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PSED 6002 - Neuro-education: Appl. of Research on Brain & Learning in K-12 Classroom
Using what we know about the brain and learning (neuro-education) can transform educational practice. Participants will learn content, practices and strategies drawn from neuroscience research that support optimal learning. Focus will be on applications in K-12 settings, but the course will benefit persons who work with learners of all ages and is intended for teachers, instructional coaches, trainers, and administrators who develop others.
Credits: 3
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PSED 6003 - Students at Risk: A Practical Examination of At-Risk Secondary Students
Examines culture and concerns about the education of at-risk middle and high school students. Discusses data analysis in literacy, socio-economics, and early indicators of potential drop-outs. Participants will create templates for programs to be used in the secondary setting to combat low student achievement and poor attendance rates and will use research-based practices and strategies to improve high school graduation rates.
Credits: 3
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PSED 6501 - Special Topics in Leadership and School Improvement
Topical offerings in leadership and school improvement.
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSED 6502 - Special Topics in School Program Assessment
Topical offerings in school program assessment.
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSED 6503 - Special Topics in Curriculum, Instruction, and Classroom Assessment
Topical offerings in curriculum, instruction, and classroom assessment.
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSED 6504 - Special Topics in Adult Education
Topical offerings in adult education.
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSED 6505 - Special Topics in Classroom Community, Student Success, and Special Needs
Topical offerings in classroom community, student success, and special needs.
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSED 6506 - Special Topics in Legal and Personnel Issues
Topical offerings in legal and personnel issues.
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSED 6507 - Special Topics in Science Instruction
Topical offerings in science education
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSED 6508 - Special Topics in Mathematics Instruction
Topical offerings in mathematics instruction.
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSED 6509 - Special Topics in Social Studies Instruction
Topical offerings in social studies instruction.
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSED 6510 - Special Topics in English Instruction
Topical offerings in English instruction.
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSED 6511 - Special Topics in Reading Instruction
Topical offerings in reading instruction.
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSED 6512 - Special Topics in Visual Arts
Topical offerings in visual arts.
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSED 6513 - Special Topics in Music, Dance, and Drama
Topical offerings in music, dance, and drama.
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSED 6514 - Special Topics in Foreign Language and ESOL Instruction
Topical offerings in foreign language and ESOL instruction
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSED 6515 - Special Topics in Library Media Specialist
Topical offerings in library media specialist issues.
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSED 6516 - Special Topics in Early Childhood Education and Human Development
Topical offerings in early childhood education and human development
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSED 6517 - Special Topics in Children’s Literature
Topical offerings in children’s literature.
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSED 6518 - Special Topics in Using Technology for Teaching and Learning
Topical offerings in using technology for teaching and learning.
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSED 6519 - Special Topics in Higher Education
Topical offerings in higher education.
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSED 6520 - Special Topics:
Special Topics:
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSED 6521 - Special Topics in Education
Topical Offerings in Education
Credits: 1 to 3
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Professional Studies-Education Web-Based |
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PSEW 6100 - Intro. to Lesson Planning, Research and Collaborative Tools for eTeachers
Focuses on increasing proficiency in the use of technology to engage and inspire students. Encourages students to integrate technology by modeling best practices, gaining an understanding of millennial students, and designing a lesson. Encourages collaboration within the learning community.
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSEW 6101 - Practical Applications and Sustained Support for 21st Century eTeaching
Guides participants through experiences that encourage them to practice and apply skills with the support of a collaborative, professional learning community (PLC). Encourages participants to develop sophisticated, technology-rich lessons and learning modules, while learning how to sustain instructional changes by leveraging the support of their PLC.
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSEW 6102 - 21st Century eTeacher Project-Based Technology Skills
Focuses on project-based learning with student-centered instruction. Increases proficiency in the use of digital media for instruction.
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSEW 6103 - Facilitating Online Professional Development Practicum
Explores developing facilitation skills, learning to set tone, finding an online voice, understanding the basics of assessment in new environments, and stimulates productive learner interaction. Develops skills to facilitate asynchronous online learning using a Course Management System/Learning Management System (CMS/LMS).
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSEW 6104 - 21st Century eTeaching: “Technologizing” Your Instruction
Increases proficiency in the use of technology to engage and inspire students. Learn how to integrate technology across grades and subjects modeling best practice as identified by national standards. Gain an understanding of the behavior and learning styles of millennial students as they plan and design a lesson that implements best practices.
