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NURS 509 - Research in Nursing I 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None This course is designed to provide advanced knowledge and experience with the research process, including the research problem, purpose, research questions, conceptual framework, literature review, ethical considerations, and methodology. Critical analysis of research studies is also conducted. The appraisal and utilization of evidence-based research in clinical practice is emphasized. (4 clock hours)
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NURS 730 - Seminar in Critical Issues for Advanced Practice Nursing 2 Credits
Prerequisite(s): This course is taken in the last semester of the program. This course focuses on current issues influencing nursing practice and the status of the nursing profession. Content focuses on evolution of advanced practice roles, scientific basis for advanced practice, managed care and issues related to health care policy, legislation, finance and economic concerns. This course is taken during the final semester of the curriculum. (2 clock hours)
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NURS 621 - Specialty in Advanced Practice Nursing 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None This course provides students the opportunity to enhance knowledge and skills of advanced practice nursing within a selected specialty. Seminars allow students to apply theory and evidence-based practices to management of selected health related problems. Planned practicum learning experiences are provided to enable students to acquire skills that are utilized in advanced practice nursing. (2 lecture hours; 5 practicum hours)
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NURS 628 - Teaching Practicum 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None This course provides students in the nurse educator role the opportunity to develop skills in the teaching-learning process, curriculum development, and evaluation. Planned learning experiences are provided to enable students to participate in all phases of the teaching role, including clinical instruction in an area of specialization, classroom instruction, staff development, and course evaluation. (1 lecture hour; 10 practicum hours)
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NURS 624 - Technology in Nursing Education 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None This course prepares students to design technology-based instruction for nursing education. Students will apply principles of learning theory and curriculum development for appropriate decision-making in the application of a variety of educational technologies. (3 clock hours)
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ORGC 738 - Applied Research Design 3 Credits
538 Prerequisite(s): ORGC 502 & ORGC 504 Course in research methodology which stresses the need for theory development or framework as basis for organizational communications research. Current literature will be reviewed to include methodology employed and issues of theory building. Students will be guided in developing their own research design and empirical study.
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ORGC 502 - Communication Theory and Research 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None Provides an understanding of organizational communication theories. Includes description, application, and critique of theories. In addition, this course introduces the basic framework for communication research.
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ORGC 630 - Corporate Advertising 3 Credits
530 Prerequisite(s): None Theory and practice in the management of advertising in the organization. In depth study of advertising management functions or analysis of objectives, planning, staffing, budgeting, campaign media and publications in organizations.
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ORGC 522 - Corporate Communications 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None Presents an overview of the fundamentals of telecommunications technology and applications in organizations, including human factors in organizations, acquisition and procurement, market competition, logistical planning, research and development, and relations with carriers and manufacturers.
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ORGC 606 - Domestic Telecommunications Policy 3 Credits
506 Prerequisite(s): None Development of telecommunications technology industry and policy in the United States, and the interaction of private and public policy in research and development, market entry, competition, ownership and acquisition, deregulation, business decisions, and social impact.
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ORGC 636 - International Telecommunications 3 Credits
536 Prerequisite(s): None Examination of theories of telecommunications. Investigation of various contemporary social, economic, political, cultural and educational problems in international telecommunications. Explores telecommunications across national borders and the role of telecommunications in developing countries.
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ORGC 607 - Leadership and Change Communication 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): Advancement to Candidacy This course explores the relationships between organizational leadership and implementation of effective change. It explores the differences between management and leadership. In addition, the course investigates several Leadership theories, the process of innovation adoption, persuasion, ideas about change agentry, and the building of critical mass of adopters.
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ORGC 627 - Mediation and Conflict Resolution 3 Credits
527 Prerequisite(s): None Examines the process of mediation, negotiation, and conflict resolution, with particular reference to organizations. Reviews communicative acts that shape realities of mediators and disputants and influence outcomes. In addition, this course suggests ways to resolve conflicts effectively.
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ORGC 504 - Organizational Communications 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None Provides introduction to human communication in organizations. Special attention is given to concepts of motivation, leadership, job satisfaction, goal-setting, task design, operant conditioning, cross-cultural and small group communication.
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ORGC 799 - Organizational Communications Comprehensive Examination 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): Advancement to Candidacy, Completion of all prerequisites, resolution of all Incomplete grades The comprehensive examination is a comprehensive test on the core concepts and issues within the discipline. The examination is a three hour test administered by the Graduate School.
