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Curriculum & Instruction Additional offerings by the Department of Curriculum and Instruction include courses in Career and Technical Education (CTE)
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C I 5112 - Advanced Developmental Curriculum and Instruction for Young Children (3)
When Offered: On Demand
This course is designed to provide students with advanced skills and knowledge in application of a research base to design, adapt and evaluate curriculum and environments suitable for the integration of infants, toddlers, preschool and kindergarten children of various developmental levels and abilities in inclusive settings.
(Same as FCS 5112 /SPE 5112 .)
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C I 5113 - Seminar: Issues in Birth through Kindergarten Education (3)
When Offered: On Demand
This seminar is designed to build leadership skills to enable the student to consult and collaborate with other professionals. It will permit the development of depth and breadth in professional growth as well, and provide the foundation for life-long learning for the advancement of knowledge in the field of early childhood education and early intervention.
(Same as FCS 5113 /SPE 5113 .)
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C I 5130 - Recent Trends and Issues in Education (3)
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Designed for elementary teachers to deepen their understanding of significant issues and trends in education at both the national and international levels. Specific topics include: current debates about assessment and high stakes testing; research in comparative education; the health status of children; and analysis of current issues affecting school, family and community relationships.
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C I 5150 - Organizing and Planning Student Teaching (2)
When Offered: On Demand
A study of the origin and development of student teaching, including present status and trends, experiences prior to student teaching, selection of schools and supervising teachers, selection and placement of student teachers.
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C I 5160 - Supervision of Student Teaching (3)
When Offered: On Demand
A study of general techniques of a supervising teacher, including observation, guiding student teachers in planning, orientation of student teachers, student teacher participation, and evaluation. Available as a workshop by invitation.
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C I 5200 - Multi-Media/Image Production (3)
When Offered: On Demand
This course offers the student opportunities to develop the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor skills necessary to plan, design, produce, and present multi-image presentations. Presentation formats range from analog and digital sound and multi-image formats to various analog and digital projection and dissemination programs.
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C I 5230 - Studies in Applied Instructional Strategies (3)
When Offered: On Demand
This course is designed for instructional leaders in K-12 buildings. It provides an intense study of research-based, exemplary practice instructional strategies focused on learning and achievement. Special emphasis is placed on the research knowledge-base for learning, cognitive instructional strategies, exemplary instructional planning, reflection and evaluation of instruction, and integrating technology for meaningful learning.
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C I 5240 - Mathematics for Special Education Teachers (3)
When Offered: On Demand
This course is the first in a two-course sequence designed to prepare special education graduate candidates to provide evidence-based math instruction across inclusive and self-contained settings for students with disabilities in an MTSS framework. In this course, students will be exposed to how students learn math from a developmental perspective and common struggles of students who have math difficulty. In addition, students will examine K-8 NC Math Standards, and math concepts including counting and cardinality, operations and algebraic thinking, numbers and operations in base ten, numbers and operation-fractions, and measurement and data. Finally, students will learn and practice evidence-based approaches to instruction and assessment of students with disabilities in mathematics.
(Same as SPE 5240 )
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C I 5310 - New Media and Emerging Literacies (3)
When Offered: On Demand
This course requires students to analyze and evaluate the role of new media, technologies, and literacies for individuals, societies, and cultures. Emphasis is placed on understanding the form and language of a variety of texts, including print and non-print. Students develop perspectives regarding the socio-cultural contexts of media production, dissemination, consumption, interpretation, and effects, including an examination of media representations in both local and global contexts. Students will synthesize theoretical knowledge of literacies by using and creating with new media and technologies for multiple audiences and perspectives.
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C I 5320 - Teaching Mathematics to Emergent Bilinguals Learners (3)
When Offered: Summer Session
The purpose of this course is to prepare preservice and in-service teachers, and other teaching professionals, to teach mathematics to students learning English as an additional language, as well as children who are multilingual, immigrants, or refugees. The course is designed to prepare teachers to teach K-8 students with linguistically and culturally diverse backgrounds. The term emergent bilingual (EB) is used broadly to incorporate children who are formally identified as English learners along with children who can speak and/or comprehend more than one language. The course will help teachers understand the needs of emergent bilingual students, learn to use students’ language and culture as a resource in mathematics classrooms, and implement research-based instructional strategies that are effective in teaching mathematics to these learners.
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C I 5330 - Teaching Emergent Bilinguals in Science (3)
When Offered: Spring
This course is designed to increase practitioners’ knowledge of the academic language demands of science learning in grades K-8. Practitioners will analyze science texts in order to learn about scientific genres and discourse structures. The course will consider research-based approaches supported by theory and practice related to the intersections between science and language learning. The ultimate goal of the course is for practitioners to develop curriculum that focuses on the development of science academic language with emergent bilingual students.
