College of Arts, Media, and Design

College of Business Administration

College of Education

College of Liberal Arts

College of Mathematics and Science

Fall 2003

ACCT 5910     Seminar: Accounting Research Techniques

This course explores sources of information, search procedures, and presentation techniques for researching and reporting accounting, tax, and auditing issues.  Students will access primary databases to incorporate original pronouncements in a case study format.

Prerequisites:  (as listed in the Schedule of Courses for the fall semester)  All prerequisites for the MBA Program and 24 hours of ACCT. 

ECON4913    Seminar: Oklahoma Economy & Public Policy

This course provides valuable knowledge and skills for future careers in state business and government, as well as the fundamentals for greater civic engagement of citizens.  It is designed to provide the background necessary to understand the structure of the Oklahoma economy, the role of state government, and public policies that affect economic growth and quality of life.  Topics will include: the structure of the Oklahoma economy; historic and sectoral analysis; contrasts and trends of the Oklahoma, regional & the U.S. economies; the role and structure of state and local government; impacts of taxation and government services; economic growth policies; quality of life policies; and case studies of recent major controversies regarding actual and proposed state policies.

Prerequisite:  Introduction to Economics (1103), Economics of Social Issues (1203), Principles of Microeconomics  (ECON 2103), or equivalent, or permission of instructor.

ECON 5913    Seminar: Oklahoma Economy & Public Policy

This course provides valuable knowledge and skills for future careers in state business and government, as well as the fundamentals for greater civic engagement of citizens.  It is designed to provide the background necessary to understand the structure of the Oklahoma economy, the role of state government, and public policies that affect economic growth and quality of life.  Topics will include: the structure of the Oklahoma economy; historic and sectoral analysis; contrasts and trends of the Oklahoma, regional & the U.S. economies; the role and structure of state and local government; impacts of taxation and government services; economic growth policies; quality of life policies; and case studies of recent major controversies regarding actual and proposed state policies.

Prerequisite:  Introduction to Economics (1103), Economics of Social Issues (1203), Principles of Microeconomics  (ECON 2103), Survey of Economics (5473), or equivalent, or permission of instructor. 

FIN 5910    Seminar: Employee Benefit Planning: 

This course examines the approaches to protecting employees' financial security from the perspective of businesses by studying the basic concepts and managerial considerations underlying the group insurance mechanism for providing life, health, disability, and retirement plans.

Topics covered include the theory and practice regarding employee benefits plan design, administration, cost, funding, regulation and tax considerations. 

BADM 4910    Seminar: Business Ethics 

This course will introduce the student to the major theories of ethics from past and present thinkers and apply those theories to the contemporary business environment.

BADM 4910    Seminar: Competitive Intelligence  

This course will examine the behavioral, cultural and structural factors in gathering and conducting competitive intelligence in business settings. Issues examined will include conducting intelligence ethically, intelligence security, analytical models and techniques, information resources and the IT Marketplace. 

BCOM 5910    Seminar: Interpersonal Communications 

This course focuses on perceptions, assumptions, feelings, and understandings in business situations. It includes study in sources of identification and techniques of mastery in communication arts and skills. 

LS 4910    Seminar: Real Estate Management

This class is cross-listed with MGMT 4910 and will be taught by Dr. Dave Harris, Professor of Management. The description for LS 4910 will be what is submitted by the department of Management for MGMT 4910. 

LS 5910    Seminar: Law for E-Commerce

This course will explore a broad spectrum of interesting, important, and rapidly developing issues of the law of cyberspace- such as the law of online contracts and other e-commerce legal issues, privacy, content regulation, workplace issues, intellectual property, and computer crime.

MGMT 5910    Seminar: Organizational Behavior

An in-depth study of current theories of the creation and operation of complex business organizations.  Course will examine individual, group, and organization-level behavioral and organizational processes from a management perspective. 

