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2016-2017 University Catalog 
    
2016-2017 University Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses


The University Catalog lists all courses that pertain to the West Lafayette campus. In order to view courses that are available at a given time, and the details of such courses, please visit the myPurdue Schedule of Classes.

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Education-Curriculum and Instruction

  
  • EDCI 68200 - Contemporary Curriculum Theory


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Critical examination of contemporary concepts of curriculum theory. Rational/technical curriculum, social needs/child centered curriculum. Socio-political curriculum theory; curriculum as existential, aesthetic, and phenomenological. Implications for current practice, school reform, and educational research. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • EDCI 68400 - Seminar In Curriculum Studies


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A course designed to allow for the in-depth exploration of specialized and timely topics in curriculum theory, practice, and reform. Though all specialized topics address both theory and practice, some topics focus more heavily on practice, and others focus more heavily on theory. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • EDCI 68500 - Global Issues In Education


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Critical examination of contemporary global issues in education. Historical, social economic, political, and cultural theories of globalization in international context. Analysis and synthesis of current research. Implications and application to current practice, school reform, policy, curriculum, and educational research. Resources for instruction; curriculum design strategies for implementing global education. Prerequisite: 12 credit hours in Education. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • EDCI 69400 - Elementary Transition To Teaching Student Teaching/Internship


    Credit Hours: 0.00 to 6.00. A full-time elementary classroom teaching experience and internship seminars. Students teach for a period of 14 weeks under the mentorship of a master teacher and a University supervisor. In order to provide support for student teachers and ongoing interactions among students and their supervisors, students will attend scheduled student-teaching seminars. After the classroom experience has ended, students will spend two additional weeks completing a variety of assignments. The purpose of the internship semester is to provide a structured experience for learning and refining the theories and practices necessary to become an effective teacher of all children in the inclusive classroom. Prerequisite: EDCI 50100 , EDCI 51100 , EDCI 58500 , 60300, EDCI 60400 , EDCI 60500 . Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • EDCI 69500 - Internship In Education


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 10.00. Amount of credit to be determined by nature and extent of the assignment. A special course in selected areas of education, designed to provide practical field experience under professional supervision in selected situations related to the candidate’s area of specialization. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • EDCI 69800 - Research MS Thesis


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 18.00. Research MS Thesis. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • EDCI 69900 - Research PhD Thesis


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 18.00. Research PhD Thesis. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.

Educational and Psychological Studies

  
  • EDPS 10101 - Learning In Context-An Introduction To The Learning Sciences


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This introductory course is designed to acquaint first year Learning Science students with the core concepts, principles, and research findings of the learning sciences as they apply to a wide range of formal and informal educational contexts. The course provides students with opportunities to interact with and learn about the scholarship of College of Education faculty who conduct research within the framework of the learning sciences. Students will learn about faculty projects that exemplify key features of the Learning Sciences such as attention to the complexity of learning environments, the study of social and cultural as well as individual dimensions of learning, and the cross-disciplinary nature of the field. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • EDPS 10500 - Academic And Career Plan


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Builds understanding of career interests and personality characteristics related to academic and career decisions. Expands knowledge of Purdue academic programs and of the world of work. Introduces decision-making strategies. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • EDPS 23500 - Learning And Motivation


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction to concepts of learning and motivation in educational contexts (i.e., Educational Psychology). Influence of development, culture, and individual differences on learning and motivation. Uses of assessment and technology in promoting learning and motivation. A field-based experiential component is included. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • EDPS 26500 - The Inclusive Classroom


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Characteristics of students with special needs/talents; strategies for helping students learn and develop in general educational settings. Emphasis placed upon research evidence, case studies, problem-based learning, and development of a plan for an inclusive classroom. A field-based component is included. Typically offered Spring Summer Fall.
  
