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Education Administration
  

  • EDAM 660 - Leadership and Organizational Theories in Schools

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    An analysis of the various leadership and organizational theories with a major focus on situational decision-making and its effects. The course explores and tests (through required field-based clinical activities) leadership skills and strategies necessary for effective school leadership. The student engages in an in-depth review of the literature relevant to effective organizational change and analysis as a foundation for the development of change strategies. Field-based clinical experiences will require students to identify issues affecting the school; leadership and organizational theory will frame discussion of the issues. In addition to observation in a variety of school settings, clinical experiences may include participation in board meetings and school advisory boards.
    Prerequisite: EDAM 650 , EDAM 651, and EDAM 652


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  • EDAM 661 - School Law and Public Policy Issues

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course is designed to review laws that pertain to public schools, including constitutional laws, state laws and court decisions that have helped to shape school law. A focus is on the study of court decisions addressing the legal principles affecting education, schools, and school professionals. Constitutional, statute, and administrative laws related to education are examined and analyzed through case studies and the analysis of case law. Students are expected to complete analyses of recent state and federal judicial decisions and legal structures related to responsibility and accountability of school leaders. The course engages the student in an examination of the school system as a policy system and the implementation of these policies by the school leader at the building level. Focus areas include: relationships of local school district policies to state policies, constraints imposed by state policies, implications of the state local system for local control, and effects of community expectations and participation in policy making at the school district and building levels.
    Prerequisite: EDAM 650, EDAM 651, and EDAM 652


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  • EDAM 670 - Resource Management and Schools

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course is designed to provide an examination of the theory and practice of human resource management and public school finance in relation to expenditures and resources at the local, state and federal levels of support in school districts. It also provides an examination of social issues that impact the school learning environment, to include gender, quality, multicultural education, diversity; and privatization. It provides an in-depth study of the basic principles of money management in public education and how to manage it. The primary focus is on the management of dollars (fiscal), space (building operations), people (human resources), community resources (engagement) and time. The course addresses the issue of equity and adequacy in funding public schools and advancing the critical importance of data driven decision-making that maximizes learning.
    Prerequisite: EDAM 650, EDAM 651, and EDAM 652


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  • EDAM 671 - Leadership for Learning

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course provides the student with an introduction to the philosophical and social foundations of curriculum in schools. The student will be exposed to those foundational philosophical and social theories that have driven the development of school curricula. The student will be introduced to and utilize school improvement practices that focus on teaching for learning. Special emphasis will be given to researched-based improvement practices that include effective leadership behaviors and teaching pedagogy. The student will participate with other school-based personnel to observe, analyze, and interpret school data to develop learning improvement plans. The student will be able to analyze school-based approaches to teaching for learning and make improvement recommendations in real and simulated school improvement planning situations.
    Prerequisite: EDAM 650, EDAM 651, and EDAM 652


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  • EDAM 680 - Internship Part I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    An exploratory summer field experience will afford opportunities for interns to make site visits to exemplary school sites and programs. This course is a prerequisite to EDAM 690 . Interns also may participate in intensive summer staff development and in-service programs. Weekly seminars with participating faculty members and joint training with mentors/coaches will be designed to develop individualized and quality internship experiences for EDAM 690  and EDAM 691 .
    Prerequisite: EDAM 650  and EDAM 651  and EDAM 652  and EDAM 660  and EDAM 661  and EDAM 670  


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  • EDAM 690 - Internship Part II

    Credit Hours: 6
    Lecture Hours: 0
    Lab Hours: 6

    Internship Part II is the first semester of a full time year-long administrative experience. The course provides interns with opportunities to develop insight into administrative processes focusing on skills of observation and diagnosis while shadowing site administrators and mentors/coaches. Weekly seminars with participating faculty members are devoted to analysis and discussion of the intern’s field experiences and conferencing with site administrators.
    Prerequisite: EDAM 680  


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  • EDAM 691 - Internship Part III

    Credit Hours: 6
    Lecture Hours: 0
    Lab Hours: 6

    Internship Part III is the second semester of a full time year-long administrative experience. The course provides interns with opportunities to develop insight into administrative processes focusing on skills of observation and diagnosis while shadowing site administrators and mentors/coaches. Weekly seminars with participating faculty members are devoted to analysis and discussion of the intern’s field experiences and conferencing with site administrators.
    Prerequisite: EDAM 690  or EDAM 690  


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  • EDAM 698 - Computer Usage for Educational Administrators

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course is designed to enhance the computer literacy of educational administrators in the field of education and provide exposure to a wide spectrum of electronic technology in administration and a classroom setting. Attention will be paid to technologies that permit access to all branches of education. This will include networks and bulletin boards, interactive voice, visual interactions, data and image transmission, designing and implementing instructional and administrative procedures. Students will be expected to demonstrate knowledge of computer skills in word processing, data management, spreadsheets, graphics and courseware applications and authoring tools.


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  • EDAM 699 - Pre-Doctoral Admin Studies

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A part of the Pre-Doctoral Institute offered each summer for graduate students who have been admitted to the doctoral program in educational leadership and for those interested in doctoral level studies, EDAM 699 introduces students to doctoral-level graduate study through a variety of experiences focusing on contemporary organizational theory, organizational change and inquiry methods. The topic around which the experiences will revolve is the development of schools as learning organizations. Students will study contemporary organizational concepts such as Senge’s learning organization and their application to public schools. They will study and discuss strategies for organizational change in schools with invited guest speakers from the field. Finally, students will be introduced to methods of inquiry including an overview to research methods, the library and its paper and electronic information sources and the Internet.


