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Course Descriptions

Graduate Bulletin Course Description Introduction

Course descriptions are listed (in this section) in alphabetical order by curricular subject abbreviations. Graduate courses are those numbered from 500 through 899. All numbers below 500 are for undergraduate credit.

Interpreting Course Descriptions

This document will help you understand the various codes used in the course descriptions.

A typical course description appears like this:

COUN 788 Counseling Process Laboratory  

Course Level

The three digits of the course codes refer to the course level. Graduate courses are numbered from 500 to 899. The 100 through 400 series are undergraduate courses.

Credits

UW-Stout defines a credit hour as an amount of work represented in intended learning outcomes and verified by evidence of student achievement that reasonably approximates: [1] At least 750 minutes of classroom or direct faculty instruction and a minimum of 1,500 minutes of out-of-class student work for one semester credit hour, or the equivalent amount of work over a different amount of time (e.g. compressed courses); or [2] At least an equivalent amount of work as required in part one [1] of this definition for other academic activities as established by UW-Stout, including distance education, online, hybrid, or other indirect faculty instruction, laboratory work, internships, co-op experiences, studio work, and other academic work leading to the award of credit hours.  This definition of the semester credit hour applies to all academic credit bearing activities at all levels (graduate and undergraduate). In order to receive a degree, you must not only gain the required number of credits in the program you are pursuing, but also must attain a certain standard of scholarship. (See also “Suspension and Probation.”)
 

School Counseling
  

  • SCOUN-793 School Counseling Internship Seminar

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Case consultation and group supervision activities to accompany field-based application of school counseling knowledge and skills. Research, identify, and evaluate solutions to field problems in school counseling. Must be taken concurrently with SCOUN 789   and/or SCOUN 790 .
    Instructor’s Consent Required
    Must be taken concurrently with SCOUN-789  and/or SCOUN-790 .
  

  • SCOUN-799 Independent Study

    (1-3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Department Consent Required
  

  • SCOUN-895 Field Study

    (2-6 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Experience in action-type field research in pupil personnel services. The student will identify and research a topic directly related to his career position. Preparation and presentation of a formal report of the study to appropriate personnel. Student may enroll for 2, 4, or 6 semester hours of credit in various terms with a final total of six.
    Graduate School Consent Required. Self‐registration for this course is not permitted. You must  have an approved Appointment of Research Adviser form on file with the Graduate School office  before enrollment will be allowed. Please contact the Graduate School for further instructions: gradschool@uwstout.edu or 715‐232‐2211. 

School Psychology
  

  • SPSY-690 Behavioral Interventions and Methods

    (2 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Study and practice in Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA) and Behavioral Intervention Planning (BIP) for students with social-emotional-behavioral issues and/or autism.  Targeted behavior intervention planning addressed within a larger Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) service-delivery model.  Focus on assessment skills to produce data-driven environmental modifications, pro-social replacement behaviors, consequence strategies, and home-school interventions.       
  

  • SPSY-701 Roles, Law and Ethics for the School Psychologist

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Overview of the history, roles and functions of school psychologists in the educational system. Ethical and legal considerations for school-based practice in the field.
    Prerequisite: Benchmark I Completed
  

  • SPSY-710 Developmental Intervention and Methods

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Principles and techniques in identifying developmental delays and implementing developmental interventions.  Examination of early childhood educational settings, service delivery, intervention planning, and family support for children with developmental disabilities and autism spectrum disorder.
    Prerequisites: take SPSY-742  & SPSY-753  
  

  • SPSY-727 Supervision in Pupil Services

    (1 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Theories, strategies and models of school-based supervision of school counseling and school psychology students. Ethical guidelines, best practice strategies, supervisory roles, and supervision standards for individuals responsible for supervising practicum students and interns are addressed. Not intended for use in a degree program.
    Instructor’s Consent Required
  

  • SPSY-735 Problems in School Psychology

    (2 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Independent investigation into a carefully delineated area of school psychological services in an attempt to bring evidence to bear on a problem. The use of research techniques is required. Reporting of the study is expected to meet the standards appropriate to scholarly writing by professionals in the field.
    Prerequisite: take EDUC-740  

    Graduate School Consent Required. Self‐registration for this course is not permitted. You must  have an approved Appointment of Research Adviser form on file with the Graduate School office  before enrollment will be allowed. Please contact the Graduate School for further instructions: gradschool@uwstout.edu or 715‐232‐2211. 
  

