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Spatial Information Engineering |
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SIE 550 - Design of Information Systems
Cognitive and theoretical foundation for representation of knowledge in information systems and fundamental concepts necessary to design and implement information systems. Logic programming as a tool for fast design and prototyping of data models. Formal languages and formal models, conceptual modeling techniques, methods for data abstraction, object-oriented modeling and database schema design. Relational data model and database query languages, including SQL.
Prerequisites & Notes
Graduate standing or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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SIE 554 - Spatial Reasoning
Qualitative representations of geographic space. Formalisms for topological, directional and metric relations; inference mechanisms to derive composition tables; geometric representations of natural language-like spatial predicates; formalizations of advanced cognitively motivated spatial concepts, such as image schemata; construction of relation algebras.
Prerequisites & Notes
SIE 451 or SIE 550.
Credits: 1 or 3
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SIE 555 - Spatial Database Systems
Covers internal system aspects of spatial database systems. Layered database architecture. Physical data independence. Spatial data models. Storage hierarchy. File organization. Spatial index structures. Spatial query processing and optimization. Transaction management and crash recovery. Commercial spatial database systems.
Prerequisites & Notes
Programming experience and graduate standing or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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SIE 557 - Database System Applications
Study, design and implementation of object-relational database system applications. Introduction to database systems. Integrating database systems with programs. Web applications using database systems. Final database project.
Prerequisites & Notes
Graduate standing or Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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SIE 558 - Real-time Sensor Data Streams
This course is an introduction into the technology of sensor data stream management. This data management technology is driven by computing through sensors and other smart devices that are embedded in the environment and attached to the Internet, constantly streaming sensed information. With streams everywhere, Data Stream Engines (DSE) have emerged aiming to provide generic software technology similar to that of database systems for analyzing streaming data with simple queries in real-time. Sensor streams are ultimately stored in databases and analyzed using scalable cloud technologies.
Prerequisites & Notes
Programming experience in Java, C++ or C or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 3
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SIE 559 - Geosensor Networks
Readily available technology of ubiquitous wireless communication networks, the miniaturization of computing and storage platforms as well as the development of novel microsensors and sensor materials has lead to the technology of wireless geosensor networks (GSN). Geosensor networks have changed the type of dynamic environmental phenomena that can be detected, monitored and reacted to, often in real-time. In this course, we will survey the field of wireless geosensor networks, and explore the state of the art in technology and algorithms to achieve energy-efficient, robust and decentralized spatial computing.
Prerequisites & Notes
Programming experience in Java or C++, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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SIE 570 - Spatial Cognition and Computing
Study of cognitive aspects for understanding spatial representations and reasoning processes. Cognitive models are studied and related to Artificial Intelligence Systems.
Prerequisites & Notes
Graduate standing or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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SIE 571 - Pattern Recognition and Robotics
Pattern recognition algorithms classify input data based on statistical information. A mobile robot needs pattern recognition algorithms to make sense of its spatial environment based on sensor input. The course will introduce the mathematical framework of pattern recognition and present practical applications in robotics. The course will also cover supervised neural network learning algorithms.
Prerequisites & Notes
Graduate standing or Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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SIE 589 - Graduate Project
Directed study on a particular spatial information science topic and implementation of a related project.
Prerequisites & Notes
SIE Master Project Students.
Credits: 3
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SIE 598 - Selected Studies in Spatial Information Engineering
Topics in any subfield of spatial information science and engineering. Content varies to suit current needs. May be repeated for credit.
Credits: 1-3
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SIE 693 - Graduate Seminar
Presentations and discussions on term projects, literature reviews, current events, or thesis topics. Lec 1.
Credits: 1
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SIE 699 - Graduate Thesis/Research
Graduate thesis or research conducted under the supervision of student’s advisor.
Prerequisites & Notes
Students who have not yet completed a “Responsible Conduct of Research” course approved by the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs and the Graduate School (https://umaine.edu/graduate/students/rcr/) must receive permission to enroll in thesis/ research credits. Students must enroll in an RCR course before or concurrent with their third credit of thesis/research.
