SPED 653 - Communication Skills for Individuals with Visual Impairments
3 credits An introduction to reading and writing skills in literary Braille using a Perkins Braille writer and slate and stylus for the production of Braille, as well as an introduction to Nemeth and other specialty Braille codes. Students will learn about the history and development of Braille, how to develop lesson plans, expand their knowledge of diversity and collaboration, and learn how to develop critical thinking and problem skills in students who are visually impaired.
SPED 654 - Instructional Accommodations for Individuals with Visual Impairment
3 credits Students will learn strategies for teaching and adapting curriculum in content areas, collegial collaboration, and assessment of students with visual impairment. Familiarity with appropriate assessment techniques, interpretation and use of assessment results, and use of low and high end technology will be emphasized.
3 credits Students will learn basic indoor orientation and mobility techniques and sighted guide strategies. Emphasis will be placed on acquisition of prerequisite skills for orientation and mobility, developmental and functional skills and concepts required for successful orientation and mobility, including assessment and utilization of low vision and remaining senses; techniques and appropriate use of mobility aids, including pre-cane devices; vocational skills; and preparing students who are visually impaired for independent living.
SPED 656 - Practicum in Teaching Students with Visual Impairment
3 credits Students will learn how to apply the information they have gained in the P-12 Educator of Exceptional Needs: Visually Impaired Program. Cohort students will be paired with veteran teachers at the Indiana School for the Blind and co-teach the summer school session.
3 credits Methods of selection and placement, requirements of personnel, in-service training of teachers, problems of supervision, and problems of relationships of special to regular classes.
SPED 685 - Grant Development and Program Evaluation
3 credits This course provides students with the necessary skills to develop and submit grants to state agencies, federal agencies, and private foundations, and to evaluate existing or proposed programs in special education.
1-3 credits Note Offered on an individual basis with the student choosing, with the approval of the instructor, the area of study and the method to be used. May be repeated once for credit with consent of the Chairperson of the Department.
1-3 credits This course is devoted to the study of advanced topics in special education, such as: a) secondary level academic programming, b) professional issues, c) consultation strategies, d) special education law, and e) early childhood special education.
Note This course may be repeated if different topics are studied, but not more than 6 semester hours may be counted toward meeting the degree requirements.
3 credits Opportunities are provided for supervised and independent study in selected areas.
Note All work offered on an individual basis with the consent of instructor concerned and Department Chairperson. May be repeated with consent of Department Chairperson.
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 credits This course is an introduction to the field of school psychology. It focuses on the history of the profession and examines the role and function of school psychologists. It also provides an overview of the organization and operation of schools. Topics include the role of special education, ethical and legal issues, and school psychologists as data-based problem solvers.
3 credits The purpose of this course is to give students training and experience in administering and interpreting several traditional and contemporary psychoeducational tests. This course will include discussion of theories of intelligence, and the need for alternative approaches to assessment, such as dynamic assessment and curriculum-based assessment.
SPSY 667 - Preschool Psychoeducational Assessment and Intervention
3 credits Provides instruction in psychoeducational assessment and intervention with a primary emphasis on academic difficulties and educational disabilities. The course emphasizes assessment and treatment models that are responsive to children and families from diverse cultural groups. Special attention is given to (a) accuracy of administration and interpretation of psychological assessment procedures via written and oral reports and (b) development of intervention techniques for academic and behavioral deficits.
SPSY 670 - Diagnosis, Treatment, and Management of Reading Disabilities
3 credits The course is designed to help school psychologists, reading specialists, and elementary school teachers diagnose the different forms of reading disabilities. The course will introduce currently known principles of the psychology of reading process and present diagnostic and remedial procedures based on these processes.
SPSY 671 - Practicum in Reading and Social/Emotional Interventions
3 credits This course is designed to develop assessment, intervention, and consultation skills in advanced graduate students. Skills will be developed through supervised work with children, adolescents, and adults in school and clinic settings.
3 credits Assessment and intervention of educational, behavioral, and psychological disorders in children and adolescents are discussed from a behavioral perspective. Treatment of such disorders in home, school, and community settings is emphasized.
SPSY 678 - Practicum in Psychoeducational Interventions
1 credits The aim of this course is to provide practicum experience working with children and adolescents with behavioral, emotional, and/or learning difficulties in home, school, clinic, and community settings.
Prerequisites consent of instructor. Note May be repeated for a maximum of 2 credits
3 credits This course provides instruction in social-emotional assessment and intervention. The course emphasizes assessment and treatment models that are responsive to children and families from diverse cultural groups. Assessment and treatment models are applied from a cognitive-behavioral perspective. Special attention is given to (a) accuracy of administration and interpretation of psychological assessment procedures via written and oral reports and (b) development of empirically–supported intervention techniques.