  • SPSY-741 Standardized Assessment and Lab I

    (4 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Introduction to administration, scoring, interpretation and reporting writing for standardized academic and cognitive assessments. Case conceptualization and test selection based on individual student need. Communicating test results to caregivers and colleagues. Includes classroom and lab based assignments.
  

  • SPSY-742 Standardized Assessment and Lab II

    (4 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Advanced case conceptualization and synthesis of multi-measure assessment. Administration, scoring, interpretation and reporting writing for standardized academic, cognitive, social-emotional and behavioral assessments. Comprehensive psychoeducational report writing. Includes classroom and lab based assignments.
    Prerequisite: take SPSY 741  
  

  • SPSY-753 Psychometric Theory & Application

    (2 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Introduction to psycho-educational theory and concepts in relation to inter- and intra-individual assessment. Covers basic statistics, in regard to test construction, test uses and misuses, test selection, purposes of testing, ethics, basic test interpretation processes and types of tests and testing programs frequently employed by psycho-educational specialists.
  

  • SPSY-753A School Counseling Assessment Laboratory

    (1 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Introduction to assessment materials and techniques employed by school counselors. Individual inventories, aptitude and achievement tests, problem surveys and other student assessment materials.
  

  • SPSY-753B Lab–School Psychology

    (1 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Introduction to basic psychometric materials and techniques employed by school psychologists. Emphasis is placed upon individual mental tests and procedures.
    Prerequisite or Corequisite: take SPSY-753 
  

  • SPSY-760 Methods and Applications for School-based Research

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    A detailed examination of research methods and applications in the educational setting for school based mental health professionals.
  

  • SPSY-768 Academic Intervention and Methods

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Principles and techniques used in assessing, instructing, and identifying students with academic delays and/or learning disabilities. Historical perspectives, current research, and strategies for students at risk for and with learning disabilities is examined and evaluated. Applied practice in academic interventions and academic assessment techniques is utilized.
    Prerequisite: take SPSY 741 
  

  • SPSY-770 Thesis

    (2-6 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Independent research under direction of investigation adviser. Selection of problems, development of outline, review of literature, compilation of bibliography, plan of method of attack, conduct of research, interpretation of findings, and preparation of the final paper according to thesis standards. Student may enroll for 2, 4, or 6 semester hours of credit in various terms with a final total of six.
    Prerequisite: take EDUC-740  

    Graduate School Consent Required. Self‐registration for this course is not permitted. You must  have an approved Appointment of Research Adviser form on file with the Graduate School office  before enrollment will be allowed. Please contact the Graduate School for further instructions: gradschool@uwstout.edu or 715‐232‐2211. 
  

  • SPSY-771 Professional Portfolio in School Psychology

    (1 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Culminating experience for successful completion of the M.S. degree in School Psychology. Demonstration of mastery in foundational content across the core professional foundations in the field of school psychology, consistent with NASP Domains of Professional Practice.
    Prerequisites: take SPSY 701  and SPSY 768  
  

  • SPSY-775 School Consultation

    (2 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Comprehensive overview of theories and processes of psychological and educational consultation. Training in specific consultative skills through use of role-play, feedback, and homework assignments.
  

  • SPSY-777 Legal/Ethical Issues for School Counselors and Psychologists

    (2 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Investigation of laws, legal systems, professional ethics, administrative codes, and other legal and ethical issues as applied to professional practice of school counselors and school psychologists.
  

  • SPSY-778 Disability, Law and Ethics in the Schools

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Etiology and characteristics of psychoeducational disabilities, framed within the context of existing legal and ethical considerations for service provision. Examination of the role of the school psychologist in the educational system, and with diverse learners, educators, and families.
    Prerequisite: Benchmark I Completed
  

  • SPSY-781 Field Practicum in School Psychology I

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    School-based field experience. Initial roles and functions of the school psychologist are explored, under supervision. School consultation; assessment of diverse learners; intervention and progress monitoring; special education process.
    Prerequisites: take SPSY-742  and SPSY-768 ; Ed.S. in School Psychology program admittance.
  

  • SPSY-782 Field Practicum in School Psychology II

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    School-based advanced field experience. Continuing application of the roles and functions of the school psychologist, under supervision. Increasing focus on leadership skills.
    Prerequisite: take SPSY-781  
  

  • SPSY-784 Clinical Practicum in Psychoeducational Services I

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Provision of psychoeducational services in a clinical setting for a variety of clients including early childhood, school age, young adult, and adult.
    Prerequisites: take SPSY-742  and SPSY-768 ; Ed.S. in School Psychology program admittance.
  

