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Courses

 
  

  • EDFN 575 - Human Relations


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    This course is designed to reflect the six strands of the human relations component as mandated by the South Dakota Board of Education. Students will develop expertise in listening and communicating to create a climate within the school environment that is more conducive to learning. The course is also designed to help the participants understand the community issues in education and to encourage the teachers to be more aware of ways to strengthen community involvement in the school. Another area that will be addressed is the dehumanizing impact of biases and negative stereotyping.
    3 semester hours

  

  • EDFN 595 - 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.
    1-3 semester hours

  

  • EDFN 790 - Seminar


    CRSE Type: Common Course Number & Description
    A highly focused, and topical course. The format includes student presentations and discussions of reports based on literature, practices, problems, and research. Seminars may be conducted over electronic media such as internet and are at the upper division graduate levels.
    Notes
    Enrollment is generally limited to few than 20 students.
    1 to 3 semester hours

  

  • EDFN 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.
    Notes
    Enrollments are usually of 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student/teacher involvement.
    1 to 3 semester hours

  

  • ELED 550 - K-8 Reading Methods


    CRSE Type: Common Course Number & Description
    This course will acquaint inservice teachers with the recent trends, issues, materials, and procedures considered essential for the effective teaching of reading. The course will focus on a variety of methods for the primary classroom as well as the intermediate and middle level classroom. Students will be able to review materials and make decisions about effective instruction that best meets the needs of today’s diverse classroom environment.
    2 semester hours

  

  • ELED 593 - Workshop


    CRSE Type: Common Course Number & Description
    Special, intense sessions in specific topic areas. Approximately 45 hours of work is required for each hour of credit. Workshops may vary in time range but typically use a compressed time period for delivery. They may include lectures, conferences, committee work, and group activity.
    1 to 3 semester hours

  

  • ELED 659 - Diagnosis and Remediation of Reading Difficulties


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    This is a practical course in which the student is directed toward acquiring specific skills that will enable a teacher to diagnose reading problems and develop activities to correct them.
    3 semester hours

  

  • ENGL 509 - Teaching English as a Second Language


    CRSE Type: Common Course Number & Description
    This course prepares teachers to teach English to those whose native language is not English.
    3 semester hours

  

  • ENGL 511 - Biblical Literature


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    A study of the Bible as literature. It examines the Bible as a work of art within its historical and philosophical context.
    3 semester hours

  

  • ENGL 550 - The American Novel


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    Study of the growth of the novel as a form in American Literature.
    3 semester hours

  

  • ENGL 566 - The Modern Novel


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    A study of the development of the modern novel and intensive study of selected representative modern works.
    3 semester hours

  

  • ENGL 583 - Creative Writing


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    Principles and techniques of writing for publication are studied. Supervised practice is given in original creative composition.
    3 semester hours

  

  • ENGL 590 - Seminar


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    A highly focused and topical course. The format includes student presentations and discussions of reports based on literature, practices, problems, and research. Seminars may be conducted over electronic media such as Internet and are at the upper division or graduate levels.
    Notes
    Enrollment is generally limited to fewer than twenty (20) students.
    3 semester hours

  

  • ENGL 591 - Independent Study


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    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. This course requires permission of the Instructor and/or College Dean.
    1 to 3 semester hours

  

  • ENGL 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.
    Notes
    Enrollments are usually of 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student/teacher involvement.
    1 to 3 semester hours

  

  • ENTR 506 - Accounting for Entrepreneurs


    CRSE Type: Common Course Number & Description
    Accounting concepts and practices for entrepreneurs/small business owners. Emphasis given to the use of accounting tools to solve small business problems.
    3 semester hours

  

  • ENTR 538 - Entrepreneurship II


    CRSE Type: Common Course Number & Description
    This course focuses on the processing of screening an opportunity, drafting a personal entrepreneurial strategy, and understanding the business plan writing process. Building the entrepreneurial team and the acquisition and management of financial resources are emphasized along with venture growth, harvest strategies, and valuation.
    3 semester hours

  

  • EPSY 528 - Child & Adolescent Development


    CRSE Type: Common Course Number & Description
    An overview of human physiological, psychological, and social changes occurring from birth throughout adolescence with emphasis on the developmental characteristics of elementary, middle, and secondary level learners.
    Cross-listed
    (Also offered as EPSY-428)

    2-3 semester hours

  

  • HIST 565 - Westward Expansion of the U.S.


