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SPED 532 - Methods and Materials for Learning Disabilities K-12
CRSE Type: Unique Course
This course serves as an introduction to the field of specific
learning disabilities. Theoretical approaches to the field are
considered. Emphasis is on the neurological, psychodynamic, and
behavioral approaches. Tests and observational techniques to aid
diagnosis are presented. Various treatment methods are compared.
Students are given limited opportunity to work with children with
learning problems. The student will use alternative technologies in
class presentations and will demonstrate appropriate teaching
methodology through the use of the distance lab/electronic
classroom equipment. Students will also review and evaluate
appropriate software.
3 semester hours
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SPED 535 - Characteristics and Exceptionalities of Adolescents
CRSE Type: Unique Course
This course serves as an introduction to the characteristics and exceptionalities of adolescents and is required for all middle and secondary education majors. The student will learn to understand the major influences on adolescent development and behavior including biological, cultural, peer, and family conditions as well as how educational programming practices aid adolescents in the development process. In addition, students will identify retardation and developmental disabilities, speech and hearing disabilities, other health impairments, and giftedness. Finally, students will study local, state and national administrative and legislative provisions that support adolescents with these conditions.
3 semester hours
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SPED 553 - Introduction to Autism Spectrum Disorders
CRSE Type: Unique Course
This course provides an overview of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) across the lifespan - from infancy through adulthood. This includes an historical view of ASD, characteristics of individuals with the diagnosis, legal implications, and the impact on families. This course also provides an in-depth look at different behavioral and educational strategies that guide the instruction of students with ASD. Lo-tech and hi-tech assistive technology strategies will also be addressed. Future educators will gain an understanding of key concepts related to the education of, and lifelong considerations for, individuals with ASD.
Cross-listed
SPED-453
3 semester hours
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SPED 560 - Family Systems & Professional Collaboration
CRSE Type: Common Course Number & Description
Guidelines for communication between agencies, parents/guardians, teachers, and children with special needs will be developed. These will include areas of physical needs, language skills, environmental background, social concerns and educational goals. Emphasis will be placed on teaming with the community agencies and services. The student will be expected to use the Internet for resource research.
2 to 3 semester hours
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SPED 592 - Topics
CRSE Type: Common Course Number & Description
Includes current topics, advanced topics and special topics. A course devoted to a particular issue in a specified field. Course content is not wholly included in the regular curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as instructors. Enrollments are usually of 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student/teacher involvement.
1 to 3 semester hours
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SPED 691 - Independent Study
CRSE Type: Common Course Number & Description
Includes directed study, problems, readings, directed readings, special problems and special projects. Students complete individualized plans of study which include significant one-on-one student-teacher involvement. The faculty member and students negotiate the details of the study plans. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. Meetings depending upon the requirements of the topic
0 to 12 semester hours
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SPED 695 - Practicum
CRSE Type: Common Course Number & Description
Applied, monitored and supervised, field-based learning experience for which the student may or may not be paid. Students gain practical experience; they follow a negotiated and or directed plan of study. A higher level of supervision is provided by the instructor in these courses than is the case with field experience courses.
2 to 4 semester hours
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SPED 760 - Current Issues in Special Education
CRSE Type: Unique Course
This course is designed to address current issues affecting the
field of special education on state, local, and national levels.
The course will involve students in the process of identifying,
analyzing and discussing issues and research in special education
that impacts the lives of persons who are disabled from infancy
through adulthood.
3 semester hours
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SPED 792 - Topics
CRSE Type: Common Course Number & Description
Includes Current Topics, Advanced Topics, and Special Topics. A course devoted to a particular issue in a specified field. Course content is not wholly included in the regular curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as instructors. Enrollments are usually of 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student-teacher involvement.
1 to 3 semester hours
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SS 692 - Topics
CRSE Type: Common Course Number & Description
Includes Current Topics, Advanced Topics, and Special Topics. A course devoted to a particular issue in a specified field. Course content is not wholly included in the regular curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as instructors. Enrollments are usually of 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student-teacher involvement.