Credits: Ar
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Special Education-Early Intervention |
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SED 505 - Diversity of Development in Childhood
Focuses on understanding development from infancy through childhood, including patterns for children who are at-risk or have disabling conditions. The impact of developmental challenges on the infant’s and child’s emerging capacities for engagement in relationships and learning is explored. The importance of the interaction of social, cultural, and interpersonal factors are stressed throughout. A major goal of the course is for students to gain a working knowledge of developmental processes that can be applied to assessment, curriculum development, and intervention planning and implementation.
Prerequisites & Notes
CHF 450, SED 302, SED 402, SED 500 or permission.
Credits: 3
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SED 506 - Assessment and Program Planning in Early Intervention
Examines issues in measurement and test development, child find and screening, eligibility and programmatic assessment, alternative assessment, and team-based assessment of children with disabilities under the age of 5, as well as collaboration with families. Includes a 30 hour practicum.
Prerequisites & Notes
SED 505
Credits: 3
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SED 511 - Planning Inclusive Early Childhood Programs and Environments
Design and evaluation of environments, curriculum development, activity planning, individualized instruction, and adaptions to meet the needs of infants and young children with special needs within inclusive early care and education settings. Also focuses on supporting social and emotional development and play.
Prerequisites & Notes
SED 505 or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 3
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SED 513 - Practicum in Early Intervention
Focuses on planning, implementing and evaluating developmentally appropriate curricula and interventions for inclusive early care and education programs. Emphasis on the design and adaptation of environments, materials, and activities to promote full participation by infants and young children with developmental delays and disabilities.
Prerequisites & Notes
SED 521 and SED 523
Credits: 3-6
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SED 514 - Administration and Public Policy for Early Childhood Programs
Focuses on program administration and promotion of public policy and community outreach for diverse early childhood programs, including inclusive programs serving young children with disabilities. topics include program evaluation and accreditation, leadership, management approaches, managing personnel, finance and budgeting, strategic planning, program evaluation, service delivery systems and models, public policy and advocacy.
Prerequisites & Notes
SED 505 or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 3
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SED 516 - Seminar and Practicum in Collaborative Consultation
Examine methods of collaboration, consultation, technical assistance, teaming, and developing partnerships within inclusive environments for young children with disabilities. Students practice collaborative and consultative relationships with families, staff of early care and education programs, and related service professionals within the practicum setting.
Prerequisites & Notes
SED 505 or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 3
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SED 517 - Serving Infants and Toddlers in Natural Environments
Methods for providing early intervention services to infants and toddlers with disabilities or who are at risk for developmental problems and their families. The importance of service provision in a variety of natural environments for infants and toddlers, as well as family-centered and culturally-sensitive practices and team collaboration are emphasized. Students will observe and participate in home-based settings and inclusive community early care and education settings.
Prerequisites & Notes
SED 505 or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 3
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SED 521 - Center-based Practicum and Seminar in Early Intervention
Focuses on the application of methods for providing early intervention services to infants and toddlers with disabilities or who are at-risk for developmental problems and their families in center-based settings including inclusive community early care and education settings. An important emphasis of the field experience is the design and adaptation of curricular goals and objectives, instructional strategies, environments, materials, and activities to promote active learning and full participation by infants and young children with development delays and disabilities in inclusive early care and education settings.
Prerequisites & Notes
SED 505 and SED 511 or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 3
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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 512 - Advanced Survey Law
This course will cover applicable law related to surveying from the location of property boundaries to the operation of a surveying business.
Prerequisites & Notes
None
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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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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THE 699 - Graduate Thesis/Research
Graduate thesis or research conducted under the supervision of student’s advisor.
Prerequisites & Notes
Students who have not yet completed a “Responsible Conduct of Research” course approved by the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs and the Graduate School (https://umaine.edu/graduate/students/rcr/) must receive permission to enroll in thesis/ research credits. Students must enroll in an RCR course before or concurrent with their third credit of thesis/research.
Credits: Ar
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Wildlife Ecology |
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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 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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