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    A study of the role of The West in American History from the founding of the colonies through 1900. Special areas of emphasis are the territorial expansion of the U.S., the various frontier developments; transportation, the transformation of the wilderness into statehood, the influence of the frontier in shaping the American character and the role of the West in national policies.
    3 semester hours

  

  • HIST 576 - South Dakota: History, Politics & Geography


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    A historical, political and geographical study of South Dakota.
    3 semester hours

  

  • HIST 590 - Seminar


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    A highly focused, and topical course. The format includes student presentations and discussions of reports based on literature, practices, problems, and research. Seminars may be conducted over electronic media such as Internet and are at the upper division or graduate levels.
    Notes
    Enrollment is generally limited to fewer than twenty (20) students.
    1 to 3 semester hours

  

  • HIST 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 no wholly included in the regular curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as instructors.
    Notes
    Enrollments are usually of 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student/teacher involvement.
    1 to 4 semester hours

  

  • HIST 768 - Local History Social Studies for Teachers


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    This course will combine the history of the Black Hills and surrounding regions and the development of programs, projects, and teaching aids for historical studies in the elementary and secondary school.
    3 semester hours

  

  • HIST 791 - 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.
    Notes
    Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. Meetings depending upon the requirements of the topic.
    1 to 6 semester hours

  

  • HIST 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 no wholly included in the regular curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as instructors.
    Notes
    Enrollments are usually of 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student/teacher involvement.
    1 to 3 semester hours

  

  • HRM 556 - Employment Law and Policy


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    This course reviews the precepts of equal employment law as they relate to the various functions of human resource management. These include state and federal statutes, amendments, court discussions and agency regulations; affirmative action programs; reverse discrimination; and other issues of discrimination law.
    Additional Fee
    An additional ‘Mandatory Fee’ applies to this course.

    3 semester hours

  

  • HRM 559 - Personnel Planning & Selection


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    This course involves the examination of the theories and techniques guiding personnel planning and selection. Students develop expertise in determining staffing needs, conducting job analyses, writing job descriptions, and developing recruiting strategies.
    Additional Fee
    An additional ‘Mandatory Fee’ applies to this course.

    Prerequisite
    HRM-417
    3 semester hours

  

  • HRM 565 - Compensation Management


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    Emphasis will be placed on the development and administration of equitable compensation and benefit programs. Examined are job evaluation techniques, pay structures, salary surveys, individual and group compensation systems, executive pay, and benefits administration. Students will also be introduced to computer applications in compensation management.
    Additional Fee
    An additional ‘Mandatory Fee’ applies to this course.

    Prerequisite
    HRM-417
    3 semester hours

  

  • HRM 568 - Negotiations & Conflict/Dispute Resolution


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    This course explores negotiation and conflict dispute resolution techniques and practices in interpersonal, work-related, community, business, and international settings. Topics include the various forms of alternative dispute resolution: negotiation, arbitration, mediation, early neutral evaluation, mini-trial, etc. The course provides guidance in handling the inevitable disputes that arise in the operation of every enterprise and in one’s day to day interactions.
    Additional Fee
    An additional ‘Mandatory Fee’ applies to this course.

    3 semester hours

  

  • INED 511 - South Dakota Indian Studies


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    An introduction to the concept and the methods of biculturalism in Indian education and their application to other culturally different groups. The course is designed to meet requirements in American Indian studies for South Dakota certification.
    3 semester hours

  

  • LIBM 508 - Collection Development


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    A study of theories and practical aspects of print and electronic collection development and management for libraries. Includes library assessment, selection, evaluation, and policy making.
    Cross-listed
    Dual Listed with LIBM 408

    2 semester hours

  

  • LIBM 543 - Cataloging and Classification


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    Students will learn the tools and techniques employed in the organization of information for library use. Covers the theory and application of basic principles and concepts of descriptive cataloging, the Dewey Decimal and Library of Congress classification systems, Sears and the Library of Congress Subject Headings. Provides the use of OCLC instruction; representative problems and practice.
    Cross-listed
    Dual-listed with LIBM 443.

    3 semester hours

  

  • LIBM 595 - Practicum


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    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.
    Cross-listed
    Dual-listed with LIBM 495.

