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EDU 613 - Lit Elem&Mid Schl Child Credits 3
Lecture / 3 hours per week
Introduces methods of bringing literature to children grades K-8. A study of the cultural, social and psycho-linguistic principles, strategies and practices underlying readings and learning to read.
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EDU 615 - Teaching Social Studies Elementary and Middle School Credits 3
Lecture / 3 hours per week
Social studies as a tool to help young people develop the ability to make informed decisions for the public good as citizens of a culturally diverse, democratic society in an independent world.
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EGR 500 - Graduate Internship Credits variable; 1.00 to 3.00
Requirements: Prereq: Graduate student in one of the programs in EngineeringResearch
Prerequisite: Graduate standing; approval by advisor, graduate program director and department chairperson.
Experiential learning in conjunction with an industrial or governmental agency project under the joint supervision of an outside sponsor and a faculty advisor. To be eligible, a student should have completed at least half of his/her program of study. A detailed project proposal must be prepared by the student for departmental approval prior to the start of the project. Upon completion, student must submit a report on the experience and make a short presentation to his/her graduate committee. This course may be used to satisfy one 3-credit graduate technical elective course.
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EGR 501 - Ethics for Engineers Credits 1
Requirements: Pre-req: Graduate StandingSeminar / 1 hours per week
Topics in broad interdisciplinary field of ethics as applied to various engineering and science disciplines along with a strong emphasis on Ethics applicable toward research, intellectual property and environmental impact. A better understanding of ethics helps to ensure research findings are relevant, respectful and beneficial to society.
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ELP 551 - Introduction to Educational Leadership and Public Policy Credits 3
Other / 3 hours per week
Introduction to educational leadership and policy theoretical environments focused in K-12 education. Concepts such as academic leadership, public policy and organizational structure, staff productivity, leadership in the change process, instruction, faculty development, and faculty personnel policies are addressed. The course will allow students to understand critically the mechanics of the educational system in order to engage and produce culture based real critical transformative leadership.
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ELP 552 - Organizational Behavior in Educational Settings Credits 3
Other / 3 hours per week
Interactive skills building course designed to improve managerial and team performances in educational settings. Students will address concepts, principles, and practices associated with effective leadership and sound management of individuals, groups, teams, and organizations. The focus is on organizational contexts and dynamics of school processes and outcomes, promoting shared responsibility and civic engagement, and the importance of collaboration in decision making processes.
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ELP 553 - Transformative Educational Leadership Credits 3
Seminar / 3 hours per week
Theoretical, cultural, political and ideological frameworks in leadership and management as a transformative practice. Students will address and explore issues of hierarchy, shared collective political processes, perceptions of leadership, organizational responsibility, shared accountability, and systemic change and community relationships.
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ELP 554 - Historical and Philosophical Foundations of American Education Credits 3
Other / 3 hours per week
Examining the foundations of American Education. In this course students will gain a historical and philosophical critical understanding of change in American Education from the colonial times to the present. They will analyze the interdisciplinary nature of the foundations of education with a focus on the intersections of culture, knowledge, and power.
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ELP 555 - Design and Evaluation of Educational Systems Credits 3
Seminar
Study of how public school systems have been designed, organized, implemented and evaluated in the United States. Throughout the course students will be confronted with historical and contemporary dominant and counter dominant designs and evaluation formats as well as with various programs and issues akin to the elementary, middle, and secondary levels.
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ELP 561 - Law and Education Credits 3
Other / 3 hours per week
Comprehensive review of the law and jurisprudence that governs public (and private) education in the United States. Topics will include an analysis of Education as a fundamental right and as a unique governmental function of the Federal and state governments; the constitutional powers, prerogatives and limitations that these governmental entities have for carrying out public education and regulate the private sector; and the rights and duties of parents, students, teachers, and administrators inside and outside the schools. POL 542
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ELP 562 - Human Resources and Change Management in Education Credits 3
Other
Development of skills necessary to improve organizational effectiveness. Includes the analysis and research expertise associated with managing the demands of institutional and programmatic change. Analysis of theory-to-practice models is highlighted to support the instructional approach to this course. Students will gain advanced research competencies relevant to educational administration.
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ELP 563 - Public Finance and Education Credits 3
Seminar
Overview of how education is financed in the United States. Includes analysis of the national, state, and local strategies used to support education. Students will engage in an analysis of the complexity and magnitude of education as an important resource in the public sector. This course will expose students to a critical understanding of how the American economy provides funding for public education, how funds are administered, and trends toward more efficient utilization of resources.
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ELP 571 - Research Methods I - Methods and Design Credits 3
Lecture
Provide a graduate level introduction to the principles of applied social science research. Students will review the tools and techniques used by social scientists to inform evidence-based policymaking. Students will develop skills in critical thinking related to the evaluation of policies, and test those skills through the design of a research proposal related to a policy question of their choosing.
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ELP 572 - Research Methods II - Statistical Analysis Credits 3
Lecture
Introduces students to basic statistical methods and their application to management, policy and financial decision making in the public and nonprofit sectors. This course covers the essential elements of descriptive statistics, univariate and bivariate statistical inference, and some multivariate analysis. Topics include sampling, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, and regression analysis.