3 credits History and systems of psychology; roles and functions of school psychologists; legal and ethical issues including laws, court decisions, ethical principles, professional guidelines, and standards; other contemporary issues relevant to the practice of professional psychology.
1-3 credits This course provides advanced graduate students with experience in applying their knowledge of child development, learning theory, assessment, and interventions while working with children, parents and teachers in a school psychology center and the public schools.
Prerequisites 666, 667, 677, 682, and consent of instructor.
SPSY 688 - Supervision of Practicum in School Psychology
3-6 credits Supervised experience for advanced school psychology graduate students in the supervision of students in the Porter School Psychology Center and/or public school settings.
1-3 credits Offered on an individual basis with the student choosing, with the approval of the instructor, the area of study and the method to be used.
Note May be repeated once for credit with consent of the Chairperson of the Department.
3 credits This course is intended for advanced doctoral students. It includes an intensive study of research relating to school psychology and the development of a research proposal.
3 credits The present roles and functions of school psychologists will be examined within the perspective of the historical evaluation of professional psychology.
1-3 credits Opportunities are provided for supervised and independent study in selected areas. Designed primarily for Educational Specialist degree students.
Note All work offered on an individual basis with the consent of instructor concerned and Department Chairperson. May be repeated with consent of Department Chairperson.
1-3 credits Designed to permit the advanced graduate student to test a theory or hypothesis related to school psychological services. Emphasis will be placed on the design, application, and evaluation of the project by the student and the faculty.
Note May be repeated with the consent of Chairperson of the Department.
3-6 credits Experience in an appropriate school or agency under professional supervision provided by the school or agency and Indiana State University. Designed to provide the student with experiences requiring an increasing degree of self-direction and responsibility.
Note May be repeated with the consent of the Chairperson of the Department.
3 credits Designed to provide doctoral students with experience in teaching at the college level. The student taking this course is assigned to a professor who supervises his or her teaching of an appropriate course.
3-6 credits Opportunities are provided for supervised research and independent study in selected areas. Designed for doctoral students.
Note All work offered on an individual basis with consent of instructor concerned and Department Chairperson. May be repeated with consent of Department Chairperson.
2-4 credits An internship designed to provide direct, supervised experiences for doctoral students, usually in the area of specialization. The experiences are tailored to the needs of the student. The area in which the internship is taken will be designated on the student’s transcript.
Note May be repeated. Prerequisite: admission to doctoral candidacy and/or the consent of the student’s doctoral committee. (Course taken for satisfactory-unsatisfactory grades only.)
1 credits Designed to provide all doctoral students in the College of Education opportunities to criticize each other’s research, to hear presentations by scholars in their own and others’ areas of education, and to receive guidance in their progress toward their degrees.
Note (Doctoral students will register for the course their first semester in residence and will continue to attend so long as they are on campus.)
SS 601 - Content Methods for Alternative Licensure
3 credits This course addresses curriculum development, unit organization, instructional technology, and methods of assessment appropriate to the secondary classroom.
Note This course meets state and national standards in each content area.
2-3 credits This course is designed primarily, but not exclusively, for secondary social studies teachers, grades seven-12. Emphasis is placed on a re-examination of the goals and methods of instruction. Inquiry and inductive approaches to teaching are stressed. Attention is also devoted to the examining of recent curricular developments and materials, especially those stressing value analysis and meaningful citizenship education.
Prerequisites teaching experience or consent of the Coordinator.
1-6 credits Intensive study and research in a selected topic in social science education. Preparation and criticism of seminar papers are stressed. Since topics for study will vary, students may repeat the course until they have earned a maximum of 6 hours credit.
Prerequisites teaching experience. Note To repeat this course, students must have approval from the Coordinator of the Social Science Education Program.
2-3 credits This course is designed to acquaint students with social studies curricular theory and practice in the secondary schools. Recent state and national social science curricular projects emphasizing the nature and structure of the social science disciplines are examined in depth. Students will be given an opportunity to adapt one of the national projects or develop new curricular experiences and materials for their local school situations.
Prerequisites teaching experience or consent of the Coordinator.
SS 607 - Instructional Materials in Social Studies
2-3 credits This course is designed to give teachers an opportunity to design and produce instructional materials for use in local school situations. Attention will be given to producing a wide variety of materials such as films, filmstrips, transparencies, games, and simulations, as well as reading materials.
