2018-2019 Graduate Course Catalog 
    
    Apr 24, 2024  
2018-2019 Graduate Course Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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Chemical Engineering

  
  • CEN 551 - Biochemical Engineering

    College of Engineering and Computer Science
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Introduction to microbiology, biochemical kinetics. Biochemical-reactor design, including methods for oxygen transfer and control. Introduction to separation processes in biochemical engineering.
    PREREQ: CHE 275
  
  • CEN 561 - Polymer Science & Engineering

    College of Engineering and Computer Science
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: BEN 561 
    Polymer structure, physical properties, and applications of polymers. Polymer synthesis, characterization of molecular structure, and copolymerization and blending. Unique physical properties of polymeric materials. Processing and applications of polymers.
  
  • CEN 565 - Bioremediation

    College of Engineering and Computer Science
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: CIE 565 
    Uses of bioremediation in engineering applications. Role of microorganisms in degradation of pollutants and contaminants. Regulatory, societal, and legal issues of bioremediation.
    PREREQ: CIE 472 OR CEN 472
  
  • CEN 567 - Biotechnology

    College of Engineering and Computer Science
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: CIE 567 
    Engineering applications of biotechnology in agriculture, industry, and the environment. Principles of molecular genetics as applied in the biotechnology industry. Hands-on exposure to laboratory recombinant DNA technology.
    PREREQ: CIE 472/CEN 472
  
  • CEN 573 - Principles and Design in Air Pollution Control

    College of Engineering and Computer Science
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Fundamental principles of pollution control, design of control processes and equipment. Criteria for selection of control processes and equipment for gaseous and particulate pollutants.
  
  • CEN 574 - Process Design

    College of Engineering and Computer Science
    4 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Chemical engineering principles for plant design and optimal process operation. Cost estimation and profitability analysis. Shortcut and computer-aided process design techniques. Environmental impact and health and safety concerns.
    PREREQ: CEN 353 AND CEN 587 
  
  • CEN 575 - Process Control

    College of Engineering and Computer Science
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: BEN 575 
    Modeling and linearization of process dynamics. Transfer functions. Performance and stability of feedback control loops. Introduction to multivariable and digital controls.
    PREREQ: MAT 485
  
  • CEN 576 - Green Engineering

    College of Engineering and Computer Science
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Review of environmental regulations. Evaluating the environmental fate of chemicals. Techniques for improving environmental performance of processes. Methods for evaluating environmental performance, design of unit operations, and flowsheets for pollution prevention. Environmental cost accounting.
    PREREQ: CEN 341 AND 353
  
  • CEN 587 - Chemical Reaction Engineering

    College of Engineering and Computer Science
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Conversion and reactor sizing, isothermal reactor design for flow and batch systems, rate laws and stoichiometry, analysis of rate data, multiple reactions, introduction to heterogeneous reactor design.
    PREREQ: CEN 341
  
  • CEN 590 - Recent Advances In CEN

    College of Engineering and Computer Science
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Selected topics in research and new areas of competence in chemical engineering.
    Repeatable
  
  • CEN 600 - Selected Topics

    College of Engineering and Computer Science
    1-6 credit(s) Irregularly
    Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
    Repeatable
  
  • CEN 601 - Graduate Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering Seminar

    College of Engineering and Computer Science
    0-1 credit(s) Every semester
    Crosslisted with: BEN 601 
    Selected topics in bioengineering. Presentations by internal and external speakers, discussions with students.
    Repeatable, 1 credits maximum
  
  • CEN 602 - Ethical Issues in Engineering and Research

    College of Engineering and Computer Science
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: BEN 602
    Explores the application of professional norms to ethical decision making in engineering and scientific research. Includes examination of cases in light of the requirements of the Responsible Conduct of Research.
  
  • CEN 621 - Biochemical Engineering

    College of Engineering and Computer Science
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: BEN 621
    Double Numbered with: CEN 421
    Introduction to microbiology, biochemical kinetics. Biochemical-reactor design, including methods for oxygen transfer and control. Introduction to separation processes in biochemical engineering. Additional work for graduate students.
  
  • CEN 633 - Drug Delivery

    College of Engineering and Computer Science
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: BEN 633 
    Double Numbered with: CEN 433
    Integration of biology, chemistry, and engineering to understand how pharmaceuticals are delivered to, and behave within, the body. Includes drug formulation, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, controlled release, and targeted delivery. Additional work is required of graduate students.
  
