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Special Education-Early Intervention |
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SED 529 - Language Development and Literacy for Diverse Young Learners
Focuses on early language and early literacy theory and strategies for teaching and facilitating these skills and behaviors in all young children birth to age five. The course also will focus on language intervention techniques, augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), and methods for working with English Language Learners. The course uses learning principles and concepts of brain development, family involvement, and the application of assessment to intervention/instruction.
Prerequisites & Notes
None
Credits: 3
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SED 655 - Graduate Project in Early Intervention
Students identify a significant problem or issue in the field of early intervention and use a collaborative approach of inquiry to address the issue. The project requires the student to demonstrate competencies in action research, reflective practice, collaboration, leadership, and systems change at the micro or macro level.
Prerequisites & Notes
Permission of the instructor.
Credits: 3
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SEI 512 - Inclusive Early Childhood Curriculum
Examines curricular theories and approaches, authentic methods of assessment, curricular scope and sequence, and method and materials for curriculum content areas. Topics include cognitive development, communication and language development, emergent literacy, emergent mathematics, creative expression, and motor development.
Prerequisites & Notes
SEI 511.
Credits: 3
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Students at Risk |
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SAR 540 - Introduction to Students at Risk
Provides students with an in-depth understanding of the factors, conditions, and circumstances which are commonly viewed as contributing to students and their families being placed “at risk.” Results of past and contemporary research findings, demographics, and various reports involving the current and projected status of children at risk will be explored. Major emphasis will be upon how schools in contemporary society can effectively meet the multiple and complex instructional, personal, and social, needs of students at risk. Effective student dropout policies and practices will be explained.
Credits: 3
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SAR 541 - Alternative Models and Methods for At Risk Students
Introduction to working with at risk adolescents. Examines the dynamics risk conditions, educational barriers, teen culture and social complexities that act as barriers to learning, and strategies to overcome these challenges.
Credits: 3
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SAR 542 - Working with At Risk Adolescents
This course provides a strengths-based approach to working with at-risk adolescents within the conventional as well as alternative classroom settings. Course will examine the dynamics of social and educational barriers, teen culture and other contexts that can act as barriers to learning and will develop approaches for support personnel to help adolescents overcome challenges for successful learning experiences.
Credits: 3
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SAR 543 - Curriculum Design and Assessment in Alternative Education
Focus on instructional design theories of learning and best practices for teaching at-risk adolescents. Students will create interest in inventories and individual learning plans (ILPs) that optimize learning opportunities for at-risk youth, align relevant and meaningful curriculum to Maine Learning Results, and incorporate multiple assessments to identify student progress as prescribed by state and national standards and to address academic diversity within the classroom.
Credits: 3
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SAR 545 - Seminar: At Risk Children and Adolescents
Advanced course for students who have had considerable coursework within the area of students at risk and alternative education, as well as practical experience within the field. Requires extensive reading and analysis of relevant issues in the professional literature related to disengaged and disenfranchised youth.
Prerequisites & Notes
Permission.
Credits: 3
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Surveying Engineering Technology |
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SVT 501 - Advanced Adjustment Computations
Direct formation of reduced form of normal equations; Cholesky decomposition and back substitution; using Cholesky algorithms for computing select variance-covariance terms; optimization of solutions via banded and column profile minimization; recursive matrix partitioning; use of conjugate gradient procedures in solution efficiency; post-adjustment variance-covariance propagation for computed terms.
Credits: 3
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SVT 511 - Geodetic U.S. Public Land Survey Computations
Review of townships, sections, closing corners, parenthetical distance and acreage; section subdivision, fractional rules; major changes in the 2009 Manual; the USPLS datum; Mean bearing in geodesy; geodetic coordinate geometry; geodetic computations of single and double proportioning; geodetic one, two, and three point control; geodetic compass rule adjustment, grant boundary adjustment, irregular boundary adjustment, and meander line computations; Geographic coordinate data base issues is an updatable system; mega-adjustments and error propagation.
Prerequisites & Notes
Permission.
Credits: 3
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SVT 531 - Advanced Digital Photogrammetry
Airborne GPS-IMU processing techniques; conversion between local cartesian and conventional mapping coordinate systems; techniques in automated pixel matching; digital cameras and their calibration; optimization of automated photocoordinate measurement for aerotriangulation; recursive partitioning techniques for aerotriangulation solution optimization; techniques for automated feature extraction; synthesis of digital imagery and Lidar; image enhancements issues in orthophotos and mosaics; multi-ray considerations.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prior coursework in photogrammetry/remote sensing.
Credits: 3
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SVT 532 - Survey Strategies in Use of Lidar
Types of Lidar sensors and their applications; integration of GPS-IMU with Lidar; calibration; elimination of non-ground data; break line extraction; ground based mobile Lidar; Integration of survey control into Lidar data sets; accuracy assessment of overlapping scanned data; the industry standard .las format; integration with other survey information; Lidargrammetry; classifying Lidar data by return number and layer; procedures for geodetic accuracy assessment; corridor mapping.
Credits: 3
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SVT 541 - Geodesy
Types of coordinate systems and mathematical models; defining datums; defining transformation parameters between datums; Building of gravity models; Modeling continental drift; Conventional celestial and terrestrial references frames, precession, nutation, and polar motion; spherical trigonometry and spherical harmonic expansions; Geodesic line, geodesic curvature, differential equations of the geodesic, direct and inverse solutions; Conformal mapping of the ellipsoidal surface.