MGMT 4910    Seminar: Real Estate Management

Methods and practices of operating real estate agencies; conveyance of title, leases, mortgages, liens, contracts to buy or sell; methods of financing; zoning laws, subdividing, developing, agency management; appraisal practices. 

MRKT 5910    Seminar: Services Marketing

The objective of Marketing 4910/5910 is to further the professional development of the student by developing an understanding of services marketing.  Services are different than products.  They have the characteristics of intangibility, inseparability, heterogeneity, and perishability.  Due to these unique characteristics of services, service firms require special techniques in developing marketing strategies and tactics.  This course is designed to provide theoretical and practical guidelines for developing service strategies and tactics.

COMMON COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
Summer 03 & Fall 03 

Curriculum and Instruction
ECED 4900     Practicum: Early Childhood

DESCRIPTION: The Early Childhood Practicum is to be taken the semester before student teaching.  The practicum requires thirty-six hours of actual teaching experience, which allows the student to practice the application of theory, methods, techniques and teaching strategies that have been developed during preceding course work.  This practicum is a demonstration of the student’s knowledge of early childhood development and its relation to the education of children ages 0-8 (birth to 3^rd grade).

 ECED 5900     Practicum: Early Childhood

DESCRIPTION: The graduate practicum is the capstone experience for the M.Ed. in Early Childhood Education.  EC ED 5903 is to be taken the last six hours of the master degree program.  The practicum requires the application of child development theory, methods, techniques and teaching strategies that have been developed during the preceding course work.  This practicum is a demonstration of the student's knowledge of early childhood development and its relation to the education of children 0-8 (birth to 3^rd grade).

 ECED 5940     Professionalism and Advocacy in Early Childhood

DESCRIPTION: As an introduction to the graduate program in early childhood education, this course examines the professional roles of the early childhood educator.  Particular emphasis is placed upon advocacy responsibilities of the educator while serving young children and their families through the exploration of the discipline’s current issues and trends.  Students are introduced to a variety of assignments that will be required in their graduate program and an individualized degree plan is devised.  This course is to be taken within the initial six hours of graduate study.

 ELED 4900     Practicum: Elementary Education
Prerequisite(s): Written permission required.  Admission to Teacher Education.

DESCRIPTION: Credit is for one hour.  The practicum requires students enrolled to complete minimum of twenty hours of field-based teaching.  This experience allows students to apply and demonstrate their knowledge of elementary education theory, as well as the use and implementation of the Teacher Work Sample-TWS.  This course should be taken prior to the student teaching semester. 

ELED 5910     Seminar: Assessment/Intervention Reading Grades K-8

DESCRIPTION: Strategies for teaching reading in the elementary school, including classroom assessment and intervention practices for instruction for individual needs.

 ELED 5910     Seminar: Inquiry Science for Elementary Teachers

DESCRIPTION:  This course is a study of inquiry methods for teaching children life, earth-space and physical science concepts.  Emphasis is placed on national science and certification standards.

 ELED 5910     Seminar: Teaching Reading in the Intermediate/Middle School Grades

DESCRIPTION:  This course is a study of the theory, research and related instructional strategies and curriculum materials applicable to the teaching of listening, speaking, and creative and practical writing to children in grades 1-8.  Additional topics include the teaching of handwriting, spelling, grammar and mechanics.  The theme of the course is to prepare outstanding professionals who are reflective, responsive and resourceful throughout their professional careers.  This course is one of the Core Area requirements for the major in Elementary Education.

 ELED 5910     Seminar: Teaching Reading in the Primary Grades

DESCRIPTION:  This course is a study of theory, research and related instructional strategies and curriculum materials applicable to the teaching of developmental reading in the primary grades.  Topics will include research-based approaches to reading instruction incorporating principles for effective teaching, essential skills which includes phonological system, syntactical system, pragmatic (social or cultural) system.  The knowledge base will be enhanced through modeling and a limited field experience.