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Education Leadership
  

  • EDLE 700 - Group Dynamics, Decision Making, and People Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    Focus on awareness of leader’s social group memberships and impact of these identities upon leadership skills, personal awareness of multiple forms of oppression and impact on leadership ability. Discussion of leadership strengths and challenges: managing conflict, resistance, and group-leader dynamics. This course will have an emphasis on decision making and people management in the K12 setting, including minority serving institutions.

     
    Prerequisite: Must be admitted to the EDD degree program.


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  • EDLE 701 - Cultural Diversity in American Schools

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course focuses on issues of diversity, oppression and social justice. It is designed to prepare doctoral candidates to be knowledgeable of people’s biases based on race, ethnicity, culture, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, social and economic status, political ideology, disability and how these contribute to discrimination and oppression. The course addresses the origins, concepts, principles, and trends in multicultural education. It provides candidates with an understanding of multicultural education as an instructional concept, educational reform movement, and systemic process.This course will have an emphasis on cultural diversity and social justice in the K12 setting. 

     

     
    Prerequisite: Must be admitted to the EDD degree program.

    EDLE 700, EDLE 706, and EDLE 721


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  • EDLE 703 - Public Policy and Political Issues In Education

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    Candidates study political and educational policy processes in relation to such problems as globalization and the nation- state, local, and community development, social identification and political participation, pressure groups and indoctrination, academic freedom, and school reforms. This course will have an emphasis on public policy and political issues in the K12 setting.
    Prerequisite: Must be admitted to the EDD degree program.

    EDLE 720, EDLE 723, and EDLE 730


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  • EDLE 704 - Curriculum and Instructional Leadership

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course examines the social and philosophical foundations of curriculum, and curriculum theory. The course prepares candidates to understand the politics of curriculum development. This course will have an emphasis on curriculum and instruction leadership and program development in the K12 setting.
    Prerequisite: Must be admitted to the EDD degree program.

    EDLE 700, EDLE 706, and EDLE 721


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  • EDLE 705 - The Planning and Financing of Educational Organizations

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course is an in-depth examination of school planning and implementation of the financial perspective at local, district, and state levels. Included are the traditional methods of financing and the emergent ideas and subsequent suggested practices to meet the needs of a changing national educational environment. Also addressed are the areas of financing of school corporations in the current economic and political setting with emphasis on interrelationships of educational, economic, and political decisions. This course will have an emphasis on school planning and finance in the K12 setting.
    Prerequisite: Must be admitted to the EDD degree program.

    EDLE 703, EDLE 707, and EDLE 731


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  • EDLE 706 - Seminar in Educational Leadership

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    In this course, candidates investigate forces and trends that are influencing the nature of schooling and learning in a global society. Candidates explore futurist literature and the importance of holding a compelling vision for the future as an educational leader. They explore strategies for facilitating the development, articulation, implementation, and stewardship of a vision of learning that is shared and supported by the learning community. This course will have an emphasis on educational trends in the K12 setting.
    Prerequisite: Must be admitted to the EDD degree program.


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  • EDLE 707 - Seminar in Legal Issues, Critical Race Theory, and Professional Ethics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course focuses on Legal Issues and Professional Ethics of particular concern to education policy-makers and central office school administrators. Federal and North Carolina school law will be included with attention given both to theoretical and practical concerns. This course also focuses on critical race theory as a critique of racism and the law in U.S. society and discusses its current applications to education policy and research in K-12 schooling and higher education; looks at how critical race theory can be used as a methodological lens for policy analysis and educational research; examines the social aspects of leadership in moral terms. This course will have an emphasis on legal issues and professional ethics in the K12 setting.
    Prerequisite: Must be admitted to the EDD degree program.

    EDLE 720, EDLE 723, and EDLE 730


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  • EDLE 708 - Organizational Theory and Administrative Behavior

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    In this course candidates examine schools as institutions from an organizational perspective. It critiques the field of organizational theory in order to better understand how schools function the way they do by turning to studies in business about organizational structure and culture. Candidates will develop the tools to look at organizational behavior from a critical perspective, which will provide a basis for understanding the status quo of any organization and the dynamics for change. The awareness of gender issues and cross-cultural issues that affect the modern organizational climate is emphasized. This course will have an emphasis on organizational theories and administrative behaviors in the K12 setting.
    Prerequisite: Must be admitted to the EDD degree program.

    EDLE 701, EDLE 704, and EDLE 722


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  • EDLE 720 - Educational Statistics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course is intended to provide students with a working knowledge of and skills in the analysis of data from experiments and surveys (with categorical independent variables) using the Analysis of Variance.  Students will develop knowledge of and skills in underlying statistical models, matching statistical models to research designs, in using the computer software to conduct appropriate statistical analyses, and to interpret and to report findings. Emphasis will be on research conducted in schools by presenting methods that are appropriate for school-based research.This course will be the introduction to the development of an educational leader ability le to evaluate design and conduct educational research to deal with the changing school.
    Prerequisite: Must be admitted to the EDD degree program.