  • CEN 634 - Polymer Physics

    College of Engineering and Computer Science
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: BEN 634 
    Exploration into the physical properties of polymers focusing on polymer theoretical physics, characterization of their physical properties, and the importance of their structure-property relationships in various applications.
  
  • CEN 635 - Physical Cell Biology

    College of Engineering and Computer Science
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: BEN 635 , BIO 635  , CHE 635 , PHY 635  
    This interdisciplinary class for science and engineering students provides an introduction to the quantitative description of biological systems and processes. The focus is on the biological and physical aspects of structure and function of cells and their subsystems.
  
  • CEN 638 - Open Problems in Soft Interfaces

    College of Engineering and Computer Science
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: BEN 638 , BIO 638 , CHE 638 , PHY 638  
    In this seminar course on soft and biological materials and interfaces, teams from science and engineering will identify, discuss and assess current articles from the literature. Writing skills related to publishing peer-reviewed research are introduced.
  
  • CEN 643 - Fluid Dynamics

    College of Engineering and Computer Science
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: MAE 643 
    Review of undergraduate fluids; kinematics, vorticity; dynamics, stresses, Euler and Navier-Stokes equations; energy, Bernoulli’s equation; potential flows; Stokes flows; boundary layers; flow separation; other applications.
    PREREQ: MAE 341 OR CEN 333
  
  • CEN 651 - Molecular and Statistical Thermodynamics

    College of Engineering and Computer Science
    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Double Numbered with: CEN 451
    Classical and molecular thermodynamics in chemical equilibrium, with applications. Emphasis on concepts of statistical mechanics and correlation with properties of gases and condensed matter. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • CEN 655 - Materials for Energy Systems

    College of Engineering and Computer Science
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: CEN 455
    Materials related to energy technologies and existing energy resources. Topics include: geologic fuels; photovoltaics; wind energy; thermoelectrics; electrical energy storage; hydrogen production, storage, and use; solid-state lighting; nuclear energy. Additional work required of graduate students
  
  • CEN 661 - Environmental Chemistry and Analysis

    College of Engineering and Computer Science
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: CIE 671 
    Double Numbered with: CEN 461
    An introduction to chemical principles in natural and engineered environmental systems. Thermodynamics and kinetics of reactions; acid-base chemistry; environmental organic chemistry; treatment process design applications. Includes selected laboratory exercises. Additional work is required of graduate students.
  
  • CEN 662 - Biofuels, Bioproducts, and Biorefining

    College of Engineering and Computer Science
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: BEN 662 
    Double Numbered with: CEN 462
    Survey of modern technologies available for the production of transportation fuels from abundant natural resources. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • CEN 671 - Chemical Engineering Methods I

    College of Engineering and Computer Science
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Use of fundamental physical, chemical and mathematical principles involving chemical engineering problems. Problems associated with transport theory and chemical kinetics requiring the solution of partial differential equations using orthogonal function expansions. Duhammel’s theorem and other techniques.
  
  • CEN 672 - Applied Env Microbiology

    College of Engineering and Computer Science
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: CIE 672 
    Double Numbered with: CEN 472
    General Principles and application of environmental microbiology and microbial processes. Role of microbes in water pollution control, environmental health, and element cycling in the environment. Additional work is required of graduate students.
  
  • CEN 673 - Biomanufacturing

    College of Engineering and Computer Science
    3 credit(s)
    Crosslisted with: BEN 673
    Double Numbered with: CEN 473
    Students learn the governing principles of conventional and advanced manufacturing techniques, which are adapted/modified to engineer living tissues/organs, biomedical products and test-platforms for investigating fundamental cell biology. Extra work required for grad students.
    PREREQ: BEN 364 OR BEN 664
  
  • CEN 676 - Optimization Techniques in Chemical Engineering

    College of Engineering and Computer Science
    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Optimization methods applied to engineering systems. Linear and quadratic programming. Direct and gradient search procedures. Kuhn-Tucker conditions. Techniques for variational problems.
  
  • CEN 687 - Advanced Chemical Engineering Design

    College of Engineering and Computer Science
    3 credit(s)
    Chemical Engineering Masters Project, to be completed by each student as an individual advanced design project, involving a chemical process synthesis. Students are expected to apply mathematical and engineering concepts to complete the design calculations.
  