 Human Environmental Sciences
Summer 03 

FMCD 4961    Institute: Adults and Children Against Violence

DESCRIPTION: The ACT (Adults and Children Against Violence) curriculum focuses on the adults who are the most influential persons in young children’s lives – parents, other family members, teachers, and care providers. The subjects will include child development, effects of violence on children’s lives, and how to implement programs with adults in the areas of anger management, media literacy, social problem solving, and discipline.

 FMCD 4962/ 5962      Institute: Adoption: Issues and Answers

DESCRIPTION: Upon completion of this course, the student will demonstrate understanding of adoption issues from the points of view of the adoption professional, the adoptive parent, the birth parent and the children.  Graduate students will be required to submit an additional research project related to course materials. 

FMCD 4961/5961       Institute: Children/Grief

DESCRIPTION: This intercession course examines the grief process in children and teens.  The response of programs and individuals in the helping professions to bereaved children in our community will also be addressed.  Graduate students will be required to submit an additional research project related to course materials.

 FMCD 4961    Institute: The Challenge of Fathers and Families

DESCRIPTION: The course will examine the fathers’ role in the family throughout the life cycle.  It will include a look at how the role of the father changes throughout the family life cycle, as well as a discussion of current research on fatherhood. Qualities of successful fathers will be presented and discussed. 

FMCD 4961/5961       Institute: Grandparent/Grandchild Relationships

DESCRIPTION: The student will review recent trends of development during later years; discuss the changing structures, cultural variations, and functions of grandparenting; and review current research addressing critical family issues related to grandparenting.  A discussion on role expectations and perceptions of grandparent/grandchild relationships will be included.  Graduate students will be required to submit an additional research project related to course materials. 

FMCD 4961    Institute: Guidance and Discipline of Young Children

DESCRIPTION: The student will become more aware of what positive guidance means and the differences between guidance discipline and punishment.  The opportunity to gain further competence and confidence in the use of accepted ways to guide children will be accomplished through an observation assignment, class discussions, vignettes, and video presentations. 

FMCD 4961    Institute: Observing Young Children

DESCRIPTION: The student will become more aware of the language of children’s behavior and will have the opportunity to gain experience in observation techniques.  A variety of observation techniques will be offered, discussed, and demonstrated. 

FMKT 3001/ 5001      Workshop: Current Developments in Textiles & Clothing

DESCRIPTION: Update of the latest technological developments in the fibers, fabric, finishes and sewing industries.  Course will emphasize consumer uses of these new developments.  Graduate students will do an additional project related to course materials. 

FMKT 4961/5961       Institute: Do’s And Taboos In International Business

DESCRIPTION: The course is designed to introduce students to global communication concepts stressing diversity as well as the impact of culture on international commerce and public relations.  It includes the study of customs, symbolism, protocol and cultural practices of countries the United States currently trades with to enable students to conduct themselves successfully without making cultural blunders.  The course explores differences in greetings, surnames, body language, personal appearance, sensitivities, etiquette, cuisine, gift giving, gender awareness and the values of these trading partners. Graduate students will be required to submit an additional research project related to course materials. 

Fall 2003 

FMCD 4913/5913       Seminar: Family Law and Public Practice

DESCRIPTION: In this course, students will analyze aspects of family life from a legal perspective.  Students will analyze public policy formulation, major policies and programs impacting the family, and trends and legal decisions affecting families. Graduate students will be required to submit an additional research project related to course materials. 

FMCD 4961/5961       Institute: Adoption: Issues and Answers

DESCRIPTION: Upon completion of this course, the student will demonstrate understanding of adoption issues from the points of view of the adoption professional, the adoptive parent, the birth parent and the children.  Graduate students will be required to submit an additional research project related to course materials. 

FMCD 4961    Institute: Children and Grief

DESCRIPTION: This intercession course examines the grief process in children and teens.  The response of programs and individuals in the helping professions to bereaved children in our community will also be addressed.   