  • EDPS 27000 - Characteristics of Individuals with Mild Disabilities


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Characteristics of students with mild disabilities and their related academic and social outcomes, issues, and implications for assessment and intervention. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • EDPS 30000 - Student Leadership Development


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Leadership in students is developed through lectures and experiential activities. Topic areas include leadership styles; campus organizational structures; program planning; social and intellectual activities; human relations and cultural differences; motivation; team building; public relations. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • EDPS 30100 - Peer Counseling Training


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Students are trained to help peers deal with their problems and concerns. Training modules are used to build knowledge and skills in the duties of peer helpers; student development, communication, goal setting, and use of community resources are stressed. (EDPS 30100 and 30100 are for Horizon students only.). Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • EDPS 30101 - Motivation To Learn


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course introduces students to current social-cognitive and sociocultural theories of motivation for learning and academic achievement, and research framed by those theories. Both individual-level and contextual factors associated with motivation will be considered. The course will also address applications of theory in educational settings, including motivational interventions. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • EDPS 30102 - Social-Emotional Aspects Of Learning In Diverse Environments


    Credit Hours: 3.00. The course examines the role of social emotional competence in learning and builds understandings of the inter-relationships between theory, empirical evidence, and instructional practice. It takes the perspective that experiences across different learning contexts are interrelated and may influence each other in reciprocal ways. The course views social-emotional dimensions of learning as: embedded in person-environment transactions; tied to specific instructional (formal and/or informal) contexts over time; co-evolving with cognition and language; critical to psychological, behavioral, and learning outcomes. The focus is on intersection of social-emotional competence, learning, and instruction. The course is intended to provide the foundations (theoretical and empirical) that can help those interested in formal and informal instructional environments make informed educational decisions by considering the social-emotional dimensions of learning. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • EDPS 30200 - Adolescents Classroom Teacher


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Students will develop understanding of physical, intellectual, emotional and social development of learners. Emphasis on individual differences and behavior patterns that influence the establishment of an orderly, healthy learning environment, and upon the teacher as an influence of the learning environment. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • EDPS 31000 - Characteristics Of Individuals With Severe Disabilities


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Characteristics and issues encountered by individuals who experience severe mental retardation, severe emotional disabilities, and autistic spectrum disorders. Characteristics addressed include learning, behavioral, social-emotional, and communicative abilities. Admission to Teacher Education Program, passage of Gates A required. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • EDPS 31500 - Collaborative Leadership: Listening


    Credit Hours: 3.00. The purpose of this course is to provide integrated study of listening as a collaborative leadership skill necessary for interpersonal and intrapersonal development. Focus is on the development of professional listening skills, and the understand of the role listening plays in collaborative leadership conflict resolution, interviewing, team building, and ethics. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • EDPS 31600 - Collaborative Leadership: Cross-Cultural Settings


    Credit Hours: 3.00. In this course, students will explore the cultural nuances of leadership in the United States as well as around the world. This course will include impact of globalism as a context for leadership, conflict resolution in a global environment, and other important factors that impact culturally diverse or global teams. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • EDPS 31700 - Collaborative Leadership: Mentoring


    Credit Hours: 3.00. The purpose of this course is to provide a theoretical and experiential overview of the basic elements of mentoring as a key aspect of effective collaborative leadership. The learning experience is designed to promote development of the knowledge, skills, and dispositions required for competent mentorship. Emphasis on workplace and youth mentoring. Typically Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • EDPS 32700 - Assessment Literacy


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Evaluating the impact of instruction on student performance is one of the most important skills for an educator. Effective teachers ask themselves, “How do I know if students are truly learning? Are they meeting educational objectives in the content area?” Using well-chosen assessment approaches, teachers can address these questions. In this course, students will acquire assessment literacy: the ability to gather accurate information about student achievement, and use that information to make instructional decisions that will improve learning. Course activities will focus on assessment tasks relevant to P- 12 classroom settings. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • EDPS 33000 - Child Behavior Elementary School


    Credit Hours: 2.00. Presents methods of collecting and using information about the behavior and development of children in the elementary school. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • EDPS 36100 - Use Of Assessment Techniques In Special Education