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ELP 573 - Applied Policy Research Seminar Credits 3
Seminar / 3 hours per week
The methods, techniques, and data sources for conducting applied policy research and the preparation of analytic reports designed to influence decision-making in government, business, education, and other organizational settings.
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ELP 574 - Research Methods V Qualitative Inquiry in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Credits 3
Seminar / 3 hours per week
A comprehensive examination of qualitative inquiry in educational leadership and policy studies. Topics will include an analysis of key strategies of qualitative inquiry: ethnography, autoethnography, oral history, narrative inquiry, case study, phenomenology, grounded theory, participatory action research, and discourse analysis.
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ELP 581 - Colloquium #01 Politics & Education Credits 1
Other / 3 hours per week
Participants in the Colloquium will be exposed to the political dynamics of education. Students and faculty will explore issues involving the intersection of politics and educational policy and practice as well as the impact it may have or has had at the nation (e.g. United States), states (e.g. Massachusetts) and a particular geographical locality (e.g. the South coast region in Massachusetts). Emphasis will be given to the discussion and analysis of the role that the federal and state governments exert through legislative, executive, and judicial action pertaining to education as well as to roles state agencies, school districts, school boards and elected (or appointed) government officials (legislators, mayors, state officials) play in the formation, analysis, and practice of educational policy.
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ELP 582 - Colloquium II: Critical Issues in Teaching and Learning Credits 1
Requirements: Prerequisite: ELP 581Lecture / 1 hours per week
Examining teaching as an intellectual craft. Students examine the issues that influence the daily life of teachers and their student body. Issues include such topics as cognitive coaching, cooperative learning, and differentiated instruction. Emphasis is placed on identifying, understanding, and critiquing effective classroom instruction strategies.
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ELP 583 - Colloquium III Innovations in Instructional Design and Technology Credits 1
Lecture
Examining innovation and technology theoretically and in classroom settings. Students will dissect new ways in which basic educational and psychological research is transformed into evidence based applied science of learning and instruction. The colloquium will emphasize ways to analyze and discuss how new instructional techniques and technologies can advance student learning and improve the organization of schools delivery systems as well as what it would take to make them work effectively in today’s schools.
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ELP 584 - Colloquium IV: Promoting Parental and Civic Engagement in Schools Credits 1
Lecture
Forum to analyze and debate on strategies and practices that may best involve parents in the education of their children and become civically engaged in their communities to improve the schools where their children attend. Examples of best practices as well as of current of planned initiatives in the region or in the state will be showcased, and scrutinized to improve them as well as to explore their potential for replication or expansion. Emphasis will be placed on the study of how best to develop and sustain partnerships with families and community members that support the mission of the school and the role of educational leaders in community organizing as part of school improvement.
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ELP 596 - Directed Study Credits 3
Independent Study / 3 hours per week
Study under the supervision of a faculty member in an area covered in a regular course not currently being offered. Conditions and hours to be arranged.
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ELP 600 - Integrative Seminar Credits 3
Seminar / 3 hours per week
A learning experience aimed at demonstrating the ability to articulate, strengthen, examine, evaluate, and apply professional graduate education in social work. Students will master a substantial body of knowledge, skills, and values. The seminar is a comprehensive review of the subject matter covered by the common core courses and colloquia and provides students with a learning experience aimed at demonstrating the ability to articulate, strengthen, examine, evaluate, and apply their professional graduate education in social work.
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ELP 641 - Internship Credits 3
Seminar / 3 hours per week
Allow opportunities for students at a school district level to integrate, practice, and apply knowledge from coursework in the real-world setting of functioning schools. It is a practicum or field based experience related with real daily issues regarding leadership in practice. Students will be challenged with tensions between (1) theory and practice, and (2) students’ academic and experiential learning. Students will increasingly assume responsibility for their continuing professional development by planning for and completing a program of field experience.
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ELP 651 - Using or Analyzing Educational Assessment Data for School Improvement Credits 3
Seminar / 3 hours per week
Review of different types and sources of data and how to distinguish the different purposes for which data can be used or misused to improve schools. Students will also examine the importance of validity and reliability and fairness as essential elements for determining the quality of any assessment tool or in developing standards. Students will study (and in the process learn how to use it) current efforts in Massachusetts to improve the quality and use of data to improve teaching and learning in schools, to improve the performance of teachers and administrators operating in those schools, and to improve the diagnosis and treatment of learning disabilities.
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ELP 652 - Performance Measurement Credits 3
Seminar / 3 hours per week
Students master performance measurement. The course will provide students with the concepts, tools and techniques essential to developing and implementing performance measurement systems, while emphasizing their usefulness in improving organizational and program performance. In the course, students will examine reasons for measuring performance, the principles guiding performance measurement, common problems that limit their usefulness, as well as the utility of performance and evaluation data for policy and management analysts and decision makers. Special attention will be given to the use of strategic performance measures used today to elicit change in educational systems.
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ELP 653 - Political Economy of Urban Education Credits 3
Seminar / 3 hours per week
Exploration of how power relations between different economic, political, and social groups shape educational policy and practices. Students will examine topics in political science, economics, theories of justice, and the roles of government and their relation with educational policy and urban education.