Credits: 1
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PSEW 6501 - Special Topics in Leadership & School Improvement
Special Topics in Leadership & School Improvement
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSEW 6502 - Special Topics in School Program Assessment
Special Topics in School Program Assessment
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSEW 6503 - Special Topics in Curriculum, Instruction, and Classroom Assessment
Special Topics in Curriculum, Instruction, and Classroom Assessment
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSEW 6504 - Special Topics in Adult Education
Special Topics in Adult Education
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSEW 6505 - Special Topics in Classroom Community, Student Success, and Special Needs
Special Topics in Classroom Community, Student Success, and Special Needs
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSEW 6506 - Special Topics in Legal and Personnel Issues
Special Topics in Legal and Personnel Issues
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSEW 6507 - Special Topics in Science Instruction
Special Topics in Science Instruction
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSEW 6508 - Special Topics in Mathematics Instruction
Special Topics in Mathematics Instruction
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSEW 6509 - Special Topics in Social Studies Instruction
Special Topics in Social Studies Instruction
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSEW 6510 - Special Topics in English Instruction
Special Topics in English Instruction
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSEW 6511 - Special Topics in Reading Instruction
Special Topics in Reading Instruction
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSEW 6512 - Special Topics in Visual Arts
Special Topics in Visual Arts
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSEW 6513 - Special Topics in Music, Dance, and Drama
Special Topics in Music, Dance, and Drama
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSEW 6514 - Special Topics in Foreign Language and ESOL Instruction
Special Topics in Foreign Language and ESOL Instruction
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSEW 6515 - Special Topics in Library Media Specialist
Special Topics in Library Media Specialist
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSEW 6516 - Special Topics in Early Childhood Education and Human Development
Special Topics in Early Childhood Education and Human Development
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSEW 6517 - Special Topics in Children’s Literature
Special Topics in Children’s Literature
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSEW 6518 - Special Topics in Using Technology for Teaching and Learning
Special Topics in Using Technology for Teaching and Learning
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSEW 6519 - Special Topics in Higher Education
Special Topics in Higher Education
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSEW 6520 - Special Topics:
Special Topics:
Credits: 1 to 3
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Professional Studies-Leadership Skills |
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PSLS 5001 - Leadership for Experienced Supervisors
Leadership for Experienced Supervisors
Credits: 2
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PSLS 5002 - Group Supervisors’ Leadership Institute
Reviews first-level leadership, leadership styles, effective writing, situational leadership, conflict management, teamwork, collaboration, and strategic planning. Provides the basic skills and behaviors necessary to perform the responsibilities of the supervisor’s role. Examines major differences between management and leadership, and the techniques necessary to perform both effectively.
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSLS 5003 - Leadership Skills for Experienced Supervisors
Examines first-level leadership, styles of leadership, and situational leadership. Covers effective writing, conflict management, teamwork, collaboration and strategic planning.
Credits: 2
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PSLS 5004 - Leadership Skills for New Managers
Enhances the skills of new managers through curriculum that focuses on influence management, generational differences, creativity and innovation, and collaboration.
Credits: 2
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PSLS 5005 - Leadership Skills for Experienced Managers I
Provides the knowledge and fundamentals of theory for the advanced role of the manager. Focuses on the paradoxes of executive leadership, building coalitions, and developing a vision for their organization.
Credits: 2
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PSLS 5006 - Leadership Skills for Experienced Managers II
Builds on the initial course for experienced managers to include theory and practice related to power thinking, high performance, and the strategies of outstanding leaders.
Credits: 2
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Professional Studies-MT |
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PSMT 6010 - eMarketing Tools and Techniques
Explores how to use integrated web, email and database technologies in pre-built, personalized marketing campaigns to acquire and retain customers. Demonstrates practical skills by developing effective email offer letters and landing pages, and by using web analytics tools, search engine marketing strategies, webinars and online surveys to accomplish eMarketing objectives.
Credits: 3
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PSMT 6020 - Strategic Database Marketing
Explores ways to identify, retain, and build customer loyalty to generate sales that drive higher profits to the bottom line. Explores how to use databases to deliver these results. Includes such topics as database design, data warehouses, data mining, and marketing techniques such as customer lifetime value, and recency-frequency-monetary analysis.