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Assessment techniques for the exceptional child, with applications to curriculum. Includes norm-referenced and curriculum-based measurement, error analyses, and observational ratings. Admission to Teacher Education Program, passage of Gate A. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • EDPS 36200 - Organization And Management Of Instructional Behaviors


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Organization and management techniques, including structure, principles, scheduling, evaluation, and strategies for effective integration into regular, resource, and special education classrooms to motivate and increase appropriate learning behaviors and to manage problem behaviors. Admission to Teacher Education Program, passage of Gate A. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • EDPS 36300 - Psychoeducational, Medical, And Physical Aspects Of Individuals With Disabilities


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction to characteristics of individuals with mild and severe intellectual disabilities: defining characteristics, etiological factors, assessment, social, legal and educational issues, and basic physical or medical disability management issues and techniques. Admission to Teacher Education Program, passage of Gates A required. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • EDPS 40099 - Topics In Design Based Research, Assessment And Evaluation


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Design-Based Research (DBR) is inquiry that is driven by educational practice- the desire to understand and improve the practice of teaching and learning. Learning scientist employ DBR in order to implement innovative designs for teaching and learning in a variety of formal and informal educational settings (e.g., schools, museums, and extramural clubs) and to conduct research no teaching and learning that occurs in the context of their design innovations. The focus of this course is to help students develop a set of core competencies for systemically studying the teaching and learning of science in designed environments. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • EDPS 40101 - Computers And Cognition


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course provides an overview of the theoretical basis for using computers and technology K-12 and post-secondary settings. It explores how research on human cognition (e.g., memory, attention, problem solving) can be applied to the use of computers in educational settings. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • EDPS 41000 - Collaboration And Transition Practices For Individuals With Disabilities


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course addresses the professional collaborative practices for special educators, who work with school age students with disabilities. The topics of this course include collaboration with professionals, ancillary personnel, agencies, and families, problem-solving and dealing with conflict, co-teaching, and transition planning from early intervention to post-secondary settings. The possible products from this course include community resources, transition plans, co-teaching plans, and family interviews. No undergraduate student may be enrolled in this undergraduate course until they have been admitted to the teacher education program and passed Gates A and B. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • EDPS 43000 - Creating And Managing Learning Environments


    Credit Hours: 3.00. The purpose of this course is to enable you to develop a supportive, challenging, and growth-enhancing classroom community for students in elementary grades. Teachers need insightful understanding and strong skills to create a classroom community that enhances achievement, welcomes diversity, makes effective use of technology, and provides appropriate educational experiences for students with diverse needs, backgrounds, and developmental levels. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • EDPS 45900 - Assistive Technology


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Use of technological applications in special education, including microcomputers, interactive video, auditory and visual enhancement, and other adaptive devices with individuals experiencing disabilities including learning disabilities, intellectual disabilities, sensory and physical disabilities. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • EDPS 46000 - Strategies For Teaching Individuals With Disabilities


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course is designed to prepare future special educators to plan and provide content area instruction in the areas of reading and writing to elementary and secondary students with mild disabilities. Course content will include information on assessment, instructional design, development of individualized education programs, research-based practices for promoting academic and behavioral growth, and content area literacy, and the professional role as a teacher of students with mild disabilities. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • EDPS 46100 - Practicum In Strategies For Teaching Individuals With Disabilities


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 6.00. Practicum experience in assessment and teaching of individuals with disabilities. Experience in design, delivery, implementation, and evaluation of instruction. No undergraduate students may be enrolled in any of these undergraduate courses until they have been admitted to teacher education. Admission to Teacher Education Program, passage of Gates A and B. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • EDPS 46200 - Advanced Strategies For Teaching Individuals With Disabilities


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course is designed to prepare future special educators to plan and provide content area instruction in the areas of mathematics, science, and social studies to elementary and secondary students with mild disabilities. Course content will include information on assessment, instructional design, development of individualized education programs, research-based practices for promoting academic and behavioral growth, and content area literacy, and the professional role as a teacher of students with mild disabilities. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • EDPS 46300 - Teaching Individuals With Severe Disabilities