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ELP 654 - Research Methods IV Program Evaluation Credits 3
Seminar / 3 hours per week
Students will analyze how to measure the effect of a program. They will learn about multimethods approaches (ethnographic methods; case studies; experimental and quasi-experimental) and about some new econometric methods. Students will be able to understand an evaluation study in great detail and form a well-grounded critical judgment about its value. Complemented with appropriate technical background or assistance, they will learn how to design, develop, and implement an evaluation study best suited for a program and the practical constraints at hand.
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ELP 661 - EdD-Colloquium #5 Leadership & Change at the School Level Credits 1
Lecture / 1 hours per week
Analyzation and debate of the leadership responsibilities of school and school district administrators, with special emphasis on the knowledge, skills, and values needed by school principals to improve student learning. Focus will be placed on the complex roles and responsibilities of the school principal and assistant principal as the educational leaders at the elementary, middle and secondary levels while remaining mindful of the need for stakeholder engagement. The importance of public communications and the use of data to improve decision making and planning in the school will be some of the topic areas to be included in this colloquium.
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ELP 662 - EdD-Colloquium VI: Leadership and Change at the District Level Credits 1
Requirements: PreReq: ELP 581, 582, 583, 584, 661 or permission of instructorLecture / 1 hours per week
Students and faculty analyze and debate the various roles and responsibilities of the public school superintendent in managing and leading change at the District Level. The colloquium will include topics such as developing and communicating a mission and vision for the school district: promoting appropriate uses of instructional technologies; developing and implementing professional development plans to improve student learning; encouraging experimentation and evaluation of new pedagogical approaches; community relations, professional accountability, district maintenance and operations, relationships with other school districts and educational agencies; and assuring high academic expectations for students and teachers. Students will also analyze and debate the relationship with the school boards and committees as well as politicians and their potential conflictive and contributive relationships with them.
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ELP 663 - EdD-Colloquium VII: School Improvement Plans Credits 1
Requirements: PreReq: ELP 581, 582, 583, 584, 662 or permission of instructorLecture / 1 hours per week
Students and faculty will examine and discuss critical issues regarding the design, implementation and evaluation of school improvement plans. Sample plans, case studies and research on restructuring chronically struggling schools will be used as a way to conduct the critique and reflect on what is required or could be done differently to improve its effectiveness or increase the likelihood of success.
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ELP 664 - PhD-Colloquium V - Global Contexts in Education Policy Credits 1
Lecture / 1 hours per week
Examination and debate of the educational policies within a global context. The colloquium provides the political,economic, ideological and cultural global and local dimensions that are shaping educational policies. Emphasis will put it in two towering topics, namely, globalization democracy and social justice and international perspectives in education leadership and policy studies.
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ELP 665 - PhD-Colloquium VI: Global Challenges, Local Demands and Solutions Credits 1
Requirements: Prerequiste: ELP 581, 582, 583, 584, 664 or permission of instructorLecture / 1 hours per week
Analysis and debate of issues emanating from the interaction of global challenges and local needs and their impact in education leadership and policy. Students will discuss how globalization is not a monolithic process and needs to be understood as a set of globalization processes of particular localities. In so doing students will unveil different forms of globalization (from the top and from below) and how local challenges have been determining different approaches towards schools. Issues such as the nationalization and internationalization of standards as well as the autonomy and interdependence of schools will be discussed with examples from real life situations.
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ELP 666 - PhD-Colloquium VII:Critical Issues in Language Planning and Education Credits 1
Requirements: PreReq: ELP 581, 582, 583, 584, 664, 665 or permission of instructorLecture / 1 hours per week
Exploration of the links between language ideology, language planning and inequality in the United States. Students and faculty will examine examples of successful efforts to use language policies in education to assert the rights of linguistic minorities in the United States and abroad. Case studies may be international in scope and may include cutting-edge analyses of important language policy debates relevant to us in the United States.
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ELP 672 - Special Topics in Educational Leadership Credits 3
Seminar / 3 hours per week
Exploration of various critical issues affecting educational leadership and policy. The course will pay particular attention to the various ways in which educational leadership has been conceptualized, the state of research on the field itself of educational leadership, internal or external factors that may hamper or bolster the likelihood of failure or success as a leader and administrator, and trends and challenges educational leaders face or are likely to face in a nearby future as a result of new policies, procedures or practices that have been enacted.
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ELP 673 - Trade Associations, Unions, Collective Bargaining and Education Reform Credits 3
Seminar / 3 hours per week
Examination of the nature of and the development of professional associations, unions and other educational organizations, their role in collective bargaining and their impact on educational reform initiatives. The seminar will provide an opportunity to study how these educational agencies affect educational policy and practice, the governance and organization of schools, and personnel administration in Education.
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ELP 674 - Diversity, Identity, and Educational Leadership Credits 3
Seminar / 3 hours per week
New complex contexts for the politics of inclusion in planning and in making decisions on how best to address issues of equity, given there is de facto segregation and or widespread poverty in the community or school(s) where the graduate students would be expected to function as leader; or that there are linguistic minorities, immigrants, and other historically marginalized groups present. They will examine the importance attributed to educational leaders for serving as models or mentors to others as well as the importance of emerging leaders to be more direct in addressing equity issues related to student achievement in schools. The course also seeks to examine the major themes centering on diversity and identity beyond the boundaries of the U.S.
