Courses
EDCS 516 Teaching Algorithms: Secondary 3.0 Credit(s)
This course focuses on applications of Computer Science curriculum and pedagogy in practice. Through the examination of artifacts of teaching, CS candidates will build a professional portfolio and discuss problems and opportunities of practice in community. Emphasis is placed on prototypes to solve computational problems, and modeling programs with sequences and loops to express ideas or solve basic problems. Artifacts will address using flowcharts and pseudocode concepts to decompose a problem and design before development, including making selections among various alternative approaches.
Offered: Fall & Summer Semesters All Years
EDCS 513 Teaching Data & Analysis:elementary 3.0 Credit(s)
This course focuses on applications of Data Science curriculum and pedagogy in practice. Through the examination of artifacts of teaching, CS candidates will build a professional portfolio and discuss problems and opportunities of practice in community. Emphasis is placed on teaching data and related concepts using encoding schemes to store, copy, search, retrieve, modify, delete, and transform information. Artifacts will address student collection and visualization of data, pattern identification, predictions, and relationships as well as examination of the social impacts of computing.
Offered: Fall & Summer Semesters All Years
EDCS 515 TEACHING ALGORITHMS: ELEMENTARY 3.0 Credit(s)
This course focuses on applications of Computer Science curriculum and pedagogy in practice. Through the examination of artifacts of teaching, CS candidates will build a professional portfolio and discuss problems and opportunities of practice in community. Emphasis is placed on prototypes to solve computational problems, and modeling programs with sequences and loops to express ideas or solve basic problems. Artifacts will address using flowcharts and pseudocode concepts to decompose a problem and design before development, including making selections among various alternative approaches.
Offered: Fall & Summer Semesters All Years
EDCS 518 Teaching Programming:secondary 3.0 Credit(s)
This course focuses on applications of Computer Science curriculum and pedagogy in practice. Through the examination of artifacts of teaching, CS candidates will build a professional portfolio and discuss problems and opportunities of practice in community. Artifacts will address student development of programs with sequences and events, including debugging, terminology, and support systems. Prerequisite: Take EDCS-506 or EDCS-516
Offered: Fall & Summer Semesters All Years
EDCS 517 Teaching Programming:elementary 3.0 Credit(s)
This course focuses on applications of Computer Science curriculum and pedagogy in practice. Through the examination of artifacts of teaching, CS candidates will build a professional portfolio and discuss problems and opportunities of practice in community. Artifacts will address student development of programs with sequences and events, including debugging, terminology, and support systems. Prerequisite: Take EDCS-505 or EDCS-515
Offered: Fall & Summer Semesters All Years
NU 572 PMHNP II: Care of Children and Families 6.0 Credit(s)
This course requires theoretical and clinical content, including a total of 180 supervised required hours of care across the lifespan with emphasis on pediatric and adolescent patients within a variety of behavioral health settings. A minimum of 100 hours of clinical practicum is specifically devoted to the care of patients under age 18. The focus is on refining and developing increased competency as a PMHNP in diagnostic and clinical interventions with an increasingly diverse and complex caseload, including crisis intervention and managing psychiatric emergencies. Identification and treatment of developmental and age-specific disorders, genetic aspects of disease presentation and treatment, as well as interdisciplinary perspectives and community resources are emphasized. Prerequisite: Take NU-501 NU-530 NU-550 NU-566 NU-551 NU-552 NU-603 NU-509ýNU-571 OR admission to the PMHNP post-master's cert programýand approval by PMHNP Program Director.
Offered: Late Spring & Summer Semesters All Years
EDR 554 EVIDENCE-BASED WRITING INSTRUCTION 1.0 Credit(s)
This online course provides students with an introduction to the challenges students with dyslexia and other language-based exceptionalities face with writing and how to design and implement specialized instruction to support students' writing development. Course modules provide a framework for strategic and meaningful evidence-based writing instruction using a levels of language approach to understand how to support students' development of ideation and composition, strategic writing across genre, goal-directed execution of the writing process, and writing skill development including paragraph construction, transcription skills, word choice, and sentence conventions.
Offered: Summer 1 Semester All Years
EDR 553 FOUNDATIONS OF DYSLEXIA 1.0 Credit(s)
This online course provides students with an introduction to the nature and needs of students with dyslexia as well as academic, social, and emotional implications. This course addresses dyslexia's neurobiological origins, its effect on language and literacy development, and variations in the processing and development of the various elements of language and literacy among students with dyslexia.
Offered: Summer 1 Semester All Years
CH 571 RESEARCH METHODS:COMPCHEM AND BIOCHEM 2.0 Credit(s)
This course covers professional skills needed for independent careers in chemistry, with a particular emphasis placed on topics relevant to computational, theoretical, and biochemistry. This includes instructions on searching and reading scientific literature, writing proposals and grants, developing research questions and experiments, using logic and reasoning to interpret data, ethical conduct in scientific research, and common conventions in different subfields of chemistry.
Offered: Spring Semester All Years
CH 555 ADVANCED INORGANIC CHEMISTRY LABORATORY 1.0 Credit(s)
This course includes a series of experiments in synthetic inorganic chemistry and characterization of organic and inorganic compounds. Synthetic experience will include coordination compounds, organometallic complexes, and complexes of main group metals, including both stoichiometric and catalytic reactions. Characterization techniques will include UV-Vis, IR, magnetic susceptibility, and NMR spectroscopy. Prerequisite: Take CH-553 OR CH-556
Offered: Fall Semester All Years
CH 570 RESEARCH METHODS:PREPARATIVE CHEMISTRY 2.0 Credit(s)
This course covers professional skills needed for independent careers in chemistry, with a particular emphasis placed on topics relevant to preparative and experimental chemistry. This includes instructions on searching and reading scientific literature, writing proposals and grants, developing research questions and experiments, using logic and reasoning to interpret data, ethical conduct in scientific research, and common conventions in different subfields of chemistry.
Offered: Fall Semester All Years
SLP 575 PHONETICS FOR EDUCATORS 1.0 Credit(s)
Students will be provided with graduate level information on the articulatory properties of the sound systems of human language
Offered: Late Spring & Summer Semesters All Years
SLP 533 CULTURAL AND STRUCTURAL LINGUISTICS 1.0-3.0 Credit(s)
Connections between language, culture, and social identity are strong. We will examine cross-cultural variations in phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics using an applied linguistics framework.
Offered: All Semesters All Years
EDR 574 STRUCTURED LITERACY PRACTICUM 3.0 Credit(s)
The Structured Literacy CoLAB Practicum is designed to give candidates the opportunity to practice and apply the information and teaching skills acquired through the structured literacy coursework. Candidates will be paired with an experienced OG educator who will provide mentorship as students deliver multi-tiered instruction in the school setting. The practicum includes ongoing support with an experienced OG educator, regular individual and group check-ins, virtual OG lesson observations, and post-observation feedback.
Offered: Fall Semester All Years
EDR 572 STRUCTURED LITERACY II 3.0 Credit(s)
The Structured Literacy II coursework is designed to hone the educator's ability to provide diagnostic and prescriptive instruction in a one-to-one remedial setting. In addition, it exposes the student to more sophisticated levels of language instruction than can be provided in the Structured Literacy I - Classroom Educator course. The Structured Literacy II coursework will include but is not limited to: morphology; assessment, both formal and informal; vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency; and the writing process. An additional emphasis will be on developing lesson plans and student profiles in preparation for the educator's application to the OGA at the Associate Level.
Offered: Summer 2 Semester All Years