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Education of individuals with severe or multiple disabilities. Application of innovative technology, design of individual educational programs, strategies and methods for instruction, evaluation of instruction, community-based instruction, generalization and maintenance of skills. Admission to Teacher Education Program, passage of Gate A required. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • EDPS 49000 - Individual Research And Teaching Experience


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 8.00. Primarily for teacher candidates requiring special, individualized experience in research or teaching. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • EDPS 49100 - Topics And Issues In Education


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Provides student with opportunity to strengthen preparation through study of selected educational topics and issues based upon individual needs and interests. One topic is considered in each enrollment. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • EDPS 49800 - Supervised Teaching- Special Education


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 16.00. A student planning to enroll in EDCI 49600 , EDCI 49800 , EDCI 49900; EDPS 49800, EDPS 49900 , EDPS 56100, or EDPS 56600  in the spring or fall semester of any academic year must secure, complete, and submit a student teaching application form between the middle of September and November 1 preceding the academic year during which he or she will be enrolled in the course. Failure to file the application during or prior to this time will make it virtually impossible for the student to receive a student teaching assignment for that year. Application forms may be obtained in and submitted to Room 3241, Liberal Arts and Education Building. Teaching full time in a school classroom under the supervision of the teacher in charge of the class and a University supervisor. No undergraduate students may be enrolled in any of these undergraduate courses until they have been admitted to teacher education. Admission to Teacher Education Program, passage of Gates A, B, and C. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • EDPS 49900 - Supervised Teaching Or Practicum In Endorsement Area


    Credit Hours: 3.00 to 9.00. A student planning to enroll in EDCI 49600 , EDCI 49800 , EDCI 49900; EDPS 49800 , EDPS 49900, EDPS 56100, or EDPS 56600  in the spring or fall semester of any academic year must secure, complete, and submit a student teaching application form between the middle of September and November 1 preceding the academic year during which he or she will be enrolled in the course. Failure to file the application during or prior to this time will make it virtually impossible for the student to receive a student teaching assignment for that year. Application forms may be obtained in and submitted to Room 3241, Liberal Arts and Education Building. Teaching full time in an endorsement area in a school classroom under the supervision of the teacher in charge of the class and a University supervisor. No undergraduate students may be enrolled in any of these undergraduate courses until they have been admitted to teacher education. completion of education courses required for the endorsement area and admittance to teacher education program. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • EDPS 50000 - Group Counseling Theories And Techniques


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Theoretical and experiential overview of fundamental elements of group work and group counseling processes. Broad topics include purposes and types of groups, therapeutic factors and stages of leadership skills, and multicultural, ethical, and legal aspects of group counseling. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • EDPS 50100 - Introduction To School Counseling


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Presents an overview of counseling in elementary, middle, and secondary schools. Treats the history of school counseling, developmental characteristics and problems of students, and counseling program elements and issues. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • EDPS 50500 - Foundations Of Career Development And Assessment


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Treats career development theories which emphasize aspects of the self in decision making, occupational classification systems, and educational and vocational information with applications to individual and group counseling. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • EDPS 50700 - Counseling Multicultural And Diverse Populations


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Counseling strategies for multicultural and diverse populations encountered by helping professionals. Among the populations considered are ethnic and cultural minorities, older persons, the gifted, and the disabled. Typically offered Spring Summer.
  
  • EDPS 51000 - Culture And Cognition


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Explores how culture shapes thinking and learning form childhood through adulthood. Students develop a critical understanding of the cross disciplinary research on culture and cognition and its implications for teaching and learning. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • EDPS 51500 - Applied Behavior Analysis For Teachers


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Application of learning theory, measurement procedures, verification of functional relationships, and developing knowledge of current significant research in applied behavior analysis. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • EDPS 52000 - Characteristics Of Individuals With Severe Disabilities


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Characteristics and issues encountered by individuals who experience severe and profound levels of mental retardation and/or autistic spectrum disorders. Characteristics include: learning, behavioral, social, emotional, and communicative abilities. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • EDPS 52500 - Language And Communication In Autism Spectrum Disorders