  • SPSY-785 Clinical Practicum in Psychoeducational Services II

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Advanced provision of psychoeducational services in a clinical setting for a variety of clients including early childhood, school age, young adult, and adult.
    Prerequisite: take SPSY-784  
  

  • SPSY-790 Systems-Level Prevention and Intervention

    (2 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    School-based prevention and intervention programs to address crises and systems-level needs. Principles of systems-level consultation, organizational change, universal screening procedures, intervention planning, program evaluation, and the analysis of evidence-based programs to promote the health and competence of youth are addressed. Practical experience in planning and evaluating school-based programs.
    Prerequisite or Corequisite: SPSY-775  
  

  • SPSY-792 Internship in School Psychology

    (4 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Supervised field experience. Minimum of half-time must be completed in a school setting. Student will work with a certified school psychologist to apply skills across NASP Practice Model domains.
    Department Consent Required
    Prerequisite: take SPSY-782  and SPSY 784  
  

  • SPSY-799 Independent Study

    (1-3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Department Consent Required
  

  • SPSY-870 Specialist Thesis in School Psychology

    (3-6 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Independent research project. Selection of a research problem, review and critical analysis of literature and research, development of research plan and methodology, data collection, interpretation of findings and preparation of paper. Thesis orally presented and defended to thesis advisor and committee.
    Prerequisite: take EDUC-740  

    Graduate School Consent Required. Self‐registration for this course is not permitted. You must  have an approved Appointment of Research Adviser form on file with the Graduate School office  before enrollment will be allowed. Please contact the Graduate School for further instructions: gradschool@uwstout.edu or 715‐232‐2211. 
  

  • SPSY-895 Applied Research Project in School Psychology

    (3-6 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Independent, applied research project in a school- or community-based setting. Evidence-based rationale, development of methodology to implement project, collect data, and analyze results is required. An oral defense is required prior to final project approval.
    Prerequisites: take either SPSY-735  or SPSY-770  

    Graduate School Consent Required. Self‐registration for this course is not permitted. You must  have an approved Appointment of Research Adviser form on file with the Graduate School office  before enrollment will be allowed. Please contact the Graduate School for further instructions: gradschool@uwstout.edu or 715‐232‐2211. 

Science Education
  

  • SCIED-501 Science Education Methods

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Methods of teaching science; theories and applications, issues and trends.
    Benchmark I Completed
  

  • SCIED-560 Science Education Curriculum and Assessment

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Curriculum and assessment for teaching science; theories and applications, issues and trends.
    Benchmark I Completed
  

  • SCIED-609 Student Teaching - Science Education

    2-(16 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Student teaching experiences in science education.
    Prerequisites: Benchmark I completed and Senior level
  

  • SCIED-610 Biology Student Teaching

    2-(16 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Student teaching experience in biology
    Prerequisite: Benchmark II completion
  

  • SCIED-611 Chemistry Student Teaching

    2-(16 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Student teaching experience in chemistry.
    Prerequisite: Benchmark II completion
  

  • SCIED-612 Physics Student Teaching

    2-(16 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Student teaching experience in physics.
    Prerequisite: Benchmark II completion
  

  • SCIED-613 Earth and Space Science Student Teaching

    2-(16 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Student teaching experience in Earth and space science.
  

  • SCIED-614 Environmental Science Student Teaching

    2-(16 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Student teaching experience in environmental science.
  

  • SCIED-619 Broadfield Science Teaching Internship

    2-(16 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Internship experience in teaching broadfield science.
    Prerequisite: Benchmark II completion
  

  • SCIED-620 Biology Teaching Internship

    2-(16 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Internship experience in teaching biology.
    Prerequisite: Benchmark II completion
  

  • SCIED-621 Chemistry Teaching Internship

    2-(16 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Internship experience in teaching chemistry.
    Prerequisite: Benchmark II completion
  

  • SCIED-622 Physics Teaching Internship

    2-(16 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Internship experience in teaching physics.
    Prerequisite: Benchmark II completion
  

  • SCIED-623 Earth and Space Science Teaching Internship

    2-(16 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Internship experience in teaching earth and space science.
  

  • SCIED-624 Environmental Science Teaching Internship

    2-(16 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Internship experience in teaching environmental science.
  