Credits: 3
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Theatre |
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THE 501 - Acting Styles
Topics course including: The Greeks and Shakespeare Class Comedy, Abusrdism, Tragi-Comedy or Brecht, Ibsen, Sondheim depending on the needs and interests of students, the seasons and faculty expertise. May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisites & Notes
THE 117, graduate standing or permission.
Credits: 3
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THE 596 - Field Services in Theatre Production
Provides experience in producing theatre in the field, through stage directing, designing scenery, costumes, and/or lighting, building scenery, stage managing, costuming, handling publicity, etc. at a local elementary or secondary school, community or professional theatre. Credit depends on length and complexity of assignment.
Prerequisites & Notes
Senior theatre majors and graduate students with permission of the Director.
Credits: 1-3
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THE 660 - Approaches to Directing
Theories, methods and problems in directing performances. Research and preparation of suitable works from traditional and non-traditional performance literature.
Prerequisites & Notes
THE 466 or permission.
Credits: 3
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THE 667 - Special Studies in Theatre I
Seminar with research orientation, designed to explore selected topics in depth. Topics will vary.
Prerequisites & Notes
permission.
Credits: 3
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THE 669 - Theatre Laboratory
Advanced laboratory work in directing or design. May be repeated for credit, if work performed is in a different area of study.
Prerequisites & Notes
THE 466 depending on the nature of the project.
Credits: 3
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THE 697 - Directed Research I
An opportunity to study a particular problem under faculty supervision.
Prerequisites & Notes
permission of School of Performing Arts director.
Credits: 1-3
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THE 698 - Directed Research II
An opportunity to study a particular problem under faculty supervision.
Prerequisites & Notes
permission of division head.
Credits: 1-3
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Wildlife Ecology |
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WLE 510 - Analysis of Animal Populations
Evaluation of animal population dynamics based on measured statistics and parameter relationships. Alternate years. Lec 2.
Prerequisites & Notes
Permission of instructor.
Credits: 2
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WLE 540 - Advanced Conservation Biology
A problem-solving approach to maintaining biological diversity through population and ecosystem management.
Prerequisites & Notes
permission.
Credits: 3
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WLE 545 - Management of Endangered and Threatened Species
Emphasizes the biological and political aspects of endangerment and involvement in the recovery process, using the U.S. Endangered Species Act as a basis. (Alternate spring semesters - odd years.) Note: WLE 445 and WLE 545 cannot both be taken for credit.
Prerequisites & Notes
graduate standing; an introductory and an upper level ecology course, or permission.
Credits: 3
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WLE 565 - Carnivore Ecology and Management
Management authority and conservation initiatives, evolution and taxonomy, habitat
selection, spatial requirements, genetic issues, social organizations, predator-prey
relationships, population assessment and performance and socio-political issues.
Independent research project required for 3 credits.
Prerequisites & Notes
permission.
Credits: 2-3
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WLE 591 - Movements and Migrations
Considers the evolution, physiology, ecology and behavior of animal movements and migrations across diverse taxa. Topics include characterization of movements, bioenergetics, navigation, research methods, seasonality and circadian and circannual rhythms. Also considers management implications for culturally and economically important species.
Prerequisites & Notes
One of the following ecology courses (BIO 319, WLE 200, SMS 306) or permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
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WLE 650 - Graduate Seminar in Wildlife Science
Varies.
Prerequisites & Notes
permission.
Credits: Ar
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WLE 697 - Special Problems in Wildlife Ecology
Varies.
Credits: Ar
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Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies |
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WGS 501 - Graduate Topics in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
A graduate-level interdisciplinary study of topics such as “Women’s Health,” “Hegemonic Masculinity”, or “Multicultural Issues in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies”.
Credits: 3
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WGS 510 - Advanced Studies in Feminist and Queer Theory
An advanced introduction to major issues in contemporary feminist and queer theory.
Credits: 3
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WGS 520 - Research Methodologies in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
An interdisciplinary course that focuses on the visions and methods that feminist and queer scholars use to study women, gender, and sexuality. Introduces students to pioneering critiques of various methodologies as well as recent developments in the field.
Credits: 3
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WGS 580 - Feminist Pedagogy and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Practicum
A history of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies as an interdiscipline, a survey of feminist teaching strategies, and an examination of the philosophies of education on which those strategies are based. A practicum applying the course material in a Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies class, a departmental course, or possibly in a K-12 school or other workplace setting will be included.
Prerequisites & Notes
Permission.
Credits: 3
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WGS 610 - Research Seminar in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
An opportunity for students writing theses and dissertations on Women’s Studies topics to participate in an interdisciplinary writing group with other graduate students. Facilitated by a faculty member associated with Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. May be repeated once for credit.
Prerequisites & Notes
WGS 510 or WGS 520 or permission.
Credits: 1
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WGS 698 - Individualized Projects in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Individualized study, action projects, internships, and writing projects, available especially for non-thesis students. Conducted under the guidance of a member of the WGS Studies graduate faculty.
Prerequisites & Notes
WGS 510 or WGS 520; permission of the office.
Credits: 1-3
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Digital Curation |
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DIG 580 - Digital Curation Internship
Digital Curation Internships provide valuable experiential learning in an emerging and changing field that provides complex challenges. An internship experience is essential to the certificate program, providing students with current and vital knowledge and skills they will need in the workplace. Internships provide students opportunities to reinforce their academic learning, and provide opportunities to establish professional contacts. Because our digital curation curriculum is online, and because our students will be located in many different places, we offer two types of internships: place-based and virtual.
Prerequisites & Notes
Permission.
Credits: 1-3
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