  • CEN 741 - Transport Phenomena I

    College of Engineering and Computer Science
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Tensor analysis. Reynold’s transport theorem. Constitutive equations for stress. Momentum transport equations. Creeping flow, nonviscous flow, boundary layer flow. Flow through porous media. Turbulence. Energy transport equation. Conduction, natural and forced convection solutions. Boundary layer heat transfer.
    PREREQ: CEN 542 , CEN 671 
  
  • CEN 761 - Rheology &Polymer Process

    College of Engineering and Computer Science
    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Introduction to flow phenomena in polymeric fluids; the non-Newtonian rheological behavior of polymer solutions and melts; constitutive relations for the flow properties; applications in polymer processing; characterization of polymer mechanical properties, morphology and structure.
    PREREQ: CEN 741 
  
  • CEN 772 - Chemical Engineering Methods II

    College of Engineering and Computer Science
    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Continuation of CEN 671. Use of integral equations and variational methods in chemical reactor calculations. Solution of nonlinear differential equations using perturbation, weighted residual, and numerical methods.
    PREREQ: CEN 671 
  
  • CEN 786 - Kinetics

    College of Engineering and Computer Science
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Homogenous reactions: tubular and stirred reactors, axial and radial transport. Residence time distribution. Heterogenous reactions-catalytic: rates, pores, transport, in fixed and fluid beds, non-catalytic reaction and growth of new phases.
    PREREQ: CEN 587 , CEN 651 , CEN 671 
  
  • CEN 789 - Advanced Topics in Colloidal and Interfacial Phenomena

    College of Engineering and Computer Science
    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Topics include colloidal interactions in dispersions; stability of colloidal systems; adsorption/desorption phenomena; many-body interactions; periodic colloid structures; order/disorder transformations in colloidal fluids; and rheology and transport properties of interacting dispersions.
  
  • CEN 790 - Advanced Topics in Chemical Engineering

    College of Engineering and Computer Science
    1-3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Recent advances in chemical engineering science.
    Repeatable
  
  • CEN 890 - Advanced Topics In Chemical Engineering

    College of Engineering and Computer Science
    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Recent advances in chemical engineering research, including experimental techniques.
    Repeatable
  
  • CEN 997 - Masters Thesis

    College of Engineering and Computer Science
    1-6 credit(s) Every semester
    Repeatable

Ceramics

  
  • CER 520 - Raku Workshop

    School of Art
    3 credit(s) Every semester
    Use of the Potter’s wheel and production of various basic forms. Raku decorating and glazing techniques.
    Repeatable
  
  • CER 524 - Ceramic Research

    School of Art
    1-6 credit(s) Every semester
    Advanced research.
    PREREQ: CER 423 AND 424
  
  • CER 527 - Ceramic Technology Research

    School of Art
    1-6 credit(s) Odd academic yr e.g. 2007-8
    Varied technical and chemical problems that are the daily concerns of the studio ceram-ist. Lectures, research, shop, laboratory practices, kiln construction, and ceramic studio maintenance.
  
  • CER 528 - Ceramic Technology Research

    School of Art
    1-6 credit(s) Odd academic yr e.g. 2007-8
    Varied technical and chemical problems that are the daily concerns of the studio ceram-ist. Lectures, research, shop, laboratory practices, kiln construction, and ceramic studio maintenance.
    PREREQ: CER 428
  
  • CER 529 - Ceramics Workshop

    School of Art
    1-6 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Working and experimenting with clay as a medium for drawing, painting, and sculpting. Lectures, demonstrations, studio work, and student projects. Open to all students in all colleges.
  
  • CER 720 - Ceramic Research Problems

    School of Art
    1-12 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Continuation of CER 620. Permission of Instructor.
    Repeatable
  
  • CER 996 - Final Presentation

    School of Art
    3 credit(s) Every semester
    Final presentation accompanied by written statement, culminating in oral examination for M.F.A. or M.I.D. degree. Taken during final semester upon advisor’s approval.
  
  • CER 997 - Masters Thesis

    School of Art
    1-6 credit(s) Every semester
    Formal master’s thesis. Written document exhibiting substantive and original research. Planned under direction of major departmental advisor.