    2 semester hours

  

  • MATH 581 - Probability and Statistics


    CRSE Type: Common Course Number & Description
    Algebra of sets; sample spaces, random variables; distributing functions; distribution of random variables; and limiting distributions.
    Cross-listed
    (Also offered as STAT 581)

    Prerequisite
    MATH-225
    3 semester hours

  

  • MATH 587 - Design of Experiments


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    The course will include topics fundamental to the design and analysis of experiments. Included in these will be: the importance of randomization in design, one- and multiple- factor ANOVAs, the use of response transformation, a fixed and random factor, blocking the ANOVA design, unbalanced design, and simple and multi- linear regression. The use of software to carry out analyses will be emphasized.
    3 semester hours

  

  • MATH 792 - Topics


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    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.
    Notes
    Enrollments are usually of 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student/teacher involvement.
    1 to 4 semester hours

  

  • MCOM 590 - Seminar


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    Highly focused, and topical course. The format includes student presentations and discussions of reports based on literature, practices, problems, and research. Seminars may be conducted over electronic media such as Internet and are at the upper division or graduate levels. Enrollment is generally limited to fewer than twenty (20) students.
    3 semester hours

  

  • MCOM 591 - Independent Study


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    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. This course requires permission of the Instructor and/or College Dean.
    1 to 4 semester hours

  

  • MGMT 605 - Law and Ethics


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    An examination of core legal principles as it relates to business transactions.  The course will place emphasis on current legal issues and trends in business and will identify the legal parameters necessary for managerial decision making.  Specific case studies in ethics and values, including developing reasoning skills to recognize and respond to challenges facing the business environment will be reviewed.
    3 semester hours

  

  • MGMT 610 - Applied Management


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    This foundation course examines cutting-edge management principles and practices.  An understanding of the importance of relationships with stakeholders, the decision-making tools necessary for today’s executives, and the appropriate skill set to manage efficiently and effectively in today’s global arena will be developed.
    3 semester hours

  

  • MGMT 620 - Applied Organizational Behavior


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    Organizational Behavior is an academic field of study that applies social science theories and methods to the study of human behavior in organizations.  Human Resources is the applied business specialty that administers programs and services designed to attract, develop, motivate and retain a superior workforce.  Amost all HR activities are rooted in theories and research methods drawn from the interdisciplinary field of Organizational Behavior.  This class is a graduate survey of current Human Resource Management practices described in the context of their theoretical origins.  Sample subject matter includes employee selection using psychological theories of individual differences, compensation and motivation, employee development and theories of adult learning.
    3 semester hours

  

  • MGMT 630 - Management and Leadership


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    This course presents an overview of leadership as it relates to staff supervision.  It is organized around four themes common to human resource management: motivation theories and proactive management strategies; policies and procedures for recruiting, rewarding, and transitions; staff development and training; and personnel problem solving and conflict resolution.  To breathe real life into the course, case studies are used to illustrate lessons learned from those on the ground.
    3 semester hours

  

  • MGMT 650 - Marketing: Establishing Presence and Demand


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    Students will learn the process of developing an integrated marketing program taking into consideration the consumer, the trade, the competition and regulatory environment.  Emphasis will be placed on the marketing concept, the marketing mix, segmentation, positioning, and product/market evolution.
    3 semester hours

  

  • MGMT 670 - Advanced Business Finance


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    Advanced Business Finance is an in-depth study or the role that capital acquisition plays in the decision-making processes of managers.  The course provides a framework for analyzing the major types of financial decisions made by businesses in a way that will maximize the market value of the firm.  Many of the advances in financial theory are based on the interaction between corporate decision making and capital markets behavior.  The issues underlying the theory of finance are therefore of considerable relevance to analysts working in the capital markets.
    3 semester hours

  

  • MGMT 710 - Linking Business to Global Markets


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    The world economy is increasingly advancing toward a global economy, and concurrently business is increasingly becoming international business.  It is therefore imperative that all managers be well informed on the field of international business.  By means of lectures, case study analysis, discussions and applied research, this course examines international economic, institutional, cultural and legal differences and analyzes their impact on business decisions including:  product design, production and marketing, human resources strategy; investment analysis; ethical issues; financial strategy and risk management.
    3 semester hours

