Mar 29, 2024  
2013-2014 Graduate Catalog 
    
2013-2014 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 

Public Management

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • PMGT 5990 - Readings and Research

    (1-3 credits)
    Students who are not enrolled in other coursework but require the use of university facilities and/or faculty guidance for studies, research, or preparation of a prospectus MUST enroll for Readings and Research. Variable credits (1-3) of Readings and Research may also be used, as approved by student’s advisory committee in conjunction with other coursework, to document such activities as development of research and scholarly skills that would not be appropriately covered by other types of independent study. Readings and Research credits do not count toward degree requirements. Grading of Readings and Research will be either satisfactory completion (S), satisfactory progress (SP), or unsatisfactory (U).


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Public Relations

  
  
  
  

Radio/Television/Film

  
  

Reading

  
  
  
  
  • READ 5105 - Leading Literacy in the 21st Centuiry

    (3 credits)
    The course focuses on the objectives, materials, and techniques for teaching reading, writing, listening, and speaking with emphasis on planning, implementing, and evaluating an integrated program. This course incorporates the analysis and evaluation of children’s literature and literature in media, including multicultural literature, and its use in language arts and across the curriculum. This course addresses literacy strategies needed for various content areas in addition to developmental, corrective, and remedial reading practices and procedures at the elementary, middle and secondary school levels in addition to the role of language in learning subject matter content. Further, candidates will incorporate technology through daily lessons, thematic unit development, and communications both in school and with the community at large. Candidates will also learn how to identify reading deficits and apply a wide variety of reading strategies and supports to ensure the success of the students. Candidates will be prepared to lead curriculum audits for use of technology and support of literacy.


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  • READ 6105 - Leading Literacy in the 21st Centuiry

    (3 credits)
    The course focuses on the objectives, materials, and techniques for teaching reading, writing, listening, and speaking with emphasis on planning, implementing, and evaluating an integrated program. This course incorporates the analysis and evaluation of children’s literature and literature in media, including multicultural literature, and its use in language arts and across the curriculum. This course addresses literacy strategies needed for various content areas in addition to developmental, corrective, and remedial reading practices and procedures at the elementary, middle and secondary school levels in addition to the role of language in learning subject matter content. Further, candidates will incorporate technology through daily lessons, thematic unit development, and communications both in school and with the community at large. Candidates will also learn how to identify reading deficits and apply a wide variety of reading strategies and supports to ensure the success of the students. Candidates will be prepared to lead curriculum audits for use of technology and support of literacy.


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Science Education

  
  • SCED 5417 - Residency I: Teaching Science in Secondary Schools

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: Forty-five credits of science or permission of instructor, and admission to teacher education. Methods of teaching science in middle/junior and senior high. Emphasis on classroom management, teaching strategies, laboratory techniques, educational technology appropriate for secondary science teaching, demonstrations, selection of resources and materials, and visual arts. Students will be expected to participate in field experience activities. (fall)


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  • SCED 5527 - Science Methods for Early Childhood

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: Admission to Teacher Education and successful completion of all undergraduate science classes. Corequisites: This course is to be taken with CUAI 4517/CUAI 5517  and CUAI 4537/CUAI 5537 . This course provides a PreK-4 science education perspective. Science teaching methodology, content, skills, and dispositions are examined with an emphasis on integration with mathematics and other appropriate subject areas. Learning needs of culture, gender, and special populations are explored. Students will be required to participate in field experience in PreK-4 settings. (as requested)


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Social Work

  
  • SOWK 5101 - Multicultural Practice

    (3 credits)
    This course examines issues of human diversity. It is designed to provide students with a working knowledge and appreciation of human similarity and difference based on race, ethnicity, culture, class, gender, sexual orientation, religion, physical or mental ability, age and national origin. Patterns and consequences of discrimination, economic deprivation and oppression for populations at risk. Students will develop a sensitivity to diversity issues and a heightened awareness of their own feelings, attitudes and behaviors.


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  • SOWK 5102 - Human Behavior in the Social Environment I

    (3 credits)
    Offered during the first semester, this course introduces the basic concepts of ecological systems theory as an umbrella for the generalist practice model. Focus is on a life-span approach to human growth, development, and reciprocal interactions with an emphasis on individuals, families, and small groups from an empirically based multi-theory and multi-system perspective utilizing a bio-psychosocial paradigm, and the utilization of this knowledge in assessment and planning. Issues of values, ethics, diversity, social and economic justice, and populations at risk are infused throughout this course.