Cultural Foundations of Education

  
  • CFE 600 - Selected Topics

    School of Education
    1-6 credit(s)
    Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
    Repeatable
  
  • CFE 601 - Intro Phil of Education

    School of Education
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Philosophical analysis of educational concepts and practices. Issues underlying conflicting educational ideologies of teaching and learning, knowing, judging, valuing, citizenship, community, and philosophical anthropology.
  
  • CFE 605 - Race, Philosophy and Education

    School of Education
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Questions around race, racism, and education are explored from the perspective of philosophers and philosophers of education. Examines the “politics of recognition,” “colorblind ideology,” the social construction of race, essentialism, intersectionality, whiteness, and white privilege.
  
  • CFE 611 - Intro Comparative Ed

    School of Education
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Comparative methodology. Problems in education comparatively and from a cross-cultural point of view.
  
  • CFE 614 - Critical Issues in Dis/Ability and Inclusion

    School of Education
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: DSP 614 
    Social construction of disability and special education. Disability autobiographies, research literature, parent narratives, legal/policy issues, shifting notions and cultural context of disability, and school and community inclusion. Review of disability classifications as they relate to these issues.
  
  • CFE 621 - History of Education in the United States

    School of Education
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    History of educational institutions from the Puritan colonies to the present. Factors that led to the development of the unique system of education in the United States.
  
  • CFE 631 - Introduction to Sociology and Anthropology of Education

    School of Education
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Concepts, levels of organization, and processes relevant to the analysis of education. Sociological and anthropological studies of the school, its personnel, and its internal and external systems.
  
  • CFE 640 - Inequality and Intergroup Relations in Education

    School of Education
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Examines theory, research, and practice important for intergroup relations in education, within context of racial, ethnic, and class inequalities in broader U.S. society. Covers conceptual foundations and frameworks for social justice education and intergroup dialogue.
  
  • CFE 662 - Youth, Schooling and Popular Culture

    School of Education
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: WGS 662 
    Double Numbered with: CFE 362
    Positioned where school, media, and youth cultures intersect. How schools and media represent “good” and “bad” youth, and how youth negotiate schools and popular cultures. Includes theories of popular culture and adolescence. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • CFE 688 - Social Policy and Disability

    School of Education
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: DSP 688 , SPE 688  
    Trends and issues in the field and forces within society (political, economic, cultural, historical, and social) that affect people with disabilities.
  
  • CFE 700 - Selected Topics

    School of Education
    1-6 credit(s)
    Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
    Repeatable
  
  • CFE 701 - Education and Social Philosophy

    School of Education
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Philosophical problems underlying alternative theories of society, citizenship, and the individual. Each in relation to educational policy and practice.
  
  • CFE 710 - Critical Whiteness Theory and Education

    School of Education
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    This course examines a small but growing body of philosophical scholarship that critically engages whiteness in order to better understand white subjectivity, white complicity, white resistance to knowing, and white agency. Educational implications of this scholarship are emphasized.
  
  • CFE 723 - Representation of Ability and Disability

    School of Education
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: DSP 724 
    Constructions, meanings, and markers of ability/disability. How representation relates to educational research and practice.
  
  • CFE 725 - Gender and Race in Higher Education

    School of Education
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: HED 725 , WGS 725 
    Examines the influence of gender and race in historical and contemporary higher education from interdisciplinary perspective; considers dynamics of power, privilege, and oppression; includes topics related to student and faculty experiences, and curricular issues.
  
  • CFE 731 - Intermediate Sociology and Anthropology of Education

    School of Education
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Sociological and anthropological analyses of education. Prevailing perspectives of people, society, and culture; their implications for various roles in and functions of education.
  
  • CFE 775 - Gender, Sexuality, and Disability

    School of Education
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: DSP 775  
    Interdisciplinary course, explores points of contact and conflict between feminist theory and disability studies. Embodiment, representation, and voice explored from a variety of disciplines and genres.
  
  • CFE 776 - Gender, Education & Culture

    School of Education
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: DSP 776 , WGS 776  
    How gender is culturally constructed in American society with particular reference to education broadly conceived; how race and social class influence gender analysis.
  
  • CFE 801 - Educational Theory and the Social Sciences

    School of Education
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Some major works of sociological and anthropological thought as works of educational theory. Writings of Durkheim, Weber, Parsons, and Manheim as they bear directly upon education. Enrollment limited.
  