Credits: 3
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PSMT 6030 - Customer Relationship Management
Studies Customer Relationship Management (CRM) technologies and strategies. Reviews various business approaches for managing all aspects of the customer lifecycle across the Internet and off-line channels.
Credits: 3
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PSMT 6040 - Legal Aspects of eMarketing
Studies how the Internet, along with its success and growth, faces pressure from consumer groups and government regulators. Examines trends in eMarketing laws and regulations, as well as techniques to comply with legal and regulatory requirements of eMarketing.
Credits: 3
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PSMT 6050 - Web Marketing: Building Awareness on the Internet
Applies marketing principles and best practices in an Internet environment. Uses case studies and extensive online research evaluating practical Web-based marketing communication strategies, including banner ads, search engine keyword campaigns, online public relations, content providers, and other online media.
Credits: 3
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PSMT 6070 - Social and New Media eMarketing
Explores how new media is being used to create relationships, market products and services, engage key audiences, create brand awareness, and drive loyalty. Covers techniques such as social networking, wiki’s, widgets, blogging, podcasting, webcasting, social bookmarking, mobile marketing, and mashups.
Credits: 3
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PSMT 6071 - Social Media Marketing Strategies
Provides an in-depth study of Web 2.0 social media marketing strategies. Provides insight on using social media tools such as Facebook, Twitter, Blogging, and Youtube to reach target audiences in the business, non-profit, government, and political sectors.
Credits: 3
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PSMT 6080 - Mobile Marketing Strategies
Provides an understanding of mobile marketing strategies, as well as practical knowledge of how to implement mobile marketing campaigns. Includes building a mobile web site, creating text message campaigns, other mobile methods such as QR codes, and integrating mobile campaigns within the marketing mix.
Credits: 3
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PSPA 5000 - Intro to Public Administration
Provides students with an overview of the theory and practice of public administration. Covers topics such as the historical development of public administration, public organizational dynamics, public personnel administration, public budgeting, public policy, and ethics. Applies analytical skills using case studies focusing on current issues.
Credits: 3
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PSPA 5010 - Public Policy Analysis
Introduces tools and concepts in performing policy analysis. Focuses on critical thinking skills to synthesize and evaluate theoretical models and policy alternatives. Covers environmental policy, healthcare, welfare, terrorism, immigration, and foreign policy. Links between federal, state, and local public policy and public administration.
Credits: 3
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PSPA 5020 - Public Organization Management
Familiarizes students with public organization management literature. Covers historically important works in the field, major current schools of thought, and writers in organization theory and behavior. Examines different ways to view organizations.
Credits: 3
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PSPA 5030 - Public Budgeting and Financial Management
Exposes students to the theoretical foundations and applied practices of public budgeting and financial management of public organizations. Focuses on the issues of budgeting and finance in a broad sense and specifically as it pertains to public administration.
Credits: 3
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PSPA 5040 - Ethics in Public Administration
Incorporates case studies as practical examples of ethical issues. Examines journal articles and debate via blog to grasp the complexity of ethical issues. Focuses on historical ethical issues and the conflicting viewpoints of policy development.
Credits: 3
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PSPA 5050 - Environmental Justice
Designed to provide students with an introduction and overview of environmental justice (EJ). Covers topics such as the origins of the EJ movement, national environmental policy issues, the distribution of the effects of environmental pollution across ethnic, racial, income and occupational groups, environmental risk, economic environmental issues and finally, state and local issue pertaining to EJ.
Credits: 3
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PSPA 5060 - Digital Government
Examines the ways in which the public sector is changing as a result of information technology. Covers various topics such as the social, ethical, policy, and management issues related to information technology. Explores federal, state and local initiatives in digital government. Reviews the theoretical foundations of information technology.
Credits: 3
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Professional Studies-Political Leadership |
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PSPL 5010 - Political Leadership Dev.
Political Leadership Dev.
Credits: 3
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Professional Studies-Project Management |
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PSPM 5030 - Introduction to Project Management
Introduces students to the various aspects of the project life cycle and project management. Explores best practices and the application of these best practices for project success.
Credits: 3
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PSPM 5200 - Project Schedule, Cost, and Budget Control
Introduces students to a variety of project scheduling and cost control techniques that are vital for a project to meet its schedule and cost goals and objectives. Concentrates on the variety of scheduling techniques (Gantt Chart, Critical Path Method, and Program Evaluation Review Technique) that can be used to guide and monitor project performance. Activities that are critical in preparing a realistic schedule are explored, discussed, and practiced. Students are then introduced to a variety of budgeting, cost estimating, and cost control techniques.
