SAHE 533 - Techniques of Interpersonal Interaction
3 credits This course covers philosophies, theories, principles, and procedures of interpersonal technique. Includes the use of audio and video taped interview, role-playing, and case studies.
Note A 90 minute laboratory is scheduled in addition to the regular class time.
SAHE 634 - Practicum in Student Affairs and Higher Education
3 credits Experience in a campus setting supervised by the sites professional staff and faculty/staff of Indiana State University. The objective is designed to provide the student with experiences requiring an increasing degree of self direction and responsibility.
Prerequisites concurrent enrollment or completion of 533 or Counseling 533 and consent of instructor. Note May be repeated.
SAHE 637 - Introduction to Student Affairs and Higher Education
3 credits The purposes, development, and present scope of work with students in U.S. colleges and universities, with attention to problems in working with students and related issues, and trends in higher education.
SAHE 638 - Student Development: Theory, Assessment, and Application
3 credits This course will focus on the theories, research, assessment devices, and intervention strategies related to student development and learning in student affairs and higher education settings.
SAHE 640 - Collegiate Environments: Theory, Assessment, and Application
3 credits This course will focus on the physical, social, and psychological aspects of the college environment. Theories, research, assessment devices, and design strategies explored relative to understanding environmental influence in human behavior in the college setting and to student affairs and higher education practices.
3 credits Designed to explore cultural self-awareness of counselors in multicultural situations and to develop sensitivity to the special needs of persons with different cultural backgrounds. Special emphasis will be placed on a transactional approach to multicultural interaction.
SAHE 650 - Leadership and Administration in Student Affairs and Higher Education
3 credits The leadership, administrative, managerial, financial, and legal aspects of student affairs and higher education are covered with attention to how these affect student development and learning. Leadership and consultation skills will receive particular emphasis.
3 credits This course covers multiple perspectives and concepts pertinent to conducting program evaluations in mental health agencies, educational settings, and other organizations. Program evaluation is covered from the conceptualization stage to the presentation of findings stage, including data gathering and analysis.
Prerequisites knowledge in measurement and research.
3 credits An introduction to the theoretical and experiential understandings of group work including group development, purpose, and dynamics. Particular focus on leadership and advising roles with work groups and student groups.
SAHE 680 - Professional Seminar: Student Affairs and Higher Education
3 credits This course is the culminating experience for the master’s degree in student affairs and higher education. Topics include current professional issues, professional and personal development, and professional ethics.
SCED 524 - Special Problems in the Preparation and Utilization of Film and Tape Media
1-3 credits Media experiences designed using the background, needs, and interests of the students as points of departure. Opportunities to experience sophisticated techniques will be provided.
Prerequisites 423 or PHYS 423 or consent of instructor.
1-3 credits Experiences from ecology and the associated sciences which are used to develop the content, background, and activities that teachers could use to present these concepts in a natural laboratory setting.
SCED 623 - Fundamentals of Light and Its Applications to Photography
1-3 credits A lecture/laboratory course emphasizing fundamental optical principles of photography such as reflection, absorption, refraction, polarization, color, interference, and photochemical effects.
1-3 credits Topics not usually presented in traditional science education courses. Topic titles, prerequisites, credit, course outline, and content will be arranged by the faculty member involved.
Note A maximum of 6 semester hours may be counted toward the master’s degree.
SCED 685 - Advanced Methods Seminar in the Teaching of Science
3 credits Experiences in the pedagogies of science instruction for teachers. This course is designed for students who have a special interest in the teaching of science and/or require special instruction pertaining to one or more specific science curriculum projects.
SCED 685S - Teaching Junior high/Middle and Secondary Science Education
3 credits Experiences in the pedagogies of science instruction for teachers. This course is designed for students who have a special interest in the teaching of science and/or require special instruction pertaining to one or more specific curriculum projects.
Note This will be a module oriented course to meet the Junior/Middle and Secondary Practicum Based Graduate Science Methods Course. Modular based instruction format with assignments drawn primarily from current content in Science Education 396. T2T [Transition To Teaching]
SCED 687 - Practicum in Advanced Techniques and Media in the Teaching of Science
3 credits An opportunity to design, prepare, evaluate, and possibly distribute materials which relate to the teaching of science concepts. This course is designed for advanced students specializing in the teaching of science.
SCED 688 - Practicum in Curriculum Construction in Science
1-3 credits An opportunity to design, prepare, teach, evaluate, and possibly distribute a curriculum related unit in science. This course is designed for advanced students specializing in the teaching of science.
1-3 credits The student is expected to read widely and critically in the sociological literature, and to present a paper covering three readings. Enrollment in the course and selection of the topic are by prior arrangement with the Department Chairperson.
Prerequisites 6 hours of sociology or consent of instructor.
3 credits This course provides a sociological analysis of race and ethnic relations with particular attention to the United States. Specific topics to receive attention include: the concepts of race, ethnicity, minority, dominance, power, privilege, and inequality. Evolutionary, psychological, and sociological perspectives of race/ethnic relations will be examined.