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ELP 675 - Democracy and Education: Lessons from the Practice Credits 3
Seminar / 3 hours per week
Examination of successful experiences from real schools, teachers and leaders. By using the real field as a testimony, students will analyze and debate how a winning school and leadership is profoundly connected, not only with the curriculum per se - based on the belief that knowledge comes to life for students and teachers only when it is connected to something that is serious, but also in ways of finding practical avenues to increase the meaningful participation of everyone involved in the educational experience, including parents, local residents, and especially students themselves, making schools a democratic way of living.
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ELP 676 - Law School of Choice Credits 3
Seminar / 3 hours per week
Analyze from a historical perspective legislation and case law embodying the legal and educational principles governing school choice programs and assess the current calls for expanding and blurring the public-private sectors controversies in American Education. Students will also examine research and policy reports on school choice to explore the limits, possibilities, and challenges of choice programs in building a more just and fair society. The seminar will analyze real cases such as the Black Alliance for Educational options in Milwaukee trying to perceive how choice policies can provide high quality education for minority communities.
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ELP 677 - Law, Economics and the Education of Disenfranchised Groups and Subaltern Communities Credits 3
Seminar / 3 hours per week
Students analyze and understand the relation edified by the legal and economic apparatuses and educational policies aimed at dealing with disenfranchised segments of American Society such as linguistic and ethnic minorities, women, and students with learning and physical disabilities. In this seminar students will review the constitutional and statutory provisions of federal and state law and the judicial decisions interpreting those laws, the costs implicated in it, and how these have translated into actual practice. Emphasis will be placed on how educating these groups impact current expectations for school improvement and how assessment tools and practices may be used in ways that may ameliorate or further inequities for members of these groups. The seminar takes a critical view of the knowledge economy, and human and intellectual capital policy development in educational institutions.
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ELP 678 - Contemporary Policy and Reform in Education Credits 3
Seminar / 3 hours per week
Study of the origin, nature and consequences of educational reform in the United States with a special focus on the movement towards increased accountability and development of national standards in education and professional preparation. Emphasis will be given to exploring current reform efforts, trends and policies and in imagining what is or should be happening next. Throughout seminar students will also review how leadership in education has evolved and where it might be headed.
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ELP 679 - Critical Curriculum Theory and Inquiry in Education Credits 3
Seminar / 3 hours per week
Critical theory in education, how it has evolved and its impact on curriculum theory and educational thought. Current issues and trends in the field will be examined. Special attention will be paid to the interface between critical frameworks and post-structural approaches. In this seminar students will be able to explore designing research projects on educational issues using the critical theory framework analysis and methodology.
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ELP 680 - Globalization, Cosmopolitanism, Democracy and Social Justice in Education Credits 3
Seminar / 3 hours per week
Examination of globalization as a web of multifarious forms underpinning global, local and regional institutions and regimes allowing space for transnational politics and policies. Students will be confronted with state of the art analyses involving several forms of globalization and examine how democracies have been a fundamental ideological, political, economic and cultural currency of social legitimization. The course will emphasize the relations and tensions between neo-liberal forms of globalization and globalization from below strategies and the impact of such tensions in democracy and social justice. We will explore issues such as social justice, economic justice, cultural justice and how these impact education policy and practice.
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ELP 682 - Indigenous Knowledges and Methodologies Credits 3
Seminar / 3 hours per week
Importance of epistemological and methodological approaches other than the traditional dominant research forms will be brought to the fore. The purpose is to open up spaces for the investigation of the larger empirical and theoretical implications of alternative systems of knowledge that emerge from global indigeneity. In this seminar students will also examine the differences between research done within an indigenous context using Western methodologies and research done using indigenous methodologies which integrates indigenous voices.
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ELP 683 - Educational Reform, Accountability and Achievement Gap Credits 3
Seminar / 3 hours per week
Students will examine the role(s) that the goal of eliminating the minority achievement gap has had throughout the ages in eliciting change and reform in contemporary American Education. They will also critically reflect on whether the focus on the minority achievement gap is still useful or whether a new paradigm shift is needed or is taking place in American schools, particularly that of benchmarking ourselves against other countries performance on educational efficacy to maintain or improve our international competitiveness and strategic advantages.
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ELP 691 - Dissertation Seminar I Credits 3
Seminar / 3 hours per week
Work on a specific dissertation topic searching interconnected previous and contemporary research. The course will help students develop a formal dissertation proposal that includes a draft of all parts of the dissertation.
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ELP 692 - Dissertation Seminar II Credits 3
Requirements: Prerequisite: ELP 691Seminar / 3 hours per week
Application of cumulative understanding and skills designed in the proposal. The seminar will help students to make a realistic transition from coursework to dissertation. They will master all the literature review mechanisms as well as methodological perspectives appropriate to the proposal’s conceptual framework.
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ELP 693 - Dissertation Seminar III Credits 3
Requirements: PreReq: Completion of all required coursework and ELP 691 and ELP 692 or permission of instructor.Seminar / 3 hours per week
Engaging students in data collection and analysis while producing their dissertations. Students will collect and examine data following the dissertation proposal. Students will work on methodological and conceptual chapters to describe the data collection and analysis and to explain how the data answers to the research questions.
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ELP 694 - Dissertation Seminar IV Credits 3
Requirements: Prerequisite: Completion of all required coursework and ELP 691, ELP 692 and ELP 693 or permission of instructor.Seminar / 3 hours per week
Completion of the dissertation by working on the final considerations of the research. The seminar will allow students to prepare and revise the entire dissertation manuscript for defense.