    Credit Hours: 3.00. (SLHS 52500 ) This course will address development and impairment of language and communication in individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). In addition to language and communication characteristics, this course will review the behavioral, cognitive, sensory, and social-emotional abilities of individuals with ASD. Differential diagnosis, assessment, and intervention strategies will be emphasized with a focus on empirically supported treatments and evidence-based practices. Current developments and research findings will be highlighted related to etiology and diagnosis of ASD, advances in biomedical research, augmentative and alternative communication strategies, assistive technology solutions, behavioral, cognitive, and physiological interventions, and comprehensive treatment approaches. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • EDPS 53000 - Advanced Educational Psychology


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Theories of learning and development, research on instruction and learning, and principles of measurement applied to educational problems. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • EDPS 53100 - Introduction To Measurement And Evaluation


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An introduction to the basic concepts and principles of measurement and evaluation with special emphasis on descriptive statistics, and teacher-made and standardized tests. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • EDPS 53200 - Measuring Educational Achievement


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A course in developing, analyzing, and interpreting measures of educational achievement. Emphasis is placed upon cognitive tests. Nontest techniques for assessing behavior are also explored. Prior experience with statistics or measurement, although helpful, is not required for this course. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • EDPS 53300 - Introduction To Educational Research I: Methodology


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course presents a sequence of journal articles and exercises that help introduce the foundational concepts of the course, including: research design, reliability and validity, various methodologies commonly used in educational research, and basic quantitative and qualitative data analyses. In addition, contrasting research conclusions are shown in the articles to help students learn why careful analysis of articles and their theoretical framing is critical to evaluating their conclusions. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • EDPS 53400 - Introduction To Educational Research II: Measurement Consideration


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course is designed to provide an overview of introductory quantitative data analysis methods in education. The course in specially designed to enhance students’ quantitative reasoning and skills through discussions of issues in educational data and authentic data analysis experiences of a variety of education data. The topics to be covered in this course include data collection and description, sampling distributions, methods of quantitative data analysis often used in education research. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • EDPS 53500 - Personal And Social Development During The School Years


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Stresses understanding of personal and socio-emotional growth of students and teachers in the school environment. Attention is given to means of promoting personal and socio-emotional growth. Typically offered Summer Spring.
  
  • EDPS 53600 - Achievement Motivation And Performance


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Study of current theory and research on the nature and development of achievement motivation. Motivation for intellectual and academic performance will be emphasized. Applications of theory in educational settings will be considered. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • EDPS 54000 - Gifted, Creative And Talented Children


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course is an introduction to the intellectual, social, and emotional characteristics of gifted youth; philosophies of gifted education; and programmatic and classroom approaches for supporting gifted students generally and within different domains (e.g., intellectual, academic, creative, artistic, leadership). Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • EDPS 54100 - Identification And Evaluation In Gifted Education


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course provides an introduction to the instruments and procedures for identifying gifted, creative, and talented students, as well as the issues and procedures for evaluating gifted programs and individual student progress. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • EDPS 54200 - Curriculum And Program Development In Gifted Education


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course is an introduction to the curriculum development and program design for meeting the needs of gifted, creative, and talented students. Students will be exposed to established program and curriculum models, as well as the nuts and bolts of developing curricular plans, materials, and specialized programs that support the advanced learning needs of gifted students. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • EDPS 54500 - Social And Affective Development Of Gifted Students


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course focuses on the social and emotional development of gifted and talented students. An overview of the characteristics and needs of gifted subpopulations, diversity issues, and family/parenting concerns along with an introduction to current educational approaches and counseling interventions are provided. The course is designed to complement EDPS 54000. Typically offered Summer.
  