    EDLE 725 and EDLE 799


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  • EDLE 721 - Research, Design, and Evaluation Methodology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course provides an overview of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research paradigms and introduces students to tools necessary for the design of a methodologically sound study.
    Prerequisite: Must be admitted to the EDD degree program.


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  • EDLE 722 - Qualitative Research, Theory, and Application

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    An in-depth study of the major paradigms and perspectives of qualitative research. Strategies of inquiry, methods of data collection, and analysis, interpretation, evaluation, and representation will be the focus of the course.

     

     

     
    Prerequisite: Must be admitted to the EDD degree program.

    PK-12 Education: EDLE 700, EDLE 706, and EDLE 721

    Higher Education: ELHE 700, ELHE 706, and EDLE 721


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  • EDLE 723 - Quantitative Research Application and Methodology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course examines the concepts and methods of quantitative social science research to conduct research on education issues. Topics include hypothesis testing, statistical inference, point estimates, graphic and numerical data displays, correlation, and regression.
    Prerequisite: Must be admitted to the EDD degree program.

    PK-12 Education: EDLE 725 and EDLE 799

    Higher Education: ELHE 711 and ELHE 712


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  • EDLE 725 - Special Topics on School Leadership - Closing the Achievement Gap: Research and Effective Strategies for African American K-12 Students in Public Schools

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course is designed (1) to familiarize graduate students with research about the causes of the underachievement of many African American students in K-12 public schools, and (2) to provide graduate students with effective research-based strategies to improve African American student achievement and retention.
    Prerequisite: Must be admitted to the EDD degree program.

    EDLE 708 and EDLE 729


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  • EDLE 729 - Internship in Educational Leadership I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course is the first in the three-semester internship course series designed to provide K12 and Higher Education candidates field-based clinical leadership experience. The course provides interns with opportunities to develop insight into leadership processes, focusing on skills of observation and diagnosis, while shadowing site administrators and mentors/coaches. The course gives the candidate the initial field experiences needed to prepare for the subsequent placement in increasingly more involving leadership roles in EDLE 730  and EDLE 731 . These roles will be negotiated with site mentors and approved by supervising university faculty. Weekly seminars with participating faculty members are devoted to analysis and discussion of the intern’s field experiences, the development of required evidences, and conferencing with site administrators.
    Prerequisite: Must be admitted to the EDD degree program.

    EDLE 701, EDLE 704, and EDLE 722


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  • EDLE 730 - Internship in Educational Leadership II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    The advanced educational leadership internship is an extensive educational experience that will provide an opportunity for candidates to engage in a series of field-based clinical experiences. The candidate, faculty advisor, and the supervisor of the participating organizations will work as a team to develop an individualized plan. These plans will be based on the experiences, background, needs, and professional goals of the candidates. This course is designed for K12 candidates.
    Prerequisite: EDLE 725 and EDLE 799


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  • EDLE 731 - Research Internship Seminar in Educational Leadership

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    In this course, candidates engage in a series of field-based clinical experiences with a focus on sharing their research, writing, and communication of expertise as related to their dissertation area of focus. Candidates present their preliminary dissertation proposal (chapters 1, 2, and 3). Successfully completing this seminar course prepares candidates to formally enroll in dissertation study under the supervision of a faculty chair and committee. This course is designed for K12 candidates.
    Prerequisite: EDLE 720, EDLE 723, and EDLE 730


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  • EDLE 740 - Dissertation in Educational Leadership I & II

    Credit Hours: 3 to 6
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    The dissertation process serves to bring together all of the experiences in which students have engaged during the entire program. Students have the option to complete the traditional dissertation, which includes chapters 1-5, or they can complete a dissertation in practice which builds on the tenets of social justice–this may include (but is not limited to) an improvement plan, implementation project, capstone project, or program evaluation. To be repeated for a total of six credit hours.

     

     
    Prerequisite: Evidence of passing the doctoral qualifying exam and admission to candidacy.

    PK-12 Education: EDLE 705 and EDLE 753

    Higher Education: ELHE 705 and ELHE 753


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  • EDLE 753 - Advanced Research and Methodology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course will provide doctoral candidates in the PK-12 and higher education cognate areas opportunities to investigate a variety of research approaches. This course serves as the introductory class in the doctoral dissertation writing process. The course explores the doctoral dissertation requirements of the EDLE doctoral program. The course is also the place for the doctoral candidates to begin the process of choosing and refining a topic and to complete a rough draft of the dissertation prospectus. This is a required course for all students pursuing the EDD degree. The overall purpose of the course is to introduce vocabulary, concepts, and methods of educational research. Students learn the language of research, various methods for conducting research, how to identify and synthesize research literature, how to plan a research study that improves the practice of education, and how to formally report research findings. This course is designed to support advanced doctoral students in the development of their dissertations. The course will introduce students to the APA manual, IRB application, and th ekey components of a research question, the fundamentals of research methodology, and research ethics.
    Prerequisite: PK-12 Education: EDLE 703, EDLE 707, and EDLE 731

    Higher Education: ELHE 703, ELHE 707, and ELHE 731


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  • EDLE 799 - Advanced Studies in Educational Leadership and Organizational Change

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course prepares K12 doctoral students to lead change initiatives within a variety of organizational settings. Students will explore change management through a systems approach at it relates to the structural, human resource, political and symbolic frames. Analysis will include contrasting organizational environments, assessing conditions that foster both acceptance and resistance to change, and discussing specific strategies for managing change. Participants are required to select a “live” project and apply the course content to this project. This course is designed to foster the skills necessary for leading teams through a successful transition process.
    Prerequisite: EDLE 708 and EDLE 729


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  • EDLE 999 - Doctoral Dissertation Continuation

    Credit Hours: 0
    Lecture Hours: 0
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course must be taken every semester in order to maintain active status in the doctoral program until completion of dissertation.