1 to 3 semester hours
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SS 792 - Topics
CRSE Type: Common Course Number & Description
Includes Current Topics, Advanced Topics, and Special Topics. A course devoted to a particular issue in a specified field. Course content is not wholly included in the regular curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as instructors. Enrollments are usually of 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student-teacher involvement.
1 to 3 semester hours
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SUST 510 - Fundamentals of Sustainability
CRSE Type: Unique Course
This course will examine the multifaceted dimensions of sustainability. Natural, social and economic systems will be explored for key relationships, factors and elements of sustainability. Students will acquire the necessary knowledge and tools needed to be change agents for a sustainable future.
3 semester hours
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SUST 520 - Science for Sustainability
CRSE Type: Unique Course
Science for Sustainability is a course designed to take a systems approach to analyze important science topics (solid and air pollution, the carbon cycle, water, energy, etc.) and their role in a sustainable future. Students enrolled in this course will develop a deeper understanding and an ability to describe in detail the scientific connections in each system and between different systems, in addition to the various economic and social factors that play important roles in working with these systems.
3 semester hours
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SUST 530 - Environmental Economics
CRSE Type: Unique Course
This course will evaluate the functioning of economic markets, and how public policy may improve economic and social welfare. The economic concepts developed in the course will be applied to current environmental and resource issues.
3 semester hours
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SUST 710 - Human Dimensions of Sustainability
CRSE Type: Unique Course
This course will explore both the individual and societal aspects of sustainability. It will examine the influence that human thought, action and technology has on a sustainable way of life. It will examine population trends, global consumption patterns, belief systems, social organizations, social norms, and social identities.
3 semester hours
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SUST 720 - Communication and Change
CRSE Type: Unique Course
This course instructs students in the art of effective communication. The theoretically driven course teaches students the key skills and techniques that can be used to actively produce meaningful change in individuals, groups, businesses, and communities in order to reach toward sustainability.
3 semester hours
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SUST 730 - Environmental Law and Policy
CRSE Type: Unique Course
The course will provide a framework for understanding the background and development of significant legal and policy decisions affecting the environmental regulation in the United States. Participants will gain an understanding of the core features of US environmental laws and regulations, developments in regulatory policy-making, the relationship between the national and state governments regarding environmental regulation, and the roles of key political interests in the policy-making process.
3 semester hours
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SUST 750 - Quantitative Methods in Sustainability
CRSE Type: Unique Course
Quantitative Methods in Sustainability will introduce students to analytical methods for sustainability (carbon footprint, polling and demographic analysis, etc.). In this class the students will gain the knowledge of various methods for the collection and analysis of data. The student will gain proficiency in these methods as well as the ability to communicate and utilize the results.
3 semester hours
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SUST 760 - Global Climate Change
CRSE Type: Unique Course
This course emphasizes the current status of climate change science and the impacts climate change is having on human society and biodiversity on a global scale. Participants will explore the cultural and societal implications of climate change, the impact that climate change has on biological diversity, as well as discuss why biological diversity is important to human culture and society. The different attitudes and responses to climate change will be explored, as well as how to discuss the topic with people from a wide range of opinions on the subject.
3 semester hours
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SUST 765 - Alternative Energy
CRSE Type: Unique Course
This course is designed to build the foundations of scientific knowledge for various types of alternative energy. Understanding of each type’s needed resources and waste management components will be explored, in addition to the social and political policies that surround them.
3 semester hours
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SUST 785 - Capstone
CRSE Type: Unique Course
The capstone project will showcase the student’s ability to address a real world issues or problem using the tools learned throughout the program. The project will use an interdisciplinary approach to build a proposed pathway to overcome the selected topic in a sustainable way. Students will have the opportunity to develop their ideas through group discussion and interaction before preparing an oral proposal of their intended project. Once approved, the student will work independently to build the project using the knowledge and tools gained in the program.