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C I 5340 - Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies (3)
When Offered: Fall
The purpose of this course is to prepare educators to recognize, value, and build upon students’ funds of knowledge. Using culturally sustaining pedagogy as a guiding framework, the course will introduce participants to theories, research, and practices that foster linguistic and cultural maintenance as a way of promoting academic success for all students. Participants will examine and critique schooling practices that position minoritized students from deficit perspectives, and will work alongside students, families, schools and/or community organizations to develop culturally sustaining curriculum projects that build on students’ funds of knowledge.
Fieldwork required.
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C I 5500 - Independent Study (1-3)
When Offered: Fall, Spring
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C I 5525 - Product of Learning (1-3)
When Offered: On Demand
Graded on an S/U basis.
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C I 5530-5549 - Selected Topics (1-4)
When Offered: On Demand
Subject matter may vary from term to term depending on student interest and need. A student may enroll more than once in a selected topics course provided that the content does not duplicate that of the previous course. (Limit of six hours credit.)
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C I 5550 - Successful Schools for Young Adolescents (3)
When Offered: Fall
This course is a comprehensive study of the middle school philosophy, the middle school movement, and the essential components of middle level organization and schooling. The course focuses on the developmental characteristics of young adolescents and the implications of those characteristics for middle level schooling. Other topics include: an historical study of elementary schools that include the middle grades, junior high schools, and middle schools; current trends and issues in middle level education; the middle level knowledge base; major organizational issues; the roles of teachers; and the future of middle level education.
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C I 5551 - Creativity (3)
When Offered: On Demand
A course to discover activities, skills and talents in the fostering of creativity. Emphasis will be given to readings and to designing models for programming creativity in the classroom.
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C I 5552 - Advanced Video Production (3)
When Offered: Spring
This course will give students the opportunity to engage in the professional video production process as they create a video program for a client or for their portfolio. Students will learn skills in pre-production planning, production and post-production editing, and they will also learn to operate and maintain professional quality equipment. Additionally, as they act as crew on one another’s projects and critique one another’s work, students will learn to be a part of a video production team. Emphasis in this course is placed on thorough and creative planning, collaborative production and a progressive step-by-step approach to post-production.
Prerequisite: C I 5840 or permission of the instructor.
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C I 5576 - Advanced Diagnostic-Prescriptive Teaching (4)
When Offered: Spring
Rationale, operational models, techniques used on the implementation of the diagnostic-prescriptive approach. Supervised field experiences in the actual diagnostic-prescriptive approach.
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C I 5581 - Advanced Curriculum Design (3)
When Offered: On Demand
In this course, students will apply knowledge and skills related to curriculum theory, models and frameworks, policy, and best practice to examine, critique, and respond to contemporary curriculum and instruction leadership challenges.
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C I 5585 - Teacher Leadership and School Improvement (3)
When Offered: Fall, Spring
This course is designed to help teachers develop an understanding of and skill in assuming leadership roles and responsibilities in their schools. Those aspects of school leadership seen as most appropriate and potentially beneficial for teacher involvement will be emphasized. Particular attention is paid to the relationships among teacher leadership, school improvement, and site- based accountability. Students will have the opportunity to acquire knowledge and skills and formulate their own approaches through both university-based classroom and site-based clinical activities. Activities such as participant- observations, shadow-studies classroom-action research, problem-based learning, case studies, survey research, and qualitative research studies can be included. Students will be expected to present tangible evidence that represents, authentically, their professional growth.
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C I 5591 - Advanced Curriculum Design in Elementary Education (3)
When Offered: Fall
An examination of curriculum foundations and models as related to understanding the nature of the elementary school learner and educational goals. Primary focus is on organizing, implementing and evaluating the elementary school curriculum. Includes investigation of recent research in elementary education as applied to curriculum and the classroom setting.
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C I 5630 - Instructional Technology (3)
When Offered: Fall
The course is intended to introduce students to the field of instructional technology including its theoretical and practical components. Students are introduced to traditional and emerging electronic communication systems and equipment, and consider the application such technology may have whether in education, business or industry. Particular attention is given to the instructional design process with emphasis placed on the relationship between the inception of a program or technology and the actual instructional application and implementation of it.
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C I 5635 - Media Literacy and Program Development (3)
When Offered: Fall
In this course, students examine the historical and current challenges and opportunities in media literacy program development, focusing on both national and international examples in school–‐based and other settings. Educational institutions and other settings are analyzed in terms of the way their organizational culture and characteristics impact media literacy as an innovation. Students are required to formulate a rationale and design a program or programmatic change that links media literacy to a professional area of interest relevant to the student’s career goals.