  • EDPS 55600 - Introduction To Quantitative Data Analysis Methods In Education I


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This online course is designed to provide an overview of introductory quantitative data analysis methods in education. The course is specially designed to enhance students’ quantitative reasoning and skills through discussions of issues in educational data and authentic data analysis experiences of a variety of education data. The topics to be covered in this course include data collection and description, sampling distributions, methods of quantitative data analysis often used in education research. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • EDPS 55700 - Introduction To Quantitative Data Analysis Methods In Education II


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This online course is the second quantitative data analysis methods sequences within the college of education. This course is specially designed to enhance students’ quantitative reasoning and skills through discussions of issues in educational data and authentic data analysis experiences of a variety of education data. The topics to be covered in this course include simple/multiple linear regression, different types of group comparison methods (including n-way ANOVA, ANCOVA, Repeated-measures ANOVA, and Mixed ANOVA). The course is specifically designed: 1) to understand how the quantitative methods covered in the course can be used appropriately to address proposed research questions in education, and 2) to interpret quantitative results meaningfully for a given context. It is expected that all students who enroll in this course have completed at least one semester of introductory statistics course (e.g. STAT 50100 or equivalent.) Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • EDPS 56010 - Practicum In Special Education Assessment And Teaching


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 6.00. Assessment and teaching of individuals with varying disabilities. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • EDPS 56200 - Augmentative And Alternative Communication


    Credit Hours: 3.00. (SLHS 54000 ) Introduction to augmentative and alternative communication. Cognitive, educational, physical, psycho-social, and linguistic aspects are considered together with symbol characteristics, teaching strategies, and research issues. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • EDPS 56300 - Identification, Evaluation, And Assessment Of Exceptional Individuals


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Advanced procedures for educational assessment of exceptional individuals: norm-referenced and curriculum-based measurement, error analyses, and observational ratings. Adaptations and selections of tests for sensory impairments, behavioral styles, different intelligence levels and ages. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • EDPS 56400 - Mild Mental Handicaps: Historical Perspectives, Etiology, And Characteristics


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Advanced study of persons with varying disabilities. Topics include: historical development; theoretical models; etiological factors; characteristics; assessment and intervention. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • EDPS 56500 - Intervention Strategies And Research


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Analysis of intervention strategies and research with individuals with varying disabilities. Reading comprehension; written composition; mathematics; mnemonic strategies; metacognitive strategies; self-monitoring; social problem solving; and transitional instruction. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • EDPS 56510 - Collaboration And Transition Practices In Special Education


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Three modules related to collaboration and transition practices in special education are addressed. Included are theoretical frameworks and assessment for consultation and collaboration involving paraeducators and families. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • EDPS 56600 - Graduate Supervised Teaching Special Education


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 16.00. Demonstration of ability to function independently in special education setting by appropriately planning for student needs, implementing and evaluating plans, establishing appropriate classroom discipline, and interacting professionally with staff and parents. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • EDPS 56800 - Social, Legal, And Ethical Issues In Special Education


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Survey of difference and similarities of children with exceptionality, including their nature and characteristics related to their developmental and educational needs. Analysis and practical application of social, legal, and ethical issues in the field of special education. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • EDPS 57100 - Advanced Assistive Technology


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction and overview of assistive technology for communication, education, employment, recreation, and daily living activities. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • EDPS 57300 - Medical And Physical Management Of Individuals With Multiple Disabilities


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Medical and physical aspects of severe disabilities and implications for educational models of intervention and service delivery. Topics include nature of disorders/conditions, recent research findings, advanced methods for individual adaptations, and procedures for structural modification. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • EDPS 57500 - Advanced Methods For Teaching Students With Social, Behavioral & Attentional Disorders.


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Examination of different approaches to intervention as they relate to the social/emotional, behavioral, and attentional characteristics of students with mild disabilities. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • EDPS 57600 - Methods Of Teaching Students With Severe Disabilities


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Development of knowledge and skills to effectively plan for and teach students with severe disabilities across various educational settings. Topics include: instructional strategies, community-based instruction methods, and vocational training. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • EDPS 57701 - Characteristics Of Children With Mild Exceptionalities: Advanced Level


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course addresses the academic, behavioral, social-emotional, cognitive, communication, and motor/physical/somatic characteristics of students with mild exceptionalities and their outcomes and implications for accommodation and intervention. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • EDPS 58900 - Special Topics For Teachers


