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2019-2020 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Graduate Courses

 

Social Work
  

  • SWK 595 - Field Practicum in Social Work

    Supervised generalist social work practice in community agencies provides opportunities to apply social work knowledge and skills toward planned intervention and change efforts.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    MSW student.

     

    Credits: 4
  

  • SWK 597 - Advanced Topics in Social Work

    Content varies to suit student needs. May be repeated for credit.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    permission.

    Credits: 1-3
  

  • SWK 600 - Advanced Integrative Professional Seminar

    Considers multi-disciplinary knowledge bases that inform advanced social work practice from a generalist perspective as well as the purposes of the profession, professional role, skill, policy applications and evaluation of practice.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    SWK 661 and SWK 665.




    Credits: 3
  

  • SWK 640 - Issues in Social Welfare Policy for Advanced Generalist Practitioners

    Social welfare policy analysis and evaluation with emphasis on skills in the use of government data, policy advocacy and analytic decision-making related to social welfare and advanced generalist social work practice.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    SWK 540, SWK 563 or SWK 530 or permission.

    Credits: 3
  

  • SWK 650 - Human Behavior and the Social Environment II

    Examines research and theories related to normative development of families, small groups and communities. Explores the impact of age, gender, social class, social structures, oppression and other environmental factors. Examines the social structures and context of organizations and institutions and their impact on individuals, families, small group and communities. Considers implications for social work practice and social welfare policy.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    MSW student or permission.

    Credits: 3
  

  • SWK 661 - Advanced Generalist Social Work Practice with Individuals

    Develops knowledge, skills and values necessary for advanced generalist social work practice with individuals, across the lifespan.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    SWK 563 or SWK 531.

    Credits: 3
  

  • SWK 664 - Generalist Social Work Practice with Families and Small Groups

    Develops knowledge, skills and values necessary for advanced generalist social work practice with families and small groups.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    SWK 661 and SWK 665.

    Credits: 3
  

  • SWK 665 - Advanced Generalist Social Work Practice with Organizations and Communities

    Develops knowledge, skills and values necessary for advanced generalist social work practice with organizations and communities.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    SWK 563 or SWK 531.

    Credits: 3
  

  • SWK 691 - Advanced Social Work Research I

    Application of social work research to the evaluation of social work practice and program and policy-making.

    Credits: 3
  

  • SWK 692 - Advanced Social Work Research II

    Application of social work research methods to social work research project.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    SWK 691.

    Credits: 3
  

  • SWK 695 - Advanced Field Practicum in Social Work

    Advanced generalist social work practice in community agencies. Provides students the opportunity to apply advanced social work knowledge and skills directed toward planned intervention and change efforts.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    SWK 595 or SWK 531.

    Credits: 1-5

Spanish
  

  • SPA 503 - Cervantes’ Don Quijote

    A close reading of Cervantes’ Don Quijote. Special attention paid to narrative structures, historical background, and Baroque perspectivism.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Advanced oral proficiency in Spanish; graduate standing.

    Credits: 3
  

  • SPA 515 - Seminar in Advanced Grammar

    An advanced presentation of Spanish grammar utilizing a linguistic approach rather than prescriptive grammatical rules. 
    Active, frequent participation by students is expected, leading to the level of ADVANCED SUPERIOR according to ADTFL guidelines.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Permission of instructor.

    Credits: 3
  

  • SPA 544 - Seminar in Translation

    Course is designed to develop student’s ability to translate texts from Spanish into English.  Attention will also be paid to the acquisition of practical and theoretical aspects of translation in general, through readings on translation, its history and current status as a profession.  Texts to be translated will be cultural and literary, and develop sensitivity to the Spanish language and its diverse forms.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Permission of instructor.

    Credits: 3
  

  • SPA 597 - Projects in Spanish I

    Specific projects vary from semester to semester depending on the needs of the graduate student and the skills of the faculty member. May be repeated for credit.

    Credits: 3
  

  • SPA 598 - Projects in Spanish II

    Specific projects vary from semester to semester depending on the needs of the graduate student and the skills of the faculty member. May be repeated for credit.

    Credits: 3

Spatial Information Engineering
  

  • COS 540 - Computer Networks

    Provides an introduction to the concepts, protocols, technologies and principles of computer networking.  Utilizes the technologies and protocols of the Internet as the primary vehicle for studying the fundamental concepts of computer networking.  Uses a “top-down” approach to the study of the Internet, beginning with the “application layer,” with such technologies as the Web and HTTP, peer-to-peer applications, and electronic mail.  It then examines the other four layers of the Internet protocol stack (the transport, network, link, and physical layers), and the services they provide that enable the development of increasingly sophisticated and powerful networking applications.

     

    COS 440 and COS 540 may not both be taken for degree credit.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    COS 235 or permission of instructor.

    Credits: 3
  

  • SIE 501 - Introduction to Graduate Research

    Covers process of successful graduate research from identification of a researchable question, preparation of a thesis proposal, to completion or the research and its publication. Focus on engineering research methods for spatial information.

    Credits: 1
  

  • SIE 502 - Research Methods

    Covers process of successful graduate research, including the written and verbal presentation of plans and results. Students formulate hypotheses, perform a literature search, write abstracts and introductions of research papers, learn about presentation styles and techniques, make two presentations (3-minutes and 10-minutes) about research proposals. Lec 1.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    SIE 501 and students must have selected a thesis topic.