FMCD 4961    Institute: Observing Young Children

DESCRIPTION: The student will become more aware of the language of children’s behavior and will have the opportunity to gain experience in observation techniques.  A variety of observation techniques will be offered, discussed, and demonstrated.

FMKT 4910    Seminar: Leadership for Success

DESCRIPTION: This course examines the principles of leadership theory and research as it applies to personal, campus, and professional situations.  It will help students examine their beliefs, styles and behaviors to increase their personal awareness.

NTRN 4910    Seminar: Foodservice Financial Management

DESCRIPTION: This course will develop financial and accounting skills to meet the complicated financial management demanded of food management professional especially in healthcare.  It will assist the student to attain and improve decision-making skills in regard to efficient and cost effective operations.  

NTRN 5910    Seminar: Foodservice Financial Management

DESCRIPTION:  This course will develop financial and accounting skills to meet the complicated financial management demanded of food management professional especially in healthcare.  It will assist the student to attain and improve decision-making skills in regard to efficient and cost effective operations.  Graduate students will be required to submit an additional research project related to course materials. 

KINESIOLOGY AND HEALTH STUDIES
Summer, 2003 

HLTH 2002    Women’s Health Issues

DESCRIPTION: The course is designed to examine the interrelationship of physical, psychological and sociological aspects of health and well-being of women. 

HLTH 4912/5912       Fitness Concepts for the Aging

DESCRIPTION: The course is designed to develop an understanding of the aging process as it applies to the various physiological and biological systems. 

PHED 3001     Country Line Dancing

DESCRIPTION:  This course is a workshop consisting of choreographed dance routines. 

PHED 3992     Sport in American Society

DESCRIPTION: The course will cover a variety of sport topics and their relationship to life in American society. 

Fall, 2003 

HLTH 4913    Advanced Treatment of Athletic Injuries

DESCRIPTION: This course is an advanced presentation of the care and prevention of common, as well as the less common, injuries in athletics, with emphasis on the physiological involvement. 

PHED 2001     Aikido

DESCRIPTION: This course introduces the student to the basic principles and practices of the martial art of Aikido (the way of harmony) that originated in Japan.  Aikido is a self-defense system that used evasion and re-direction of the attacker’s force.  Drawing primarily on Tomiki style Aikido, the course will focus on safety, stretching and movement, proper falling and defending against grasps and strikes. 

PHED 2001     Beginning Pilates

DESCRIPTION: An introduction to fundamentals, form and principals of basic Pilates exercises.

 PHED 3001     Advanced Water Aerobics

DESCRIPTION: This course is a  continuation of PHED 1151 Water Aerobics.  Water exercise programs will primarily focus on higher levels of intensity and specific areas of training. 

PHED 3001     Country Line Dancing

DESCRIPTION:  This course is a workshop consisting of choreographed dance routines. 

PHED 3001     Dances Thru the Decades

DESCRIPTION:  This course is a workshop consisting of dance basics from the 1920’s through the 1990’s. 

PHED 5912     Legal Aspects of PE, Rec.

Prerequisite(s): Graduate status. 

DESCRIPTION: This is a comprehensive review of legal aspects affecting sport, recreation, and fitness industries.  The range of review includes civil procedures; contracts; employment, leases, waivers; tort liability for coaches, administrators, employees and independent contractors; 14^th Amendment Due Process and Equip Protection; product liability, and statutory regulations including Title VII, Title IX and ADA. 

Occupational and Technology Education
Summer 03 

OCTE 3002/5002       School Nursing:  Expanding Horizons in School Nursing

Prerequisite(s): Participants must be a school nurse, R.N., or nursing student, or other health professional involved with school aged children.

DESCRIPTION: Areas of practice for school nurses are discussed with up-to-date information on communicable and sexually transmitted diseases, legal aspects, diseases commonly found in school aged children, and current issues.  