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ELP 700 - EdD - Dissertation I Credits 3
Requirements: PreReq: Completion of all required course work and dissertation seminars or permission of instructorSeminar / 3 hours per week
Research and writing of the dissertation. The dissertation must be an original and crucial contribution to the field of educational leadership and policy studies. Such intellectual exegesis is completed under the supervision of the dissertation committee chair/advisor and members.
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ELP 710 - EdD-Dissertation II Credits 3
Requirements: PreReq: Completion of all required course work and dissertation seminars as well as EdD-Dissertation I permission of instructorSeminar / 3 hours per week
Continuation of research and writing of the dissertation. The dissertation must be an original and crucial contribution to the field of educational leadership and policy studies. Such intellectual exegesis is completed under the supervision of the dissertation committee chair/advisor and members. After approval of the dissertation by the committee, the student will proceed to the defense.
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ELP 711 - Thesis I Credits 6
Seminar / 6 hours per week
Research and writing of the dissertation. The dissertation must be an original and crucial contribution to the field of educational leadership and policy studies. Such intellectual exegesis is completed under the supervision of the dissertation committee chair/advisor and members. After approval of the dissertation by the committee, the student will proceed to the defense.
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ELP 712 - Thesis II Credits 6
Seminar / 6 hours per week
Continuation of research and writing of the dissertation. The dissertation must be an original and crucial contribution to the field of educational leadership and policy studies. Such intellectual exegesis is completed under the supervision of the dissertation committee chair/advisor and members. After approval of the dissertation by the committee, the student will proceed to the defense.
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ENL 501 - Rhetorical Theory Credits 3
Requirements: Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or permission of instructorLecture / 3 hours per week
Rhetorical precepts and notions as developed since antiquity and applied to contemporary professional writing and communication. Students will learn to identify and analyze rhetoric across a variety of discursive situations and in turn establish sound rhetorical practices within their own communication.
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ENL 503 - Language & Its Use Credits 3
Requirements: Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or permission of instructorLecture / 3 hours per week
Study of the structures and conventions of language use in context, including the social meaning of language variation. Course will offer a foundational “tool box” for working with language (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics). Attention will be given to both the functions of language in context (style, grammar, rhetoric, semantics, constraints, discourse, and genre) and historical, geographical and cultural variations in usage.
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ENL 505 - Stylistics Credits 3
Requirements: Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or permission of instructorLecture / 3 hours per week
This course explores the analytical and creative possibilities of language. Through both a theoretical discussion and practical application, we will examine how basic elements of writing, such as diction - including figurative language - syntax, structure, and rhetorical style, express and modulate meaning in a variety of writing forms. Students will analyze, create, and critique imaginative pieces, including advertising copy, written speeches, song lyrics, technical articles, short fiction poetry, drama, and literary nonfiction.
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ENL 510 - Thesis/Project Research Credits 3
Requirements: Prerequisite: Matriculated Grad StudentsLecture / 3 hours per week
Principles of research, writing the thesis/project proposal, and initial thesis/project drafting. The course explores primary and secondary research methods. Course content includes in-depth and formal interviewing techniques, principles of field observation, content analysis, literature reviews, electronic data searches, historical analysis, focus groups, case studies, questionnaire design, use and abuse of statistical inquiry, fundamentals of logic and causation, and philosophical inquiry into qualitative and quantitative research perspectives. The course places major emphasis on how to write a proposal and thesis/project aimed at eventual publication.
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ENL 549 - Teaching English: Classroom Methods Credits 3
Requirements: Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or permission of instructorLecture / 3 hours per week
Theory and practice of teaching secondary English in its three dominant areas of reading, writing, and rhetorical analysis of literary works. Special focus will be upon how students acquire language and theoretical skills within the complex milieu of classrooms and how teachers can enhance that learning by translating sound theory into a broad range of learning activities and classroom strategies. This course is required for certification in secondary English teaching in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. ENL 349
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ENL 550 - Special Area Study Credits 3
Independent Study
Under special circumstances, graduate students may take a maximum of two 300-400 level undergraduate courses for graduate credit. Students cannot do ‘independent study’; they must take a course, and they must arrange with the instructor to do more writing than required of the undergraduates to justify the graduate level credit. This option is not intended for students needing to make up deficiencies in order to perform at an appropriate level in graduate courses, but as an opportunity for students to explore specialized areas of interest. Before registering for this course, students must write a proposal that clearly delineates the writing projects they will undertake.
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ENL 595 - Independent Study Credits variable; 1.00 to 6.00
Independent Study
Study under the supervision of a faculty member in an area not otherwise part of the discipline’s course offerings. Conditions and hours to be arranged.
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ENL 596 - Directed Study Credits 3
Independent Study
Study under the supervision of a faculty member in an area covered in a regular course not currently being offered. Conditions and hours to be arranged.
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ENL 600 - Technical and Business Writing Credits 3
Requirements: Prerequisite: Matriculated Grad StudentsLecture / 3 hours per week
This course introduces students to the many purposes, audiences, forms, and formats of technical documents and professional correspondence. They will receive practice in writing and designing a variety of documents to achieve worthwhile content, sensible organization, and readable style. Focus will be on techniques of audience-and-use analysis to adjust a message’s level of technicality to the needs and background of its audience. Focus throughout is on writing as a deliberate process of deliberate decisions.
