Courses

MSA 691 ACCOUNTING ANALYTICS   3.0 Credit(s)
This course provides a practical foundation to understand the impact of Data Analytics on Accounting, Auditing, and Financial Reporting. The student, through a hands-on methodology, will learn how to identify business questions that can be addressed with data, and then testing the data, refining the testing, and finally communicating the findings.
Offered: Late Spring Semester All Years

CM 603 CULTURE, IDENTITY AND COMMUNICATION   3.0 Credit(s)
This course focuses on issues of identity and culture and the important roles they play in the fields of strategic communication, public relations, and political communications.
Offered: Spring Semester All Years

SW 624 ANTI-RACIST SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE   3.0 Credit(s)
This advanced equity and social justice course examines racist and white supremacist power structures and policies while building anti-racist practice skills that challenge, disrupt, and change racist policies.
Offered: All Semesters All Years

SLP 620 PEDIATRIC MEDICAL SLP   1.0 Credit(s)
This course will give students theoretical and clinical information needed to provide speech-language/swallowing services to children with complex medical disorders and their families.
Offered: Summer Semester Contact Department

SLP 681 AUTISM IN ADULTHOOD   1.0 Credit(s)
Adults with ASD require SLPs to implement evidenced-practices. This course will educate students on the etiology, assessment, diagnosis, and management of this population.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

SLP 682 AUTISM IN CHILDHOOD   1.0 Credit(s)
Children with ASD require SLPs to implement evidence-based practices. This course will educate students on the etiology, assessment, diagnosis, and management of this population.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

CM 649 STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH   3.0 Credit(s)
This course will offer students a graduate-level overview of research for strategic communication , covering both practical and theoretical methodologies for research in strategic communication and public relations. Prerequisite: Take CM-502
Offered: Modules All Semesters All Years

EDST 601 DEEP DIVE INTO STEAM STANDARDS   3.0 Credit(s)
This course will provide a deeper understanding of the content standards necessary to plan and implement STEAM learning activities in the classroom. Specifically, the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), the International Technology and Engineering Educators Association (ITEA), the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), CSTA K-12 CS Standards, and the National Core Art Standards will be examined. Candidates will have the opportunity to work collaboratively, while analyzing and mapping the content standards, to integrate the standards appropriately and thoughtfully in the design of an exemplary STEAM program.
Offered: Summer 2 Semester All Years

EDST 602 INQUIRY & CLASSROOM PRACTICES   3.0 Credit(s)
Through the process of inquiry, individuals construct much of their understanding of the worlds. Inquiry is not so much seeking the right answer, because often there is none, but rather seeking appropriate and creative resolutions to questions and issues. This course will examine how inquiry and classroom practices can emphasize the development of questioning skills and the nurturing of inquiring attitudes or habits of mind that will enable individuals to continue the quest for knowledge throughout life.
Offered: Winter Semester All Years

EDST 603 PROB & SOLUTIONS IN THE DESIGNED WORLD   3.0 Credit(s)
Problem-based learning is a powerful learning platform that positions students to address authentic challenges and real-world problems as a way to discover content and apply skills. The Engineering Design Process is one pedagogical approach to introduce design thinking and problem-solving in STEAM curricula. As students develop models to generate data for iterative testing, analyze data from tests and leading to optimal ideas of given models, and evaluate competing design solutions using a systematic process, they develop problem-solving decision-making and creativity using STEAM principles and potential impacts upon people.
Offered: Fall Semester All Years

EDST 604 THE ARTS IN STEAM   3.0 Credit(s)
This course provides a rationale, strategies, and best practices for drawing on the arts as a vital part of creative and inquiry-based STEAM instruction. Students will collaborate on the development of arts-infused curricula or learning experiences for their school or district, to foster student and teacher creativity, and create a richer and broader learning experience for all their students.
Offered: Fall Semester All Years

EDST 605 INVESTIGATING MATH DEEPLY IN STEAM ED.   3.0 Credit(s)
This course builds on the candidate's understanding of how children learn mathematics and examines deeply the intersections of CCSS-M content standards with other STEAM areas. Candidates will be exposed to a broader perspective of mathematics and what it means to do and learn mathematics with skill and understanding and become knowledgeable about structures that support mathematical inquiry and thinking. As leaders and facilitators in the classroom and school, the importance of evidence-based professional judgments about teaching and learning mathematics will be emphasized to ultimately improve student learning outcomes.
Offered: Spring Semester All Years

EDST 606 CROSSING BOUNDARIES IN SCIENCE   3.0 Credit(s)
This course explores possibilities in the science classroom to achieve the vision of STEAM education while engaging students in quality NGSS-aligned courses, units, and lessons. New discoveries and achievement across the sciences show the way for interdisciplinary connections. Emphasis is on teachers as leaders and facilitators in the classroom and school. Current research-based pedagogy will be applies in the development of authentic curricular materials.
Offered: Spring Semester All Years

EDST 607 FIELD BASED EXPERIENCES IN STEAM EDU.   3.0 Credit(s)
This field-based course provides candidates with the opportunity to integrate Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math within the natural world. Utilizing CT's Natural Resources as an outdoor classroom the concept of "Nature Did it First" will be explored along with collecting, organizing, interpreting and reporting out data, field work protocols and safety requirements, ethical treatment and legal restrictions regarding the collection and release of live organisms, problem solving, inquiry, observation, field equipment use and construction, and application to current environmental issues and concerns. Integration of STEAM principals into identified site-based investigations include: Marine Biology/ Coastal Ecology, Ct Geology, Fresh Water Ecosystem, Forest/Field, Energy Transformers (solar, wind, hydro and waste) and Land Art.
Offered: Summer 1 Semester All Years

EDST 608 ISSUES IN STEAM EDUCATION   3.0 Credit(s)
Growth in STEAM industries continues, creating career opportunities globally and locally, and positioning STEAM courses and initiatives for attention and funding. Yet, chronic under-representation patterns persist. Through readings and discussions, this course employs a critical lens to examine issues and opportunities in STEAM classrooms and careers.
Offered: Spring Semester All Years