  • SCIED-688 Internship Teaching - Science Education

    8-(16 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Alternative to student teaching experience: licensed and salaried internship in a cooperating school.
    Prerequisites: Benchmark II completion and Senior level
  

  • SCIED-710 Current Topics in Science for Teachers

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Current topics, issues, and events in the field of sciences and how they might be incorporated in the curriculum and instruction of science courses.

Science, Technology and Mathematics Education
  

  • STMED-601 Capstone: Math and Science Education

    (1 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Synthesis of material learned in the math and science education program and study of educational research, evidence-based practice, and professional development.
    Prerequisite: Benchmark I completion

Service Management
  

  • SRVM-546 Seminar in Training and Development

    (1 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Definition and analysis of high performance service management best practices.
  

  • SRVM-621 Customer Interaction Center Management

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Introduction to evaluation, design, maintenance, and management of online telephone technology to provide customer service solutions for industry in customer interaction centers.
  

  • SRVM-681 Special Problems in Service Management

    (1-3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes

Social Work
  

  • SOCWK-799 Independent Study

    (1-3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No

Sociology
  

  • SOC-515 Criminology

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Sociological analysis of structure and function of criminal law, variables of criminal behavior and operation of criminal justice system.
  

  • SOC-525 Sociology of Leisure

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Institutional approach to effects of leisure on social structure; values reflected in leisure; problems with increase in leisure resources.
  

  • SOC-540 Sociology of Work

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Human behavior in various types of employment and occupations; trends in U.S. occupational structure.
  

  • SOC-550 Sociology of Hmong Culture

    (1 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Sociological overview of Hmong cultural values, history, immigration and resettlement experiences, family and clan functions, and spiritual beliefs and practices.
  

  • SOC-560 Sociology of Juvenile Delinquency

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Theories of delinquency, criminal behavior, and social control in relation to modern institutions in American culture.
  

  • SOC-610 Sociology of Thailand’S Minority Groups: Study Abroad Program

    (4 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Study abroad program to Thailand. In-depth experiential learning of Thai minority cultures, including religions, socio-political status, Buddhism, health, education, trafficking of women and children, limited citizenship status, and poverty. Field trips to villages, nongovernmental agencies, schools, and clinics.

Special Education
  

  • SPED-500 Introduction To Individuals with Cognitive Disabilities

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Introduction to etiology of mental retardation; psychological, educational, social and vocational aspects; adjustment techniques used in working with mentally retarded persons.
  

  • SPED-501 Learning Disabilities

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Identification, remediation and evaluation of learning disabled; intervention techniques used with adolescents and adults.
  

  • SPED-505 Introduction to Early Childhood Special Education

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    History and purpose of Early Childhood Special Education. Programming; legislation; population receiving services; adaptations; strategies; family intervention; intervention models; inclusion of all students in the natural environment or least restrictive environment.
  

  • SPED-510 ECSE Methods, Materials and Curriculum

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Curricular and methodological adaptation; embedding goals and objectives for young children with exceptional needs in the areas of social-emotional development, motor skills, self-help skills, communication, cognitive development. Only for students seeking Early Childhood Special Education certification.
  

  • SPED-515 Early Childhood Special Education Organization and Implementation

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Organization and implementation of Early Childhood Special Education programs. Service delivery; itinerant services; consultation and collaboration; and intervention models.
    Prerequisite(s): Only for students seeking ECSE certifications.

     
  

  • SPED-520 Early Childhood Special Education Assessment

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Supervised practice in assessment of young children with suspected or identified developmental delays. Standardized and informal assessment instruments for screening; determining eligibility for special needs programming; and progress monitoring of early learning in early childhood children.
    Prerequisites: Must be seeking ECSE certification.
  

  • SPED-522 Curriculum & Instruction: Severe Disabilities

    (2 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Curriculum and instruction strategies for teaching functional academics, personal/social, vocational, and community living skills to individual with severe and profound disabilities. 
    Prerequisites: take SPED-630  
  

  • SPED-523 Mild Disabilities: Social Studies and Science

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Curriculum and methods of teaching students with mild cognitive, learning, and emotional/behavioral disabilities in the content areas of social studies, science, and in general education. Strategies that facilitate integration, improve maintenance and generalization of skills, promote transitions, increase self-awareness and self-management, and compensate for learning deficits.
  