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 4.00. Consideration of appropriate professional problems of experienced educational personnel in workshops or in-service programs. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • EDPS 59000 - Individual Research Problems


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 6.00. Opportunities for students to study particular problems under the guidance of a member of the This plan of individualized instruction may be used in any field of education or vocational education. Does not include thesis work. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • EDPS 59100 - Special Topics In Education


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 4.00. Group study of a current problem or special topic of interest to professional educational personnel. Intensive study of research, theory, or practical aspects of a particular issue within the usual graduate class format. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • EDPS 60000 - Counseling Theories And Techniques


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Examination of major counseling theories and counseling techniques, professional and ethical issues. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • EDPS 60100 - Counseling Theories And Techniques Laboratory


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Use of counseling techniques in a supervised laboratory; application of theories and techniques within varying employment settings. Concurrent Prerequisite: EDPS 60000 . Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • EDPS 60400 - Advanced Counseling Theories And Techniques


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Integration of counseling theory, practice, and research. Emphasis on integrating counseling knowledge and skills with major counseling theories and interventions. Prerequisite: EDPS 60000 . Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • EDPS 60500 - Advanced Career Development Theory And Research


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Presents the dominant theories in contemporary career psychology. Emphasizes use of recent empirical findings to evaluate and analyze the validity of major constructs, assessment procedures, and counseling techniques derived from each theory. Prerequisite: EDPS 50500 . Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • EDPS 60900 - Program Development And Organization In Human Services


    Credit Hours: 2.00 or 3.00. Issues and procedures in program development, management, organization, and administration for school guidance, college student affairs, and mental health services. Also treats administrative theory, intervention strategies, staff development, and evaluation. Prerequisite: EDPS 50100  or EDPS 50300 or EDPS 50400. Typically offered Spring Summer.
  
  • EDPS 61000 - School Counseling Practicum


    Credit Hours: 3.00. EDPS 61000 is a field experience for first year master’s students in school counseling, consisting of a minimum of 100 hours in a school, under the supervision of both a site supervisor and a campus supervisor. Permission of instructor required. Prerequisites: EDPS 60000  and EDPS 60100  . Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • EDPS 61100 - School Counseling Seminar


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Attention given to current topics, such as special education, gifted education, data management, grant writing, crisis intervention, service learning, K-12 career development, and systemic change. Prerequisite: EDPS 50100  . Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • EDPS 61200 - Advanced Applied Behavior Analysis


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Advanced application of basic principles of learning and applied behavior analysis to make informed decisions to create effective contexts for learning. Prerequisite: EDPS 36200  or EDPS 51500  and EDPS 58800. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • EDPS 61400 - Advanced Counseling Practicum


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Supervised use of personal and career counseling techniques applied to complex and difficult client situations. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • EDPS 61500 - Theories Of Counseling Supervision


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Critical analysis of the theories and counseling supervision. Experiential exercises may be included. Prerequisite: EDPS 61400 . Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • EDPS 61700 - Professional Issues, Ethics, And History Of Counseling Psychology


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Three primary areas in counseling psychology: 1) historical development within psychology; 2) American Psychological Association ethics, professional, and legal issues; and 3) the scientist-practitioner training model in counseling psychology identity. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • EDPS 61900 - Counseling Psychology Research Practicum


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Application of qualitative and quantitative research designs in counseling psychology. Concurrent prerequisite: EDPS 61800  and (PSY 60100  or STAT 50200 ) and Doctoral student standing enrolled in the Counseling Psychology Program. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • EDPS 62000 - Counseling Seminar


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 4.00. Recent investigation and research in (1) counselor supervision; (2) professional issues; (3) counseling theories; (4) education of counselors and student personnel workers; (5) counseling methodology; (6) vocational development; (7) elementary school counseling; (8) counselor consultation; and (9) other relevant topics. One topic is dealt with in each enrollment. Prerequisite: Open to graduate students who have successfully completed 12 credit hours of previous counseling personnel services courses. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • EDPS 62100 - Advanced Multicultural Counseling Theory And Practice