Prerequisites teaching experience or consent of the Coordinator.
TCED 604 - Topics and Experiences in Technology Education
1-3 credits Experiences selected or designed to provide understanding and experience with industrial technology as it functions in our society: a—manufacturing, b—service, c—construction, d—industrial communication.
TCED 672 - Recent Literature and Trends in Technology Education
3 credits Identification and evaluation of significant tendencies toward change in all aspects of this curriculum area as revealed by the recent literature plus a study of major causal forces.
1-3 credits Provides opportunity for doctoral students to test a theory or hypothesis in industrial technology education. Field projects will be designed, implemented, and project will be evaluated.
1-3 credits Approaches to theater publicity, stage management, front of house operation, and theater business. Participants will be actively involved in the summer theater program.
Prerequisites consent of Department Chairperson. Cross-listed NOTE: Courses in the 500 series are open to undergraduate students as *400 series. Graduate students are required to do additional work of a research nature. A course taken at the 400 level may not be repeated at the 500 level. Note A student’s enrollment in this course may not exceed a maximum of 6 credit hours.
3 credits The focus of this course will be on play adaptations. Besides examining a variety of plays and the original literary works from which they were adapted, students will engage in their own projects of writing a full-length or long one-act play based on a piece of poetry, short fiction, a part of a novel or epic, a classic play, or a work from some other artistic genre.
THTR 580 - Directing for the Thrust and Arena Stage
3 credits Exploration into the director’s arts and craft, with particular focus on the fundamentals of staging texts for the thrust and arena stages. The primary emphasis of the course will be on staging dramatic texts from periods prior to the twentieth century. NOTE: Courses in the 500 series are open to undergraduate students as *400 series. Graduate students are required to do additional work of a research nature. A course taken at the 400 level may not be repeated at the 500 level.
3 credits This course focuses on the actor’s development of stage characters in a variety of imaginative given circumstances. Consult the Department of Theater for specific content.
Note Since this course has rotating content, students may take 484/584 a maximum of three times over three semesters, for a maximum of nine credits.
THTR 585 - Advanced Acting Techniques II: Scene Study
3 credits This course focuses on the actor’s work in a number of scenes with contrasting acting challenges. Consult the Department of Theater for specific content.
Note Since this course has rotating content, students may take 485/585 a maximum of three times over three semesters, for a maximum of nine credits.
3 credits An examination of the important theoretical, critical, historical, and production questions that must be considered in preparing a conceptual point of view toward a dramatic text. Focus is on in-depth studies of individual plays and production concepts.
3 credits A study of various approaches to examining the theater experience, including aesthetic, political, psychological, formal, and performance theories.
3 credits Principles of direction: play analysis, characterization, methods of rehearsal. Students are required to direct scenes or short plays to be performed before an audience.
TMGT 529 - Workplace Law for the Technical Manager
3 credits Analysis of laws and regulations that have the greatest influence on management of front-line industrial employees. Research and synthesis of legislation, landmark and recent litigation, case studies, trends, and industrial projects are used to prepare technical managers to meet the letter and spirit of the law while meeting management goals.
3 credits An exploration of the leaders, principles, processes, tools, and resources of the movement to improve products, services, and relationships in industry and education.
TMGT 591 - Creativity and Ideation Techniques and Practice
3 credits Conscious and deliberate experimentation towards more productive thinking and idea generation culminating in applications of techniques learned.
TMGT 597 - Problem Solving Techniques: A Team Approach
3 credits Investigation of and practice using several problem solving techniques as practiced in industrial organizations. Techniques include consensus, brainstorming, synectics, problem solving conference, force field analysis, and Kepner-Tregoe among others.
TMGT 607 - Statistics for Experimental Research in Technology
3 credits Students will become familiar with applications of statistical methods to problems in technology; elements of experimental design; an introduction to factorial experiments and linear regression. Each student will complete an analysis of data for a simulated industrial research project.
Note Use of common computer analysis packages will be stressed.
3 credits The purpose of this field based project experience is to identify and solve real training and linking problems common to the educational establishments with industry and business.
3 credits This course is the culminating experience in human resource development synthesizing concepts, knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values in application to problems, issues, and concerns related to higher education and industry.
3 credits A course designed to provide candidates for the master’s degree in industrial technology with the culminating integrative experience required by the School of Graduate Studies.
3 credits The student will be involved in applied research, using standard procedures of problem identification, possible solutions, and a final report. This experience can be field and/or laboratory based in computer integrated manufacturing, construction, manufacturing, or printing management.