OCTE 4963/5963       Managing a Business/Information Technology Program

DESCRIPTION:  The student will identify and apply management techniques to successfully facilitate a project-based business and information technology education program; discuss learning styles, business ethics and multi-cultural differences among learners; implement the process for selecting equipment and materials; design a multi-use technology lab; incorporate School-to-Career (Work) activities; incorporate industry-validated duty/task requirements; develop an individual professional development plan; identify marketing tools to promote your program; implement the use of an advisory committee for program effectiveness and organize/manage the work flow; discuss the need for credentialing for your program and for yourself; implement an alignment plan with other business studies program, funded career and technology (BITE)programs, and technology centers. 

OCTE 5913                Integrating Project-Based Learning in a Business

DESCRIPTION:  This course is designed to give prospective business instructors practical, integrated learning experiences necessary for success in state-of-the-art business classrooms.  The organization and delivery of instruction in this course will adhere to the e-Business model as developed by the Business Information Technology Education Division of the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education.  The course content will focus on high performance business skills and effective applications of current technology tools.  The goal of this course is to focus on the high performance content and instructional strategies necessary to effectively engage students in the personal, team, and technology skills defined in the e-Business model and needed for success in competitive business careers. 

OCTE 5912                Consulting Skills for Training and Development

DESCRIPTION: This course examines the internal and external consulting roles of the training and development professional.  Topics include an overview of the consulting process, conducting contracting meetings, understanding and dealing with resistance, gathering data, and conducting feedback meetings.  Responding to requests for proposals, writing proposals, developing budgets and determining the cost benefits of training will also be examined. 

ADED 5962                Creative Supervision Skills

DESCRIPTION:  This course will examine the role of being a supervisor and training people to be more effective in that role. Training in the following first-line supervision skills are included in this course: motivating, appraising, building relationships, creating a positive working climate, making quality decisions, handling human problems, managing time, setting priorities and being a leader. 

OCTE 5213                History and Philosophy of Vocational Education

DESCRIPTION: Basic principles and philosophy underlying the organization and development of progress of Career and Technology Education with special attention directed toward federally aided programs in these areas. 

OCTE 4962/5962       Entrepreneurship Academy

DESCRIPTION:  This course will examine what elements go into an effective Business Plan, for the participant who will at some future date actually develop a Business Plan. In addition, the course will assist students in conducting a self-analysis to evaluate whether or not their characteristics and experiences increase their probability of being a successful entrepreneur. Consequently, participants will know what to do to prepare themselves for starting their own business. They will be able to prioritize their business ideas considering their resources and to analyze their situation, their objectives, and their knowledge of strategies related to: organizational structure, personnel, production, purchasing and inventory control, record keeping, marketing, risk management, forecasts and budgets, and securing capital and start-up costs, etc. 

OCTE 4961/ADED 5961        Spreadsheet Applications for the Adult Learner

DESCRIPTION:  This institute is designed to focus on spreadsheet applications for using Microsoft XP.  Students will learn the importance of developing spreadsheets for use in business and education.   

SFTY 4912/5912                     Industrial Ventilation

DESCRIPTION:  This course is a study of methods and techniques of industrial ventilation systems, including local exhaust systems as engineering controls for reduction of air-borne contaminants: as well as the basic concepts of heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems.   

SFTY 4163/5163                     Environmental Safety

DESCRIPTION: This course is a study of the characteristics of regulated hazardous wastes, the principles of hazardous waste management, and the OSHA regulations pertaining to the protection of workers in hazardous waste operations.  Prerequisite: SAFTY 2502. 

SFTY 4913/5913                     Professional Safety Development

DESCRIPTION:  This course is the study of ethical, legal, technical, and regulatory requirements related to the professional practice of Industrial Safety.  Included are the analyses of the various categories of expertise required in order to become a professionally and legally recognized practitioner of Industrial Safety.