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ENL 601 - Report and Proposal Writing Credits 3
Lecture / 3 hours per week
This course is a case-approach to researching, planning, writing, and revising recommendation reports and proposals to be used by decision-makers. Students will do primary research, on-line bibliographic searches, and learn how to access government documents. They also will learn techniques for writing and designing long reports and proposals for multiple audiences.
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ENL 602 - Grants Writing Credits 3
Requirements: Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or permission of instructorLecture / 3 hours per week
The course includes intensive research into funding sources, analysis and interpretation of guidelines and writing several drafts of grant proposals. This specialized rhetorical form involves analyzing complex audiences and learning persuasive techniques unique to grants writing.
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ENL 605 - Persuasive Writing and Speaking Credits 3
Lecture / 3 hours per week
We will survey strategies from Aristotle through Madison Avenue, focusing on ethics and legality and techniques of argumentative discourse: its substance, shape, and style. Emphasis also is on avoiding logical fallacies, composing persuasive messages for clients, customers, colleagues, supervisors, subordinates, and audiences; on writing advertising copy and on giving oral presentations.
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ENL 610 - Rhetorical Strategies: Achieving Effective Style Credits 3
Requirements: Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or permission of instructorLecture / 3 hours per week
The theory and practice of style as a writer’s “way of seeing.” By analyzing and emulating outstanding contemporary prose, we develop a style vocabulary, and we explore possible “voices” for expressive, explanatory, or persuasive writing. Reading, writing, and editing assignments focus on the enduring qualities of forceful, readable, and emphatic style: clarity, conciseness, fluency, exactness, and engaging tone, among a wide array of syntactic and semantic elements that help make writing make a difference.
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ENL 620 - Writ Comp User Documents Credits 3
Lecture / 3 hours per week
The proliferation of computers has led to the rampant growth of documentation requirements and an increased demand for writers capable of addressing various audiences with clarity and precision. In this course, we will concentrate on documentation standards and guidelines, documentation management and control and document preparation. Among the topics covered will be documentation requirements in the design, development and life cycle of a system; forms management and design considerations; software documentation requirements and the techniques used to prepare effective and efficient documents.
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ENL 621 - Document Design Credits 3
Lecture / 3 hours per week
Emphasis on combining textual and graphic components to accomplish production-oriented, informative, instructional, and persuasive tasks. Students will acquire a broad understanding of the fundamentals of visual communication and document design. Students will then evaluate the effectiveness of design choices for particular rhetorical situations and apply those principles to specific projects using industry-standard design/publishing software.
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ENL 622 - Visual Rhetoric Credits 3
Seminar / 3 hours per week
Exploration of current scholarship on the processes of visual-verbal communication within the public sphere. Drawing on perspectives of visuality in rhetoric, cultural studies, art, and photography, this course considers the role of the visual in our hyper-visualized and digital world, particularly as those ideas relate to professional writing and communication.
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ENL 623 - Web Development and Design Credits 3
Requirements: Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or permission of instructorLecture / 3 hours per week
Introduction to strategies, techniques, and technologies used by web developers and designers. Teaches how to establish site goals, articulate user needs, improve user experience, produce quality web content, and compose usable web writing. Students learn front-end, back-end, and social-web development and design principles, as well as current web production technologies.
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ENL 630 - Teaching Writing: Theory & Practice Credits 3
Requirements: Prerequisite: Matriculated Grad StudentsLecture / 3 hours per week
Analysis of contemporary composing and rhetorical theories to determine their significance for teaching writing Strategies for teaching writing will be developed. Topics range from methods for evaluating papers to collaborative learning, to cognitive processes and ways of interacting reading and writing.
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ENL 631 - Teaching Technical and Professional Writing Credits 1
Requirements: Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or permission of instructorLecture / 1 hours per week
This practicum includes an eclectic survey of theories, tests, and strategies, the supervised teaching of an undergraduate course, and weekly colloquia to assess classroom practice and to share approaches. In addition, each student will complete a related research project (e.g., a comparative analysis of leading textbooks, course structures, or writing needs in local businesses).
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ENL 632 - Teaching Reading and Writing: Theory and Practice Credits 3
Lecture / 3 hours per week
Theories on reading and writing and their application to practice in the English Language Arts classroom. The course covers current pedagogical theories and methods in writing and reading. The range of topics vary and may include units on the social activity of writing and reading; media - analysis, production, and impact on literary study; and the role of inquiry in literary study and writing about literature.
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ENL 640 - Journalism & Article Writing Credits 3
Requirements: Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or permission of instructorLecture / 3 hours per week
Journalism and Article Writing workshop explores the principles and techniques of news, feature and article writing for newspapers, magazines, and electronic media. The course emphasizes development of free-lance articles for publication in local, regional, and national markets.
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ENL 641 - Technical and Scientific Journalism Credits 3
Requirements: Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or permission of instructorLecture / 3 hours per week
This course examines the problems, principles, and techniques of writing effectively in science and technology for both the general public and specialized audiences. Emphasis will be on evaluating technical language and jargon; understanding the needs of various audiences; learning research techniques; and developing interview and validation strategies that help writers clarify trends, theories, patterns, and perspectives. Students will be expected to write articles about newsworthy events for scientific and technical journals.