Prerequisites: C I 5830 and C I 5835 .
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C I 5636 - Emerging Issues and Trends in Media and Technology (3)
When Offered: On Demand
Focuses on trends and developments in educational media, technology, and media literacy. Students will address contemporary issues, trends, controversies, and techniques. Topics may vary from year to year; repeatable for up to nine semester hours.
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C I 5641 - Media and Management (3)
When Offered: Spring
This course provides a broad background in management theory and practice. Emphasis is placed on how to manage media effectively and efficiently within an organizational context (school, industry, etc.) with particular attention given to the utilization of resources including personnel, budget, hardware, and the work environment. Strategies are discussed that enable media to be effectively utilized in order to solve training and corporate communication problems.
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C I 5642 - Introduction to Web Page Design and Development for Education (3)
When Offered: Fall, Spring
This course introduces the student to a range of digital tools for the design and production of web based education and information design. This class includes web page development and design, digital graphics, visual design, animation, and issues concerning information design, service, site management and a review of current research on effective instructional design for web based learning environments.
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C I 5643 - Advanced Production and Portfolio (3)
When Offered: On Demand
This is a required individual study course which serves as a synthesis production and presentation experience, involving close faculty supervision and a client/consultant relationship. Included in the course is a Comprehensive Major Project which will be client oriented and the preparation of a production portfolio suitable for professional presentation.
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C I 5650 - Middle Level Instruction and Assessment (3)
When Offered: Spring
This course provides an in-depth examination of assessment-driven instruction for young adolescents. Multiple forms and types of assessments that increase young adolescent learning will be investigated and applied. Evidences of young adolescent learning will be collected and analyzed to inform instructional decisions. Essential understandings grounded in young adolescents’ questions about the world will guide instructional design. Models of instructional design that teach for understanding, including instructional decision-making related to research-verified practices, are emphasized.
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C I 5660 - Developing Expertise in Academic Content (3)
When Offered: Summer Session
Research in specific middle level content and licensure fields.
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C I 5700 - History of Instructional Technology (3)
When Offered: On Demand
A broad background and understanding of contemporary instructional technologies, processes and systems is provided. Readings and research from 450 BC to the present with emphasis on theoretical and methodological foundations for media research are examined.
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C I 5740 - Photography and Digital Imaging (3)
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Basic theory, principles, and techniques of photography and digital imaging.
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C I 5750 - Teaching Diverse Young Adolescents (3)
When Offered: Spring
This course focuses on issues relevant to teaching young adolescents of varied backgrounds and abilities. Special attention will be given to developmentally and culturally responsive instruction and management of diverse classrooms. The various factors that influence young adolescent learning and development and how they impact teaching and learning will be investigated. Critical reflection and challenge of current practices related to diverse young adolescents in classrooms, schools, and communities will be fostered.
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C I 5770 - Intermediate Photography and Digital Imaging (3)
When Offered: Fall
An intermediate photographic production course which strengthens previously acquired skills in photography and provides advanced work in digital imaging.
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C I 5800 - Logistics of Mediated Programs and Presentations (3)
When Offered: On Demand
Hard data and facts for programmers and presenters from facilities planning to effective showmanship are examined. The application of hardware and software for teaching and training are located against the institutional environment and contexts in which a presentation takes place.
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C I 5810 - Introduction to Sight and Sound (3)
When Offered: Fall, Spring
An introduction to the basic knowledge and skills underlying any effective audiovisual presentation. Students will have the opportunity to learn the aural and visual aesthetic principles involved in the creation of effective media presentations. They will also have the opportunity to learn the theory and operation of various common sight and sound devices, including microphones, digital audio recorders, and digital audio editing software; still cameras, and digital image editing software; video cameras and digital video editing tools; and projection devices and presentation systems. Emphasis will be placed not only on understanding how the equipment works, but on the common theoretical background shared by all these communication devices.
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C I 5825 - Non-fiction Film and Video (3)
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Students view and analyze a variety of non-fiction films and videos in terms of both form and content. Emphasis is placed on understanding the wide range of purposes for which non-fiction programs are made, and on examining the variety of techniques used to achieve those purposes. Students also engage in some hands-on experiences attempting to capture reality on videotape as part of an effort to explore what happens to reality when it is shaped into a film or video.
