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Special Education-Early Intervention |
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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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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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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 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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