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ENL 642 - Public Relations Techniques Credits 3
Lecture / 3 hours per week
This course offers students a comprehensive understanding of the purposes of public relations, its principles, and the techniques by which its goals are accomplished. The course covers the full range of public relations strategies used by individuals, agencies, corporations, and governments, including press releases, audio-visual presentations, public speaking, paid advertising, lobbying, fostering employee relations, and promoting citizen involvement.
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ENL 643 - Arts Reviewing Credits 3
Requirements: Prerequisite: Graduate Standing in Masters in Professional Writing ProgramLecture / 3 hours per week
A journalism course for potential or practicing critics/reviewers. Students will develop their ability to write effectively about and evaluate the visual, written or performing arts. The course stresses both theoretical considerations concerning ethics, rhetorical strategies and persuasive techniques directed at varied audiences (i.e. general circulation publications versus specialty arts publications, alternative press versus mainstream) and the practical preparation of reviews which meet varying editorial requirements.
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ENL 645 - Vis Dsply Frmt&Dsktp Pub Credits 3
Requirements: Prerequisite: Matriculated Grad StudentsLecture / 3 hours per week
This course is designed to expose students to the principles of visual display in working documents so that, as editors and writers, they can work effectively with photographers and artists in the creation of finished texts. Students will explore the use of photos, headlines, graphics and visual elements as they can be used to enhance the meaning and effectiveness of written text. Students will learn to plan visual elements in the early stages of story, computer program or document conception. They will explore basic principles of visual design and experience the limitations and problems inherent in generating visual elements. Students will receive practical experience in dummying and layout, and will oversee several projects incorporating visual elements into written works. The purpose of the course is to train writers and editors to be sensitive and effective users of visuals designed primarily by others.
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ENL 650 - Topic Profession Writing Credits 3
Requirements: Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or permission of instructorLecture / 3 hours per week
An in-depth writing workshop focusing on various topics in professional writing. The type of writing taught during a particular semester will vary, depending on student interests, faculty research and publication, or the strengths of visiting writers. Possible topics include approaches to writing novels, short stories, screenplays or poetry, editorial, feature, how-to environmental and other forms of journalistic writing; free-lance writing; and special topics in technical and professional writing.
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ENL 657 - Topics in American Literature Credits 3
Requirements: Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or permission of instructorSeminar / 3 hours per week
Graduate seminar in American Literature. Topics address seminal texts, authors and themes in American literature. Topics vary and may focus on historical periods, movements in American literature, genres, multiethnic and gender studies, or major authors. Through in-depth reading and research in American literary studies, students increase their subject-level knowledge of American literature; develop their depth of understanding of American literatures and their contexts; strengthen their skills in literary analysis; and increase their understanding of historical, sociopolitical, and other contexts of American literary study.
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ENL 659 - Topics in World Literature Credits 3
Seminar / 3 hours per week
Graduate seminar in World Literature. Topics vary and address seminal texts from different periods and world cultures, including British. Topics may focus on historical periods, movements in world literature, genres, multiethnic and gender studies, or major authors. Through in-depth reading and research, students develop their understanding of cultures other than their own, discover representative themes and issues in the literature of those cultures, make connections among them, and strengthen their skills in literary analysis.
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ENL 660 - Graduate Workshop in Creative Writing I Credits 3
Workshop / 3 hours per week
Fiction, poetry, playwriting, or the essay will be addressed, under the guidance of a published author. Students must demonstrate a talent for performance in one or more of the above genres - either by published works or by a reasonable body of manuscripts completed or in progress. As a class, we will discuss prototypical works, techniques, and the manuscripts of colleagues. A finished piece of work will be required of each student at approximately biweekly intervals.
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ENL 661 - Graduate Workshop in Creative Writing II Credits 3
Workshop / 3 hours per week
Special topics, or continuation of ENL 660.
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ENL 662 - Graduate Workshop in Literary Nonfiction Credits 3
Requirements: Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or permission of instructorWorkshop / 3 hours per week
This course offers students a comprehensive understanding of the principles and techniques involved in writing literary nonfiction. Students will explore how techniques of fiction are applied to experience and reality to create this modern form of American literature.
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ENL 676 - Discourse Processes Credits 3
Requirements: Prerequisite: Graduate standing in MAT programLecture / 3 hours per week
An advanced seminar in exploration of classroom communication with a focus on the means by which language is taught and, specifically, on analyzing and recording instructional conversations involving multicultural populations. The course is intended to provide experience in the investigation of a classroom research question. Students will undertake supervised fieldwork and careful study of the theory and methods of descriptive research from a sociolinguistic perspective. FLL 676
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ENL 684 - Literary Criticism I: Theory and Practice in Teaching Literature Credits 3
Lecture / 3 hours per week
Intensive readings with analysis of relationships among language, thought, form, and content. The course will examine the intellectual, emotional, cultural, multicultural, and aesthetic qualities of texts, including the links among stylistic devices, central motifs, author’s purpose, motivation, imagination, and psychology with emphasis on secondary students’ analytic writing and reading abilities. The course will examine forms of literary criticism as they apply to teaching secondary language and literature. FLL 684
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ENL 690 - Composition Theory Credits 3
Lecture / 3 hours per week
Explores the history and principles of the relatively new discipline of composition studies. The course asks questions: What is the nature of composition studies? What is the history of the discipline? What is the relationship between rhetoric and composition, between theory and practice? What bibliographic resources aid the work of composition specialists? What role do departmental and institutional policies play in shaping/influencing the teaching of writing? How has pedagogy been influenced by recent developments in rhetorical criticism, cultural studies, feminism, literary theory, language philosophy, and technology? In addition, the course will consider the future of composition studies within the university in areas of instruction such as basic writing, English as a second language, writing across the curriculum, and hypermedia.