Prerequisites 6 hours of sociology or consent of instructor.
3 credits The sociological analysis of aging in modern society, the attitudes and values which surround the process, the social definitions which make aging a personal and social problem, and cross-cultural comparisons of the aging experience.
Prerequisites 6 hours of sociology or consent of instructor.
3 credits The study of sociological models of mental health/illness, with emphasis upon the analysis of relationships between mental health/illness and sociological variables, the social organization of mental health care systems, and social policy.
Prerequisites 6 hours of sociology or consent of instructor.
3 credits An analysis of the Black community, with an emphasis on internal and external social, political, and historical mechanisms contributing to its creation and maintenance.
Prerequisites six hours of sociology or consent of instructor.
3 credits An examination of the role of public opinion in American democracy and society, with attention given to the nature, content, and formation of individual attitudes, through public opinion polling, and the impact of public opinion on public policy and society.
Cross-listed Also listed as Political Science 516.
3 credits Examines the social construction of gender, especially as it relates to issues of stratification and inequality. Related topics include gender socialization, gendered violence, sexuality, family, the labor market, and workplace.
Prerequisites 6 hours of sociology or consent of instructor.
3 credits Family structure—primitive, rural, and industrial—with emphasis on the impact of industrialization on traditional family functions, courtship, role expectations, and child training.
Prerequisites 6 hours of sociology or consent of instructor.
3 credits Analysis of various types of communities, simple and complex, rural and urban, with special emphasis upon the emerging pattern of American communities.
Prerequisites 6 hours of sociology or consent of instructor.
3 credits Examines perspectives on social class to improve understanding of societal stratification and inequality. Determinants of class location and the effects of social class on “life chances” will be analyzed. Broader social implications of social class systems, i.e., the distribution of wealth, income, and power; institutional arrangements; and class related differences in religion, political participation, and recreation will also be examined.
Prerequisites 6 hours of sociology or consent of instructor.
3 credits Consideration of complex organizations with particular reference to organizational theory, the experience of life within contemporary organizations, and the application of sociological principles to problems encountered in organizations.
Prerequisites 6 hours of sociology or consent of instructor. When Offered Offered spring semesters.
3 credits Concepts of pluralism are used to compare societies, especially India and the United States, in terms of their value systems, social structures, and orientations to change.
Prerequisites 120 plus junior/senior class standing.
3 credits Urbanization processes examined with respect to the antecedents and consequences of urbanization of the world population. Western urban growth with special reference to the United States of America.
Prerequisites 6 hours of sociology or consent of instructor.
3 credits The social psychological examination of sport as a social institution in society. Analysis of sport in the context of life cycle, social class, and community and collective behavior, and of sport and play in a cross-societal context.
Prerequisites 6 hours of sociology or consent of instructor.
3 credits Applies sociological concepts to issues of health, illness, and the medical care systems. Focuses on the social psychology of illness, death, and dying as well as the current health care delivery system.
Prerequisites 6 hours of sociology or consent of instructor.
3 credits An examination of family structure, relationships, and life in the middle and later years. Emphasis will be given to variations in families, sources of variation, and the many changes that affect persons and families in later life.
Prerequisites 6 hours of sociology or consent of instructor.
3 credits An intensive and comprehensive analysis of the basic concepts and principles of sociology that define, describe, and explain human group interaction.
Prerequisites 483 (or its equivalent) or consent of instructor. When Offered Offered fall semesters.
3 credits Scientific methods, values, biases, and theoretical orientation as applicable to sociological research. Consideration is given to the various techniques of investigation and data collection in sociology and to techniques of organizing, analyzing, and presenting such data.
Prerequisites 9 hours of sociology or consent of instructor. When Offered Offered: fall semester.
3 credits The student is expected, under the guidance of the faculty, to select a social problem or issue, to read extensively and intensively in the literature, to conduct preliminary data collection or to propose data that need to be collected, and present conclusions toward resolving the problem based on sociological research and insight.
Prerequisites 600 and 601. When Offered Offered spring semesters.
3 credits Special emphasis on evaluation and policy research and grant writing. Students will be expected to develop a grant proposal as a requirement for the class.
Prerequisites 601 When Offered Offered: spring semesters.
3 credits A study of the theoretical insights and research findings related to the personal and social phenomenon of aging, including methodological problems and policy implications. The student will be encouraged to evaluate research and theory and conduct research as contributions to science and as guides of social policy.
Prerequisites 9 hours of sociology or consent of instructor.
3-6 credits A supervised experience in an applied setting appropriate to the student’s area of study and research. The internship will usually include group discussions and a written analysis of the experience.
Prerequisites completion of graduate core courses in sociology and consent of the Director of Graduate Education. Note May be repeated for up to a total of 9 hours.
3 credits Study of the formation of speech sounds in the Spanish language. Intensive practice in pronunciation with an emphasis on articulation, rhythm, and intonation. Includes study of dialectal variation and application for language teaching.