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Education Management
  

  • EDMG 614 - Techniques of Teaching in the Middle School

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of the teaching profession, with emphasis on teaching strategies, curriculum content and development, and materials selection for middle school education (grades 6-8).


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Elementary Education
  

  • ELEM 505 - Modern Math for Elementary Teachers

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of numeration systems and the real numbers as a basis for teaching mathematics in the elementary school.


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  • ELEM 530 - Remediation of Mathematics Difficulties

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    An exploration of factors that contribute to mathematics difficulties in the elementary and middle school, tests that aid in the diagnosis of difficulties, and techniques for preparing and evaluating individualized educational plans and strategies for remedial instruction. (Fall)


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  • ELEM 533 - Foundations of Arithmetic

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of the elements of modern mathematics basic to understanding the mathematical system.


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  • ELEM 534 - Advanced Social Studies and the Arts in Elementary Education

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This advanced course will provide K-6 teacher candidates with an in-depth focus on the alignment of the state standards and objectives from the elementary social studies and arts curriculum. Teacher candidates will also incorporate instructional strategies as well as research-based best teaching practices when designing lesson plans for specific learning segments.
    Prerequisite: Admission to MAT or MED in Elementary Education


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  • ELEM 540 - Math Education for Gifted Children

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    An in-depth study of curricula, methods, and materials for teaching mathematics to gifted children.


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  • ELEM 552 - Foundation and Curriculum of Early Childhood Education

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    An in-depth study of the historical, psychological, and sociological foundations of early childhood education and an exploration of current trends and programs in the field.


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  • ELEM 553 - Teaching and Evaluation in Early Childhood Education

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    An exploration of teaching strategies and evaluation processes in early childhood education. (Field experience required.)


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  • ELEM 560 - Reading/Language Arts for Gifted Children

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    An in-depth study of curricula, methods, and materials for teaching reading and the language arts to gifted children, with attention to examining characteristics of the gifted, assessing their unique learning needs, and investigating aspects of creativity.


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  • ELEM 615 - Techniques of Teaching in Elementary School

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    An exploration of effective teaching techniques and innovative forms of organization and instruction in elementary education.


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  • ELEM 616 - Problems Seminar in Lower Elementary Grades

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    An application of research techniques to the study of problems in education at the lower elementary grade level.
    Prerequisite: EDUC 680 


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  • ELEM 617 - Problems Seminar in Upper Elementary Grades

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    An application of research techniques to the study of problems in education at the upper elementary grade level.
    Prerequisite: EDUC 680 


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  • ELEM 623 - Advanced Language Arts in the Elementary School

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    An exploration of basic ideas and techniques in the teaching of language arts in the elementary school, with emphasis on approaches for facilitating communication.


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  • ELEM 624 - Teaching Writing in the Elementary Schools

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of the writing process and the teaching of composition.


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  • ELEM 635 - Problems in Science Education

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A practical course in the basic content of the pure and applied sciences, with attention to acquiring techniques for teaching science in the elementary and middle grades and to developing learning activities and instructional units for classroom use.


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  • ELEM 640 - Issues in Elementary Education

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course involves an in depth investigation of current issues and problems that affect elementary education in America. This course also includes a study of trends in curriculum, teaching practices, and evaluation of these topics in terms of effectiveness on teaching and learning. A close examination of the scope and sequence of the elementary school curriculum. (Field experience required.)


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  • ELEM 652 - Selected Topics in the Biological Sciences for Elementary Teachers

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of selected topics in the biological sciences, with applications to the teaching of the biological sciences in the elementary and middle schools.


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  • ELEM 653 - Selected Topics in the Physical Sciences

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of selected topics in the physical sciences, with applications to the teaching of the physical sciences in the elementary and middle schools.


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  • ELEM 654 - Selected Topics in the Earth Sciences

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of selected topics in the earth sciences, with applications to the teaching of earth sciences in the elementary and middle schools.


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  • ELEM 655 - Using Technology in Elementary/Middle School Curriculum

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course is designed to further develop abilities in using technology, electronic media and other multi-media in teaching and curriculum planning for elementary and middle level science. This course not only addresses the use and application of very specific types of technology, but also focuses on how technology can be used as a thinking tool to foster meaningful learning in elementary and middle school science classrooms.


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  • ELEM 680 - Advanced Studies in Child Literature

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    An in-depth study of literature for children, with emphasis on the history of children’s literature, criteria for the selection of quality books, major authors of children’s literature, and current trends and issues in the field.


