: Graduate credit only.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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STAT 505 - Quantitative Methods 1.5 Credit Hours
Quantitative methods for business intelligence and process improvement techniques.
Comment(s): Or consent of instructor.
Registration Restriction(s): Master of Business Administration admission. Minimum student level – graduate.
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STAT 531 - Survey of Statistical Methods I 3 Credit Hours
Univariate and bivariate data collection and organization, statistical estimation and hypothesis testing; analysis of relationships for categorical and numerical data, including Chi-square tests and simple linear and quadratic regression. Use of computing facilities required.
Credit Restriction: Students may not receive credit for both 531 and 537.
Recommended Background: 1 year of college mathematics.
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STAT 532 - Survey of Statistical Methods II 3 Credit Hours
Multiple linear regression, including use of dummy variables; single and multiple factor analysis of variance and covariance; issues in experimental design and analysis. Use of computing facilities required.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 531.
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