3 credits Systematic translation of contemporary literary, cultural, and technical texts from Spanish into English and from English into Spanish, including analysis of corresponding grammatical, stylistic, and semantic problems.
1-3 credits Studies in Spanish language, literature, or culture, with topics changing from semester to semester according to the needs and interests of the students.
Note This course may be repeated for credit under different topics.
3 credits Study of the precepts of Spanish prescriptive grammar. Structural analysis of contemporary Spanish usage to illustrate the developing character of the language and its relationship to the norms established by grammarians.
3 credits Individualized study in an area of Spanish language, literature, or culture, the topic to be determined by the academic and professional needs of the students in a given semester.
Note This course may be repeated for credit under a different topic.
SPED 526 - The Exceptional Learner in the Regular Classroom
3 credits An overview course dealing with the various exceptional learners who might be mainstreamed into the regular educational program, both elementary and secondary. Emphasis will be on understanding exceptional learners as well as cooperative roles which educators must jointly fill in providing an appropriate education for exceptional learners.
3 credits The nature and theory of intelligence and its measurement. Group tests are surveyed and practice with some of them is required. An introduction is given to several individual tests of intelligence.
3-6 credits Teaching under the supervision of an experienced teacher and university personnel. Focus on the development and strengthening of teaching skills.
Cross-listed (Also listed as Curriculum, Instruction, and Media Technology 601 and Elementary Education 601.) Note Intern must be employed as a teacher.
3 credits Practical methodology and individualizing instruction utilizing learning packets, unit plans, and prescriptions for academic and behavioral intervention for the handicapped.
SPED 603 - Teaching the Curriculum to the Exceptional Child
3 credits General and specific teaching techniques for developing educational programs for children with impairments in learning. Communication and arithmetic skills are stressed.
Prerequisites 601 or concurrent enrollment and permission of the instructor.
SPED 604 - Instructional Materials for the Exceptional Child
3 credits Effective utilization of instructional media with the exceptional child. Methods of examining commercially produced teaching materials. Techniques for modification and preparing teacher-made materials.
Prerequisites 601 and permission of the instructor.
3 credits An introduction to the field of learning disabilities. Various theories and rationales will be presented. The student will be introduced to a number of diagnostic and remedial procedures.
Prerequisites 601 or equivalent or consent of instructor.
SPED 606 - Evaluation and Remediation of Learning Disabilities
3 credits Utilization of evaluation data will be discussed. A number of teacher-administered tests will be presented. Based upon relevant evaluation procedures, appropriate remedial programs will be presented.
Prerequisites 601, 605, or equivalent, and permission of instructor.
SPED 607 - Diversity and Disability in Today’s Schools
3 credits A study of diversity and disability in the classroom. Emphasis on how teachers must account for the special differences a variety of students bring to the learning environment. Special techniques on how to create a classroom environment in which the diversity of the group and the uniqueness of individuals are recognized and celebrated. Includes integration of national and state standards into planning to teach diverse learners.
Note Field experience integrated with pedagogical knowledge of teaching.
3 credits Experiences in an educational setting guided by seminar discussions.
Prerequisites Basic Special Education and Major Exceptionality courses, permission of the instructor. Note Offered as 609A Learning Disabilities; 609B Mild Mental Handicaps; 609D Emotional Handicaps. Students must request one semester prior to the actual field placement.
3 credits Fundamental factors involved in mental sub normality, with emphasis upon theory, etiology, and education of the various types of mental retardation.
SPED 615 - Prevocational and Vocational Educational Program for the Mentally Retarded
3 credits Consideration of the social and vocational interests and abilities of the handicapped, with emphasis on the mentally retarded and physically disabled.
3 credits The application and use of both electronic and non electronic forms of assistive technology. Case management, assessment, intervention strategies, and instructional uses of assistive technology are included.
3 credits Students with exceptionalities who are most likely to be receiving special education in the schools. Indiana’s classification of “mild intervention.” Characteristics, eligibility determination procedures, learning needs, and schools’ approaches to meeting these needs by classroom teachers and specialists. Procedures for identification, evaluation, IEP teams, and school settings are detailed.
3 credits For teachers and other professionals who are in collaborative situations. Situations, settings, approaches, and problem solving will be presented. Examples of a variety of approaches, with application to particular settings will be incorporated throughout the course.
3 credits A study of the anatomy and function of the eye; pathologies of the eye; and education implications of visual disability. Students will learn about familial and cultural needs, classroom and behavioral management techniques, and curricular and learning climate considerations for various syndromes and visual needs.
SPED 652 - Programs and Services for Individuals with Visual Impairments
3 credits Introduction to educational programs and services for students with visual impairments including a description of the history of the field of blindness. Emphasis is on the developmental characteristics of learners and their psychological needs as well as an overview of rules, regulations, and procedures for the field. Collaboration with families as well as educational personnel within diverse cultural setting will be studied.