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C I 5830 - Media Literacy (3)
When Offered: Spring
The course examines what it means to be literate in the technological world of the twenty‐first century where digital media pervades our daily experiences. Key concepts and principles from the field of media literacy are studied through an examination of movies, advertising, television, journalism and news, the Internet, and social media. Emphasis is placed on understanding media texts, media industries, media narratives, and the form and language of a variety of different media. Students are provided with critical frameworks for analyzing media of all forms as well as with tools and techniques applied in several class projects aimed at deconstructing media messages.
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C I 5835 - Media Influence and Identity Across Cultures (3)
When Offered: Spring
This media literacy course concentrates on media representations, media audiences, and media effects, including the sociocultural, spatial, and geographic contexts of media consumption and production. Media ranging from mass media to local/global media to social media are studied in terms of their depiction and representations of individuals, institutions, identities, issues, and places. Key categories of exploration include examining identity and media representations of race, class, gender, sexuality, ability, etc. across a variety of media forms and global/local contexts.
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C I 5840 - Beginning Video Production (3)
When Offered: Fall, Spring
This course is a basic introduction to the creative and technical skills needed to produce effective, low-budget video programs on location. Students will use the department’s digital cameras and non-linear computer editing system to learn how to express themselves clearly in a wide variety of programming formats through the language of video. Students will gain experience in each of the three stages in the production process: pre-production, production, and post-production.
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C I 5845 - Global Perspectives in Media and Technology (3)
When Offered: On Demand
This course requires students to analyze and evaluate the roles media and technology play in shaping individuals, communities, cultures, and civic engagement throughout the world. Media literacy will be integrated throughout the course as a critical perspective through which to study global issues and ideas. Students will explore how media and technology support or subvert opportunities for networking, participation, discourse, and action related to a range of local and global issues, including environmental issues. As part of this course, students may engage in global collaboration with international students studying abroad and/or locally. Students will synthesize new understandings and perspectives for how media and technology may be impacting conceptions of physical and digital communities and how they shape local and global relationships, issues, ideas, and ideologies.
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C I 5850 - Middle Level Curriculum (3)
When Offered: Fall
This course examines models of curriculum and processes of curriculum design that are responsive to the needs of young adolescents. Educators examine major middle level curriculum theories, historical contexts of curriculum development, traditional and innovative middle level curriculum models, implications of 21st Century teaching and learning, and trends and issues that reflect research and successful practice.
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C I 5860 - Audio Documentary Production (3)
When Offered: Spring
In this course, students listen to and analyze a variety of non-fiction audio programs in terms of both form and content. Emphasis is placed on understanding the wide range of purposes for which non-fiction programs are made, and on examining the variety of techniques used to achieve those purposes. The class will explore the advantages and disadvantages of creating and distributing documentaries in an audio format. Students also engage in some hands-on experiences creating sound documentaries using a variety of digital audio hardware and software. The short audio documentaries produced by each member of the class will be podcast.
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C I 5880 - Educational Regulations and Policies (3)
When Offered: On Demand
This course examines key issues that govern daily and long-range decisions of educational leaders. The course focuses on understanding North Carolina and federal codes, policies, and significant precedent and will emphasize analysis of concepts such as finance, personnel, risk management, curriculum, student services, teacher rights, torts, student rights, and access.
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C I 5900 - Internship/Practicum (1-6)
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Provides direct experiences teaching in grades Kindergarten through nine. Students are required to spend 90 hours teaching in classrooms appropriate to the level(s) of licensure sought. This internship/practicum is designed only for those without appropriate experience in their Master of Arts major, as determined by the students’ academic advisory committees.
Graded on an S/U basis.
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C I 5910 - Applied Curriculum Specialist Skills (3)
When Offered: On Demand
This course offers site-based experiences of leadership and management for prospective curriculum specialists. Students will be placed with competent administrative/supervisory personnel and will observe, participate in, and evaluate curriculum issues existing in public schools, public school systems, or other appropriate agencies along with attending class to explore issues and applications of curriculum specialist standards.
Graded on an S/U basis.
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C I 5921 - Instructional Design (3)
When Offered: Spring
Analysis and application of systematic strategies for the identification of instructional needs, design of instructional system models to meet educational goals in both K-12 education and business, and evaluation of instructional systems.
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C I 5922 - Number Systems and Operations: K-5 Mathematical Tasks (3)
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Analysis and construction of effective mathematical tasks in teaching number systems and operations at the K-5 level; attention is also given to the expansion of content knowledge.
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C I 5923 - Geometry & Spatial Visualization: K-5 Assessment (3)
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Formative and summative assessment strategies of students’ geometric thinking in elementary grades; concept development of 2- and 3-dimensional geometry. Attention also given to diagnosis of student errors. Does not count for the Master of Arts in Mathematics.
Prerequisite: C I 5922 .