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  • ELEM 690 - Advanced Clinical Experience in Elementary Education

    Credit Hours: 3-6
    Lecture Hours: 3-6
    Lab Hours: 3

    The clinical experience for the Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) in elementary education pairs candidates with clinical educators in the classroom to develop content and pedagogical knowledge. The goal of the clinical experience is to link theory and practice within the clinical setting to contextualize and cultivate knowledge, skills, and professional dispositions. Fall and Spring.
    Prerequisite: Admission to Clinical Experience and permission of instructor


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  • ELEM 691 - Integrating Technology in the Elementary School Curriculum

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course is designed to further develop abilities in using technology, electronic media and other multi-media in teaching and curriculum planning. This course not only addresses the use and application of very specific types of technology, but also focuses on how technology can be used as a thinking tool to foster meaningful learning.


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Educational Leadership - Higher Education
  

  • EDLE 741 - Dissertation in Educational Leadership III & IV

    Credit Hours: 1-6 (variable)
    Lecture Hours: 1-6 (variable)
    Lab Hours: 0

    This is the second of a two course sequence designed to support the candidate as s/he completes the dissertation. The dissertation process serves to bring together all of the experiences in which students have engaged during the entire program. The dissertation culminates the theoretical and practical research experiences of the candidates. The applications of theory and research to solve, inform, or suggest changes in problems and dilemmas facing educational leaders today should be reflected in an original, sophisticated, and high quality document. To facilitate the dissertation process, candidates will participate in regularly scheduled seminars designed to keep them on task and provide on-going constructive faculty feedback. The result is a final dissertation and successful defense.
    Prerequisite: PK-12 Education: EDLE 705 and EDLE 753

    Higher Education: ELHE 705 and ELHE 753


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  • ELHE 700 - Group Dynamics, Decision Making, and People Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    Focus on awareness of leader’s social group memberships and impact of these identities upon leadership skills, personal awareness of multiple forms of oppression and impact on leadership ability. Discussion of leadership strengths and challenges: managing conflict, resistance, and group-leader dynamics. This course will have an emphasis on decision making and people management in the higher education setting, including minority serving institutions.
    Prerequisite: Must be admitted to the EDD degree program.


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  • ELHE 701 - Cultural Diversity in American Schools

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course focuses on issues of diversity, oppression and social justice. It is designed to prepare doctoral candidates to be knowledgeable of people’s biases based on race, ethnicity, culture, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, social and economic status, political ideology, disability and how these contribute to discrimination and oppression. This course will have an emphasis on cultural diversity and social justice in the higher education setting.
    Prerequisite: Must be admitted to the EDD degree program.


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  • ELHE 702 - Leadership for Diversity and Equity in Higher Education

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course introduces students to theory, research, and practice related to leadership and diversity in American higher education. It covers issues of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, religion, special needs, and other topics, such as those related to discrimination and privilege and what these issues mean for institutions and their own professional practice.
    Prerequisite: ELHE 700, ELHE 706, and EDLE 721


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  • ELHE 703 - Public Policy and Political Issues In Education

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    Candidates study political and educational policy processes in relation to such problems as globalization and the nation- state, local, and community development, social identification and political participation, pressure groups and indoctrination, academic freedom, and school reforms. This course will have an emphasis on public policy and political issues in the higher education setting.
    Prerequisite: Must be admitted to the EDD degree program.

    ELHE 714, ELHE 730, and EDLE 723


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  • ELHE 704 - Curriculum and Instructional Leadership

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course examines the social and philosophical foundations of curriculum, and curriculum theory. The course prepares candidates to understand the politics of curriculum development. This course will have an emphasis on curriculum and instruction leadership and program development in the higher education setting.
    Prerequisite: Must be admitted to the EDD degree program.


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  • ELHE 705 - The Planning and Financing of Educational Organizations

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    Contemporary bases for collecting and distributing funds for postsecondary education provided by two-year institutions, college, and universities; problems and issues in financing postsecondary institutions; and economic aspects of expenditurs for postsecondary education.
    Prerequisite: Must be admitted to the EDD degree program.

    ELHE 703, ELHE 707, and ELHE 731


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  • ELHE 706 - Seminar in Educational Leadership

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    In this course, candidates investigate forces and trends that are influencing the nature of schooling and learning in a global society. Candidates explore futurist literature and the importance of holding a compelling vision for the future as an educational leader. They explore strategies for facilitating the development, articulation, implementation, and stewardship of a vision of learning that is shared and supported by the learning community. This course will have an emphasis on educational trends in the higher education setting.
    Prerequisite: Must be admitted to the EDD degree program.


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  • ELHE 707 - Seminar in Legal Issues and Professional Ethics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course focuses on Legal Issues and Professional Ethics of particular concern to education policy-makers and central office school administrators. Federal and North Carolina school law will be included with attention given both to theoretical and practical concerns. This course also focuses on critical race theory as a critique of racism and the law in U.S. society and discusses its current applications to education policy and research in K-12 schooling and higher education; looks at how critical race theory can be used as a methodological lens for policy analysis and educational research; examines the social aspects of leadership in moral terms. This course will have an emphasis on the legal issues and professional ethics in the higher education setting.
    Prerequisite: Must be admitted to the EDD degree program.