    Credits: 1
  

  • SIE 503 - Principles of Experimental Design

    This is an interdisciplinary course designed primarily for first year graduate students and advanced standing undergraduates who plan to engage in scientific research.  The course covers topics in: (1) design of experiments, (2) modern experimental techniques and instrumentation, and (3) data collection, organization, and statistical analysis techniques. 

    Prerequisites & Notes
    SIE 501 or Instructor permission

    Credits: 1
  

  • SIE 505 - Formal Foundations for Information Science

    Increases student’s understanding of the approach to information systems and science by formalisms. Draws on mathematics to increase familiarity with formal syntax and language, develops understanding and technical ability in handling structures relevant to information systems and science. Includes a review of fundamental material on set theory, functions and relations, graph theory, and logic; examines a variety of algebraic structures; discusses formal languages and the bases of computation.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Graduate standing or instructor permission.

    Credits: 3
  

  • SIE 507 - Information Systems Programming

    Programming for those envisioning careers focused on developing and managing information systems and databases as opposed to software design. Data structures, algorithms, and their analysis.  Lec. 3.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Graduate standing or Instructor permission

    Credits: 3
  

  • SIE 509 - Principles of Geographic Information Systems

    Covers foundation principles of geographic information systems, including traditional representations of spatial data and techniques for analyzing spatial data in digital form. Combines an overview of general principles associated with implementation of geographic information systems and practical experience in the analysis of geographic information. Not open to those who have taken SIE 271.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Graduate standing or instructor permission.

    Credits: 3
  

  • SIE 510 - Geographic Information Systems Applications

    Introduces both conceptual and practical aspects of developing GIS applications. Covers application areas from natural resourse planning cthrough transportation, cadastral and land information systems and their spatial modeling requirements, and application development from requirement analysis to database design and implementation.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    SIE 509 or Instructor permission.

    Credits: 3
  

  • SIE 512 - Spatial Analysis

    Introduces students to techniques for spatial analysis. Covers methods and problems in spatial data sampling, issues in preliminary or exploratory analysis, problems in providing numerical summaries and characterizing spatial properties of map data and analysis techniques for univariate and multivariate data. Students will be responsible for completing several hands-on exercises.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Introductory statistics course and graduate standing or instructor permission.

    Credits: 3
  

  • SIE 515 - Human Computer Interaction

    Students are introduced to the fundamental theories and concepts of human-computer interaction (HCI). Topics covered include: interface design and evaluation, usability and universal design, multimodal interfaces (touch, gesture, natural language), virtual reality, and spatial displays.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Programming experience and graduate standing or instructor permission.

    Credits: 3
  

  • SIE 516 - Virtual Reality: Research and Applications

    This course is designed to provide students with an overview of the basic principles of virtual reality (VR) and virtual environment technology (VET).  The goal is to learn enough about the strengths and limitations of VR technology in order to be able to construct simple immersive environments as well as to understand the human factors and cognitive issues that should be considered when using this medium. 

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Programming experience and graduate standing or permission.

    Credits: 3
  

  • SIE 525 - Information Systems Law

    Current and emerging status of computer law in electronic environments: rights of privacy, freedom of information, confidentiality, work product protection, copyright, security, legal liability; impact of law on use of databases and spatial datasets; legal options for dealing with conflicts and adaptations of law over time.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Graduate standing or instructor permission.

    Credits: 3
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • SIE 590 - Information Systems Internship

    Utilization of knowledge gained from a School of Computing and Information Science graduate program within a business, non-profit or government organization and acquisition of practical training.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Successful completion of nine credits of required courses in a graduate program in SCIS.

    May be repeated for credit.

    Credits: 3
  

  • 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
  

  • SIE 693 - Graduate Seminar

    Presentations and discussions on term projects, literature reviews, current events, or thesis topics. Lec 1.

    Credits: 1
  

  • SIE 699 - Graduate Thesis/Research

    Graduate thesis or research conducted under the supervision of student’s advisor.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Department Consent.

    Credits: Ar

Special Education-Early Intervention
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • SED 566 - Executive Function in Learning

    Executive function development may be delayed in students with learning difficulties and developmental disabilities.  Supporting development of goal setting, organization, cognitive flexibility, working memory, and self monitoring are key in advancing the skills of all students.  Clear links between executive function development and academic performance are seen in reading, writing, and math, as well as study skills.  This course will look at theory and application support.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    None.

    Credits: 3
  

  • 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
  

  • SEI 525 - 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

Students at Risk
  

  • 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

Surveying Engineering Technology
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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

Theatre
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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

Wildlife Ecology
  

  • 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
  

  • WLE 650 - Graduate Seminar in Wildlife Science

    Varies.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    permission.

    Credits: Ar
  

  • WLE 697 - Special Problems in Wildlife Ecology

    Varies.

    Credits: Ar
  

  • WLE 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 (www.umaine.edu/graduate/responsible-conduct-research) 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

Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
  

  • 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
  

  • WGS 510 - Advanced Studies in Feminist and Queer Theory

    An advanced introduction to major issues in contemporary feminist and queer theory.

    Credits: 3
  

  • 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
  

  • 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

Digital Curation
  

  • 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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