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ORGC 735 - Organizational Publications 3 Credits
535 Prerequisite(s): None This course focuses on internal publications as well as other organizational writings, such as memos, reports, proposals, and letters. A major aspect of this course is a review of communications tenets guiding organizational publication design and writings. This course involves the use of desktop publishing software.
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ORGC 631 - Organizations and Intercultural Communications 3 Credits
531 Prerequisite(s): None This course gives the student an advanced understanding of intercultural communications - verbal and nonverbal - in organizational spheres. It demonstrates the existence of competing values, beliefs, norms, and practices in organizations, particularly in a world where organizations are increasingly inhabited by diverse voices. The course also investigates the differences in cultural intersections that exist between localized and globalized organizations. The essence of this course is to provide the student with the opportunity to understand and adapt successfully to these cultural interactions and to ultimately prepare the student for the organizational reality of interacting with diverse groups.
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ORGC 810 - Practicum in Telecommunications Policy 3 Credits
510 Prerequisite(s): Advancement to Candidacy Practical study within a telecommunications environment. This is designed to provide the student with in-depth knowledge of daily activities associated with telecommunications management, policy-making, and implementation.
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ORGC 634 - Public Relations Management 3 Credits
534 Prerequisite(s): None Analysis of public relations function in organizations. In-depth study of specialized areas to include public relations analysis, objectives, planning, staffing, budgeting, campaign media and publications in organizations.
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ORGC 612 - Special Topics on Organizational Communication 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): ORGC 502 504, 607 This course allows students to choose an interest area in organizational/corporate communications to investigate during the semester. These areas include healthcare, educational context, crisis management, sports management, entertainment, business, and media among others. Students select an area of interest with the approval of the professor and then apply organizational and corporate communication principles through a research paper and presentation.
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ORGC 608 - Telecommunications National Development 3 Credits
508 Prerequisite(s): None Explores the role of telecommunications in facilitating national development strategies and policies in developing countries. Major sectoral development targets will include: agriculture, health, population, democracy, human rights, education, and the environment.
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ORGC 815 - Thesis 3 Credits
540 Prerequisite(s): ORGC 502, ORGC 504, & ORGC 738 Advisory: Comprehensive examination should have been passed by the student. An empirical research study. The research topic should be one that will further the student’s educational development by developing research and other skills that will help the student keep abreast of the field and enable the student to pursue independent work.
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ORGC 816 - Thesis Advisement 3 Credits
601 Prerequisite(s): None Thesis writing advisement is provided to students who fail to complete ORGC 540. This 1 credit hour course features research related advisement and an oral examination at completion. ***Taken only when student fails to complete ORGC 540.
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PSYC 730 - Adlerian Theory & Practice and Other Theories 3 Credits
530 Prerequisite(s): 6 hours in the Adlerian field, including PSYC 501 This course is designed to present the basic theoretical concepts of the Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler and Rudolf Dreikurs and to cover at least three other theoretical counseling approaches common to the counseling profession. Among the other theories covered are Gestalt, Cline/centered, Behaviorist, Rational Emotive Theory, TA, and Psychoanalytic processes. However, the application of Adlerian theory to the techniques and the theories of counseling will be stressed. Particular attention is paid to solution of individual, family, and other group problems. Students may expect to do field work and projects and to participate in a variety of demonstrations in various counseling settings. Comparison of Adlerian concepts with Eclectic theoretical concepts will be illustrated.
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PSYC 833 - Advanced Techniques in Psychotherapy 3 Credits
633 Prerequisite(s): None This course is an overview and application of treatment models used in therapy to treat various mental health disorders. Specific techniques used in major theoretical models to treat mental, emotional and behavioral disorders will be reviewed. Psychoanalytical/psychodynamic models, cognitive-behavioral models, and the existential-humanistic theoretical approaches/models will be used to assess mental health disorders. Students will role play various techniques in class using these treatment models for various disorders.
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PSYC 793 - Art Therapy for Young Children 3 Credits
593 Prerequisite(s): None This course is designed to teach, through student participation, methods for using art as a therapeutic aid in working with behavior problem children and adolescents. This class will focus on the graphic representations and expression depicted through drawings that illuminates certain interpretive data which will allow the counselor to help children understand themselves and their environments better.
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PSYC 794 - Art Therapy of Adults 3 Credits
594 Prerequisite(s): None The thrust of the course provides a didactic and experiential approach to the use of art in counseling. Through participation in directed art experiences, the learner will have the opportunity to assess personal self-awareness as well as learn how to evaluate the graphic product of others from an Adlerian psychological base.