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Advanced study and clinical application of racial and cultural theories in counseling. Knowledge and practicum components are integrated to facilitate development of awareness and skill competencies central to “Guidelines on Multicultural Education, Training, Research, Practice and Organizational Change for Psychologists” of the American Psychological Association. Prerequisite: EDPS 50700  . Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • EDPS 62200 - Systems Concepts In Counseling And Development


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction to the use of systems concepts in the counseling professions. Individuals’ development within relationships and family matrix, contemporary person-environment issues, and constructs for research and preventive, developmental, and remedial practice. Prerequisite: EDPS 61700 . Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • EDPS 62300 - Personality Assessment


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Applied introduction to methods of administration, scoring, and interpretation of primarily objective personality assessments. Emphasis is placed on assessment of normative population with attention given to personal strengths, developmental factors, and issues of diversity. . Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • EDPS 62400 - Advanced Off-Site Counseling Practicum And Supervision Theory


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Supervised use of personal and/or career counseling and assessment applied to complex and difficult client situations. Critical analysis of counseling supervision theories. Prerequisite: EDPS 61400 . Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • EDPS 62500 - Human Growth And Development


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An overview of lifespan development. Study of major development theories of childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Prerequisite: EDPS 60000 . Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • EDPS 63000 - Research Procedures In Education


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Development of a philosophy of educational research and consideration of the methods for the selection and evaluation of techniques used in educational research. Techniques discussed are methods to control variables, sampling procedures, data collection procedures, statistical procedures, and research proposal development and writing. Prerequisite: EDPS 53300 , (PSY 60100  or EDPS 53300 ), STAT 50200 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • EDPS 63100 - Applied Educational Research Design Seminar


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. This seminar seeks to promote professionalism, research and scholarly productivity and collegial support among graduate students in gifted, creative (GCT), and talented studies, associated graduate students, visiting scholars, and interested others. A secondary purpose involves assisting GCT students, COE students, and associates with successful study and career preparation by focusing on research, grants, thesis preparation, graduate writing, proposal development, professional development, and degree completion. Finally, seminar offers students the opportunity to discuss, learn and “mess” around with current issues in the field and of personal interest. Seminar creates time and incentive for students to become more productive with their scholarship efforts, and offers students credit for work completed and formal support for the professional development and scholarship processes. In this course students should expect to attend, contribute, and participate. A variety of formats will be used, including, but not limited to: discussion, simulations, group work, lecture, guest speakers, and peer feedback. Prerequisite: EDPS 63000  and one graduate course in Statistics. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • EDPS 63200 - Seminar In Research Procedures In Education


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Experimental, field study, scientific survey, and prediction study methods in education. Internal and external validity, identification and development of research problems, criteria development, common methodological errors, strategies of analysis, and sources of acceptable educational research literature will be reviewed. Critical analyses of the research methodology of educational research reports in the student’s field. Prerequisite: EDPS 63000  or EDPS 53300  and course work in Statistics. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • EDPS 63300 - Seminar In Educational Psychology


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Recent investigations and research in educational psychology. One topic is dealt with in each enrollment. The topics provide an in-depth study of those areas of psychological investigation in educational settings and problems. These areas include: (1) instructional technology and design; (2) individual differences and educational growth; (3) school learning: theory and research; (4) classroom behavior and social processes; (5) educational assessment; and (6) other relevant topics. Prerequisite: EDPS 53000 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • EDPS 63400 - The Psychology Of Learning And Teaching At The College Level


    Credit Hours: 3.00. (PSY 69500) Current methods of formulating objectives of instruction; examination of student characteristics which affect learning; discussion of basic learning processes; analysis of instructional variables which affect learning; selection of instruction methods and materials; evaluation of learning outcomes; and evaluation of the instructional system. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • EDPS 63500 - Psychometric Theory And Application


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Advanced classical test theory and application of psychometric methods to study technical properties of tests. Prerequisite: (EDPS 53100  and STAT 50200 ), or (PSY 60100  or PSY 51200 ) or consent of Instructor. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
 

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