Credits: 3
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PSPM 5210 - Project Risk Management
Introduces students to various concepts and techniques that can be used to effectively manage project risks including cost, schedule, technical, quality, managerial and organizational.
Credits: 3
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PSPM 5220 - Leadership and Human Resources Management
Explores the difference between leadership and management, how to apply a variety of leadership techniques in a project environment, key traits of an effective leader, and how effective leadership can result in high performing teams.
Credits: 3
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PSPM 5230 - The Project Manager and Managing the Project Team
Covers the importance that project teams play with organizations, the challenges facing project teams and tools to confront those challenges; the role of the project manager; and the tools that the project manager can use to overcome those challenges.
Credits: 3
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PSPM 5240 - Introduction to Purchasing for Project Managers
Explores the important role that contracting and purchasing play in the project environment, especially in light of meeting or exceeding goals.
Credits: 3
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PSPM 5250 - IT Systems Project Management
Assists participants in recognizing and acting upon the essential elements in the IT system project management cycle. Examines market research and analysis, scheduling and time-lining, budget development and management, performance assessment, benchmarking, and project evaluation. Emphasizes leadership and team development skills.
Credits: 3
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PSPM 5260 - Construction Project Management
Provides students with the fundamentals of construction project management. Includes contracting, inspections, cost code system, insurance estimating, subcontracting, and documentation.
Credits: 3
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PSPM 5270 - Earned Value Management for Federal Contracts
Focuses on how the government and contractors use Earned Value Management to effectively manage their projects from start to finish. Though this course is designed for federal contractors, commercial contractors can glean a great deal from the practices covered in this course. Explores with significant emphasis, analysis, marketing, sales, proposal, and client retention strategies.
Credits: 3
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PSPM 5280 - Topics in Project Management
Explores contemporary issues in project management.
Credits: 3
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PSPM 5300 - Project Management Body of Knowledge Review
Provides an in-depth review of the Project Management Institute’s required Body of Knowledge to successfully prepare for the Project Management Professional exam (PMP). The major function of the PMP credentialing program is to ensure competence and professionalism in the field of project management.
Credits: 3
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Professional Studies-Workforce Development |
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PSWD 5890 - Workforce Development Professional Competencies
This course provides an overview of and introduction to the competencies necessary for successful workforce development professionals. Experts in the field are used to present the knowledge and skills needed to excel in each competency within the workforce development arena. An extensive survey of best practices in the field will be utilized as a teaching tool in this course. The competencies covered include: The Profession of Workforce Development; Customer Focus; Managing Your Business Unit; Community, Business and Economic Development; Planning and Continuous Improvement; and Leadership and Influence.
Credits: 3
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PSWD 5900 - Professional Assessment and Development
This course provides the opportunity to: identify workforce development competencies that the student has developed and/or enhanced; compare and contrast current workforce development theories, styles and programs; acquire a deeper understanding and appreciation of the student’s role as a workforce development professional; and integrate and apply the student’s learning to his/her work environment. Extensive reading, research, writing, and on-line participation are required.
Credits: 3
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PSWD 5910 - Practicum: Workforce Development
The most powerful teaching tool is the application of knowledge. The practicum experience provides the opportunity to combine previous knowledge and skills with newly acquired knowledge and skills (from the prior two courses, PSWD 5890: Introduction to Workforce Development Professional Competencies PSWD 5900: Professional Assessment and Development). The student will incorporate this ‘combined’ knowledge into his/her institution’s workforce development activities (i.e., increased job responsibilities, new program or partnership development, marketing strategies) while strengthening contributions to workforce development (at the system, institution and profession levels).