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C I 5924 - Algebraic Reasoning: K-5 Discourse & Questioning (3)
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Focus on the early algebra concepts of functional thinking and generalized arithmetic in relationship to pedagogical practices centered on questioning in the mathematics classroom. Does not count for the Master of Arts in Mathematics.
Prerequisite: C I 5922 .
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C I 5925 - Data Analysis and Measurement: K-5 Classroom Interactions (3)
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Focus on statistical literacy of elementary teachers and the teaching of data analysis and measurement to K-5 students; attention is also given to learning methods which facilitate appropriate classroom interactions. Does not count for the Master of Arts in Mathematics.
Prerequisite: C I 5922 .
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C I 5926 - Rational Numbers and Operations: K-5 Learning Trajectories (3)
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Focus on rational number concepts through learning trajectories at the K-5 level; attention also given to problem solving and content knowledge.
Prerequisite: C I 5922 .
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C I 5927 - Mathematical Modeling: K-5 Leadership (3)
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Generating mathematical representations and making explicit connections between concepts. Pedagogy designed to equip elementary teachers to become mathematics teacher-leaders in school settings; focus given to topics integrated within mathematical strands.
Prerequisites: C I 5922 , C I 5923 /MAT 5923 , C I 5924 /MAT 5924 , C I 5925 /MAT 5925 , and C I 5926 .
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C I 5930 - Instructional Graphics (3)
When Offered: On Demand
Examination of basic design principles and concepts in the selection, design, and evaluation of graphic materials. Course includes laboratory experience in design, development, production, and publication of graphical materials. The laboratory experience centers on the use of microcomputers and associated input or output devices.
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C I 5989 - Graduate Research (1-9)
When Offered: Fall, Spring
This course is designed to provide access to University facilities for continuing graduate research at the master’s and specialist’s levels. C I 5989 does not count toward a degree.
Graded on an S/U basis.
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C I 5999 - Thesis (4)
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Graded on an SP/UP basis until the thesis has been successfully defended and received final approval, at which time all grades will be changed to S.
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C I 6050 - Critical Perspectives and Research in New Media and Literacies (3)
When Offered: On Demand
This course will position students as scholarly professionals, leaders, and researchers in the theoretical, critical, aesthetic, and practical dimensions of information communication technologies, emerging literacies, and new media. Students will investigate theory and research across the areas of communication studies, literacy studies, technology education, and sustainability as they relate to new media and emerging technologies. Using qualitative methodologies- specifically arts-based research and visual ethnography- students will examine the artistic/aesthetic, technical, social, cultural, political, economic, and environmental dimensions of media and technology as they develop perspectives on new media, technologies, and literacies that will inform their future research, advocacy, and leadership.
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C I 6160 - Field Study in Curriculum Problems (3)
When Offered: On Demand
Students develop a conceptual framework based on general system theory for guiding, developing, and evaluating school curriculum improvements. Students conduct a research project analyzing the design and development of school curriculum planning with emphasis on current trends and issues in elementary school curriculum (K-9).
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C I 6310 - Analysis of the Teaching Process (3)
When Offered: Spring
Examination of the teacher-pupil and pupil-pupil interaction in the classroom through study of original relevant research disciplines concerning human behavior and society. Special attention is given to the efforts of teacher approaches to children, the organization of curriculum materials and the structure of the classroom society on the accomplishment of education objectives.
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C I 6360 - Survey of Research and Implications for Curriculum and Instruction (3)
When Offered: On Demand
This course emphasizes the reading and interpretation of research on designated topics within the school curriculum. Through collaboration and dialogue among class members, resulting implications for classroom instruction are determined.
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C I 6460 - Issues, Trends, and Problems in Curriculum, K-9 (3)
When Offered: Fall
Analysis of current practices, problems, and trends in education with emphasis on improved programs.
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C I 6500 - Independent Study (1-4)
When Offered: Fall, Spring
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C I 6530-6549 - Selected Topics (1-4)
When Offered: On Demand
Consideration of group and individual investigations in education.
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C I 6999 - Education Specialist Thesis (1-6)
When Offered: Fall
Graded on an SP/UP basis until the thesis has been successfully defended and received final approval, at which time all grades will be changed to S.
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C I 7130 - Investigations into Curriculum and Instruction Problems (3)
When Offered: On Demand
Investigation into curriculum and instruction problems is a course taken during the student’s public school internship. The aim of this course is to provide those who have an intense interest in curriculum and instruction with an opportunity for practical application of knowledge and skills obtained from the research core, along with an opportunity to work with faculty who are researching problems.