3 semester hours
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SUST 792 - Topics
CRSE Type: Common Course Number & Description
Courses dedicated to current topics, advanced topics and special topics in the area of sustainability. Course content is not wholly included in the regular program curriculum. Guest academically qualified experts may serve as instructors.
3 semester hours
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SUST 794 - Internship
CRSE Type: Common Course Number & Description
Applied, monitored and supervised, field-based learning experience for which the student may or may not be paid. Students gain practical experience; they follow a negotiated and or directed plan of study. A higher level of supervision is provided by the instructor in these courses that is the case with field experience. This course requires permission of the Instructor and Program Coordinator. Fees will be charged in addition to tuition and regular campus fees.
3 semester hours
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TECH 592 - Topics
CRSE Type: Common Course Number & Description
Includes Current Topics, Advanced Topics, and Special Topics. A course devoted to a particular issue in a specified field. Course content is not wholly included in the regular curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as instructors. Enrollments are usually of 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student-teacher involvement.
1 to 3 semester hours
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THEA 591 - Independent Study
CRSE Type: Common Course Number & Description
Includes directed study, problems, readings, directed readings, special problems and special projects. Students complete individualized plans of study which include significant one-on-one student-teacher involvement. The faculty member and students negotiate the details of the study plans. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. Meetings depending upon the requirements of the topic.
1 to 3 semester hours
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THEA 592 - Topics
CRSE Type: Common Course Number & Description
Includes Current Topics, Advanced Topics, and Special Topics. A course devoted to a particular issue in a specified field. Course content is not wholly included in the regular curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as instructors. Enrollments are usually of 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student-teacher involvement.
1 to 3 semester hours
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THM 501 - Ecotourism
CRSE Type: Unique Course
This provides a comprehensive analysis of ecological aspects of tourism activities through readings and case analysis of ecotourism research. The class will focus on the foundations of ecotourism; ecotourism behavior; impacts of natural environments; and marketing, management, development, and policy issues.
Additional Fee
An additional ‘Mandatory Fee’ applies to this course.
3 semester hours
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THM 510 - Tourism Management
CRSE Type: Unique Course
Concepts and meaning of administration, leadership, board and
executive relationships, and personnel policies related to
recreation, parks, and tourism areas and facilities within tourism
enterprises will be studied.
Additional Fee
An additional ‘Mandatory Fee’ applies to this course.
3 semester hours
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THM 520 - Services Marketing
CRSE Type: Unique Course
Seeks to develop an understanding of service as a product or
component of a product. The course provides students with the
opportunity to gain an appreciation for the unique challenges
inherent in marketing and managing service products. Topics include
service design and delivery, service quality and standards, and the
roles played by both service provider and customer, particularly in
the hospitality and tourism industry.
Additional Fee
An additional ‘Mandatory Fee’ applies to this course.
Prerequisite
BADM-370
3 semester hours
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THM 550 - Casino Management
CRSE Type: Unique Course
This course emphasizes the methods, procedures, and ethical
principles utilized in managing a casino operation. Gaming
regulations and taxes, mathematics of casino games, casino
management, and marketing are addressed.
Additional Fee
An additional ‘Mandatory Fee’ applies to this course.
3 semester hours
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THM 580 - Tourism Planning & Development
CRSE Type: Unique Course
This course will give special consideration to planning and
development, personnel organization and human relations, marketing,
and finance within tourism. Major topics include planning
approaches, regional planning, and community tourism planning.
Additional Fee
An additional ‘Mandatory Fee’ applies to this course.
3 semester hours
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THM 592 - Topics
CRSE Type: Common Course Number & Description
Includes Current Topics, Advanced Topics, and Special Topics. A course devoted to a particular issue in a specified field. Course content is not wholly included in the regular curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as instructors. Enrollments are usually of 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student-teacher involvement.
Additional Fee
An additional ‘Mandatory Fee’ applies to this course.
1 to 3 semester hours
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