Courses
PAD 598 INDEPENDENT STUDY 1.0-6.0 Credit(s)
Guided study of a topic that goes beyond normal course offerings under the direction of a member of the faculty. Approval of the program director and Chair of the Department is required.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
EDS 591 STUDENT TEACHING/SEMINAR LOW INCIDENCES 3.0 Credit(s)
This seminar focuses on special education law, ethics, compliance, and mandated practices under IDEA 2004 as it relates to free, appropriate, public education in the least restrictive environment. Candidates also explore and investigate characteristics of and issues pertaining to a low-incidence disability category. The student teaching experience affords candidates the opportunity to work with a multidisciplinary team to meet the concerns and needs of children with low-incidence exceptionalities. Candidates also work on daily communication skills and collaborative techniques with families. Seminar sessions help the candidate process, synthesize, and reflect on work in the classroom/school setting. Candidates share experiences and ask for critiques on work samples from peers and the professor. Guest speakers range from parents/parent advocates to administrators.
Offered: Spring Semester All Years
EDS 560 TEACHER RESIDENCY AND SEMINAR 3.0 Credit(s)
This residency provides school-based experiences for graduate students in the teacher preparation program. Candidates are placed in a setting that serves students with high and/or low incidence exceptionalities and enables the candidate to act as a collaborative co-teacher in a special education environment. These experiences afford the opportunity to work with a multidisciplinary team to meet the concerns and needs of students with exceptionalities. This seminar supports the growth and development of teaching practices through reflection, dialogue, and self-study. Candidates will learn about the induction process, consider how to use data to inform their practice, set goals, and how to articulate their progress.
Offered: Fall Semester All Years
EDS 570 MULTITIERED SYSTEMS OF SUPPORT 2.0 Credit(s)
The purpose of this course is to provide students an introduction to the foundational concepts and recent history of Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS). Students will learn how to use various assessments to make data-based decisions about interventions and programs to support the social, emotional, and behavioral outcomes for students with exceptionalities. A particular focus on social skill instruction and supportive intervention techniques will prepare students to conduct a Functional Behavior Analysis and create a Behavior Intervention Plan.
Offered: Summer 1 Semester All Years
EDS 590 STUDENT TEACHING/SEMINAR HIGH INCIDENCE 3.0 Credit(s)
This seminar focuses on collaboration, co-taught classrooms, and other inclusive practices. The seminar explores characteristics of students with disabilities across IDEA classification areas focused on high-incidence exceptionalities. The student teaching experience affords candidates the opportunity to work with a multidisciplinary team to meet the concerns and needs of children with high incidence exceptionalities. Candidates also work on daily communication skills and collaborative techniques with families. Seminar sessions help the candidate process, synthesize, and reflect on work in the classroom/school setting. Candidates share experiences and ask for critiques on work samples from peers and the professor. Guest speakers range from parents/parent advocates to administrators.
Offered: Spring Semester All Years
EDS 540 METHODS IN STEM: STDNTS W DISABILITIES 3.0 Credit(s)
This course explores STEM methods and materials appropriate for working with students with disabilities at the elementary through secondary level. Candidates learn a framework for understanding the nature of difficulties students with exceptional learning needs manifest and how to design and implement specialized instruction, accommodations/modifications to the general education curriculum, and monitor student progress. Emphasizes evidence-based strategies to address the specific strengths and needs of students with disabilities by planning and implementing lessons to teach school-age students with exceptionalities in the content areas of science, technology, computer science, engineering, and mathematics.
Offered: Fall Semester All Years
CH 557 INSTRUMENTAL ANALYSIS LAB 1.0 Credit(s)
Provides hands-on experience with modern analytical instrumentation, including UV/visible infrared, atomic absorption spectrophotometry, potentiometric and ion selective electrode methods, electrodeposition, gas chromatography, and mass spectrometry. One three-hour laboratory per week.
Offered: Spring Semester All Years
EDS 550 ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY: SWD 1.0 Credit(s)
With an emphasis on technology applications that benefit children and youth with disabilities, this course focuses on teaching students the skills they (and you) will need to select and use assistive technology appropriately and effectively. Emphasis is placed on establishing skills in the areas of technology to support literacy (reading and writing) and mathematics (STEM); technology to create and provide visual supports; technology to provide access to the curriculum; augmentative communication; selecting appropriate apps for iPads and other mobile devices; and assistive technology decision-making and implementation.
Offered: Summer 1 Semester All Years
MPH 580 FOOD, NUTRITION AND SOCIETY 3.0 Credit(s)
Food is a universal language - everybody eats! Like most languages, food varies from place to place. International travel allows for an immersive food and eating experience. The course will introduce students to the role of food and nutrition in society and culture. Assignments that specifically investigate the cultural, social, and scientific aspects of food and nutrition will help expand our understanding of food as cultural identity, and nutrition as an integrated discipline in public health.
Offered: As Needed All Years
OT 570 PERSONAL TRANFORMATION I 1.0 Credit(s)
Personal transformation is a course where you will learn and practice some of the "soft skills" required of an occupational therapy professional. Soft skills are often highly valued by employers and can be the reason you get a job or get that promotion. Soft skills are things in addition to the skills you will learn in terms of "DOING" OT. They include things like communicating effectively, being flexible, being motivated, showing a good attitude, and successfully relating to others. To examine these skills in yourself requires self-reflection. This course will require frequent self-reflection in relation to a variety of assessments of your strengths and areas for growth and development. You will consider your personal values, your communication style, and your personality type. We believe that the process of becoming an occupational therapist in this program will transform you. You will be documenting this transformation across the program through your portfolio. In addition, professional self-reflection should lead to careful planning for continued learning and growth across the rest of your career. This course will continue across 4 semesters, culminating in the completion of your academic portfolio and initiating your professional portfolio and professional development plan.
Offered: Fall Semester All Years
OT 580 PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION II 1.0 Credit(s)
Personal transformation II is a continuation of the course you began last semester. This course will again require self-reflection and will begin to relate your self- reflection to the process of professionalization and building of professional identity in occupational therapy. We believe that the process of becoming an occupational therapist in this program will transform you. You will be continuing to document this transformation in your portfolio.
Offered: Spring Semester All Years
OT 590 PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION III 1.0 Credit(s)
Personal transformation III is a continuation of the course you began in your first semester. This course will again require self-reflection and will begin to relate your self- reflection to the practice of occupational therapy. We believe that the process of becoming an occupational therapist in this program will transform you. You will be continuing to document this transformation in your portfolio.
Offered: Summer Semester All Years
EDR 538 EVIDENCED BASED PROCESS WRITING K-12 3.0 Credit(s)
This course focuses on evidence-based theory pertaining to the writing process, how students develop as writers, the teacher's role in facilitating student writing, and the importance of creating conditions within the learning environment for students to be motivated and engaged to write for a variety of audiences, and purposes.
Offered: Summer 2 Semester All Years
HS 501 SPIRITUALITY IN HEALTH CARE 3.0 Credit(s)
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
CH 547 COMP.CHEM.&MOLECULAR MODEL 3.0 Credit(s)
This course provides an introduction to computational chemistry that is suitable for graduate students and advanced undergraduate students. Topics covered include a historical introduction to the subject, quantum mechanics, molecular mechanics, a brief introduction to statistical mechanics, and a short review of thermodynamics. Students are required to solve theoretical problems and application problems using computational software (software that students might be required to purchase). Example problems and applications are drawn from organic chemistry and biochemistry
Offered: As Needed Contact Department