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PSYC 610 - Behavior Modification in the Classroom 3 Credits
510 Prerequisite(s): None This is a course in the theory and application of basic behavior principles to the practical problems encountered in education. These principles are based on recent behavioral research and provide a systematic procedure to build and maintain desirable student performances and to reduce or eliminate inappropriate behavior.
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PSYC 601 - Biological Bases of Human Behavior 3 Credits
506 Prerequisite(s): None This course involves an examination of research on the physiological basis of human behavior, including considerations of sensory phenomena, motor coordination, emotion, drives, and the neurological basis of learning.
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PSYC 606 - Biological Bases of Human Behavior 3 Credits
506 Prerequisite(s): None This course will emphasize ways in which hereditary and physiological processes and conditions influence human behavior. Implications for understanding and working with people will be considered.
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PSYC 714 - Clinical Assessment 3 Credits
514 Prerequisite(s): None This course integrates various assessment methodologies, including Life Style Assessment techniques, MMPI, MBTI, Beck Depression scales, Intelligence Testing, Projective Testing, DSM-IV Diagnoses, Priorities Interview Technique, and the TAT, for a comprehensive process of assessment. The purposes, techniques, and process of clinical assessment will be explored. Techniques for understanding of non-verbal, verbal, and interpersonal transactions, including the recapitulation of the family structure and dynamics are examined. Students are introduced to situational assessment, psychological inference and report writing.
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PSYC 707 - Congregational Interpersonal Relations and Pastoral Care 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 731, 701 The purpose of the course is to explore the meaning of pastoral care in the larger systems context of a congregation organization or institution. What is the role of Pastoral care in administration, outreach, small groups educational programs and worship? What does one need to know about Pastoral care planning for the different ages of persons? How does a Pastoral leader help a particular congregation practices its beliefs and values to enhance the quality of Pastoral care?
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PSYC 799 - Counseling Psychology Comprehensive Examination 0 Credits
Prerequisite(s): Advancement to Candidacy, Completion of all prerequisites, resolution of all Incomplete grades The comprehensive examination is a comprehensive test on the core concepts and issues within the discipline. The examination is a three hour test administered by the Graduate School.
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PSYC 734 - Counseling Theory and Practice 3 Credits
534 Prerequisite(s): 6 hours in the field, including PSYC 502 In this course, several of the major approaches to counseling will be examined. The theoretical bases and major concepts of these approaches, as well as the process of counseling proposed by the advocates of different schools, will be studied. The theories studied will include client-centered, Gestalt, Behaviorist, and Adlerian.
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PSYC 739 - Dynamics of Group Behavior 3 Credits
539 Prerequisite(s): None This course is primarily concerned with the way in which small, face-to-face groups function and the factors which influence their functioning. Secondly, factors that influence organization functioning will be considered. The effect of the individual’s behavior on other group members and the group will be examined. Various experiential activities, such as role-playing, subgroup exercises and simulation will be used to demonstrate and analyze facets of group dynamics. The course is designed to assist teachers, administrators, managers, and curriculum workers.
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PSYC 612 - Educational Psychology 3 Credits
512 Prerequisite(s): Three hours of psychology or permission of the instructor This course is a survey of the applications of psychological principles, theories, and concepts as they relate to learning and behavior management and change in the formal learning process. Special consideration will be given to trends and issues, with emphasis on current research in educational psychology.
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PSYC 701 - History And Theory of Pastoral Counseling 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None An examination will be made of the historical, philosophical, and psychological foundations of the pastoral care/counseling movement. Emphasis will be placed on the influence of the following psychologies: Freudian, Adlerian, Jungian, Rogerian, and Humanistic, philosophies: existentialism, personalism, pragmatism, and phenomenalism; and theologies: Fundamentalism, Neo-Orthodoxy, Liberalism, and Existentialism. The clinical pastoral counseling movement will be investigated by the demands made by the social and cultural trends and reforms of the 20th century.
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PSYC 710 - Intelligence Testing 3 Credits
610 Prerequisite(s): Fifteen hours of psychology or counseling courses or permission The course emphasizes the administration, scoring, and interpretation of infant, child, and adult intelligence tests, emphasizing the Stanford-Binet, WPPSI, WISCR, and WAIS. Included will be a survey of the development of IQ tests, theories of intelligence and current trends and developments in intellectual assessment.
