Off-Campus Courses By Name

Course #	Course Name	Schedule (Click to View)
15 : 230:512	Administration and Supervision of Elementary and Secondary Schools
Prerequisites: 15:230:500, 521. Problems of organization, supervision, and administration of the elementary and secondary school. Credits:
15 : 230:516	Administration and Supervision of Special Education Services
Prerequisites: Either 15:230:500 or 501 and 521. Role and function of special education; special services within the school and community, including special classes for the mentally and/or physically handicapped; and various services, such as school psychology, school social work, speech correction, learning disabilities specialist, and others. Credits:
15 : 230:610	Administration for School Effectiveness
Prerequisites: 12 credits, including 15:230:500, 501, 521. Examines literature on school factors related to student learning and planned organizational change. Students conduct an on-site school assessment with recommendations for instituting change. Credits:
15 : 252:520	Adolescent Literature for Secondary Students
Critical examination of wide range of children’s and adolescent literature. Evaluation of the place of these in language arts curricula (grades four to twelve). Credits:
15 : 233:549	Adult Literacy and Basic Education in American Society
The major issues and problems related to the assessment of literacy needs of American society and the design of adult educational programs to meet those needs; factors relevant to the design and implementation of adult basic education programs to provide reading, writing, and mathematics skills to educationally disadvantaged adults. Credits:
15 : 233:543	Adulthood and Learning
Adult social roles, psychological characteristics, and learning patterns in light of their implications for educational practice. Credits:
15 : 297:625	Advanced Application of Counseling Psychology
Prerequisites: 15:297:605 and permission of instructor and adviser. Provides for professional activities in an approved setting. Designed to meet advanced students’ individual needs for further work in individual and group counseling; personal, educational, and vocational evaluation; and a variety of consulting or supervisory activities under the supervision of a faculty member. Credits:
15 : 310:625	Advanced Seminar in Curriculum Theory and Development
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Research and theories employed in developing various curricula and the means for testing curriculum theories. Credits:
15 : 297:637	Advanced Theories of Personality and Counseling
Prerequisites: 15:297:501, 613; or 15:290:518; or enrollment in the doctoral program in counseling psychology. Critical analysis of selected theories of personality used in counseling. Emphasis on major theories and systems. Provides in-depth concept for developing a consistent approach to professional counseling. Credits:
15 : 252:511	Analysis of English Curricula
Critical examination of historical, contemporary, and potential English curricula. Credits:
15 : 254:541	Analysis of Mathematics Curricula I
Current recommendations concerning mathematics curricula; analysis of videotapes showing students engaged in mathematical activities related to these recommendations. Credits:
15 : 254:542	Analysis of Mathematics Curricula II
Prerequisite: 15:254:541. Development and implementation of lessons arising out of the foundation of Analysis of Mathematics Curricula I. Credits:
15 : 257:561	Analysis of Social Studies Curricula
Contemporary and potential social studies curricula and projects. Credits:
15 : 310:531	Anthropology of Education
Various theories and research findings in cultural anthropology and education, centering on the analysis of diverse ways that people have learned to perpetuate and innovate their culture and the enculturative roles of formal education; cultural order and dynamics, culture and personality, epistemology in education and anthropology, value orientations, scientific validation of values, and enculturative roles of education. Credits:
16 : 300:683	Applied Multivariate Analysis
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Survey of multivariate statistical procedures commonly encountered in educational research. Matrix algebra, multivariate analysis of variance, discriminant analysis, exploratory factor analysis, canonical correlations, and log-linear models. Credits:
15 : 293:533	Assessment & Measurement for Special Education Teachers
This course provides students with knowledge, skills, and understanding of assessment issues related to students in general and special education settings. Topical coverage includes the types and characteristics of assessments, and introduction to formal and informal (functional) assessment in special education, and the use of assessment information to determine special education eligibility, identify current academic and nonacademic performance, set instructional goals, monitor progress, and determine the effectiveness of instruction. Credits:
15 : 255:533	Assessment and Measurement for Teachers
Prerequisite: 05:300:306. Overview of assessment, measurement, evaluation, and grading issues that confront teachers. Relationship between assessment and instruction, principles and techniques of grading, design and construction of classroom assessments, and technical and legal issues in testing. Credits:
05 : 300:316	Assessment for Instructional Planning
Special education classroom assessment techniques. Formal measures analyzed for technical adequacy & usefulness. Emphasis on teacher-made assessment instruments & IEP development. Possible fieldwork. Credits:
15 : 254:543	Background for Teaching Elementary School Mathematics I
Focus on numeration skills, counting, place value and number base, and the four basic arithmetic operations as they are taught to, and learned by, elementary school children. Credits:
15 : 254:544	Background for Teaching Elementary School Mathematics II
The development of basic ideas in geometry and related areas and on methods for developing this content in the classroom. Credits:
15 : 255:501	Bibliographic Inquiry I
Basic library reference tools and inquiry processes in all disciplines; emphasis on applications to classroom tasks, independent study, and personal research. Credits:
15 : 255:502	Bibliographic Inquiry II
Prerequisite: 15:255:500 or permission of instructor. Advanced reference tools and inquiry processes useful for research in education and related fields at the doctoral level and beyond; emphasis on the presentation of literature in proposals, dissertations, and research reports. Credits:
15 : 253:522	Bilingual-Bicultural Education
Bilingual education in the U.S. and abroad; basic assumptions underlying bilingualism-biculturalism in a multiethnic society. Credits:
15 : 290:583	Biological Bases of Behavior
Brain structure and functional specialization; neurological bases of movement sensation, vision, audition, language, spatial perception, memory, emotion, and executive function; emphasis on characteristics and educational treatment of developmental and acquired disorders of children. Each student is expected to develop a class presentation based on intensive study of one disorder. Credits:
15 : 256:550	Biology and Society
Prerequisite: Nonmatriculated students, permission of instructor. Acquaints prospective and in-service biology teachers with the epistemology of biological sciences and their interaction with human culture from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Students learn a conceptual framework for appreciating the nature, practice, and culture of the biological sciences. Credits:
15 : 230:503	Business Administration of School Systems
The business administration of a school district, including accounting, budgeting, payroll, purchasing procedures, capital outlay, management information systems, risk management, food service, transportation, personnel records, equipment, and facilities. Credits:
15 : 230:608	Case Studies in Educational Administration and Supervision
Administrative/supervisory cases identifying and diagnosing concrete issues and problems in educational organizations; examples of learning styles and people with special needs in our multicultural society considered. Credits:
16 : 300:685	Causal Modeling
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Introduction to structural equation modeling, including latent variables; confirmatory factor analysis; diagnosing model fit and testing alternative models; and multisample designs. Multi-level (or hierarchical) linear models as related to multisample designs (e.g., identifying hierarchical structures, random compared with fixed effects); variance components; and designs with repeated measurements. Credits:
15 : 257:563	Censorship in Social Studies Education
A seminar on theories, cases, and proposals regarding censorship in society and the schools; emphasis on social studies courses and the relation of academic freedom to censorship. Credits:
15 : 299:509	Children’s Literature in the Early Childhood and Elementary School Curriculum
Children’s literature for early childhood and elementary school. Approaches literature from genre and issues perspectives and includes author and illustrator studies. Connects literature to classroom applications concerning book selection and extended literary experiences, such as responses to literature. Credits:
15 : 250:509	Children’s Literature in the Early Childhood/Elementary School Curriculum
Children’s literature as an integral part of the total early childhood/elementary school curriculum (pre-K to grade 6); survey of different genres of children’s literature with emphasis on author style and illustrations; use of children’s literature at home and throughout all curriculum areas. Credits:
15 : 257:569	Civics, Citizenship, and Social Values
Current, historical, and controversial literature on the topic of civic rights and obligations, as expressed through schooling; views of civics and citizenship as themes for schooling; social values such as justice, freedom, and equality reviewed in terms of competing and often contradictory rationales and practices in schooling; curricular, pedagogical, and academic freedom implications. Credits:
15 : 255:534	Classroom Organization
Prerequisite: 15:255:533. Corequisites: 15:255:535,536. Examination of research on classroom organization and management. Emphasis on strategies for effective learning environments and prevention of behavior problems. Credits:
15 : 293:534	Classroom Organization for Special Education
The focus of this course is on special education classroom and behavior management from a systems perspective. Course content moves along a continuum from a) data-based assessment of behavioral difficulties, to b) prevention of problem behavior through effective management and instruction, to c) utilization of less intrusive strategies, to d) use of more intensive strategies, crisis de-escalation and intervention. Credits:
15 : 230:506	Clinical Studies in School-Community Analysis