    ELHE 714, ELHE 730, and EDLE 723


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  • ELHE 708 - Organizational Theory and Administrative Behavior

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    In this course candidates examine schools as institutions from an organizational perspective. It critiques the field of organizational theory in order to better understand how schools function the way they do by turning to studies in business about organizational structure and culture. Candidates will develop the tools to look at organizational behavior from a critical perspective, which will provide a basis for understanding the status quo of any organization and the dynamics for change. The awareness of gender issues and cross-cultural issues that affect the modern organizational climate is emphasized. This course will have an emphasis on organizational theories and administrative behaviors in the higher education setting.
    Prerequisite: Must be admitted to the EDD degree program.


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  • ELHE 709 - University College Teaching

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    An examination of philosophies, methodologies, and related issues (gender, race, et.al) that influence teaching and learning in college and university classroom settings. Emphasis is on higher education teaching effectiveness, the application of course material to the formal classroom environment, assessment, and standards.
    Prerequisite: Must be admitted to the EDD degree program.

    ELHE 702, ELHE 713, and EDLE 722


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  • ELHE 710 - The Adult Learner

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    The focus of this course will be on the examination of how adults learn in instructional settings. Characteristics of the adult learner will be examined. Students will investigate adult learning theories as well as current trends and advancements in adult learning. The focus will be on making better instructional decisions and media selections for the education and training of adults.
    Prerequisite: Must be admitted to the EDD degree program.


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  • ELHE 711 - Emerging Issues in Higher Education Leadership

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course explores issues affecting higher education particularly as they relate to issues of equity and social justice in minority serving institutions.
    Prerequisite: Must be admitted to the EDD degree program.

    ELHE 709 and ELHE 729


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  • ELHE 712 - History of Higher Education

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course examines the history of higher education, particularly in the United States. Candidates examine the aims and institutional forms of higher education. The nature of academic pursuits in terms of the development of disciplines and fields of study and the development of the professoriate are examined.
    Prerequisite: Must be admitted to the EDD degree program.

    ELHE 709 and ELHE 729


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  • ELHE 713 - Academic Programs in Colleges and Universities

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    Explores higher education curriculum including academic program philosophy and design, planning and development, program innovations, liberal education, academic majors, graduate and professional education, program review, and evaluation.
    Prerequisite: ELHE 700, ELHE 706, and EDLE 721


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  • ELHE 714 - The Administration of Student Services in Higher Education

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    Organization and administration of student services in higher education including philosophy, current issues, student development, program planning, financial aid, auxiliary services, housing, counseling, advising, social and health services, student organizations, legal aspects, and special populations.
    Prerequisite: ELHE 711 and ELHE 712


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  • ELHE 729 - Internship in Educational Leadership I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This advanced internship in higher education leadership is an extensive scholar-practitioner experience that will provide an opportunity for candidates to engage in a series of field-based clinical experiences related to one of their selected areas of emphasis: academic affairs, student affairs, athletics, or the presidency. In this course, students identify a problem and develop a strategy to address the problem.
    Prerequisite: Must be admitted to the EDD degree program.

    ELHE 702, ELHE 713, and EDLE 722


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  • ELHE 730 - Internship in Educational Leadership II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    The advanced educational leadership internship is an extensive educational experience that will provide an opportunity for candidates to engage in a series of field-based clinical experiences related to one of their selected areas of emphasis: academic affairs, student affairs, athletics, or the presidency. In this course, students identify a problem of practice and develop a strategy to address the problem.
    Prerequisite: ELHE 711 and ELHE 712


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  • ELHE 731 - Research Internship Seminar in Educational Leadership III

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    In this course, candidates engage in a series of field-based clinical experiences with a focus on sharing their research, writing, and communication of expertise as related to their dissertation. Successfully completing this seminar course prepares candidates to formally enroll in dissertation study under the supervision of a faculty chair and committee. This course will have an emphasis on placements in the higher education setting, for example, college, university, UNC-GA, etc.
    Prerequisite: ELHE 714, ELHE 730, and EDLE 723


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  • ELHE 740 - Dissertation in Educational Leadership I & II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    The dissertation process serves to bring together all of the experiences in which students have engaged during the entire program. Students have the option to complete the traditional dissertation, which includes chapters 1-5, or they can complete a dissertation in practice which builds on the tenets of social justice–this may include (but is not limited to) an improvement plan, implementation project, journal article, or program evaluation. To be repeated for a total of six credit hours.
    Prerequisite: Evidence of passing the doctoral qualifying exam and admission to candidacy.


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  • ELHE 753 - Advanced Research and Methodology for School Improvement

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course will provide Ed.D. students in the Higher Education cognate area opportunities to investigate a variety of research approaches and statistical procedures to support school or organizational research. Focus is on research methodology, with emphasis on effective problem-solving approaches, research techniques, research design, and applications of statistical methods. Selected concepts covered include estimation, graphic methods, hypothesis testing and variance, correlation, and non-parametric procedures in the context of educational studies. The student will apply appropriate statistical procedures to analyze student achievement, student learning outcomes, higher education assessment, and university data sets. Computer software programs widely used in educational research will be examined.


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English
  

  • ENGL 502 - Forms of Fiction

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of the short story and novel as genre. The course will deal with the history and development of both forms in American, British, and Continental literature from the beginning until the modernist movement. Emphasis will be placed upon narrative theory and the rhetoric of fiction.