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PSYC 858 - Internship in Counseling Psychology 3 Credits
558 Prerequisite(s): None
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PSYC 806 - Internship in Mental Health Therapy
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PSYC 780 - Legal/Ethical Issues in Therapy 3 Credits
580 Prerequisite(s): None This course is designed to provide the helping professional with the knowledge of the major ethical and legal issues in counseling and psychotherapy today. Learners will be exposed to such topics as ethical theory, laws and court decisions, incompetency, malpractice, licensure and certification, privileged communications, DSM III and Family Therapy, and legal liabilities affecting psychologists, and legal obligations of psychotherapists. Ethical standards for individual practitioners will be examined in detail. Participants will be involved in some case research, group discussions, group reports, and individual presentations of ethical and legal issues in the field of counseling and psychotherapy.
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PSYC 837 - Life Style Assessment 3 Credits
537 Prerequisite(s): Two of the following courses: PSYC 501, COUN 509, PSYC 530 This course includes a comprehensive review of theory and technique in life style assessment - personality theory and analysis in Adlerian Psychology. The use of family constellation information, birth order, family atmosphere, and use of early recollections in life style assessment will be presented, demonstrated, and practiced. Students will discover how information obtained from the life style assessment is used in formulating counseling and psychotherapeutic strategies. Each student is required to complete and submit four life style assessments for evaluation.
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PSYC 603 - Mental Hygiene in Young Children and Youth 3 Credits
503 Prerequisite(s): None This course is planned as an integrated study of the interaction of human behavior, learning, and the environment. Emphasis is placed on the symptoms, causes and mediation of deviant behavior among children, adolescents, and young persons. Trends and practices in community mental health are studied, and visits to human rehabilitation institutions for practical observation of clients, the organization, and methods of therapy used are required. Instruction in the writing of a case study report is also given.
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PSYC 703 - Pastoral Diagnosis and Psychotherapy (DSMIV) 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None Through demonstrations and practice students will learn how to conduct a pastoral diagnostic interview, set therapy goals, and devise a counselee treatment plan. Through this process they will gain competency in empathy, active listening, observation, non-verbal communication, tracking meanings, and the understanding of the counselee’s religious and spiritual dynamics. They will be more sensitive to God’s presence in the counseling experience and be able to identify and treat therapeutically the potential psychopathologies of guilt, anger, resentment, fear, distrust, sin, rejection, conversion, confession, forgiveness, judgment, redemption, and salvation. Attention will be given to a pastoral counselor’s use and abuse of power through the techniques of personal reflection, prayer, and blessing.
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PSYC 836 - Practicum Counseling Psychology I 3 Credits
536 Prerequisite(s): 24 hours in the program, including PSYC 501 or 502, 503, 529 This course places emphasis on practical counseling with supervised experience in community and/or agency programs. The role of the administrator of community counseling services is considered. Problems and issues in counseling are examined. This is the first semester of the two-semester practicum experience and emphasizes basic skills. An intensive field experience is recommended. This course may be taken prior to passing the Comprehensive Examination.
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PSYC 857 - Practicum Counseling Psychology II 3 Credits
557 Prerequisite(s): None
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PSYC 838 - Practicum in Family Counseling 3 Credits
538 Prerequisite(s): PSYC 501, 530, COUN 532, and PSYC 536 This course will emphasize practical experience in counseling families based on principles of Individual Psychology. May not be substituted for Practicum I, 2001.536 in the master’s degree program.
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PSYC 501 - Principles and Philosophy Of Adlerian Counseling 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None Historical, philosophical, psychological and sociological basis of counseling in different settings (school, agency and community) and with different populations will be explored. Professional certification and ethical standards will be reviewed. Special emphasis will be given to the socioteleoanalytic (Adlerian) approach to counseling. Eight to ten additional counseling theories and models will be explored, including Gestalt, Client/centered, Behaviorist, Rational Emotive Theory, TA, and Psychoanalytic processes.
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PSYC 502 - Principles and Philosophy Of Counseling 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None Historical, philosophical, psychological and sociological basis of counseling in different settings (school, agency and community) and with different populations will be explored. Intervention strategies, theoretical models, working contexts, relationships to other professions, ethics, obstacles to service delivery and personal qualities of counselors are reviewed. Course activity includes the use of printed, recorded and filmed techniques, and the observation of live interviews. (This course is required for all M.Ed. degrees, whether Eclectic or Adlerian.)