Fall 2003 

SFTY 4013/5013         Alcohol and Drug Education

DESCRIPTION: This course is designed to explore the magnitude of the use of alcohol and drugs in our society.  The individual is encouraged to explore the areas before making a decision concerning the use or non-use of these substances. 

OCTE 4961                Medication Issues for the Older Adult

DESCRIPTION: This course will present a broad overview of the medication issues concerning older adults. Topics will include a basic introduction to frequently used prescription and over-the-counter drugs, common problems encountered by the older adult taking multiple medications for their multiple medical problems in a variety of settings, health and safety guidelines, marketing effects, and economic concerns. 

GERO 5961                Medication Issues for the Older Adult

DESCRIPTION: This course will present a broad overview of the medication issues concerning older adults. Topics will include a basic introduction to frequently used prescription and over-the-counter drugs, common problems encountered by the older adult taking multiple medications for their multiple medical problems in a variety of settings, health and safety guidelines, marketing effects, and economic concerns. 

OCTE 5213                History and Philosophy of Vocational Education

DESCRIPTION: This course will focus on the basic principles and philosophy underlying the organization and development of progress of Career and Technology Education with special attention directed toward federally aided programs in these areas. 

OCTE 5103                Instructional Strategies of Business Education and Marketing Education

Prerequisite(s): Permission required.

DESCRIPTION: This course is designed to develop instructional strategies needed to teach business subjects, including lesson plans, unit plans, and evaluation techniques. 

ADED 5962                Institute: Facilitating Techniques

DESCRIPTION: This course deals with the theory, principles, concepts, and practice of group facilitation skills used by outside contracting consultants, managers in private and public sectors, formal and informal leaders, "volunteered" people, anyone seeking information from customers and clients, and anyone else whose role is to guide a group toward realizing their creative potential. 

ADED 5962                Institute: Creative Supervision Skills

DESCRIPTION: This course will examine the role of being a supervisor and training people to be more effective in that role. Training in the following first-line supervision skills are included in this course: motivating, appraising, building relationships, creating a positive working climate, making quality decisions, handling human problems, managing time, setting priorities and being a leader. 

OCTE 5913                Curriculum Design in OCTED

DESCRIPTION: This course examines the use of instructional design procedures for conducting a needs assessment and training analysis, designing the training curriculum, and the design of group and individualized training materials. 

OCTE 4112                Career Technology Student Organization

DESCRIPTION: This course will focus on the development of a career and technical student organization (CTSO) to serve the employability skill, leadership skill, and peer relationship needs of the students enrolled in career, occupational, and technology education programs. Participants will develop a plan for implementing and promoting a CTSO within their discipline of career, occupational, or technical education 

GERO 5913                Qualitative Gerontology

DESCRIPTION: This course is designed to introduce students to qualitative research in Gerontology. Qualitative issues concerning, methodology, applications of findings, and ethical issues will be covered.  

OCTE 3313                Computer Technology for Teaching and Managing a Business Program

DESCRIPTION: This course is designed to meet the needs of persons teaching business-related subjects for knowledge and skill development in personal computer (PC) procurement and utilization, including use of software packages (e.g. spreadsheet, word processor, data base, graphing, communications, Power Point) at an advanced level. Prerequisite(s): A beginning micro applications course. 

OCTE 4013/5013       Multimedia and Information Systems for Teachers Using Technology

DESCRIPTION: This course is designed to focus on multimedia development applications for students to apply to an educational classroom setting and/or business and industry.  

ADED 5313                Techniques of Teaching Adults

DESCRIPTION: This course is designed to improve present and future adult educators’ skills in teaching adult learners. Emphases are on the function of planning, organizing, conducting, and evaluating the instructional process of adult education and training programs. 

ADED 4961/5961       Presentation Applications for the Adult Learner

DESCRIPTION: This institute is designed to focus on a multimedia presentation software package that will enable the student to plan, organize and design a computer-driven presentation to be utilized in a teaching/training activity. The presentation software package chosen for this institute is Microsoft PowerPoint 2002. 