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ENL 701 - Internship inTechnical Writing Credits 3
Practicum / 3 hours per week
Students will work as writers, editors, or special consultants for organizations or companies producing technical documents, computer programs, or technical memos and reports. Emphasis will be placed on the quality of the student’s work and on the problems of collaborating with specialists to produce work for a range of audiences.
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ENL 702 - Internship in Technical Writing Credits 3
Practicum / 3 hours per week
Students will work as writers, editors, or special consultants for organizations or companies producing technical documents, computer programs, or technical memos and reports. Emphasis will be placed on the quality of the student’s work and on the problems of collaborating with specialists to produce work for a range of audiences.
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ENL 703 - Internship in Journalism Credits 3
Practicum / 3 hours per week
Students will work as writers, editors, or assistants for newspapers, magazines, radio or TV stations, news organizations, or may work in a news writing or editing capacity in public relations. Emphasis will be placed on the quality of published work produced by the student.
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ENL 704 - Internship in Journalism Credits 3
Practicum / 3 hours per week
Students will work as writers, editors, or assistants for newspapers, magazines, radio or TV stations, news organizations, or may work in a news writing or editing capacity in public relations. Emphasis will be placed on the quality of published work produced by the student.
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ENL 705 - Internship in Creative Writing, Scriptwriting, or Translation Credits 3
Practicum / 3 hours per week
Students will work as writers, editors, or free-lancers for publications, publishers, agents, or under the supervision of the course instructor who will serve as project reviewer. Emphasis will be placed on the quality of writing and the process of marketing manuscripts, scripts, and other creative works.
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ENL 706 - Internship in Creative Writing, Scriptwriting, or Translation Credits 3
Practicum / 3 hours per week
Students will work as writers, editors, or free-lancers for publications, publishers, agents, or under the supervision of the course instructor who will serve as project reviewer. Emphasis will be placed on the quality of writing and the process of marketing manuscripts, scripts, and other creative works.
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ENL 707 - Internship in Business and Professional Writing Credits 3
Practicum / 3 hours per week
Students will work as writers, editors, assistants, or special consultants in business, industry, or nonprofit organizations. Writing might include public relations pieces, such as press releases, advertising copy or unsolicited sales letters, and house organs; background papers for managers or executives; and memos, letters, and short reports. Emphasis will be placed on the quality of work produced by the student at the field sites.
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ENL 708 - Internship in Business and Professional Writing Credits 3
Practicum / 3 hours per week
Students will work as writers, editors, assistants, or special consultants in business, industry, or nonprofit organizations. Writing might include public relations pieces, such as press releases, advertising copy or unsolicited sales letters, and house organs; background papers for managers or executives; and memos, letters, and short reports. Emphasis will be placed on the quality of work produced by the student at the field sites.
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ENL 709 - Internship In Teaching Credits 3
Practicum / 3 hours per week
Students will work in teaching or teaching-related activities in the field of writing, including tutoring programs or writing centers in public or private schools or special summer programs, under the supervision of an on-site supervisor and the direction of a faculty sponsor who teaches ENL 630, ENL 631, or ENL 632. Emphasis will be placed on the quality of instructional materials produced by the student; programs created, updated, or redesigned; and written report of goals. No student shall receive credit for this course for work done as a teaching or graduate assistant, unless in connection with a project assumed in addition to the regular duties of that position.
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ENL 710 - Internship In Teaching Credits 3
Practicum / 3 hours per week
Students will work in teaching or teaching-related activities in the field of writing, including tutoring programs or writing centers in public or private schools or special summer programs, under the supervision of an on-site supervisor and the direction of a faculty sponsor who teaches ENL 630, ENL 631, or ENL 632. Emphasis will be placed on the quality of instructional materials produced by the student; programs created, updated, or redesigned; and written report of goals. No student shall receive credit for this course for work done as a teaching or graduate assistant, unless in connection with a project assumed in addition to the regular duties of that position.
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ENL 750 - Grad Thesis/Project I Credits variable; .00 to 3.00
Thesis
First semester. Graded CR/NC (upon approval of completed thesis or project).
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ENL 751 - Grad Thesis/Project II Credits variable; .00 to 3.00
Thesis
Thesis or Project in Professional Writing continued for the second semester. Graded CR/F.
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FIA 595 - Independent Study Credits 3
Independent Study
Study under the supervision of a faculty member in an area not otherwise part of the discipline’s course offerings. Conditions and hours to be arranged.
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FIN 500 - Economic Concepts Mgrs Credits 3
Lecture / 3 hours per week
Examines the most applicable principles of micro and macro-economics for the application of economic theory for the manager. Topics include optimization techniques applied to consumer choice firm behavior, pricing and the study of the market structure. Both ethical and international issues are addressed.
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