2018-2019 Graduate Course Catalog 
    
    Apr 25, 2024  
2018-2019 Graduate Course Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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Sociology

  
  • SOC 600 - Selected Topics

    Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
    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
  
  • SOC 606 - Quantitative Methods

    Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Formulation of sociological research questions and the logic of testing and inference. Major quantitative and qualitative methodologies with emphasis on former. Relationship between problems formulation, theoretical perspective, and research methods.
  
  • SOC 611 - Sociological Theory

    Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Examination of theoretical approaches in sociology. Readings include writings by classic and contemporary social theorists, critiques of their theories and empirical writings that attempt to apply theoretical approaches to research studies.
  
  • SOC 614 - Introduction to Qualitative Research

    Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
    3 credit(s) Every semester
    Crosslisted with: EDU 603 , WGS 614 
    Developing and using qualitative methods used by sociologists to conduct research. Underlying assumptions and limitations.
  
  • SOC 621 - Contemporary Sociological Theories

    Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Major contemporary approaches to sociological theory. Reading representative works and comparing their application to selected topics.
  
  • SOC 625 - Feminist Organizations

    Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: WGS 625 
    Double Numbered with: SOC 425
    Analyzes feminist organizing/activist work within and beyond the U.S. Interrogates what counts as feminist organizing and how different organizations use feminist principles in work for social change. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • SOC 627 - New York City: Black Women Domestic Workers

    Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: AAS 627 , WGS 627 
    Double Numbered with: SOC 427
    Historical understanding of Black women’s engagement in paid domestic work in the United States, increasing need for domestic workers in the ever-changing economy and family, and the social construction of Black women as “ideal” domestic workers.
  
  • SOC 635 - Political Sociology

    Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Double Numbered with: SOC 335
    Relationships between society and politics. Impacts of individuals, groups, parties, and institutions on state power in global perspective. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • SOC 643 - Aging in the Context of Family Life

    Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
    3 credit(s) Only during the summer
    Crosslisted with: SWK 643 , CFS 643  
    Double Numbered with: SOC 443, SWK 443, CFS 443
    An overview of theory, research, and public policy concerning older adults and their families. Issues of relevance to aging families will be examined from multidisciplinary perspectives: sociology, psychology, demography, public health, and social work. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • SOC 645 - The Caribbean: Sex Workers, Transnational Capital, and Tourism

    Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: AAS 645 , WGS 645 
    Double Numbered with: SOC 445
    A political economy approach to educating students about the human and capital costs of tourism to the Caribbean. The integral relationship between sex work and Caribbean tourism exposes the region’s development that has resulted in its current configuration.
  
  • SOC 646 - The Social Impact of the Internet

    Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Double Numbered with: SOC 446
    Sociological implications of instantaneous communication, online publishing, identities and interactions, communities transcending geographic borders, and openly available information and opinion. Additional work required of graduate students. Offered only online.
  
  • SOC 648 - The Dynamics of Prejudice and Discrimination

    Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Double Numbered with: SOC 448
    Research and theory of prejudice and discrimination: inclusion/exclusion of individuals/social groups; classification of in/out groups; contributing roles of processes (difference, power, labeling, silencing). Recommended for upper-level students with some social science background and other coursework dealing with social inequities.
  
  • SOC 649 - The Sociology of Evil

    Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Double Numbered with: SOC 449
    Social conditions and processes allowing systematic dehumanization; perspectives of victim, perpetrator, audience, possibility of reconciliation. Extreme examples of evil; subtle ways of dehumanizing the other. Ethnic cleansing, international trafficking, terrorism. Additional work required of graduate students. Offered only online.
  
  • SOC 651 - Classics in the Sociology of Religion and Morals

    Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: ANT 651 , REL 651 
    Classical sociological writings of Emile Durkheim and Max Weber and their contemporary significance.
  
  • SOC 663 - Studies in Urban Sociology

    Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Life and structure of American cities. Sociological perspectives on urban life, growth, decline, and restructuring of cities.
  
  • SOC 664 - Aging and Society

    Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: WGS 664 
    Double Numbered with: SOC 364
    Current policy issues in an aging society. Health care, end-of-life, social security, productive aging, and generational equity. Special problems facing elderly women and minorities.
  
  • SOC 670 - Experience Credit

    Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
    1-6 credit(s) Irregularly
    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
  
  • SOC 677 - Class, Status, and Power

    Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Double Numbered with: SOC 377
    Structures, causes, and consequences of socio-economic inequalities in modern societies. Poverty and wealth, social mobility, and the persistence of inequality. Comparison and assessment of theories of social stratification.
  