  • CFE 809 - Problems of Educational Theory

    School of Education
    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Criteria, construction, and application of educational theories. Problems with a theoretical basis. May be repeated for credit as the problems for analysis change.
  
  • CFE 810 - Foundations of Moral Education

    School of Education
    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Foundations of moral learning and elements of its pedagogy as rooted in major texts of Western moral reflection, including Plato’s The Republic, Nichomechean Ethics, Durkheim’s Lecture on Moral Education, and selections from Kant.
  
  • CFE 813 - Multicultural Narratives and Educational Change

    School of Education
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Narratives from diverse ethnic/racial, gendered, and cultural positions. Questions of representation in narrative analysis. Place of narrative in social sciences. Role of narrative in educational change. Relationships of stories to theory, self to other.
  
  • CFE 821 - Historiography in Education

    School of Education
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Historiographic grounding for historical research methods. Seminar on the traditional categories, methods, and tools of historical research. Using student-generated topics, the seminar explores the consequences of common methodological choices.
  
  • CFE 900 - Seminar in Philosophy of Education

    School of Education
    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Different topic selected each semester. Enrollment limited to 10 students.
    Repeatable
  
  • CFE 910 - Seminar in Problems of International and Comparative Education

    School of Education
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Substantive problems and topics, such as educational planning, education and development, international educational relations.
    Repeatable
  
  • CFE 920 - Seminar in History of Education

    School of Education
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Different educational topic each semester. Enrollment limited to 10 students.
    Repeatable
  
  • CFE 930 - Sociology and Anthropology of Education:Seminar in Special Topics

    School of Education
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: DSP 930  
    Dialogue between students of education and those of sociology, anthropology, and related fields on issues of mutual interest. Evaluation of potential contributions of various fields to the solution or clarification of these issues.
    Repeatable

Child and Family Studies

  
  • CFS 557 - Sep & Div:Impct/Chld&Fam

    Human Development and Family Science
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Social and psychological issues, theories, and research.
  
  • CFS 577 - Urban Families Strengths and Challenges

    Child and Family Studies
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Theoretical and empirical research on the challenges and opportunities for children and families living in urban settings. Issues of urban housing, family-community partnerships, crime, and criminal processing, health, urban diversity, and social science policies.
  
  • CFS 597 - Early Childhood Program Administration

    Child and Family Studies
    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Prepares students to administer, coordinate, promote, consult, and assist in the start-up and development of early childhood program services.
  
  • CFS 600 - Selected Topics

    Child and Family Studies
    1-6 credit(s)
    Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
    Repeatable
  
  • CFS 615 - Graduate Proseminar in Child and Family Studies

    Child and Family Studies
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    This proseminar is for first-year Child and Family Studies graduate students to familiarize and gain knowledge about research, teaching, ethical principles, and the profession.
  
  • CFS 621 - Statistical Concepts I

    Child and Family Studies
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    First course in statistics; provides tools for data analysis. Descriptive and inferential statistics.
  
  • CFS 622 - Statistical Concepts II

    Child and Family Studies
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Second course in statistics. Analysis of variance, multiple regression, and multivariate analysis.
    PREREQ: CFS 621 
  
  • CFS 631 - Research Methods/Cfs I

    Child and Family Studies
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Fundamental concepts of research methodologies employed in the study of children and families, focusing on the research process.
    PREREQ: CFS 621 
  
  • CFS 633 - Intrvntn Mdls:Inft&Pre-Sc

    Child and Family Studies
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Theoretical and pragmatic bases and dimensions of early childhood programs. Programs of prevention and remediation, both research based and service oriented. Recent manuscript materials.
  
  • CFS 634 - Secondary Data Analysis Using Social Science Data

    Child and Family Studies
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    A quantitative focus on the research process through practical examples drawn from data sets deposited with Inter University Consortium for Political and Social Science Research.
    PREREQ: CFS 621  AND CFS 622  AND CFS 631 
  
  • CFS 635 - Obs&Assesmt/Infnts&Chldrn

    Child and Family Studies
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Demonstrations of preschool tests. Opportunities in naturalistic settings for proficiency in the interaction coding technique, APPROACH, in other observation methods, and in infant developmental tests. Reliability and validity problems in ecological research.
  