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  • SOWK 5103 - Social Work Practice Foundation I

    (3 credits)
    This course is anchored in the purposes of the social work profession and focuses on the strengths, capacities, and resources of individuals, families, and small groups in relation to their broader environments. Students learn to implement the generalist problem-solving model. Content and skills include the following: engaging clients in an appropriate working relationship; identifying issues, problems, needs, resources, and assets; collecting and assessing information using empirically based theory; planning for service delivery; using communication skills, supervision, and consultation; identifying, analyzing, and implementing empirically based interventions to achieve client goals; and evaluating practice effectiveness. Content on values, ethics, diversity, social and economic justice, and populations at risk are infused throughout this course.


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  • SOWK 5104 - Social Welfare Policy and Services

    (3 credits)
    This course examines the historical roots, mission, and philosophy of social welfare as an institution that responds to human needs and social problems, as well as the social, economic, and political forces that shaped and continue to shape social welfare. The course reviews the political processes for influencing policy formulation processes and improving social welfare services. Frameworks for analyzing policies and services are introduced to identify strengths, gaps, inadequacies, and inequalities in social programs and services. The course also explores how oppression, discrimination and social injustice issues impact at risk populations, especially at risk individuals and families of rural Appalachia.


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  • SOWK 5202 - Human Behavior in the Social Environment II

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: SOWK 5102 . Offered during the second semester, this course focuses on the reciprocal relationship between individuals and large groups, organizations, and community systems from an empirically based multi-theory and multi-system perspective. Also, the course examines the ways in which social systems promote or deter people in maintaining or achieving health and well-being. Issues of values, ethics, diversity, social and economic justice, and populations at risk are infused throughout this course.


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  • SOWK 5203 - Social Work Practice Foundations II

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: SOWK 5103 . This course focuses on the strengths, capacities, and resources of large groups, organizations, and communities in relation to their broader environments. Students broaden their skills in implementing the generalist practice model. Content and skills include the following: assessing large systems using empirically based theory; applying empirical knowledge and technological advances; developing, analyzing, advocating, and providing leadership for policies and services through both worker and supervisory roles. Content on values, ethics, diversity, social and economic justice and populations at risk are infused throughout the course.


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  • SOWK 5205 - Social Work Research I

    (3 credits)
    This foundation course is designed to provide students with an understanding of and appreciation for research methods and techniques used by social workers. The basic problem-solving process is presented and related to other social work methods. Students will begin developing skills in research and evaluation methods through the use of practical experiential applications and will learn how to critically evaluate research studies, to raise pertinent researchable questions, and to engage in systematic steps to find answers to these questions.


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  • SOWK 5208 - Advanced Standing Bridge Course

    (3 credits)
    This course is required for all advanced standing students and is designed to provide a conceptual orientation necessary for the concentration year graduate program. The goal of this course is to refresh and enhance students’ skills and knowledge generic to generalist social work practice, human behavior and the social environment (HBSE), research methods and literature reviews, and welfare policy analysis in preparation for the concentration year. Social and economic justice, social work values and ethics, populations-at-risk, and diversity are examined in relation to practice, HBSE, research, and policy.


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  • SOWK 5266 - Gerontological Social Work

    (3 credits)
    This course will provide students with an approach to theories, concepts, and skills required to develop a methodology for social work practice with the elderly and their families. The continuum of support services and community resources will be explored. Students will explore interdisciplinary collaborations and ethical dilemmas, as well as critical thinking about an array of political, social, institutional, and personal issues affecting social work practice with the gerontological population.


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  • SOWK 5313 - Advanced Practice with Families

    (3 credits)
    This course provides students with the advanced social work practice knowledge and skills for ecological and clinical assessments and intervention and theoretical constructs for working with families. The importance of the therapeutic relationship will be emphasized throughout the course. The impact of diversity (culture, race, ethnicity, gender, age, disabilities, sexual orientation, etc.) on the development and application of theory is woven throughout the course.


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  • SOWK 5324 - Children and Family Policy

    (3 credits)
    This course provides students with an understanding of how society’s sense of responsibility for the wellbeing of its children and families has become the basis for a vast body of public policy, enormous public expenditures, and extensive public debate. This course examines an array of child- and family-oriented policies in our society, with emphasis on child welfare policy and welfare reform. Through this course students will gain a snapshot of America’s families in the wake of policy changes that are affecting how social services, health and income support programs are designed and administered.


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  • SOWK 5367 - Seminar in Alcohol and Drug Abuse

    (3 credits)
    This course provides the student with a basic understanding of alcohol and drug abuse. Various classifications of drugs, specific abuse symptomatology, specific causes of drug abuse, characteristics of high-risk groups, various treatment models, preventative efforts, and regulations controlling the use of drugs in society are examined. General systems theory provides the framework for looking at this societal problem and professional involvement with it.


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  • SOWK 5403 - Administrative Practices in Human Services Organizations

    (3 credits)
    This course is intended to provide students with knowledge and application skills in organizational theory, administration, and resource development. This course will present theories of organizational development, maintenance, and communication, as well as professional, ethical, and effective functioning within organizational structures. Students will gain knowledge and build skills in the administrative, educational, and supportive functions of supervision.