  • SOC 704 - Science, Technology, and Society

    Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Sociology and social history of science and technology. Interaction of science, technology, and society. Technical controversies. Planning technological change. Suggested complement to PSC 705.
  
  • SOC 714 - Intermediate Social Statistics

    Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Introduction to multivariate statistical techniques to social science data.
    PREREQ: SOC 513 
  
  • SOC 760 - SOC 800: Sociology of Immigration and Immigrant Incorporation

    Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    This class will provide an overview of issues related to immigration.  In the first part of the course students will focus on the history of immigration and immigration policy.  In addition, students will learn about sociological theories of immigrant incorporation as well as specific issues related to the second-generation children of immigrants including their educational, labor-market, and transnational experiences.
  
  • SOC 800 - Selected Topics

    Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
    1-6 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    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
  
  • SOC 810 - Readings on Theory and Methodology

    Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Repeatable
  
  • SOC 811 - Advanced Seminar in Qualitative Research I

    Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: EDU 810 , WGS 812 
    Expand fieldwork skills and increase theoretical understanding: emphasis on “thinking qualitatively;” intensive fieldwork.
    PREREQ: EDU 603 /SOC 614 
  
  • SOC 812 - Advanced Seminar in Qualitative Research II

    Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: EDU 815 
    Applications to issues of special education and related educational or human service settings.
  
  • SOC 813 - Advanced Social Statistics

    Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Examination of some current issues in multivariate analysis. Most issues examined are based on linear model. Focus varies by term. Examples of topics covered are path analysis, non-recursive models, unmeasured variables and measurement issues.
  
  • SOC 821 - Feminist Methodologies

    Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Crosslisted with: WGS 821 
    The feminist critique and its implications for planning, conducting, and reporting on empirical studies.
  
  • SOC 825 - Foundations of Organizational Sociology

    Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Examines fundamental questions and approaches related to the sociological study of complex, formal organizations. Readings enable students to understand the intellectual development of theory and various historical shifts in emphasis in the field.
  
  • SOC 833 - Race, Class and Gender

    Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Crosslisted with: WGS 833 
    Intersecting dimensions of inequality that structure social life in contemporary societies. Multiple effects of cross cutting oppressions and privileges, including sexuality and ability/disability.
  
  • SOC 997 - Master’s Thesis

    Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
    1-6 credit(s) Every semester
  
  • SOC 999 - Dissertation

    Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
    1-15 credit(s) Every semester
    Repeatable

Social Science

  
  • SOS 575 - Philosophy of Social Science

    Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
    3 credit(s) Odd academic yr e.g. 2007-8
    Crosslisted with: PHI 575  
    Philosophical and methodological issues in social and behavioral science. Role of laws in explanation of human action, methodological individualism and holism, functional explanation, value-neutrality, behaviorism, and com puter simulation.
  
  • SOS 604 - Public Policy Analysis: Theory and Practice

    Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: PSC 602 
    Overview of policy literature, including political economy and practical politics. Formal analyses and case studies.
  
  • SOS 620 - Interpersonal Conflict Resolution Skills

    Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Enhanced communication skills to interact more effectively and solve problems creatively. Emphasizing reflective listening, problem solving, assertion, and managing conflicts among needs and values. Presenting theories demonstrating skill, practice, and critique. Additional work required of graduate students.
    Repeatable
  
  • SOS 621 - Mediation:Theory and Practice

    Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
    3 credit(s) Only during the summer
    Mediation skills to facilitate the resolution of disputes and differences. Techniques of third party intervention with individuals and groups. Learning approach includes lectures, simulations, modeling and practice mediations. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • SOS 623 - Leadership: Theory and Practice

    Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
    3 credit(s) Only during the summer
    Leadership skills to exercise responsible leadership and effective group membership in various contexts. Focus on individual leadership style and growth. Development of skills for a collaborative model of leadership. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • SOS 624 - Conflict Resolution in Groups

    Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
    3 credit(s) Only during the summer
    Skills to enhance understanding of conflict and conflict resolution and manage conflict in intragroup and intergroup settings. Unstructured small group experience to learn how groups function and to present a context for practice.
  
  • SOS 625 - The European Union

    Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: HST 625 
    Interdisciplinary introduction to history, politics, and economics of the European community.
  
  • SOS 705 - Theories of Development

    Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
    3 credit(s) Even Academic Yr e.g. 2004-5
    Crosslisted with: GEO 705 
    Review of theories of development, economic growth, and social change. Comparison of explanatory power and limits of each theory. Review of prospects for synthesis and implications for empirical research in geography and other social sciences.
  