  • CFS 636 - Crtcl Iss/Early Chldhd

    Child and Family Studies
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Contemporary issues. Emphasis on developmentally appropriate strategies of teaching and child care. Issues such as cultural diversity, family demographics, role of play.
  
  • CFS 637 - Theo,Intrp,Apps/Child Dev

    Child and Family Studies
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Disparate theoretical approaches to child development, especially competing interpretations of the behavior of young children.
  
  • CFS 638 - Child Development in the Context of Schooling

    Child and Family Studies
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Exploration of some of the issues relevant to understanding the development of children in the context of schooling.
  
  • CFS 643 - Aging in the Context of Family Life

    David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: SOC 643 SWK 643 
    Double Numbered with: CFS 443
    Overview of theory, research, and public policy concerning older adults and their families. Issues of relevance to aging families examined from multidisciplinary perspectives in the social and behavioral sciences. Extra work required of graduate students.
  
  • CFS 645 - The Developing Infant

    Child and Family Studies
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Double Numbered with: CFS 345
    Pregnancy and neonatal and child development from birth to three years. Theory and research findings: biological, psychological, and family. Systematic observations of infants. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • CFS 647 - Play, Childhood Development, and Early Childhood Education

    Child and Family Studies
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Role of parents and teachers in supporting children’s play from infancy through early school age; enriching classroom play; diversity and special needs considerations.
  
  • CFS 648 - Family Theory:Interp&Applc

    Child and Family Studies
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Critical assessment of the theoretical perspectives of family studies; survey of major substantive developments.
  
  • CFS 649 - Marital and Cohabitating Roles and Relationships

    Child and Family Studies
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    In-depth examination of the theory and research in the areas of marriage, cohabitation, and same-sex relationships.
    PREREQ: CFS 648  AND CFS 631 
  
  • CFS 652 - Mindfulness in Children and Youth

    Child and Family Studies
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: CFS 452
    Importance of mindfulness for optimal development in children and youth; school- and community-based interventions that target mindfulness; mindful parenting. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • CFS 653 - Child and Family Development Across the Life Cycle

    Child and Family Studies
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Course focuses on human growth and development birth through old age within cultural and environmental context. Course is intended to advance learning about research methods lifespan development specific to assessment and measurement of lifespan development.
  
  • CFS 657 - Cntmp Iss/Human Sexuality

    Human Development and Family Science
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Individual responses to social pressures. Issues of the sexual revolution and its impact in terms of sexual behavior and dysfunction.
  
  • CFS 658 - Science of Caring and Sharing

    David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Double Numbered with: CFS 458
    The ways caring and sharing develop and change across childhood and adolescence. Theories, research, and applied experiences that emphasize prosocial behavior, morality, gratitude, empathy, and compassion are discussed.
  
  • CFS 659 - Families and Workplaces

    Child and Family Studies
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    A multi-disciplinary perspective on the evolution of the relationship between workplaces and families.
  
  • CFS 665 - Language Development in Children

    David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Double Numbered with: CFS 365
    Normative language development, linguistic theories, and child language research. Social class, cultural, and familial influences. Language enrichment, language disorders, assessments, and linguistic diversity. Systematic observations of child language required. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • CFS 667 - Chld&Fam Crss/Cltrl Persp

    Child and Family Studies
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Introduction to field methods, the study of childhood, and family in cross-cultural perspectives.
  
  • CFS 668 - Fam Var:Soc Class&Eth Det

    Child and Family Studies
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Variables of residence (rural, urban, suburban), social class, and ethnicity as they pertain to family organization. Variations in marital relationships, child rearing, kinship, and patterns of mobility.
  
  • CFS 670 - Experience Credit

    Child and Family Studies
    1-6 credit(s)
    Participation in a discipline or subject related experience. Student must be evaluated by written or oral reports or an examination. Permission in advance with the consent of the department chairperson, instructor, and dean. Limited to those in good academic standing.
    Repeatable
  
  • CFS 674 - Promises and Problems in Youth and Emerging Adulthood

    Child and Family Studies
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Development of youth and emerging adults in family and cultural contexts emphasizing both positive outcomes and challenges. Roles of parents, peers, communities, social structures, media influences, and institutions in youth/emerging adult development.
 

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