  • SPED-524 Curriculum & Instruction: Career & Transition Education

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Curriculum and instruction for persons with cognitive disabilities, borderline and severe, in prevocational career, vocational education, and transition stressing interdisciplinary cooperation.
  

  • SPED-526 Pre-Student Teaching: Cognitive Disabilities

    (2 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Supervised experience in observing, planning instruction, and teaching children and youth with cognitive disabilities in a cross-categorical school environment. Repeatable three times for credit.
    Department Consent Required
  

  • SPED-528 Assessment for Individual Education/ Transition Plans

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Diagnosing behavior and learning problems of students with exceptional education needs. Preparing individual educational and transitional plans based on comprehensive assessments.
  

  • SPED-530 Introduction to Communication Disorders

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Nature, causes of and methods used when working with individuals who have speech and language disorders.
  

  • SPED-536 Early Childhood Special Education Pre-Student Teaching

    (2 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Supervised experience in teaching children with exceptionalities. Instructional practices based on knowledge of the child, family, community, and the curriculum.
    Prerequisite: take SPED-505 . Must be seeking ECSE certification.
  

  • SPED-538 Pre-Student Teaching: Children and Youth With Disabilities

    (2 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Supervised experience in observing, planning instruction, and teaching children and youth with disabilities in a cross-categorical school environment.
  

  • SPED-620 Schools, Families and Community Collaboration

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Theory, general principles and procedures for fostering collaborative partnerships among families, professionals, students and other service providers. Focuses on families with children who have disabilities.
  

  • SPED-630 Inclusion of Students with Exceptional Needs

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Inclusion of students with exceptional educational needs in the regular classroom setting. Laws, definition, characteristics, adaptations, strategies and transitional services that pertain to persons identified with: cognitive disability, learning disability, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, emotional disability, autism, traumatic brain injury, speech and language disorders, visual and hearing loss, physical and other health impairments, and gifted and talented.
  

  • SPED-640 Diagnosis and Remediation of Literacy and Math Disabilities

    (4 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Curriculum, methods, assessment and remediation of teaching reading, math, and language to individuals with mild disabilities. Strategies that assess and evaluate, monitor progress, increase, maintain and generalize skills, facilitate integration, and compensate for learning deficits in the general and special education curricula.
  

  • SPED-647 Emotional and Behavioral Problems of Children and Adolescents

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Assessment, identification and evaluation of emotional and behavioral disorders of learners middle childhood through adolescence, including methods of observing, diagnosing, documenting and interpreting. Characteristics of emotional and behavioral disabled learners, including potential concomitant physical, cognitive, or sensory disabilities and psychological, social and environmental factors contributing to childhood emotional and behavioral disorders.
  

  • SPED-662 Classroom Management Techniques

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Techniques for motivating handicapped youth, individual and group discipline, behavior modification, educational organization, evaluation, and communication to enhance learning.
  

  • SPED-671 Introduction to Special Education and Professional Portfolio Development

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Survey of the history of the field, the philosophy of special education, the mission of the field, special education legislation and mandates, issues within the profession, influential organizations, and the basic principles of professional portfolio development.
  

  • SPED-672 Foundations of Autism Spectrum Disorder

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    A foundation for understanding individuals with Autism spectrum Disorders (ASD) and its effect on the individuals’ life and learning, through a comprehensive overview of the history, current literature, and best practices.
  

  • SPED-673 Behavior Interventions and Positive Behavior Supports

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Study functional behavioral assessment (FBA) and behavioral intervention planning (BIP) for individualized behavior problems for students with Autism Spectrum Disorder and related disabilities in the PK-12 educational setting. Focus on assessment skills to produce data-driven environmental modifications, pro-social replacement behaviors, consequence strategies, and home-school collaboration.
  

  • SPED-674 Augmentative Communication and Social Skills

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Review current literature in supporting communication and social skills for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder; including best practices in assessment and implementation of augmentative and alternative communication interventions.
  

  • SPED-675 Assessment and Methodology of Autism Spectrum Disorder

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Critical review of assessment methods used in the identification of Autism Spectrum Disorder. Formal and informal assessment results are utilized to create an intervention plan that is responsive to the student’s individual needs.
  

  • SPED-676 Practicum in Autism Spectrum Disorder

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Review of instructional techniques, adaptations, and modifications to develop individualized instruction for students with autism spectrum disorder. Aligning instruction to student learning and behavioral styles and assessment in the general education and special education settings.
    Department Consent Required
  

  • SPED-681 Student Teaching: Special Education

    4-(16 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Directed special education teaching and community experience in selected off-campus schools.
    Department Consent Required
  

  • SPED-682 Student Teaching Early Childhood-Special Education

    (8 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Directed teaching and community experiences in selected infant-toddler, preschool, or school based programs for children with disabilities.
  