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  • SOWK 5430 - Psychopathology in Social Work Practice

    (3 credits)
    This course examines the nature and presenting characteristics of the major forms of mental and emotional maladjustment that may contribute to problems in social functioning, adaptation, and life satisfaction. It identifies specific categories of dysfunctional behavior, use of standard criteria, and treatments for dysfunctional behaviors from the social work perspective of a biopsychosocial paradigm. Informed and ethical assessment and service delivery for special populations is addressed.


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  • SOWK 5467 - Seminar in School Social Work

    (3 credits)
    This course explores policies, practices, historical developments, and legislative trends affecting social work services in schools. School-community relationships and the impact of societal attitudes upon schools are examined. It also provides an opportunity for students to develop an understanding of theory and practice of social work in schools. Special emphasis is placed on the theory and practice expressed by the Tennessee Department of Education’s “Minimum Competency Requirements- School Social Workers K-12,” “Criteria for the Evaluation of School Social Workers,” and NASW Standards of Social Work Services in Schools. This course is offered to social work majors only and is taught each semester of the academic year. (variable)


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  • SOWK 5517 - Crisis Intervention

    (3 credits)
    This course explores the various types of crises and approaches to crisis intervention relative to professional practice utilizing general systems theory as the basic underlying framework. Students engage in role play simulations, and games to develop beginning professional skills needed to work with individuals, families, groups, and communities in crisis. This course is offered both semesters of the academic year. (variable)


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  • SOWK 5567 - Human Sexuality

    (3 credits)
    This course provides the student with an initial understanding of human sexuality, sexual dysfunction, treatment modalities and resources, preventive programs, and sex education. It introduces students to changing sexual norms, values, and behavior found among the majority and ethnic and special groups. It also introduces the student to how sexual behavior is learned and developed, i.e., psychosocial development and cultural impact. In addition, students are provided the opportunity for values clarification and exploration of personal and social attitudes toward varying forms of sexual behavior and orientation. Students are encouraged to feel more comfortable and to accept the appropriateness of their professional involvement in this area. This course is offered at least one semester during the academic year. (variable)


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Sociology

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • SOCI 5320 - Program Evaluation

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. This course provides a perspective on the major theoretical and conceptual approaches to program evaluation. The course will be organized around four facets of program evaluation: Program planning, program monitoring, program impacts, and cost benefit/cost effectiveness evaluations. The course will also address the purposes and uses of evaluations, the politics of evaluation, and the reporting of evaluation studies. (variable)


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  • SOCI 5444 - Applied Data Analysis for the Social Sciences

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: Undergraduate statistics or permission of instructor. This is a computer-intensive course designed to teach students basic skills in quantitative data analysis. Through an applied approach to data analysis and statistics, students will gain practical experience in: using a comprehensive statistical software package, selecting and applying statistical techniques, and interpreting and formally writing the results. (variable)


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  • SOCI 5989 - Internship/Cooperative Education

    (1-3 credits)
    Students must clear arrangements for this course through the Cooperative Education Office prior to registration. Businesses, industries, and government agencies provide opportunities for planned and supervised work assignments. Students may alternate between periods (usually two semesters) of full-time study and employment with a cooperative education employer. Credit received carries full academic value, and students may receive compensation as full-time employees. (every semester)


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  • SOCI 5990 - Readings and Research

    (1-3 credits)
    Students who are not enrolled in other coursework but require the use of university facilities and/or faculty guidance for studies, research, or preparation of a prospectus MUST enroll for Readings and Research. Variable credits (1-3) of Readings and Research may also be used, as approved by student’s advisory committee in conjunction with other coursework, to document such activities as development of research and scholarly skills that would not be appropriately covered by other types of independent study. Readings and Research credits do not count toward degree requirements. Grading of Readings and Research will be either satisfactory completion (S), satisfactory progress (SP), or unsatisfactory (U).


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  • SOCI 5999 - Internship/Cooperative Education

    (1-3 credits)
    Students must clear arrangements for this course through the Cooperative Education Office prior to registration. Businesses, industries, and government agencies provide opportunities for planned and supervised work assignments. Students may alternate between periods (usually two semesters) of full-time study and employment with a cooperative education employer. Credit received carries full academic value, and students may receive compensation as full-time employees. (every semester)


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Sociology and Anthropology

  
  
  • SOAA 5444 - Applied Data Analysis

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: Undergraduate statistics or permission of instructor. This is a computer-intensive course designed to teach students basic skills in quantitative data analysis. Through an applied approach to data analysis and statistics, students will gain practical experience in: using a comprehensive statistical software package, selecting and applying statistical techniques, and interpreting and formally writing the results. Variable.


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