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PSYC 711 - Projective Testing 3 Credits
611 Prerequisite(s): Fifteen hours of psychology or counseling courses The course will introduce and emphasize the basic administration, scoring and interpretation of major projective child, adolescent, and adult tests: The Rorschach Inkblot Test, The Thematic Apperception Test, The Children’s Apperception Test, Draw a Person-Tree-House; Three Wishes; Guess Why Game; Bender-Gestalt Test of Visual Perception (Projective, and Minnesota Mutiphasic Personality Inventory). Included will be a survey of the development of projective tests, underlying theories associated with them, and current trends and developments in projective assessment.
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PSYC 744 - Psychodynamics of Psychopathology I 3 Credits
544 Prerequisite(s): None This course will present a foundation for the understanding of psychopathology. The basic constructs of normal and abnormal behavior will be studied dynamically.
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PSYC 604 - Psychological Foundations 3 Credits
504 Prerequisite(s): None The course deals with psychological principles for guiding learning of children, adolescents and young persons. Emphasis is placed on all aspects of learning – cognitive, social and emotional – and on factors in the environment affecting such learning. An overview of the major theories of learning is presented.
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PSYC 775 - Psychopharmacology 3 Credits
575 Prerequisite(s): Admission to Psychotherapy Certificate program or 21 hours of graduate courses and permission of instructor This course is designed for non-medical psychotherapists and counselors. Students will be presented an overview of the current therapeutic use of psychotropic drugs. A brief history of psychopharmacology, an overview of neuroanatomy, a survey on current research on neurotransmitters, and a review of pharmacological terminology will be given. Specific drugs to be considered include the narcotic analgesics, the sedative hypnotics, stimulants, neuroleptic, anxiolytics, anti-depressants, and lithium.
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PSYC 705 - Religious and Spiritual Resources in Counseling 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None Attention will be given to the development of diagnostic skills in order to identify the counselee’s religious and spiritual resources that can be utilized in facing psychological problems. Counselors will learn how to distinguish their counselee’s existential questions, which are inherent in interpersonal conflicts. Issues of counselee self-worth, self-esteem, self-image, and self-confidence will be addressed. Students will learn how to identify and examine individual and institutional belief and value systems. Emphasis will be given to the development of the counselor’s own spiritual resources to enhance his or her counseling and to decrease the possibility of “counselor burnout.” Students will be required to write their own spiritual and religious biography.
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PSYC 805 - Research Advisement 1 Credits
605 Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Counseling Psychology and Mental Health Counseling students should register for this one credit class when they have not completed internship during the semester they have registered for it. This course provides supervision while a student is completing the required field experience.
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PSYC 801 - Seminar Advisement 1 Credits
601 Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Counseling Psychology or Mental Health students should register for this one credit class when they have been unable to complete the seminar paper in one semester. With special permission of the instructor, a student can take COUN 801 to start the paper one semester before registering for COUN 861 if they have passed the Comprehensive Exam.
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PSYC 861 - Seminar in Counseling Psychology 3 Credits
561 Prerequisite(s): Successful completion of the Comprehensive Examination This course is designed to give the student guidance and practice in the preparation and writing of the research paper in the area of counseling psychology. The course will focus attention on a review of relevant literature on current trends, issues and problems in counseling with presentations and class discussions. This class should be taken during the last six hours of the degree program.
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PSYC 607 - Social Bases of Human Development 3 Credits
507 Prerequisite(s): None This course analyzes the socially inherited and transmitted patterns of pressure, expectations, and limitations learned by an individual as he grows up. These are considered in relation to the patterns of feeling and behaving that emerge as the result of growing up in one’s social group. An anecdotal record of a living person is required.
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PSYC 611 - Understanding the Critical Adult Life Stages 3 Credits
511 Prerequisite(s): None This course is planned to focus on the typical problems faced by adults at the various stages of early adulthood, middle adulthood and late adulthood. Emphasis is placed on theories, perspectives and research on problems of adult development and strategies for counseling clients at the various stages of adult development. Site visits to institutions for dealing with adult problems in order to study and observe the organization, purpose, types of clients, and procedures and techniques used are required.
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PUAD 799 - Comprehensive Examination 0 Credits
699 Prerequisite(s): Advancement to Candidacy, Completion of all prerequisites, resolution of all Incomplete grades The comprehensive examination is a comprehensive test on the core concepts and issues within the discipline. The examination is a three hour test administered by the Graduate School.