  

  • MGMT 720 - Managerial Decision and Control


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    This course will apply current accounting concepts and theories to issues that are likely to confront individuals in management positions.
    3 semester hours

  

  • MGMT 730 - Economics: Insights and Applications


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    This course will apply economic theory to issues that are likely to confront individuals in managerial positions.
    3 semester hours

  

  • MGMT 740 - Using Technologies for Competitive Edge


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    Business professionals must take advantage of the rapidly changing capabilities of information technology to attain a competitive edge in the global business environment.  This course discusses both the technical and managerial issues related to the acquisition, deployment, evaluation, and evolution of organizational and inter-organizational information systems.  It provides an exposure to decision support systems, e-business, knowledge management, enterprise resource planning, database and data warehousing technologies, telecommunications, and Internet technology and applications.  The course builds on the conceptual framework and skills necessary to analyze business processes and systems, leverage IT resources to accomplish strategic goals of the organization, and identify IT related opportunities and challenges such as the offshore outsourcing of IT applications.
    3 semester hours

  

  • MGMT 750 - Strategic Planning: Mapping the Future


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    This course requires the application of strategic know-how (concepts, principles, techniques) using the case-study approach.  Knowledge and skills learned in previous courses are re-examined and managerial skills necessary to transform companies into sustainable, ethical, and profitable entities are further developed.
    3 semester hours

  

  • MGMT 760 - Applied Management Science


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    This course covers fundamental quantitative methods for business decision making, problem formulation and analysis and use of management science tools.  Topics include Optimization (including linear and integer programming), waiting line analysis, computer simulation and decision analysis.  To facilitate the practical application of these management science techniques, spreadsheets and spreadsheet add-ins will be emphasized.
    3 semester hours

  

  • MGMT 794 - Capstone Experience: Theory to Practice Internship


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    This capstone course provides an integrated field experience for the MBA in Applied Management participant.  Knowledge, skills, and management decision making capabilities developed or enhanced in the program will be applied at the participant’s work site.  The on-site supervisor and the Internship Coordinator will conduct a performance evaluation at the participant’s place of work.  Written papers will enable the participant to reflect on the entire MBA in Applied Management program.
    3 semester hours

  

  • MLED 573 - Principles & Practices of Teaching in Middle School


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    The course is designed to provide a bridge between knowledge of subject matter and the classroom teaching behaviors that successfully transmit that knowledge to younger adolescents. The focus of the course will be instructional design as it applies to learning environments for transcendents and the integrated delivery of that instruction in the content area classroom.
    3 semester hours

  

  • MLED 578 - Guiding the Adolescent Learner


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    This course is designed to investigate techniques that foster academic, social and emotional growth of the transient learner. The focus of the course will be on identifying, observing, and recording the behavior of early adolescents to assess their learning styles and developmental patterns in order to plan for an appropriate learning environment.
    2 semester hours

  

  • MLED 580 - Middle Level Methods


    CRSE Type: Common Course Number & Description
    This course introduces students to a wide variety of instructional methods that are responsive to unique development needs and characteristics of middle school students. The course also addresses learning styles and strategies that are especially effective for teaching middle school students with special needs and for teaching middle school students from diverse cultural backgrounds.
    2 semester hours

  

  • MLED 593 - Workshop


    CRSE Type: Common Course Number & Description
    Special, intense sessions in specific topic areas. Approximately 45 hours of work is required for each hour of credit. Workshops may vary in time range but typically use a compressed time period for delivery. They may include lectures, conferences, committee work, and group activity.
    1 to 3 semester hours

  

  • MLED 688 - Student Teaching


    CRSE Type: Common Course Number & Description
    Students preparing for teaching in PK-12 schools will observe, participate, and teach under the supervision of the regular classroom teacher in an approved elementary and/or secondary school.
    1-8 semester hours

  

  • MLED 695 - Practicum


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    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.
    Notes
    This course requires permission of the Instructor and/or College Dean.
    Registration Restriction
    Admitted to Teacher
    1 semester hours

  

  • MUS 591 - Independent Study


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    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.
    Notes
    This course requires permission of the Instructor and/or College Dean. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. Meetings depending upon the requirements of the topic.
    1 to 3 semester hours

  