  • SOS 716 - Foundations of American Political Thought

    Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: HST 682 , PSC 716 
    American political thought to about 1820. Puritans, American Revolution, establishment of the Constitution, and thought of Hamilton and Jefferson.
  
  • SOS 750 - Readings and Research in Social Sciences

    Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
    1-9 credit(s) Irregularly
    Interdepartmental seminars for graduate students enrolled in the social sciences program. Open to students in the respective disciplines.
    Repeatable
  
  • SOS 890 - Readings and Research in International Development Policy

    Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    For students preparing research for Ph.D. or Masters thesis, or in-depth research papers. Permission of instructor.
    Repeatable
  
  • SOS 991 - Social Science Dissertation Proposal

    Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Seminar in evaluating and developing research design. Application of social science methods to a specific research project. Preparation of detailed dissertation proposal by each student.
  
  • SOS 999 - Dissertation

    Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
    1-15 credit(s) Every semester

Spanish

  
  • SPA 601 - Literary Theory and Research Methods

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Reading in semiotics and research theory concerning literary texts.
  
  • SPA 620 - Language Training in Preparation for Research Using Spanish

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s)
    Language training to prepare students to conduct research in areas that require knowledge of Spanish.
    Repeatable 3 time(s), 12 credits maximum
  
  • SPA 635 - Spanish Phonetics and Phonology

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s)
    Double Numbered with: SPA 435
    Introduction to formal linguistic analysis of the Spanish sound system. Survey of dialectal variation. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • SPA 636 - The Structure of Spanish

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s)
    Double Numbered with: SPA 436
    Introduction to the formal linguistic analysis of the structure of Spanish sentences. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • SPA 637 - Introduction to Spanish Linguistics

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s)
    Double Numbered with: SPA 437
    Formal linguistic analysis of the Spanish language: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and language variation (sociolinguistics and dialectology). Taught entirely in Spanish. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • SPA 638 - History of the Spanish Language

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s)
    Double Numbered with: SPA 438
    The evolution of modern Spanish. The causes of linguistic change, the development of the phonological and morphosyntactic systems, the semantic/lexical development of the language. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • SPA 639 - Community Outreach: Language in Action

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Double Numbered with: SPA 439
    Language immersion in the Spanish-speaking community in the Syracuse area. Emphasis on improving spoken and written Spanish through a service learning component. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • SPA 641 - Medieval and Golden Age Literature

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Critical reading of significant literary works drawn from the Middle Ages and the 16th and 17th centuries.
  
  • SPA 643 - Cervantes

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Don Quixote, with selections from other representative works by Cervantes.
  
  • SPA 652 - Spanish Enlightenment to Modernism: Aesthetics and Power

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s)
    Through a diverse theoretical approach, analyzes the construction of the following notions: literature, nation, identity, and gender. Representations of women in literary and cinematic texts.
  
  • SPA 653 - Sinner and Saints in 19th and 20th Century Spanish Literature and Film

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s)
    Crosslisted with: WGS 653 
    Representations of women in novel, poetry, theater, and film through diverse theoretical approaches. Issues of power, sex, hierarchy, and institution.
  
  • SPA 655 - Caribbean Spaces

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Odd academic yr e.g. 2007-8
    This course explores visions of urban imaginaries in Caribbean and U.S. Caribbean cultures. It analyzes the intersections between urban spaces and the formation of local/global subjectivities.
  
  • SPA 656 - Reality and Desire: Theater and Poetry (20th Century)

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s)
    A diachronic study of the Spanish theater and poetry. Literary works will include texts by Valle-Inclán, Machado, Garcia Lorca, Aleixandre, Cernuda, Sastre, Buero Vallejo, among others.
  
  • SPA 658 - Narrative and Film in Spain (1940 to the Present)

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s)
    Diachronic study of the “art of adaptation” in Spain. Exploration of the language of translation. Exchange between literature and film during and after Franco.
  
  • SPA 662 - Latin American Colonial Literature

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s)
    Literature written during the Colonial period and contemporary criticism and theory about that period.
  
  • SPA 663 - Latin American Theater

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s)
    An introduction to major theatrical works and movements in Latin America.
  
  • SPA 664 - Nineteenth Century Latin American Literature

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s)
    Narratives and poetry written during the 19th century in Latin America. Analyzed in relation to literary movements such as costumbrism, romanticism, realism, naturalism, and the gaucho trend.
  
  • SPA 665 - Performance and Postmodernism in Latin America

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s)
    Latin American theater written or performed from 1990 to the present alongside theories on performance and postmodernism related to Latin America and its theater.
  
  • SPA 671 - Latin American Literature and Feminist Theory

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s)
    Crosslisted with: WGS 671 
    Includes reading and critical discussion of novels by 20th-century Latin American women writers and an introduction to feminist theory as it pertains to Latin America.
  
  • SPA 672 - Gay and Lesbian Hispanic Caribbean Literature

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s)
    Caribbean poetry and fiction in homosexual literature. Includes literary theories and social, political, cultural, and religious values related to homosexuality.
  
  • SPA 673 - Afro-Hispanic Literature of the Caribbean

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s)
    Evolution of the African culture within the Cuban Literature of the 20th century. The relationship of Santeria/Revolution is especially emphasized.
  
  • SPA 674 - Cuban Neo-Baroque

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s)
    Analysis of three contemporary Cuban writers: Alejo Carpentier, José Lezama Lima, and Severo Sarduy. Literary theories of novel, poetry, and lectures.
  
  • SPA 678 - Latin American Literature in the New Millenium

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    This course will trace the major developments in Latin American literature and cultural phenomena that followed the Boom, with emphasis on the production of the 21st century.
  
  • SPA 679 - Contemporary Trends In Latin American Literature, Culture and Film

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Cultural debates, literary developments and film in contemporary Latin America.
  
  • SPA 681 - U.S. Latina/o Literature

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s)
    Literary texts written by Latina/os in Spanish from the 17th century to present. Focus from late 19th century to the present; examining socio-historic, cultural and literary contexts.
  
  • SPA 685 - Contemporary Spanish-American Literature

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Precursors, modernists, and postmodernists
  
  • SPA 686 - Thinking/Writing the Nation

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    An introduction to texts within the variety of discursive modernity models of 19th century Latin America. From Independence Era to the end of that century.
  
  • SPA 687 - Revisiting Foundational Fictions

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Even Academic Yr e.g. 2004-5
    A discussion of Anderson’s Imagined Communities and Sommer’s Foundational Fictions, to determine how helpful they are today in the study and mapping of 19th century Latin American narrative texts.
  
  • SPA 690 - Independent Study

    College of Arts and Sciences
    1-6 credit(s) Every semester
    In-depth exploration of a problem or problems. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor or instructors and the department.
    Repeatable

Studio Art

  
  • STA 500 - Selected Topics

    School of Art
    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

Surface Pattern Design

  
  • SPD 527 - Advanced Textile Printing

    School of Design
    3 credit(s)
    Individual research of advanced dyeing and printing methods.
    PREREQ: TXT 314
  
  • SPD 643 - Design Analysis&Synthesis I

    School of Design
    1-12 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Individual projects undertaken with instructor’s consultation and guidance, directed toward professional decorative and repeat pattern design as related to the wall covering, textile, and allied industries. For first-year graduate surface pattern design majors.
  
  • SPD 743 - Design Analysis and Synthesis II

    School of Design
    1-12 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Research problems in surface pattern design for graduate majors. Individual projects undertaken with instructor’s consultation and guidance. Research directed toward professional decorative and repeat pattern design as related to the wall covering, textile, and allied industries. For first-year graduate surface pattern design majors.
  
  • SPD 996 - Final Presentation

    School of Design
    3 credit(s) Every semester
    Written statement to accompany final project, culminating in oral examination for M.F.A. degree. Taken during final semester upon advisor’s approval.
  
  • SPD 997 - Masters Thesis

    School of Design
    0-6 credit(s) Every semester
    Formal master’s thesis. Written document exhibiting substantive and original research. Planned under direction of major departmental advisor.

Special Education

  
  • SPE 500 - 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
  
  • SPE 520 - Methods and Curricula in Early Childhood Special Education

    School of Education
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Curricula, program design, and teaching methods for educating infants and young children with disabilities.
  
  • SPE 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
  
  • SPE 609 - Teaching Children and Adolescents with Autism

    School of Education
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Cognitive, social, and communication needs of children and adolescents with autism. Examines program development, behavioral management, and effective educational strategies for this population of students.
  
  • SPE 612 - Adapting Instruction for Diverse Student Needs

    School of Education
    3 credit(s) Every semester
    Double Numbered with: SPE 412
    Methods and materials to ensure that diverse student needs are met in classrooms. Focus on individual differences in learning, behavior, physical abilities, and emotional characteristics. Other differences will also be considered (e.g., race, gender). Additional work required of graduate students. Admission to a teacher preparation program.
  
