Graduate Courses in Education (EDSS)

EDSS 200 - Contemporary Issues

Designed so that its content and structure may accommodate special issues not especially appropriate within the boundaries of an existing course. Prerequisites: Twelve hours in education and related areas.

Credits: 0 to 6

EDSS 208 - The Mass Media as Educator

Analysis and assessment of the mass media's teachings about reality and worth and how to live our lives individually and collectively. Appropriate for non-education students. Pre/co-requisites: Junior standing for undergraduates; also can be taken for graduate credit.

Credits: 3

EDSS 248 - Educational Media

Modern instructional aids, theory and practice, educational media related to psychology of teaching and learning. Prerequisite: Twelve hours in education and related areas.

Credits: 3

EDSS 295 - Laboratory Exp in Education

Supervised field work designed to give students experience in specialized areas for their professional development. Prerequisite: Permission of the Coordinator of Professional Laboratory Experiences.

Credits: 1 to 12

EDSS 309 - Interdisciplinary Seminar

Introduction to interdisciplinary study; the field of policy analysis and social change. Core academic experience for Interdisciplinary Majors. Prerequisites: Interdisciplinary majors; others by permission.

Credits: 3

EDSS 313 - Stat Meth Ed & Social Services

Basic concepts of descriptive and inferential statistics. Topics: frequency distributions; measures of central tendency, dispersion; correlation, hypothesis testing. Application of concepts to educational situations.

Credits: 3

EDSS 319 - Internship

Students will undertake an approved internship in an institution which reflects the particular area of interest and needs of the student. Prerequisite: Permission.

Credits: 1 to 6

EDSS 321 - School Improvement:Thry & Prac

Analysis of research and practices pertinent to improvement of American schools. Student assignments include synthesis papers and site-specific research projects derived from course studies. Prerequisite: Twelve hours of graduate study in education.

Credits: 4 to 6

EDSS 336 - Professional Writing

Problems in writing faced by professionals in educational and human service settings. Students write reports, critiques, reviews; analyze examples of published work; receive detailed critiques of their work.

Credits: 3

EDSS 343 - The Study of Teaching

Study of the art and science with emphasis on students' own teaching. Current research on teaching and self-study are major foci. Prerequisites: Twelve hours of education, teaching experience.

Credits: 3

EDSS 349 - Quasi-Experiment in Ed & SS

Quasi-experimental designs are analyzed, compared, and contrasted with "true experiments." Strategies for addressing threats to the validity of quasi-experiments are studied. Design exemplars are evaluated. Prerequisite: EDSS 313, or PSYC 340, or STAT 211, or equivalent.

Credits: 3

EDSS 380 - Professional Problems in Ed

Designed to cover selected educational problems in depth. The major emphasis will be on intensive and critical analysis of the literature and practice in a given area.

Credits: 3

EDSS 382 - Teaching Internship

Supervised teaching experiences on a full-time basis, with related seminars in teaching subject. Prerequisite: Permission of coordinator of Professional Laboratory Experiences.

Credits: 3 to 12

EDSS 387 - Collaborative Consultation

(See EDSP 387.)

Credits: 3

EDSS 391 - Master's Thesis Research

Thesis topic must be approved by a faculty committee.

Credits: 1 to 6

EDSS 397 - Problems in Education

Individual work on a research problem selected by the student in consultation with a staff member. Prerequisite: Twelve hours in education and related areas; endorsement by a sponsoring faculty member.

Credits: 1 to 6