  • MUS 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.
    Notes
    Enrollments are usually of 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student-teacher involvement.
    1 to 5 semester hours

  

  • PHSI 792 - Topics


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    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.
    Notes
    Enrollments are usually of 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student-teacher involvement.
    1 to 3 semester hours

  

  • PHYS 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.
    1-3 semester hours

  

  • POLS 576 - History of South Dakota


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    Examines the history of South Dakota’s physical environment, Native American presence, European settlement, economic developments, political institutions and social life.
    3 semester hours

  

  • POLS 792 - Topics


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    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.
    Notes
    Enrollments are usually of 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student-teacher involvement.
    1 to 3 semester hours

  

  • PSYC 522 - Psychology of Adolescence


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    The student will learn to understand the major influences of adolescent development and behavior including biological, cultural, educational, peer, and family influences. Emphasis will also be placed on methodology necessary to aid adolescents in their development.
    Cross-listed
    (Also offered as PSYC 422)

    3 semester hours

  

  • PSYC 632 - Psychology of Leadership


    CRSE Type: Unique Course

    This course provides the application of the theories of personality development and its impact on leadership styles including theories of motivation, change management, communication, group dynamics, and leadership/power.
    3 semester hours

  

  • SCI 588 - Biological Application of Remote Sensing


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    In this class students will learn how to use geographical information systems and apply these techniques to landscape, regional, and global ecology.
    Prerequisite

    3 semester hours

  

  • SCI 592 - Topics


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    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.
    Notes
    Enrollments are usually of 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student-teacher involvement.
    Prerequisite

    1 to 3 semester hours

  

  • SCI 792 - Topics


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    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.
    Notes
    Enrollments are usually of 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student-teacher involvement.
    1 to 3 semester hours

  

  • SEED 508 - Planning, Managing & Assessing the 7-12 Diverse Classroom


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    Students use a variety of teaching methods, including educational technology, classroom management techniques, and learning & assessment strategies to become effective teachers in the 7-12 diverse classrooms.  Integrated into this course is field-based experience where students observe, generate and deliver plans of instruction for diverse populations.
    3 semester hours

  

  • SEED 550 - Reading and Content Literacy


    CRSE Type: Common Course Number and Description

    This course explores methods for teaching middle and high school students to read, write, think, and learn in ways that allow them to master the subject matter and meaningfully apply their understanding.  Participants learn to plan lessons that teach content and nurture greater literacy.  Pre-, during-, and post-reading strategies and writing strategies are explored, along with assessment methods that give students a continual view of their literacy progress and achievement.  Classroom adaptations for culturally and linguistically diverse populations in the content areas are also addressed.

     
    Cross-listed
    SEED-450

    3 semester hours

  

  • SEED 593 - Workshop


    CRSE Type: Common Course Number & Description
    Special, intense sessions in specific topic areas. Approximately 45 hours of work is required for each hour of credit. Workshops may vary in time range but typically use a compressed time period for delivery. They may include lectures, conferences, committee work, and group activity.
    1 to 3 semester hours

  

  • SEED 650 - Teaching and Supervision of Literacy in The Content Area


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    The purpose of this course is to provide graduate students with the necessary expertise to assist teachers of middle and secondary education to develop effective reading and writing strategies for use in the content classrooms. The participants will be asked to reflect on effective student learning processes, to develop and deliver curriculum that supports an integrated learning approach and to design both formal and informal assessment and evaluation techniques that support both process and product learning.
    3 semester hours

  

  • SEED 688 - Student Teaching


    CRSE Type: Common Course Number & Description
    Students preparing for teaching in PK-12 schools will observe, participate, and teach under the supervision of the regular classroom teacher in an approved elementary and/or secondary school.
    1-8 semester hours

  

  • SEED 741 - 7-12 Curriculum & Instruction


    CRSE Type: Common Course Number & Description
    Exploration of topics influencing curricular decisions.  Experiences in planning and designing secondary school curricula with a focus on instruction and assessment.
    3 semester hours

  

  • SLDR 610 - Crisis Leadership


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    This course will focus on relevant theories and models relating to crisis leadership and emergency management.  Topics include leadership versus management issues, diagnosing threats versus risks, distinctions between crisis events, situational awareness, critical incident tier structures, assessment and planning, media control, critical incident stress management and debriefings, conflict and crisis communication/negotiating resolutions.
    3 semester hours