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  • ENGL 503 - Drama

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A course in the reading of Western Drama from its Greek beginnings through the Renaissance and Modern Period, emphasizing the conventions and modes of drama as literature, the aesthetics of mimesis, terms, historical background, theme, and structure. The course will include readings from the Greek tragedy and comedy, Shakespeare, mixed forms like tragicomedy, Restoration comedy, and examples of Modern Drama from Ibsen to Beckett.


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  • ENGL 505 - The Lyric

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    The Lyric as Song in English and American poetry is a comprehensive literature course designed to acquaint the student with representative poems in English and American literature from the medieval period in England to the twentieth century in England and America and to familiarize students with the dominant forms, sub-genres, prosodic and metrical structures, rhythm patterns, motifs, and subjective voices employed by representative English and American poets of the inclusive periods. This study will concentrate on the correlations between sound and sense, and on the music of the verse. This course will provide students with an extensive practical, theoretical, and prosodic background. An analysis of the music, themes, and structures of lyric poems will provide a comprehensive understanding and appreciation of the musical elements of verse and of lyric poems in particular.


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  • ENGL 507 - Bibliography and Methods of Research

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course will introduce students to the graduate study of English language and literature. Study will center on both the integrity of individual texts and the historic, economic, social, and political factors that may have influenced literature and language. The development of printing and publishing, conventional style manuals, and central works of the twentieth century will be considered in order to provide an understanding of editorial standards and textual research.


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  • ENGL 508 - Introduction to Linguistics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course provides students with the terminology and elementary concepts of linguistics. Students will separate linguistic science from myths. The course identifies linguistic markers in both literary and everyday language. The raw material of language will be studied as resources for art, i.e. poetry. The course will delineate some of the issues in contemporary linguistics. Although not primarily a course on pedagogy, this course will from time to time apply linguistic principles to the teaching of English language and literature.


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  • ENGL 509 - Sociolinguistics and Pragmatics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    Sociolinguistics is the study of language in society, including dialectology, gender issues, politeness, language policy, and pedagogy. Pragmatics is the study of communication in context, including deixis, implicature, speech acts, metaphor, and other tropes. This course is cross-level listed with ENGL 409. 


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  • ENGL 511 - Tragic Vision

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A course in the readings of the tragic in drama, fiction, and poetry. The course will examine versions of the tragic experience, pathos in contrast to tragedy, the hero, and the possibilities of transcendence in tragedy. The course will study the tragic vision in Greek tragedy, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Yeats, and Beckett. It will look for the tragic in, for example, the fiction of Conrad and Mann, and in, for example, the poetry of Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Dickinson, Yeats, and Plath.


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  • ENGL 515 - History of Criticism and Literary Theory

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course will provide students with a familiarity with the traditional texts of Western literary theory and criticism. The second half of the course will concentrate on contemporary trends in literary criticism (beginning approximately with Oscar Wilde), which are often reactions against more traditional notions. Often the course will introduce concepts that are, or seem to be, counterintuitive.


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  • ENGL 516 - Issues in Composition Instruction

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course will be concerned with current theories in writing and revising compositions. Particular attention will be paid to composition as a process, ultimately leading to a product. The course will also examine writers including basic/inexperienced writers and their problems. Students in this course will seek and discover information and techniques that will aid them in functioning as facilitators of writing.


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  • ENGL 517 - Issues in Teaching Literature

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    The course will provide a basic introduction to the teaching of literature in its four main forms: fiction, poetry, drama, and film. The concept of documentary narrative in relation to these four will be examined as well. Genre and subgenre will also be considered as means of grouping texts. Particular attention will be paid to the relative appropriateness of teaching the different forms of literature at different age and ability levels. Questions of canon will be considered in order to relate gender, race, and ethnicity to the secondary curriculum. Finally, the relation of literary criticism and critical theory to the teaching of the four forms will be considered.


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  • ENGL 518 - Technology in the Teaching of English

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 1

    The course will provide students with the ability to use computers and multimedia to enhance the language arts classroom. Word processing and composition; the use of style checkers and editing programs, computer-assisted and computer-managed instruction, multimedia, and social media will be examined in the light of recent research into their effectiveness as pedagogical tools. Students will design and implement a syllabus for a computer intensive language arts course.


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  • ENGL 520 - Advanced Digital Writing and Publishing

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course explores advanced writing and publishing in digital formats. Students will learn to evaluate and design content appropriate for multiple online platforms, adapting style and organization to meet the needs of varied audiences and purposes. 


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  • ENGL 531 - Literature of the South

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course examines literature emanating from the American South, covering the colonial and antebellum period through the Civil War and its aftermath into the early Twentieth Century and the Southern Renascence, culminating with a view of the contemporary Southern literary landscape. The course will use literary works and other material to examine how the South differs from other regions of the nation as it attempts to define “Southern literature.” In addition, the course will examine Southern literature to discover its beliefs, values, and ideals and to explore the literary tradition of the modern South.


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  • ENGL 533 - Approach to Reading African-American Literature

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course will explore formal modes, figurations, and traditions in African-American writings. The course will analyze ways in which African-American cultural codes produce and reproduce value and meaning. Primary focus includes vernacular theories, performance theories, “womanist” perspectives, and new historicism. The course will include culturally specific aspects of African- American writings and culture, showing how the black tradition has inscribed its own theories of rhetorical systems. The course will consider the slave narrative tradition as it is reflected in different periods by such writers as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Richard Wright, and Toni Morrison. A New Historicist approach to reading will give attention to how historical discourse displays the surrounding ideology. A consideration of the “black aesthetic” will emphasize the performance of African-American writings.