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PUAD 601 - Concepts of Public Administration 3 Credits
501 Prerequisite(s): None A survey of the fundamentals of public administration, management strategies and management techniques at the national, state, and local levels.
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PUAD 704 - Evaluation Research 3 Credits
504 Prerequisite(s): PUAD 502 and PUAD 530 This course will explore the methods and models for policy analysis and program evaluation; methods of collecting and analyzing evaluation data; processes for linking evaluation to policy formulation and program management. Emphasis is on how to conduct formative evaluations of government programs. Students are also able to make the appropriate distinctions between the administrative systems that make government programs work as well as how the impact of these programs on the quality of life in society is measured.
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PUAD 710 - Intergovernmental Relations Seminar 3 Credits
610 Prerequisite(s): All background courses The seminar begins with a review of Federalism and constitutional politics. It then moves its focus to the complexities and inadequacies of the federal-statelocal systems. The emphasis here is with conflicts and cooperation among the three levels of government and changing roles of government; the development of structures, processes, and management to strengthen the intergovernmental system and improve performance; and with increasing student problem-solving and managerial capabilities in these areas through the use of guest speakers, case studies and a semester project.
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PUAD 503 - Management Systems 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None This course examines the various types of management systems and controls that are utilized in large complex systems for the purpose of tracking organizational performance. Students will study the relationship between strategic management and performance monitoring. An overview of management information systems and their relationship to organizational politics will be covered as a necessary part of understanding how planning and management control systems operate. The emphasis in this course is on public sector organizations.
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PUAD 605 - Manager in a Technological Society 3 Credits
505 Prerequisite(s): None This course examines the relationship between the manager and technology in a rapidly changing world. The focus is on the new management paradigm with respect to organizations of the future and the changing nature of work. The emphasis is on new organizational forms, networks, leadership and globalization
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PUAD 524 - Public Budgeting 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None Concepts, principles, and practices and their specific application to the development of resources in support of programs and the allocation of these resources against the demands at national, state, and local levels. The student will evaluate performance budgeting, PPBS, and zero-based budgeting.
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PUAD 603 - Public Policy Analysis 3 Credits
530 Prerequisite(s): None Focus is on the analysis of costs and benefits in the selection of public policy choices. Students analyze public policy alternatives, factors, and processes involved in policy development, including the rulemaking that occurs after legislative enactment of public programs.
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PUAD 502 - Qualitative Research Methods 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None The study and application of research methodology for organizations for use as a tool in decision-making. Emphasis is on applied research theories and designs for methodological approaches that apply non-experimental and quasi-experimental research designs as part of the research strategy.
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PUAD 613 - Seminar in Mediation and Alternative Dispute 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): MGMT 511 and MGMT 571 Students will learn the basic fundamentals of mediation in the workplace. Simulated games and case studies are used to operationalize the theories and concepts of mediation and alternative dispute resolution. They will review laws, rules and executive orders that address issues associated with fair employment practices in the public and private sectors. Experts will be invited to participate in the Seminar as guest lecturers. A major research paper is required
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PUAD 525 - Specialized Individual Study (Elective Course) 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): Approval of Advisor Specialized individual study requires the student to do a major study that applies and integrates prior learning and course work. The student may design a project from an academic domain that is relevant for the Public Administration discipline as approved by the advisor/instructor.
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PUAD 612 - Strategic Planning for Public and Non Profit 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): All background courses Students will learn the process of adapting the organization to a rapidly changing environment by applying vision-based diagnosis and strategic planning to reposition organizations in the public and non-profit environment so that they can survive and prosper. Topics covered include re-engineering through organizational transformation, situation analysis, organizational invention and innovation.
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ESAS 713 - Curriculum Change and Instruction Methods 3 Credits
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ESAS 855 - Practicum for School Administration and Supervision I 2 Credits
555 Prerequisite(s): None This course provides supervised practice and simulated learning experiences that enable the aspiring administrator or supervisor to consolidate his/her knowledge, observe others at work, apply skills and techniques, and organize a philosophy. This course must be taken during the last six hours of the degree program. The student must have been advanced to candidacy and have passed the Graduate Comprehensive Examination.