  

  • SLDR 620 - The Policy and Practice of Crisis Leadership and Emergency Management


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    This course will focus on developing effective policies and industry standard practices for crisis leadership and emergency management.  Topics include the inevitability of crises, relevant theories of leadership in crises, history and paradigms of emergency management, inter- and intra-agency conflict, all-hazard approaches to crisis leadership, the National Incident Management System (NIMS), the Incident Command System (ICS), and the National Response Framework.
    3 semester hours

  

  • SLDR 630 - Human Factors in Crisis Leadership


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    This course will focus on human factors relating to crisis leadership.  Topics include defining and differentiating operational roles in response to critical incidents, the impact of critical incidents and trauma, critical incident debriefings, the role of social and group dynamics, and the need for preparation, planning, ongoing training and exercises to address human factors related to the development and implementation of organizational tactics, techniques, and procedures related to leading people during crisis.
    3 semester hours

  

  • SLDR 640 - Applications of Crisis Leadership and Emergency Management


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    This course will focus on the application of crisis leadership to specific critical incidents relating to terrorism and homeland security, transportation disasters, natural and manmade catastrophies, technology disasters, workplace and schoolhouse violence situations, hostage situations, and other critical incidents.  The student will be required to develop and implement applications and approaches to critical incidents that include the elements of prediction, prevention, mitigation, preparedness, response, and post-response (recovery).  Topics include the role of training and exercises (tabletop and field), operations orders, continuity of operations, and crisis management planning.
    3 semester hours

  

  • SLDR 695 - Practicum


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    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.
    3 semester hours

  

  • SLDR 710 - Leadership and Innovation: Lessons Learned


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    Creative and innovative solutions using examples from history to explore leadership styles used to address and/or change organizational situations will be explored. Students examine historical leaders to uncover personal attributes, qualities, and characteristics that prove to be successful when leading others.
    3 semester hours

  

  • SLDR 728 - Levels of Leadership


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    Analyzes the levels of leadership necessary to transform contemporary and futuristic organizations. Students examine the psychological implications of the differences between managing and leading. Discussions will address the development of effective leaders who are able to transform organizations now and in the future. As a result of this course, students construct a personal leadership plan that includes accountability measures to reflect on their individual effectiveness.
    3 semester hours

  

  • SLDR 740 - Leading Change: Ethics and Social Responsibility


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    Recent studies of leadership suggest that organizations and political units require strong leaders who understand and adhere to ethical standards. The future of US society may depend in part upon persons who are capable of providing ethical, as well as strong, leadership. It is necessary that leaders understand their position imposes an obligation to adhere to ethical standards in all components of leadership. These components include, but not are limited to: communication, inspiration, collaboration, facilitation, manipulation, and even coercion.
    3 semester hours

  

  • SLDR 748 - Social Change and Diversity


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    Examines social changes throughout history as explained by classical and contemporary theorists and applies such theories to current social changes. Students explore the impact of a diverse workforce on leadership practices and decision making while they examine new organizational structures that embrace diversity and a multi-cultural workforce.
    3 semester hours

  

  • SLDR 752 - Strategic and Analytical Decision Making


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    This 3 credit hour course will introduce the student to techniques for the collection, identification, analysis and display of strategic data.  The course will include the use and application of descriptive and inferential statistics, the ethical conduct of research, and the strategic importance of data to contemporary leadership and decision-making.  The students will complete statistical problem sets and evaluate case studies for the strategic use of statistics.  Students will be assigned to work in teams to develop a case study for an organization that demonstrates the concepts learned in the class.  The results of this case study work will be presented by the team to the class at the end of the semster.
    3 semester hours

  

  • SLDR 770 - Visioning: Strategic Planning


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    This is the capstone course for the M.S. in Strategic Leadership. The course builds on prior coursework and further develops the visioning and strategic decision-making skills necessary to effectively lead a 21st century organization. Emphasis is placed on the development and execution of strategy. Extensive case analysis is used as the primary method of instruction. The course culminates in the development of a strategic plan in which students synthesize the knowledge and experiences of the M.S. in Strategic Leadership program, including coursework, practicum, and mentoring opportunities.
    3 semester hours

  

  • SLDR 775 - Mentoring


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    Mentoring serves as the final field experience. Designed as a learning opportunity, students select a mentee in their organizational context (military, business, governmental, or non-governmental organization, etc…) where they will serve as a mentor.  During this experience, the student explores ways to assess their mentee’s strengths, guide self evaluation of leadership in the mentee, and provide guidance and support to improve development.  Students will also study critical elements for designing, developing, and implementing mentoring programs.