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C I 7131 - Emerging Issues in Curriculum and Instruction (3)
When Offered: On Demand
Within the context of educational leadership, the purpose of this course is to provide doctoral level students with an in-depth understanding of issues, problems, and trends in curriculum and instruction at the local, state and national levels. The course is also aimed at providing students with experiences which lead to an understanding of the interdisciplinary nature of problem setting, problem solving, and policy analysis in curriculum and instruction.
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C I 7132 - Reflective Supervision of Curriculum and Instruction (3)
When Offered: On Demand
The focus of this course is on the situation-specific application of knowledge to problems in supervision. The course has two foci. First, the practical problems of supervision as they relate to teaching and implementing the curriculum at the school system, school building, and classroom levels are targeted. The second outcome is the development of a reflective practitioner who understands and approaches supervision in a deliberative manner.
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C I 7989 - Doctoral Research (1-9)
When Offered: Fall, Spring
This course is designed to provide access to University facilities for continuing doctoral research. C I 7989 does not count toward a degree.
Graded on an S/U basis.
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DAN 5460 - Somatics (3)
When Offered: Fall, Spring
This is a survey course exploring several different approaches to body-centered learning. A broad overview of current conditioning and therapeutic bodywork methods will be introduced and explored. The course will be lecture and experiential in nature.
[Dual-listed with DAN 4460.]
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DAN 5500 - Independent Study (1-4)
When Offered: Fall, Spring
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DAN 5530-5549 - Selected Topics (1-4)
When Offered: On Demand
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ECO 5150 - Business Economics (3)
When Offered: Fall
Intensive study of economic decision techniques for management. Topics include estimation of demand and cost function, analysis of economic forecasts and business cycles, analysis of price and non-price competition, allocation and distributional effects of regulation, taxation, and fiscal and monetary policy, cost-benefit and cost effectiveness analyses for the not-for-profit sector. Primary emphasis will be placed on the understanding and application, rather than the theoretical and computational aspects, of these techniques.
Prerequisite: Admission to the MBA Program or permission approved by the Assistant Dean for Graduate and International Programs in the Walker College of Business.
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ECO 5500 - Independent Study (1-4)
When Offered: Fall, Spring
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ECO 5530-5549 - Selected Topics (1-4)
When Offered: Fall, Spring
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ECO 5621 - Environmental Economics and Policy (3)
When Offered: Spring
Analysis of the interrelationships among economic activity, government policies, and the environment; the benefits and costs of economic growth; the economics of environmental quality; the social costs of pollution; and the intertemporal allocation of natural resources.
Prerequisite: ECO 2030 (Principles of Microeconomics) or ECO 2620 (Environmental and Resource Economics).
[Dual-listed with ECO 4621.]
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ECO 5640 - International Macroeconomics (3)
When Offered: Fall
This course aims to provide a basic knowledge of how international financial markets work. It is a combination of lectures and discussions covering theory and real-world policies, events, and evidence. The course can be broadly divided into three parts - foreign exchange markets, international financial transactions, and economic policies. The first part focuses on exchange rate behavior, foreign exchange rate markets, the determinants of the exchange rates. The second part of the course studies international financial transactions in a global macroeconomy. The goal of the last part of the course is to understand how the choices governments make about monetary and fiscal policies, or about exchange rate regime and capital mobility, affect economic outcomes, and why crises occur.
Prerequisite: ECO 2040 (Principles of Marcoeconomics).
[Dual-listed with ECO 4640.]
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ECO 5660 - Benefit-Cost Analysis (3)
When Offered: Fall
The study of the evaluation of competing public policy alternatives. The purpose of benefit-cost analysis is to inform government decision-making and facilitate the more efficient allocation of scarce resources. This course introduces the basic theory and principles of benefit-cost analysis and examines applications of the methodology.
Prerequisite: ECO 2030 (Principles of Economics - Price Theory).
[Dual-listed with ECO 4660].
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ECO 5720 - Applied Econometrics (3)
When Offered: Fall, Spring
The course introduces statistical methods to analyze data to gain insights and make better decisions. The material focuses on the fundamentals, diagnostics and challenges of regression methods, which are fundamental to understanding causal relationships and trade-offs. The course seeks to equip students to think critically about data and the analyses based on those data, whether conducted by them or someone else. The course enables students to identify opportunities for data analyses to improve insights and decisions making. The course will include hands-on work with data and software.
Prerequisite: ECO 2200 (Business and Economic Statistics II) or equivalent
[Dual-listed with ECO 4720]
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ECO 5740 - Forecasting and Time Series Models (3)
When Offered: Spring
An examination of time series models for purposes of forecasting and performing time series regressions in economics, business, and the social sciences. Topics covered may include ARIMA, VAR, Granger causality, unit roots, spurious regressions, ARCH, and GARCH. Computer software will be utilized in applications.
