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2023-2024 Graduate Catalog

Course Descriptions

 

Spanish
  

  • SPAN 682 Spanish Oral Proficiency (3)

    Emphasis is on practical activities designed to increase students’ level of proficiency and their understanding of the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines. Assignments focus on analyzing oral skills, diagnosing problem areas, and on applying proficiency strategies to personal and professional needs.
    Course Frequency: Occasional
  

  • SPAN 698 Independent Study (3)

    An opportunity for students to work with a faculty member on a specific topic. The student and instructor must collaborate to identify an area of interest, a reading list, a timeline, and objectives for the course before the semester starts.

     
    Prerequisite(s): Independent Study requires individual enrollment, permission of the sponsoring faculty, permission of the program director.
    Course Frequency: Occasional
    Repeatable: May be repeated for credit when course content varies.

Teacher Education
  

  • TEDU 535 Creating Welcoming Learning Environments for Students and Families (3)

    This lecture course focuses on how teachers create and sustain collaborative and welcoming environments for students and their families.  Developmentally appropriate supportive, preventive and corrective teaching practices and strategies are emphasized, as are strategies for facilitating effective communication and collaboration between home and school. Teacher candidates will research, analyze and evaluate current management practices and family engagement strategies as part of developing goals and plans for their own future classroom environment. 
    Course Frequency: Spring
  

  • TEDU 536 Using Instructional Technology in Problem Based Learning (3)

    This course will combine students’ previous experiences using technology with current classroom technologies within a Problem-Based Learning (PBL) environment. Emphasis will be on technologies available through hardware as well as services on the World Wide Web and those will be incorporated in students’ future classrooms using teaching best practices.
    Course Frequency:
  

  • TEDU 537 Teaching Early Childhood and Elementary Social Studies and Science (3)

    This lecture course is designed for the study and practice of teaching methods and materials for inquiry based science and social studies at the early childhood through elementary level.  Emphasis is placed on developmentally appropriate practice, concept development through questioning techniques, critical thinking activities, multimedia/technology to meet needs of a diverse student population.
    Course Frequency: Fall

Teaching, Learning, and Advocacy
  

  • MTLA 601 Class, Race and Gender in Education (3)

    This course examines contemporary significance of race/ethnicity, class and gender on the educational experience. Drawing on history, sociology, anthropology, philosophy and public policy, it considers the way public educational institutions empower individuals while reproducing social inequalities. Candidates critically examine their own educational experiences in relationship to class, race and gender.
    Course Frequency: Occasional
  

  • MTLA 602 Policies and Issues in Contemporary Education (3)

    This course examines current issues and policies that impact students, teachers, the teaching profession and public schools. Focusing primarily on issues and policies in the United States, students learn to analyze them within a domestic and international context. The course introduces students to the public policy process, exploring how policies are initiated, written, enacted, and implemented, and the role of teachers, parents, and advocates in this process.
    Course Frequency: Spring
  

  • MTLA 603 Family and Community Involvement (3)

    This course is designed to help advanced level candidates better understand the benefits of school, family, and community involvement. Candidates examine settings where this involvement positively impacts student learning, and design and implement a variety of involvement strategies.
    Course Frequency: Occasional
  

  • MTLA 605 Instructional Foundations and Assessments of Early Literacies Learners (3)

    This course extends students’ understanding of teaching and assessing Pre-K-Grade 3 foundational and new literacies related to reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing and designing. Students will explore current theories, research, instructional practices, and assessments for teaching and learning with print and non-print texts, tools, and practices significant to early childhood literacies development.
    Course Frequency: Occasional
  

  • MTLA 606 Teacher as a Member of the Professional Community (3)

    Candidates explore the role of teacher leadership in effecting change. They explore change theory and develop strategies needed to change agents at multiple levels, e.g., building on sound instructional practices, collaboration, teamwork, peer coaching, and mentoring. They learn to strengthen community and family partnerships and communicate across diverse spheres.
    Prerequisite(s): Admission to graduate program Learning and Advocacy
    Course Frequency: Occasional
  

  • MTLA 607 Teachers as Advocates for Children and Youth (3)

    This course explores the effect of policy on the lives and learning of children and youth. It turns this understanding toward advocating for better school and classroom experiences for children and youth. Candidates examine their own practice as well as policies and procedures through the lens of advocacy.
    Course Frequency: Fall
  

  • MTLA 648 Teaching Content Area and Disciplinary Literacies (3)

    A course focusing on the theories, research, and instructional practices of teaching literacies within disciplines and across disciplines. This course provides in-depth examinations of language and literacies development across age spans and connects instructional tools and strategies for print-based and multimodal literacies.
    Course Frequency: Every Other Fall
  

  • MTLA 663 Texts and Tools for Consuming and Producing Literacies (3)

    Students will explore children’s and adolescents’ print-based, visual, oral and digital texts and contexts that support literacies learning. Students will draw upon these texts as models for writing and designing. A variety of popular and academic genre, formats and online tools relevant to interdisciplinary curriculum and instruction will be included.
    Course Frequency: Occasional
  

  • MTLA 665 Literacies, Identities, and Pop Culture (3)

    This course examines relations between literacies, pop culture, and identities in education. Topics include definitions and uses of pop culture (including digital media) and theories of identities and connections to mass media, cultural studies, media literacy education and to critical literacies. Strategies for culturally relevant pedagogy using literacies standards will be covered.
    Course Frequency: Occasional
  

  • MTLA 667 Issues and Trends in Literacies Education and Advocacy (3)

    This course traces US historical developments of foundational and contemporary literacies. It examines literacies theories that impact definitions of texts and of literacy practices. It explores recurring themes in literacies education and advocacy through politics, major advocates of literacies education, and policies that impact assessments and instructional locally, nationally, and globally.
    Course Frequency: Occasional
  

  • MTLA 668 Curriculum: Foundations, Principles, Issues and Applications (3)

    The course explores the theories, issues, and practices of curriculum studies highlighting economic, historical, political, and social forces and debates that influence contemporary issues in curriculum. It involves a critical exploration of educational phenomena within and beyond the scope of schools, with a focus on power relations and social justice issues.
    Course Frequency: Occasional
  

  • MTLA 671 Introduction to Project-Based Learning (3)

    This course is designed to introduce students to the theory behind Project Based Learning (PBL) and the basics of designing, delivering, and assessing PBL that supports student attainment of core academic content. The course demonstrates 21st century skill necessary for success including personal agency, critical/analytical thinking, collaboration, communication, and technological proficiency.
    Course Frequency: Occasional
  

  • MTLA 672 Applications of Project-Based Learning in Curriculum and Instruction (3)

    This course is designed to give teachers the experiences required to plan, create, and integrate instructional methodologies and technology within PBL units that supports the achievement of students with diverse needs. Teachers will design and integrate activities that promote critical thinking, problem solving, and collaboration.
    Prerequisite(s): MTLA 671  
    Course Frequency: Occasional
  

  • MTLA 674 Practicum in Project-Based Learning (3)

    This practicum course is designed to provide teacher/practitioners with opportunities to demonstrate their knowledge, skills, and dispositions for implementing PBL into the regular classroom setting. The course will consist of four, monthly on-campus seminars, some online instruction, and at least two field-based observations of teaching/PBL implementation.
    Prerequisite(s): MTLA 671 , MTLA 672  
    Course Frequency: Occasional
  

  • MTLA 678 Instruction and Assessment of Older Literacies Learners (3)

    Examination of all processes involved in literacy, speaking, listening, reading, writing, viewing and thinking. Specifically, this course is designed to push your thinking to analyze critically how older learners are and become “literate” in traditional and non-traditional educational settings. This course views literacy as a life-long process.
    Course Frequency: Occasional
  

  • MTLA 702 Research and Development Project (3)

    An in-depth study of an individually chosen topic, which is planned and completed under the guidance of the student’s advisor and submitted for review by the graduate faculty.
    Course Frequency: Spring
  

  • MTLA 706 Special Topics in Education (1-3)

    Study of a particular subject or theme in education applicable to teaching, learning, or advocacy. Special topics courses may include on-campus courses, study abroad experiences, and domestic internships outside of conventional P-12 classrooms.
    Course Frequency: Occasional
    Repeatable: For up to 12 credit hours.
  

  • MTLA 711 Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners in P-12 Schools and Classrooms (3)

    This course is designed to improve general and special educators’ ability to teach all students within schools (P-12) that are increasingly more diverse in regards to race, class, gender, home language, sexuality, and ability. This course addresses the root causes of the persistence of achievement gaps between groups of students (racial/ethnic, socioeconomic, linguistic, exceptionalities) and provides opportunities for teachers to deepen their understanding of the students they teach, learn new strategies for culturally relevant and inclusive pedagogy, and develop skills to work with systems and policies that affect children and youth.
    Course Frequency: Occasional

Theatre
  

  • THRE 521 Community and the Theatrical Classroom (3)

    This course will explore ways theatre can be extended into the community through applied theatre techniques connecting diverse programs, ages and cultures. Course content will include projects within the community.
    Course Frequency: Occasional
    Cross-listing: THTR 421
  

  • THRE 522 Theatre for Youth Literature (3)

    This course will survey appropriate theatre literature for use in the K-12 classroom, with students creating a catalog of production/performance information/analysis for future reference. The course will also include the history, literature, theory, and current practices in the field.
    Prerequisite(s): Two semesters of undergraduate coursework in theatre literature or permission of instructor.
    Course Frequency: Occasional
    Cross-listing: THTR 422
  

  • THRE 611 Design with Schools in Mind (3)

    This course will expose students to advanced principles and give practical experience in both design and construction within the K12 school theatre setting with emphasis on safety and organization of student workers and volunteers. Lecture and laboratory work on departmental productions and fieldwork will be a part of the course.
    Course Frequency: Occasional
  

  • THRE 612 Advanced Acting and Directing Techniques for the K12 Teacher (3)

    Advanced concepts of the acting/directing process, including script analysis, staging practices, director/designer communications, production organization, and rehearsal techniques. The semester will culminate in a program of student-directed projects.
    Prerequisite(s): Two semesters of acting and one semester of directing at the undergraduate level or permission of instructor.
    Course Frequency: Occasional
  

  • THRE 690 Independent Study in Theatre (1-3)

    To provide in-depth, individualized study in an area of theatre appropriate to the needs and degree plan of the graduate student.
    Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor.
    Course Frequency: Occasional
    Repeatable: For up to 6 credit hours.
  

  • THRE 704 Trends and Issues in Performing Arts Education: Theatre (3)

    A review of current critical issues and trends in performing arts education as these relate to local, state, and national education agencies and the education of children and youth in PK-12 public schools.
    Prerequisite(s): Admission into the Performing Arts, M.A.T. program or an undergraduate degree in a relevant field (dance, art, music, theatre) and permission of the instructor.
    Course Frequency: Occasional
  

  • THRE 710 Foundations Preschool and Elementary Theatre Education Methods (3)

    This course will introduce content, organization and management skills of preschool and elementary theatre programs and teaching methodologies appropriate to Preschool/K5. Course content will include fieldwork.
    Course Frequency: Occasional
  

  • THRE 711 Middle and Secondary Theatre Education Methods (3)

    Organization and management of repertoire, programming considerations, and teaching methodology appropriate to Middle School/Junior High/High School students. Course content will include fieldwork.
    Course Frequency: Occasional
 

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