    3 semester hours

  

  • SOC 514 - Social Thought


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    A brief survey of the history and development of the world’s most important social theories and schools of social thought, evaluated in light of present knowledge.
    3 semester hours

  

  • SOC 540 - Urban Sociology


    CRSE Type: Common Course Number & Description
    A study of the urban community, focusing on its development, social structures and institutional patterns.
    Prerequisite
    SOC-100 or SOC-150
    3 semester hours

  

  • SOC 583 - Sociology of Gender Roles


    CRSE Type: Common Course Number & Description
    Female and male roles in relation to another in a changing world are foci of this course. The nature of gender roles, their origin and maintenance, institutional features, and their variations over time and across cultures are examined.
    Prerequisite
    SOC-100 or SOC-150
    3 semester hours

  

  • SOC 791 - Independent Study


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    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.
    Notes
    Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. Meetings depending upon the requirements of the topic.
    1 to 3 semester hours

  

  • SOC 792 - Topics


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    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.
    Notes
    Enrollments are usually of 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student-teacher involvement.
    1 to 3 semester hours

  

  • SPCM 505 - Theories of Communication


    CRSE Type: Common Course Number & Description
    Examines communication theories and philosophies, emphasizing clarification through theory of daily communication processes, and relating theory to traditional and developing research methods.
    3 semester hours

  

  • SPCM 510 - Organizational Communication


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    An array of theories explaining how and why humans live in organizations has developed in the last century. These schools of thought are critically examined on their own merits as well as in respect to our own experiences living in organizations.
    3 semester hours

  

  • SPCM 534 - Small Group Communication


    CRSE Type: Common Course Number & Description
    A study of prominent concepts and theories of human interaction in small groups grounded in the student’s experience in classroom exercises. Critical assessments of communication strategies in task, social, and therapeutic groups are cultivated.
    3 semester hours

  

  • SPCM 566 - Principles of Rhetoric


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    This course is a consideration of the grounds of effective oral and written discourse. It examines rhetorical theories throughout history with a view to constructing a practical synthesis applicable to personal life, teaching careers and communication-oriented vocations.
    3 semester hours

  

  • SPCM 591 - Independent Study


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    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.
    Notes
    Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. Meetings depending upon the requirements of the topic.
    1 to 3 semester hours

  

  • SPED 505 - Educating Secondary Students with Disabilities


    CRSE Type: Common Course Number & Description
    An introduction to the entire field of education for children with exceptional needs and is required by all middle school and secondary school majors. Students will identify etiology, classification, and educational programming practices for individuals with any identified disabilities. Students will also determine which local, state, and national administrative and legislative provisions support children with these conditions. Computerized IEP forms and other productivity tools will be reviewed.
    1 to 3 semester hours

  

  • SPED 510 - Behavior Management of Exceptional Child


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    This course serves as a general introduction to behavior modification, contingency management, and reinforcement theory. Students will develop techniques to use in observing and recording behaviors. Practice is given in applying intervention techniques to the acceleration and deceleration of behavior of groups and individuals. The student will be expected to use the Internet and library research tools for the development of research papers.
    3 semester hours

  

  • SPED 513 - Serving Students with MR, SS, and Severe Disabilities


    CRSE Type: Common Course Number & Description
    Examination of the functional academic, social/emotional, and daily living skill needs of children evidencing moderate/secure learning problems and/or evidencing significant physical/health problems. In depth studies of functional curriculum development, design of instructional strategies, adaptation and accommodation issues, and integration in inclusive settings will be undertaken.
    3 semester hours

  

  • SPED 520 - K-12 Curriculum and Instructional Strategies


    CRSE Type: Unique Course
    The course will review various curriculum guides and materials used in the instruction of individuals with exceptional needs. Adaptation of regular materials to the individual learner will be presented. Students will develop a year-long curriculum guide and unit/lesson plans based on that guide. The student will use alternative technologies in class presentation 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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