Credits: 3
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PSYC 5025 - Wise Interventions: Social Psychology for Public Policy
We will explore classic and contemporary psychological interventions aimed at improving human welfare. Specifically, we will examine the role of psychological factors in health and healthcare, the workplace, education, intergroup relations, and other domains. Theory, empirical evidence, policy implications, and policy implementation will be emphasized through weekly assignments and discussions.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 5035 - Leading and Managing Diverse Groups
This course will focus on interpersonal, organizational, and societal factors leaders must negotiate to lead effectively in socially diverse environments. Students will be exposed to cases and empirical research that will enable them to (1) develop well-articulated positions on diversity-related issues and (2) form strategies to promote sustainable settings for productive exchange among diverse groups of individuals.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 5160 - Emotion and Cognition
The cognition-emotion seminar covers the connection between thinking and feeling in two ways. Part 1 concerns the nature and definition of emotions and the role of cognitive appraisals in their elicitation and intensity. Part 2 concerns the consequences of emotion for cognition, experience, and behavior. Of interest will be such topics as the effects on judgment and decision-making, processing and performance, and memory and attention, and the role of culture. Prerequisite: PSYC 3005
Credits: 3
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PSYC 5200 - Seminar in Psychobiology
Examines a major subject in psychobiology. Prerequisite: PSYC 2200, 2220, or 4200.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 5215 - Neuroplasticity and Perception/Cognition/Behavior
Description of course contents: This course begins by examining the long-held view that functions are localized in particular places in the brain, fixed by adulthood. After reviewing the history of these ideas we will examine the tide of research challenging that view: how imagination and virtual reality might change thinking; how memory can be enhanced; and correction of language disabilities with training. Prerequisite: 3006.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 5220 - Critical Period Plasticity
A survey of sensory systems and plasticity. Organizational principles common for sensory systems, and mechanisms of plasticity will be discussed. Prerequisite: PSYC 4200.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 5260 - Brain Systems Involved in Learning and Memory
Studies the major theories, findings, and conceptual issues important to an analysis of the neuronal mechanisms that underlie memory storage. Prerequisite: PSYC 2200, 2220, or 4200.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 5265 - Functional Neuroanatomy
An overview of the structure of the vertebrate nervous system with an emphasis on the mammalian brain. Prerequisites: PSYC 4200 or BIOL 3170 or graduate standing.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 5310 - Developmental Psycholinguistics
Examines current research and theoretical models of children’s language acquisition. Topics include normal children’s acquisition of spoken language skills, and the development of communication skills in deaf, autistic, and other groups of language-handicapped children. Prerequisite: Upper-level psychology major or linguistics student, or graduate student in Arts and Sciences or Education.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 5315 - Pleasure
This seminar explores the nature of pleasure. It is divided into three parts. The first deals with pleasures of the body, such as tonic (sustained) pleasures and relief pleasures. The second deals with the pleasurability of episodes and their relation to the pervasive human propensity to create narratives. The third deals with the context within which episodes emerge and analyses the stricture of lives.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 5325 - Cognitive Neuroscience
Several approaches have been used to investigate relations between mind (or cognition) and brain. For example, the case study perspective focuses on cognitive deficits of patients with localized brain damage, and the cognitive neuroscience perspective attempts to determine the neurobiological substrates of cognitive processes in normal humans, usually by means of structural or functional neuroimaging. Prerequisites: PSYC 3006, PSYC 2150, PSYC 2200 or equivalents.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 5328 - Cognitive Aging
The focus of this seminar will be on the relations between age and cognitive functioning in healthy and individuals with pathologies such as dementia. The topics to be covered will range from methodological issues to neuroanatomical substrates to practical consequences of age-related cognitive changes.
Enrollment not allowed in more than one 4000-level or 5000-levl PSYC course.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 5350 - Neurochemical Systems in Learning and Memory
Examines historical and current theories implicating the involvement of specific neurotransmitter, amino-acid, and peptide systems in regulating learning and the encoding of memory. Provides an extensive review of the literature in order to understand mechanisms by which chemical compounds modify learning and the brain sites where neurochemicals exert their effects. Prerequisite: PSYC 2200 or 2220, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 5401 - Chemical Senses: Taste and Smell
Explores the neurobiology of the chemical senses by examining the biophysical basis of sensory transduction, the anatomical organization of two systems, and the physiological properties of peripheral and central structures along the gustatory and olfactory pathways. Emphasizes new, important findings in taste and smell. Prerequisite: PSYC 2200, 2220, or 4200 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 5410 - Juvenile Justice and Violence
Seminar focuses on the current state of juvenile justice and its treatment of violent and aggressive youth. Topics such as developmental maturity in culpability and competence to stand trial, transfer to adult court, and relevant topics in developmental, clinical, social and community psychology are emphasized.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 5500 - Current Topics in Psychology
Current topical offerings in Psychology.
Credits: 3
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