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ESAS 858 - Practicum for School Administration and Supervision II 2 Credits
558 Prerequisite(s): None
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ESAS 720 - Problems and Techniques in Contemporary 3 Credits
520 Prerequisite(s): None This course is designed to assist the student to prepare for management of educational organizations and programs. Emphasis will be upon identifying specific problems and developing specific techniques by which to solve them. The student will gain an understanding and application of system analysis as it applies to leadership, organizational systems, communications, and change and sustenance of existing systems; human management and technical skills will be emphasized. Major topics to be explored will be accountability, mainstreaming, teacher stress and burn out, alternative approaches to discipline, drugs and alcohol, declining enrollment, and alternative methods for evaluating teachers and students. The student will be afforded the opportunity for input and to suggest other specific topics of interest.
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ESAS 724 - Public School Finance 3 Credits
524 Prerequisite(s): None This course includes analysis and discussion of current local, state, and national sources of revenue for the support of public education and a study of school financial practices, including budgetary processes in detail and some principles of sound management of income and expenditures, bonding procedures, accounting, and auditing.
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ESAS 705 - Recent Issues in Education 3 Credits
505 Prerequisite(s): None Emphasis in this course is upon the analysis of selected recent issues in education for critical study. It further includes emphasis upon broad reading of the research and literature in order to appraise current issues in terms of needs of children and society.
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ESAS 722 - School Administration 3 Credits
522 Prerequisite(s): None This is a core course and must be taken prior to taking the preliminary examination and being advanced to candidacy. This course emphasizes the organization and administrative practices involved in operating a modern school. The course introduces theories pertaining to leadership, organization, communications, change and sustenance of existing systems as they pertain to managerial, human and technical skills and how they are applied to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of existing systems.
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ESAS 799 - School Administration & Supervision Comprehensive Examination 0 Credits
Prerequisite(s): Advancement to Candidacy, Completion of all Prerequisites, resolution of all Incomplete grades The comprehensive examination is a comprehensive test on the core concepts and issues within the discipline. The examination is a three hour test administered by the Graduate School.
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ESAS 704 - School and Community Relations 3 Credits
504 Prerequisite(s): None This course is designed to consider how issues and confrontations, such as school personnel, pupils, parents, and representatives of social institutions and agencies, interact. The question to resolve is how the school may best use the human resources surrounding it to the enhancement of its goals and its programs.
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ESAS 731 - School Curriculum Development 3 Credits
531 Prerequisite(s): None This course is a survey of the structure of the school curriculum, with emphasis on the (1) historical aspects, (2) current philosophical, psychological, and social bases, (3) processes, and (4) current research in curriculum development. Individual projects may be selected for early childhood, elementary or secondary education levels of interest.
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ESAS 727 - School Law 3 Credits
527 Prerequisite(s): None This is a core course and must be taken prior to taking the preliminary examination and being advanced to candidacy. This course is designed to make legal matters understandable to non-lawyers by appraising the laws under which teachers and administrators are employed; to delve into legal principles underlying statutes and court decisions; to provide answers to questions which involve individuals and institutions, and to make clear the process of negotiating. The course is intended to give prospective teachers a better understanding of an area that affects their professional environment.
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ESAS 757 - School Supervision 3 Credits
557 Prerequisite(s): None This is a core course and must be taken prior to taking the preliminary examination and being advanced to candidacy. This course emphasizes the nature of organization, human relationships and techniques involved in supervision. Particular emphasis is placed on the application of the skill, mix, recent research, and dynamics of group behavior in accomplishing the goals and objectives of the organization, individual schools, and specific departments and grade levels.
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ESAS 825 - Seminar in School Administration and Supervision I 2 Credits
525 Prerequisite(s): None This seminar has three main purposes: (1) to assist the student in completing the research paper requirement; (2) to review major topics in the area of concentration; and, (3) to achieve an in-depth exploration of major issues and trends in the area of school supervision. A previous course in administration or supervision is a prerequisite for this seminar. The seminar must be taken during the last six hours of the degree program. The student must have been advanced to candidacy and have passed the Graduate Comprehensive Examination.
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ESAS 828 - Seminar in School Administration and Supervision II 2 Credits
528 Prerequisite(s): None
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SPSY 611 - Alternative Assessment Methods 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None This course teaches types and objectives of assessment for planning and implementing programs for children. Qualitative and quantitative approaches to assessment and evaluation and methods of observing children are also discussed.
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SPSY 606 - Child Neuropsychological Assessment 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None This course consists of an introduction to theory, research and clinical case material relevant to the assessment of cognitive, motor, and neuropsychological functioning of children. Course requirements include the supervised administration and interpretation of diagnostic approaches to cognitive and neuropsychological functioning in children. Other topics include cultural, biological, and situational factors that influence cognitive performance and its assessment.