  • SPED-689 Intern Teaching Early Childhood: Special Education

    8-(16 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Directed teaching and community experiences in selected infant, toddler, preschool, or primary school-based programs for children with disabilities.
    Prerequisite: take SPED-520 
  

  • SPED-690 Behavioral Interventions and Methods

    (2 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Study and practice in Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA) and Behavioral Intervention Planning (BIP) for students with social-emotional-behavioral issues and/or autism.  Targeted behavior intervention planning addressed within a larger Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) service-delivery model.  Focus on assessment skills to produce data-driven environmental modifications, pro-social replacement behaviors, consequence strategies, and home-school interventions.
  

  • SPED-696 Assessment and Psychology of Learning for Special Education

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Overview of theories, laws and processes that guide special education assessment, eligibility and instruction.
  

  • SPED-696 Foundations for Special Education Teachers

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Foundations of special education, instruction and educational needs of students in each disability category. Includes legal and historical aspects, professionalism and ethics, philosophies, eligibility and educational programming.
  

  • SPED-696 Literacy and Foundations of Reading for Special Educators

    (4 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Overview of scientifically- based literacy instruction, with an emphasis on the foundations of reading in the primary grades.
  

  • SPED-696A Classroom Design and Behavior Management

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Skills and knowledge in classroom design and behavioral management in special education. Focus on prevention, intervention and problem solving for whole group instruction, as well as behavior needs of individual students.
  

  • SPED-799 Independent Study

    (1-3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Department Consent Required

Communication Studies
  

  • COMST-508 Business and Professional Speaking

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Professional communication; projects emphasizing the application of oral presentation skills in business and professional contexts.
  

  • COMST-570 Communicating in Health Contexts

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Theories and practical approaches to interactions about health- and wellness-related issues. Addresses perspectives on health communication in interpersonal, clinical, small group, and organizational contexts. Explains communication issues that exist in health care encounters, and discusses the influences of culture on health communication.
  

  • COMST-670 Special Topics in Culture and Health Communication

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    This course explores culture within health communication contexts with focus on the application of intercultural and health communication scholarship.
  

  • COMST-670 Special Topics: The Power of Narrative in Health Comm.

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Survey of the use of narrative within health communication, across a wide range of contexts. 
  

  • COMST-675 Applied Health Communication Capstone

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Completion of an original research or field experience project for business or industry. Results in either a deliverable for a client with a project report or a research paper.
  

  • COMST-710 Advanced Interpersonal Communication for Professionals

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Study of interpersonal communication theory applied to organizational and professional contexts.

Statistics
  

  • STAT-520 Statistical Methods

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Methods of describing data: graphical methods, numerical summary measures, exploratory data analysis. Probability, probability distributions, expected value. Sampling distributions. Statistical inference: estimation and hypothesis testing for one-sample and two-sample problems. Regression analysis. Demonstrating with standard statistical software packages. Students may incur incidental expenses for software.
  

  • STAT-640 Advanced Linear Modeling-Regression and Time Series Analysis

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Multiple regression, inference about regression parameters, remedical regression measures, quantitative and qualitative regression, model selection/validation, nonlinear regression, neural networks, logistic and Poisson regression, generalized linear models, time series, smoothing, stochastic time series, moving average and autoregressive models, auto regressive integrated moving average (ARIMA), estimating and forecasting with time series.
    Instructor’s Consent Required
  

  • STAT-730 Biostatistics I

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Statistical analysis in biological and health sciences using case study examples. Review of descriptive statistics. Discrete and continuous probability models in biostatistics, parametric and non-parametric inference in biostatistics (estimation and tests of hypotheses), correlation, and linear, polynomial, nonlinear and logistic regression.
  

  • STAT-731 Biostatistics II

    (3 cr.)
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Advanced statistical analysis of biological data focusing on health science and conservation using case study examples. Design of experiments, single-factor and multi-factor ANOVA, multivariate analysis, multiple linear regression, least-squares estimation, stepwise procedures, partial F-tests, model aptness, data reduction techniques, principles component analysis, discrimination and classification techniques, discriminant and cluster analysis.
    Prerequisite: take STAT-730  
 

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