Prerequisite: ECO 2200 (Business and Economic Statistics II) or permission of the instructor.
[Dual-listed with ECO 4740.]
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ECO 5989 - Graduate Research (1-9)
When Offered: Fall, Spring
This course is designed to provide access to University facilities for continuing graduate research at the master’s and specialist’s levels. ECO 5989 does not count toward a degree.
Graded on an S/U basis.
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EDU 5900 - Graduate Student Teaching (3)
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Graduate Student Teaching is the capstone experience of teacher preparation and provides direct supervision for one semester with experiences teaching in BK-12 environments appropriate to the level(s) of licensure sought. This graduate level student teaching is designed for candidates enrolled in graduate and residency licensure programs through Appalachian.
Graded on an S/U basis.
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EDL 7011 - Multi-Disciplinary Seminar on Emerging Issues I (3)
When Offered: On Demand
A multi-disciplinary seminar in which students engage with questions that are central to understanding the connections and interplay between epistemology, research paradigms, and methodology in educational research. The course examines a contemporary topic in the field through an investigation of a number of research paradigms. The course focuses on the aspects of epistemology and theoretical perspectives as connected to methodology and methods to guide students in their future research. The aim of the course is not to advance a particular methodological or theoretical approach, but rather to cultivate a critical awareness of many positions that inform inquiry.
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EDL 7012 - Multi-Disciplinary Seminar on Emerging Issues II (3)
When Offered: On Demand
The course provides students with developing knowledge around various theoretical frameworks, philosophical concepts, and their methodological implications and applications in educational research. This course is designed on the premise that it is important to have a deep understanding of the epistemological and ontological stances that drive research methodologies in order to be aware of why certain questions are asked and why particular techniques are chosen and used. With that in mind, the course readings will introduce doctoral students to feminist, queer, poststructuralist, postcolonial, and posthumanist methodologies in educational research, and these methodologies will be situated within the theoretical frameworks that made them possible.
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EDL 7020 - Organizational and Systems Theory (3)
When Offered: On Demand
This course will integrate essential features of research in organizational theory with the more recent developments in systems theory. How people and groups organize to accomplish tasks will be combined with how organizations combine to form systems. A special feature of the course will be its treatment of organizations and systems for public, non-profit enterprises. Models and case studies will be featured.
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EDL 7025 - Leadership in Organizations (3)
When Offered: On Demand
Brings into coherent form the application of leadership principles to organizations. Leadership is seen as the mechanism for putting both organizational and system theories into action, to enhance school environments, and to sustain structures for change. Extensive use of case studies will be featured.
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EDL 7035 - Curriculum History, Theory and Practice in Educational Organizations (3)
When Offered: On Demand
Educational leaders will gain knowledge of curriculum history, curriculum ideologies, and contemporary philosophies. Modernist epistemologies impacting curriculum will be explored. Participants will learn strategies for facilitating curricular change.
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EDL 7040 - Educational Organizations and Technology (3)
When Offered: On Demand
Students in this course will develop strategies for forming and implementing a vision for incorporating computer and communications technologies into educational settings. They will have an opportunity, as current and future educational leaders, to investigate examples of these technologies in schools and other educational settings. These experiences, combined with appropriate leadership skills, will enable current and future educational leaders to successfully plan for and implement computer and communications technologies into their respective educational settings.
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EDL 7050 - School Finance and Business Administration (3)
When Offered: On Demand
Designed to examine current practices in public finance. Emphasis will be placed on the funding for public schools, and the relationship of that funding to the support for other public and private agencies. Demographics and political trends will be used to project funding needs for planning purposes. The course also examines the application of current management practices to the business administration function of public school administration. Particular emphasis is placed on the relationship between facilities planning and funding practices in public education.
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EDL 7065 - Writing for the Professional Educator (3)
When Offered: On Demand
Professional educators will gain knowledge and skill in using writing effectively as a major component of leadership and management in educational settings. Topics include understanding the writing process in professional settings, tailoring messages for audience and purpose, and using different forms of writing in the profession.
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EDL 7099 - Professional Seminar (1)
When Offered: On Demand
The purpose of this seminar is to provide doctoral students an opportunity to discuss topics arising from course work; to report on internships and research assistantships; and to explore possible dissertation topics. Individual faculty and faculty panels will, from time to time, join the seminar to discuss their research. Seminar students will develop a portfolio reflecting the development of dissertation topics. The portfolio will provide students a means by which they can present evidence of their progress for consideration by advisors and other faculty. Students should expect to maintain the portfolio throughout their course work.