Prerequisite: 15:230:505 or permission of instructor. Facilitates a field application of community analysis and relations programs; analysis carried out through the use of a varied political, theoretical, and practical base. Credits:
15 : 290:522	Cognition and Language from Birth to Eight: Normal Development and Implications of Risk and Disability
Prerequisite: Recently completed graduate course in child development or permission of instructor. Reviews recent research evidence concerning sequences of development in cognition and language in the first five years and the relationship between these domains of functioning; consideration of delays and disruptions in cognitive and language development following from various congenital disabilities and risk factors. Credits:
15 : 295:502	Cognition and Memory
Thinking and memory as viewed by contemporary cognitive psychology; integrates experimental finding concerning selective attention, perception, memory storage and retrieval, imagery, problem solving, and reasoning into holistic views of the human being as a processor of complex information. Class discussions include applications to educational questions. Credits:
15 : 293:620	Cognitive Abilities and Education of Profoundly and Multiply Handicapped Children
Prerequisite: Permission of adviser. Identification of cognitive abilities and education of profoundly and multiply handicapped children; literature reviewed for the purpose of developing skills in formulating educational strategies for the severely disabled. Credits:
16 : 300:691	Cognitive and Motivational Learning Strategies
The theoretical basis for a variety of learning and motivational strategies, assessment of strategies, problems related to learning from different sources of information, individual differences in strategy use. Credits:
16 : 300:591	Cognitive Development
Theory and research in children’s intellectual development from birth through adolescence. Neo-Piagetian, information processing, and sociocultural approaches to cognition. Current research, including children’s memory development, social cognition, language, problem solving, spatial thinking, and theory of mind. Implications for schooling considered. Credits:
15 : 310:503	Comparative Education
Contemporary educational theory and practice as reflected in the educational institutions of such nations as Great Britain, France, Russia, Japan, and the People’s Republic of China. Credits:
15 : 299:519	Computer Applications in Reading
Prerequisite: 15:299:516 or 16:300:538. The computer’s role in classroom instruction, learning, and educational research relative to the field of reading; evaluation of reading software; critical examination of the potential value of software for the teaching of reading. Credits:
15 : 250:559	Computers and Education
Computer use in education considered in the context of the history of computer-assisted instruction; general aspects of computer technology, such as hardware, programming, and information processing; fundamentals of programming; computer-assisted instruction. Credits:
15 : 250:560	Computers and Instructional Strategies
Prerequisite: 15:250:559. Considers the computer as an instructional instrument by examining a variety of commercially available software programs; the applicability of these materials to various instructional models examined along with evaluation techniques appropriate to the technology; software programs for classroom management, remediation, interactive tutorials, simulations, and graphics as they apply to subject fields at various levels. Credits:
15 : 233:641	Conceptual Foundations of Adult and Continuing Education
Prerequisite: 27 credits of course work. Advanced seminar emphasizing the historical, philosophical, and comparative-international aspects of the field’s development and current status. Credits:
15 : 251:577	Constructs of Early Childhood Education
Prerequisite: 15:295:512 or permission of instructor. Conceptual foundations for contemporary practice in early childhood programs, including day-care, preschool, and early primary years. Psychological theory and research undergirding various models of developmentally appropriate practice in early childhood; strengths and weaknesses of various curriculum approaches (Piagetian, Montessori, behaviorist). Credits:
15 : 293:608	Consultation and Collaboration in Learning Disabilities
Psychological theories of consultation, and experience in consultation and collaboration in educational settings; skills in professional consultation, parent collaboration, and team teaching examined and practiced under supervision; analysis of team development and collaborative decision making. Credits:
15 : 310:528	Contemporary Issues in American Education
Current criticism of education, its practices and theory. Credits:
16 : 300:593	Cooperative and Collaborative Learning
The cognitive and affective consequences of various forms of peer learning. Credits:
15 : 253:525	Cultural Contrasts in Language Education
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Advanced study of cultural patterns in selected contemporary societies, and their reflection in language. Credits:
15 : 299:518	Current Topics in Reading Education
Topics may differ each time the course is offered. Topics include current issues or problems related to literacy, as well as practical teaching methods and theoretical issues. Credits:
15 : 299:552	Current Topics in Reading Education: Strategies for Teaching Reading
Strategies for Teaching Reading. Credits:
15 : 293:630	Current Topics in Special Education
Selected topics and issues affecting the education of atypical learners. Topics will vary. Consult instructor before registering. Credits: