Courses
EDS 584 SPECIAL EDUCATION PRACTICUM II 3.0 Credit(s)
This practicum placement focuses on serving students with low incidence disabilities. This placement involves practical training in and hands-on experience with special education and related services. These experiences afford the opportunity to work with a multidisciplinary team to meet the concerns and needs of children and youth with disabilities. Candidates also work on daily communication skills and collaborative techniques with families.
Offered: Summer 2 Semester All Years
EDR 505 EARLY READING & LANG ARTS SUCCESS(PK-3) 3.0 Credit(s)
This course examines the fundamentals of a comprehensive and evidence-based literacy program for the diverse learner in today's classroom, focusing on foundations of reading and the integration of story, diologic conversation, and writing.
Offered: All Semesters All Years
EDR 507 DEVELOPMENTAL READING & LANG ARTS (4-6) 3.0 Credit(s)
This course focuses on evidence-based literacy teaching in the middle grades in culturally responsive and sustaining ways. The role of knowledge building in reading comprehension, comprehension strategies, vocabulary knowledge, advanced word reading skill development, and fluency development is explored.
Offered: All Semesters All Years
EDR 510 CONTENT AREA READING INSTRUCTION (grades 7-12) 3.0 Credit(s)
This course focuses on a disciplinary approach to literacy instruction and the habits of mind through which experts in the discipline communicate in reading and writing. Incorporating evidence-based methods to differentiate instruction for today's diverse learners, course participants use multimodal and digital pedagogies to reflect on their practice as they develop standards-based lessons, into which academic and domain-specific language is embedded. Required for secondary education and literacy candidates.
Offered: All Semesters All Years
EDR 540 ADVANCED DIAGNOSIS & REMEDIATION I 3.0 Credit(s)
This course explores the selection, administration, and interpretation of a variety of criterion and norm-referenced assessments that effectively utilize screening, progress monitoring, diagnostic, and outcome measures to evaluate student reading performance.
Offered: Fall Semester All Years
EDR 550 CLINICAL EXPERIENCE I 3.0 Credit(s)
Candidates assess a struggling student in their practice, design intervention, and use diagnostic teaching in working with the student, utilizing a web-based platform for recording student and teacher interactions.
Offered: Spring Semester All Years
SLP 560 ADULT NEUROGENIC DISORDERS II 3.0 Credit(s)
This course is an in-depth explanation of the physiology and diagnosis of neurological disease. Each disorder is explained as it relates back to neuroanatomy, diagnosis, symptoms, methods of assessment, and diagnosis. A focus of the course is on treatment of cognitive linguistic disorders and theoretical frameworks of language as it relates to adults with communication breakdowns, specifically aphasia, apraxia, and dementias. Lecture, seminar, case study, and problem-based learning format.
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years
SLP 507 PRACTICUM SEMINAR IV 1.0 Credit(s)
This course accompanies SLP 508, an advanced fieldwork experience in the evaluation and treatment of speech, language, and/or swallowing disorders in children and adults. This seminar serves as a forum for refining knowledge and skills related to the corresponding clinical practicum, and to develop independence in planning and implementing clinical plans for children and adults in specialized treatment settings with consideration for diversity, equity and inclusion in all aspects of client and stakeholder care.
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years
EDR 555 CLINICAL EXPERIENCE II 3.0 Credit(s)
This is the second of two clinical courses in which candidates provide virtual literacy intervention to small groups of children in a public school setting, which includes multiple opportunities for candidates to discuss their practices through collaborative problem-solving and peer coaching.
Offered: Late Spring Semester All Years
SLP 508 CLINICAL PRACTICUM IV 4.0-6.0 Credit(s)
Students will participate in supervised clinical practice in the assessment and management of speech, language, and swallowing disorders, in a variety of specialized settings with children and/or adults. The course will provide approximately 100+ clock hours of supervised clinical practice. Fieldwork format.
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years
SLP 509 SPECIALTY PRACTICUM VI 1.0-3.0 Credit(s)
Candidates complete a supervised clinical experience working in an educational, medical, or clinical setting, focusing on a specialty area of advanced study. This course will provide 20+ clock hours of supervised clinical practice. Fieldwork format.
Offered: Summer Semester All Years
CM 519 MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS I 3.0 Credit(s)
This course is an introduction to multimedia technologies for communication, taking a hands-on approach to utilizing and exploring communication technologies. Students will learn how to create sophisticated and effective media materials using digital tools such as Photoshop and Illustrator.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
CM 520 MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS II 3.0 Credit(s)
Students will participate in the creative process while developing needed technical skills. Students will learn how to create sophisticated and effective media materials using digital tools such as Adobe InDesign and web design platforms.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
CM 540 FOUNDATIONS OF MEDIA LITERACY 3.0 Credit(s)
In this course, students will explore the theoretical foundations of media literacy. This class will provide an overview of the interventionist and cultural studies frameworks that underlie existing approaches to media literacy. Students will examine these approaches for sites of convergence and divergences.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
CM 541 MEDIA LIT:CONCEPTS/CONTROVERSY 3.0 Credit(s)
This course introduces students to the seven great debates of media literacy. This course will explore these debates in terms of protectionism and vulnerable populations, the centrality of school-based initiatives and specialized subjects, and the role of media production, popular culture, political and ideological underpinnings, and corporate sponsorship in media literacy initiatives.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department