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  • ENGL 534 - Women and Literature

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course surveys many of the most important literary texts written by women. The course explores and analyzes the cultural assumptions embedded in literature about women written by men and women. The course examines the social, political, ideological, and economic matrices of both the production and readership of literature. It gives special attention to women’s revaluations and revisions of those matrices. The course discusses the varieties of contemporary feminist theory and criticism. The course also applies feminist contributions to the more important contemporary developments in literary theory and criticism: reader-response theory, structuralism and deconstruction, the new historicism, and the debate over canon formation.


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  • ENGL 540 - English Phonology and Morphology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    An introduction to the phonology (sound system) and morphology (word formation) of English. Primary emphasis will be on Standard English, but others varies of English will be considered. Pedagogical approaches on phonology and morphology will be a component of the course.


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  • ENGL 542 - Advanced Creative Writing

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    An intensive seminar devoted to the creation, revision, and publication of original creative writing across print and digital media. Genre focus will vary each semester and will alternate between poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and children’s literature. Students may retake ENGL 542 up to three times in different genres. 


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  • ENGL 544 - Advanced Business Writing

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course explores the principles of effective writing in business and administration with special focus on developing correspondence, reports, proposals, presentations, flyers and other business documents, as well as researching issues related to business communication, including ethical, legal, and cross-cultural contemporary concerns.


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  • ENGL 545 - Advanced Technical Writing

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course explores effective writing in technical genres, with a focus on adjusting content, organization and style for various audiences including peer, managerial, and lay audiences. Students will examine and produce various technical documents, such as instructions or manuals and reports, and engage in usability testing and revisions of documents.


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  • ENGL 550 - Practicum

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course allows students to participate in a supervised work program where they apply their specialty area coursework knowledge in a practical setting. This course emphasizes the development of specialists in English Studies who develop a high level of professionalism. 


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  • ENGL 623 - Medieval English Literature

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    The course will survey literature written in Middle English. Most texts will be read in Middle English. It will not include Chaucer, although it does assume a prior acquaintance with Chaucer. The course will trace the Continental and Old English antecedents of Middle English literature. It will consider the social, political, and economic matrices of Middle English literature. It will observe the interpenetration of religious and secular Middle English, literary texts using the new critical and theoretical approaches, especially feminism, neo-historicism, and reader-response theory.


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  • ENGL 630 - Modern Novel

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of the major novels and novelists of the Modernist movement from the late 19th century to the present. The texts will be analyzed through close reading, attempting to make aesthetic connections among the works, and to examine the social and political context in which the works were produced. An attempt will be made to derive a definition of what Modernism was and is and how it shaped the consciousness of contemporary man. The novels will be discussed as reactions to the thematic concerns and resolutions of more traditional early fictions; the complexity of modernist works will be seen as a natural reaction to the complex vision of man, which late 19th and early 20th century writers inherited. Among the writers to be studied are the following: Dostoyevsky, Kafka, Flaubert, Lawrence, Forster, and Dos Passos.


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  • ENGL 632 - Special Topics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of major tradition, period, or author; or of current issues in literature, rhetoric, or professional writing. This course will vary according to the issues in literature, rhetoric, or professional writing. This course will vary according to the expertise of the individual instructor and may be repeated for credit under different subtitles.


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  • ENGL 636 - Seminar in American Literature

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    The seminar in American literature will examine the works and influence of an individual author, the literary output of a number of different authors, or a particular literary period, such as the Harlem Renaissance, or a literary movement, such as the American Romanticism. Though the specific content of the course may vary, the seminar will be an intensive examination and interpretation of selected texts, as opposed to a survey of many. The course is designed to limit the scope of the material covered so that students can closely examine from various literary perspectives a few key texts. The format emphasizes class members leading the discussion, doing independent research, and exchanging the results of their research. This course will vary according to the expertise of the individual instructor and may be repeated for credit under different subtitles.


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  • ENGL 637 - Seminar in British Literature

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    The seminar in British literature will focus on an individual writer, a small corpus of works by several different writers, or a theme developed by a series of British writers (e.g., social revolt in modern literature, the social status of the hero in epic, medieval, and modern narrative poetry, the sea in British literature, the private self through the “stream of consciousness,” Medieval literature, English, Renaissance, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, post-modern literature, Spenser, Shaw, Joyce, or Woolf.) The seminar will be an intense and close reading and interpretation of selected texts, rather than a survey of many. The purpose of a seminar is to limit the scope of the material covered in order for students to scrutinize from many different literary perspectives a few key texts in British literature. The format is mainly directed discussion with class members leading the discussion, doing independent research, and exchanging results of their research. This course will vary according to the expertise of the individual instructor and may be repeated for credit under different subtitles.


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  • ENGL 638 - Thesis I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    An original investigation in a subject approved by the student’s thesis committee. Detailed information on the preparation, form, and defense of the thesis is presented in the Guide for the Preparation and Submission of Theses.
    Prerequisite: ENGL 507  and ENGL 515 


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  • ENGL 639 - Thesis II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    Continued preparation of the thesis under the direction of the advisor and the thesis committee.
    Prerequisite: ENGL 507  and ENGL 515 


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