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SPSY 799 - Comprehensive Examination 0 Credits
Prerequisite(s): Advancement to Candidacy, Completion of all prerequisites, resolution of all Incomplete grades The comprehensive examination is a comprehensive test on the core concepts and issues within the discipline. The examination is a three hour test administered by the Graduate School.
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SPSY 505 - Counseling Children in the School Setting 3 Credits
505 Prerequisite(s): None This course is an examination and evaluation of various psychotherapeutic approaches as they relate to children and as they are applied in clinical and educational settings and in the home. This course is only open to School Psychology Majors. Special Permission to enroll in this course is required for other students.
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SPSY 703 - Cultural Proficiency in School Psychology 3 Credits
605 Prerequisite(s): None This course consists of an examination of the important differences and similarities that exist among and within cultures in the way people develop psychological, educational, and other competencies in the period from birth through adolescence. It will enhance students’ self-awareness and sensitivity for culturally competent school psychology practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations and communities.
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SPSY 601 - Human Learning 3 Credits
506 Prerequisite(s): None This course represents a systematic exploration of contemporary and classic theories of human learning and focuses on the application of different types of learning to human problems.
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SPSY 501 - Introduction to School Psychology 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None This course is an exploration of the history and foundations of school psychology, ethics and standards of practice, professional trends, as well as organization and operation of schools. This course is only open to School Psychology Majors. Special Permission to enroll in this course is required for other students.
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SPSY 511 - Personality Assessment 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None This course is an introduction to a broad range of approaches, theories, and research focusing primarily on assessing psychological functioning using standardized personality questionnaires and structured and unstructured interviews. Other assessment approaches considered include observation, rating procedures, and individualized measures.
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SPSY 502 - Philosophy of Education 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None This course consists of discussion of sociological, philosophical, and historical foundations of Western education, with special emphasis on how they relate to current educational issues and practices.
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SPSY 607 - Practicum in Psychoeducational Assessment 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): SPSY 501; 507; 510; 610 The Practicum experience consists of fieldwork under the supervision of a certified or licensed school psychologist. It provides experience in psychoeducational assessment techniques and procedures and the analysis and interpretation of psychological test results. In addition to the time spent in the applied setting, students will be required to attend weekly seminars conducted by a program faculty member. This course is only open to School Psychology Majors. Special Permission to enroll in this course is required for other students.
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SPSY 608 - Practicum in Therapeutic Approaches with Children 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): SPSY 503; 505; 607 The Practicum experience consists of fieldwork under the supervision of a certified or licensed school psychologist. This intervention practicum allows students to develop psychological counseling skills through initiation and maintenance of an on-going therapeutic relationship and establishment of appropriate diagnostic and assessment procedures in identifying problems. In addition to the time spent in the applied setting, students will be required to attend weekly seminars conducted by a program faculty member. This course is only open to School Psychology Majors. Special Permission to enroll in this course is required for other students.
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SPSY 701 - Psychological and Educational Interventions 3 Credits
603 Prerequisite(s): None ational interventions with children in a school setting. Students will explore strategies and techniques helpful for providing interventions at the individual, classroom, building and systems level. Students will become familiar with practices that support collaboration with school personnel, families, and communities in order to support school children with academic, behavioral, and social-emotional needs. The students will also explore therapeutic and academic approaches used for children with common psychological childhood disorders. Current research on evidenced- based-interventions (EBI’s) is also emphasized.
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SPSY 504 - Psychopathology of Childhood 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None This course examines child and adolescent disorders and how they affect educational performance and achievement. Major focus will be on the assessment, design, etiology, and treatment of various disorders including: anxiety and mood disorders, conduct and attentional disorders, learning disorders, autism and schizophrenia. The course investigates how peers, families, teachers, schools gender, developmental stage and socio-cultural variables are affected by these problems. This course is only open to School Psychology Majors. Special Permission to enroll in this course is required for other students.
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SPSY 509 - Research Methods and Statistics 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None This course involves an in-depth examination of statistical methods used in psychological and educational research, including techniques of data collection, quantitative and qualitative analyses and the interpretation of data.
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SPSY 507 - School Assessment I 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None Basic and advanced concepts and theories of psychological and educational assessment, including test development, are taught in this course. Also discussed are social, legal, cultural, and ethical considerations in testing and commonly used tests. This course is only open to School Psychology Majors. Special Permission to enroll in this course is required for other students.
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