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EDL 7110 - Survey of Research Methodologies in Education (3)
When Offered: On Demand
The course provides students with the requisite skills for reading and understanding contemporary research in education, and examining researchers’ motivations for selecting particular research and assessment methodologies. The course will acquaint students with the wide variety of sources of research journals; to a variety of available databases; to a variety of available measurement and assessment instruments; and to a wide range of methodological applications in education. The research examples will be from the wide area of educational leadership.
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EDL 7120 - Advanced Tests and Measurements (3)
When Offered: On Demand
Familiarize advanced graduate students with the techniques of instrument construction and validation and with the analysis of scores obtained from psychometric instruments. Techniques for designing survey instruments and tests of achievement and the analysis of the results of interest and personality inventories and other mental measurements will be covered.
Prerequisite: EDL 7110 or equivalent.
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EDL 7130 - Multivariate Statistics (3)
When Offered: On Demand
Emphasizes the use of statistical tools to organize and analyze large and complex data bases using multiple correlation, factor analysis, cluster analysis, discriminant analysis, and trend analysis techniques.
Prerequisite: EDL 7110 or equivalent.
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EDL 7160 - Qualitative Research Methods (3)
When Offered: On Demand
This course emphasizes qualitative methods of data analysis and collection and how they can be compared and contrasted to quantitative research. Students will be expected to learn a variety of observational methods and interview techniques. Selecting from these methods, students will design and implement their own research projects. This course will emphasize the process of producing and interpreting qualitative research by critically examining the intricate relationships between theories, hypotheses, variables, and data.
Prerequisites: An introductory course in tests and measurements, an introductory descriptive statistics course, and a course in inferential statistics.
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EDL 7165 - Applied Quantitative Methods in Education I (3)
When Offered: On Demand
This is an applied course intended to allow doctoral students to gain experience in designing and evaluating educational research using quantitative methods. Students will examine design issues in research, formulate research questions, create data sets or explore existing data sets, and use a variety of descriptive and inferential procedures to answer research questions, interpret results and compose the results in the style of professional educational research. A wide variety of examples from the professional literature will be reviewed to assist students in understanding the relationships between the questions studied and the methodologies applied. Students will also develop basic proficiency in using SPSS or other tools to analyze data.
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EDL 7170 - Program Evaluation and Policy Analysis (3)
When Offered: On Demand
This course provides a broad survey of educational evaluation theory and practice, and the relationship of evaluation to educational policy analysis, along with practical experience in designing educational evaluations and policy studies. The course begins with an examination of the historical underpinnings of educational evaluation and policy analysis, their role in improving education, their points of distinction from other forms of systematic inquiry, and the origins of the variety of alternative conceptions of evaluation and policy analysis in practice today. This examination is followed by an in-depth study of a variety of evaluation and policy analysis models.
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EDL 7175 - Applied Quantitative Methods in Education II (3)
When Offered: On Demand
EDL 7175 is an applied course intended to allow doctoral students to gain advanced experience in designing and evaluating educational research using quantitative methods, with an emphasis on correlation and regression methods, and inferential statistics. Students will examine design issues in research, formulate research questions, create data sets or explore existing data sets, and use a variety of correlational, regression, and inferential procedures to answer research questions, interpret results and compose the results in the style of professional educational research. A wide variety of examples from the professional literature will be reviewed to assist students in understanding the relationships between the questions studied and the methodologies applied. Students will continue to develop proficiency in using SPSS or other tools to analyze data.
Prerequisite: EDL 7165 or permission of the instructor.
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EDL 7180 - Advanced Qualitative Research in Education (3)
When Offered: On Demand
The course provides students with advanced knowledge (i.e., the theoretical bases) and skills in qualitative research. Advanced-level analysis and interpretation, linked with the theoretical underpinnings of both general qualitative research and the doctoral student’s particular preferred method, will be a central focus of this course. Individual attention will be given to the students, to the extent possible. Honing of the student’s writing (i.e., presentation/ representation of a qualitative study) will also be a prominent aspect of this course. Students will undertake a small-scale qualitative study in this course in order to concretize and apply the concepts and practice the skills learned.
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EDL 7190 - Research Design in Education (3)
When Offered: On Demand
This course is designed to provide doctoral students with an in-depth analysis of the methods and procedures of research in education. Topics will include conceptualizing educational research, writing research proposals, constructing measurement instruments, collecting and analyzing qualitative and quantitative data, and drawing inferences. Students who successfully complete the course will be able to make proper decisions regarding appropriate designs and methods for investigating different research questions, and will be able to plan and implement a research project for their dissertations.
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EDL 7500 - Independent Study (1-3)
When Offered: On Demand
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