  • SPE 613 - Developmental Therapy for Children with Disabilities

    School of Education
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Integrated occupational/ physical therapy interventions and curricular modifications for children with special needs, ages birth to 5 years, in collaboration with early childhood special education planning.
  
  • SPE 615 - Seminar in Teaching

    School of Education
    1-2 credit(s) Every semester
    Opportunities for students to critically reflect upon their inclusive field experience. Emphasis on professionalism, collaborative problem solving (including classroom management), planning and implementing curriculum and teaching strategies and becoming a productive school change agent.
    COREQ: EDU 508 
    Repeatable 1 time(s), 3 credits maximum
  
  • SPE 618 - Augmentation of Communication in the Inclusive Classroom

    School of Education
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Supporting students who are users of augmentative and alternative communication in inclusive classrooms. Variety of communication approaches, systems, and devises. Academic, social, legal, and policy issues.
  
  • SPE 621 - Sociology of Disability

    School of Education
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: DSP 621 
    Sociological perspectives on disability treatment approaches, and social policy toward the disabled. Personal and public forms of stereotyping, prejudices, and discrimination.
  
  • SPE 623 - Families of Students with Disabilities

    School of Education
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Critical, contemporary issues affecting children and youth with special needs and their families.
  
  • SPE 627 - Early Intervention for Children’s Reading Problems

    School of Education
    3 credit(s) Every semester
    Crosslisted with: RED 626 
    Researchbased instruction for prevention and remediation of reading difficulties. Focus on preschool and early elementary children at risk for reading problems, as well as older elementary children labeled learning disabled, reading disabled, or dyslexic.
  
  • SPE 633 - The High-Risk Infant: Medical Treatment and Educational Interventions

    School of Education
    3 credit(s) Only during the summer
    Major medical conditions of newborns, associated developmental delays and disabilities, and ethical issues of medical treatment in neonatal intensive care. Problems of preterm, full-term, and post-term infants. Current issues (e.g., substance abuse, HIV-AIDS).
  
  • SPE 634 - Collaboration/Cooperation in Schools

    School of Education
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: EDA 634 
    Formal specialized services and informal support networks that promote collaboration between teachers, administrators, therapists, paraprofessionals, students, families, and community members.
  
  • SPE 644 - Significant Disabilities: Shifts in Paradigms and Practices

    School of Education
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: DSP 644 
    Curriculum development, methods, materials, and instructional strategies, emphasizing inclusive settings. Discrimination encountered; history and experiences (e.g., eugenics, racial stereotypes, gender roles, and ideas of progress); perspective of those with significant disabilities.
  
  • SPE 649 - Practicum in Significant Disabilities

    School of Education
    1 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Field-based practicum with students with significant disabilities in inclusive settings.
    COREQ: SPE 644 
  
  • SPE 652 - Assistive Technologies for Integrating Students with Special Needs

    School of Education
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: DSP 652 , IDE 652 
    Development of integrative technologies and strategies that can be functional in both educational and work environment. Support and adaptation for individuals with physical, educational, and language challenges.
  
  • SPE 653 - Positive Approaches to Challenging Behaviors

    School of Education
    3 credit(s) Only during the summer
    Approaches for supporting elementary children with challenging behaviors. Conflict resolution, peer mediation, prosocial behavior, skillstreaming, and cooperative learning.
  
  • SPE 665 - Positive Behavior Supports in Secondary Schools

    School of Education
    3 credit(s) Only during the summer
    Approaches to help support positive behavior in adolescents. Theories and characteristics of emotional and behavioral disabilities; historical perspective; current research; assessment techniques; effective strategies for schools, classrooms and individuals.
  
  • SPE 688 - Social Policy and Disability

    School of Education
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: CFE 688 , DSP 688 
    Trends and issues in the field and forces within society (political, economic, cultural, historical, and social) that affect people with disabilities.
  
  • SPE 690 - Independent Study

    School of Education
    1-6 credit(s)
    Exploration of a problem, or problems, in depth. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor(s) and the department.
    Repeatable
  
  • SPE 705 - Practicum in Psychoeducational Evaluation and Planning for Exceptional Children

    School of Education
    3-6 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Working on a psychoeducational teaching laboratory team, students learn to evaluate and plan programs for youngsters with puzzling learning and/or behavioral difficulties using home and school observations, formal, informal, and curriculum-based assessment strategies.
 

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