SFTY 4213/5213         Chemistry and Toxicology of Hazardous Materials Analysis

Prerequisite(s): SFTY 2053

DESCRIPTION: This course is a study of the major categories of hazardous chemicals, their chemical and physical properties, and their toxicological effects on the human body.   

SFTY 4413/5413         Hazard Communication

DESCRIPTION: This course will focus on the principles of hazard and risk communication, the principles of design and delivery of hazard training programs, and the elements of an acceptable hazard communication program. 

ADED 5912    Adult Education Community Service Capstone

DESCRIPTION:  The Capstone course is designed to provide the culminating experience for those candidates completing the master’s program. in Adult Education/Training through the development of a scholarly paper and presentation integrating basic theory related to adult education with the student’s subject matter expertise (SME).  The Capstone experience is designed to allow each student to demonstrate the following:
1.  Competence in theoretical and practical Adult Education knowledge;
2.  Reflective and resourceful integration of subject matter expertise;
3.  Resourcefulness in the use of research methods;
4.  Capability of professional and scholarly writing, presenting and defending his/her research;
5.  Competent presentation skills.   

FACS 5913     Consumer Management

DESCRIPTION: This course is designed to provide a framework for examining the key areas of personal and family financial decision-making, and the relationship of course content to Family and Consumer Science Education. 

PSYCHOLOGY 

PSY 4913        Cognitive Psychology:

DESCRIPTION: Cognitive Psychology provides students with an understanding of how humans perceive and process information. It includes a historical overview of the roots of cognitive psychology, but focuses primarily on current research and theories.  It includes perception, pattern recognition, attention, memory, imagery, language development, cognitive development, thinking, creativity, problem solving, and artificial intelligence. 

PSY 4960/5960  Evolutionary Psychology

DESCRIPTION: Contemporary readings in cognitive psychology, evolutionary theory, and anthropology are used to examine the hypothesis that humans are unique in processing a ‘mental life’ made possible by the evolution of a narrative brain designed to function in a social environment. 

PSY 4960/5960  Introduction to Health Psychology:

DESCRIPTION:  This course is an overview of the interaction of psychology and medicine. 

PSY 4960/5960  Empirically Validated Theories

DESCRIPTION: This course examines behavior principles and empirically validated procedures related to anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, and a wide variety of other mental health issues.  

PSY 4960/5960  PCs & Psychological Writing

DESCRIPTION: This course exposes students to APA Publications manual and provides an opportunity to apply Microsoft Word on PC to use principles, also makes brochures, creates equations, tables, graphs, and produces a 10+ slide PowerPoint presentation. 

SPECIAL SERVICES 

READ 5910(3)            Clinical Practices in Reading

(new number 5833 – Diagnosis/Intervention in Reading)

DESCRIPTION:  Students learn to identify children with reading difficulties and develop strategies for remediation.  Methods of teaching reading and implementation are the primary focus of this class.  The children, who are instrumental in this practicum experience, exhibit exceptionalities, individual differences, and cultural and linguistic diversity. 

SLP 4910(2)                Sign Language for the Classroom

DESCRIPTION: This class includes vocabulary and skill development in sign language for use by teachers in interactions with children who are deaf or hard of hearing.  The study includes aspects and differences in manual communication systems. 

SLP 5910(3)                Aural Rehabilitation

Prerequisite(s):     SLP 4223

DESCRIPTION:  This course is a survey of the various methods and devices used in remediation of sensory auditory disorders.  It includes study of hearing aids and auditory trainers, speech reading, auditory training, oral and manual methods, speech/language training.   

SLP 5910(2)                Beginning Signing Exact English

DESCRIPTION:  This course involves vocabulary and skill development in a Manual English sign language system for use by speech/language pathologists and teachers in developing English skills in the hearing impaired.  The study includes study of aspects of and differences in manual communication systems. 

SLP 5910(2)                Computer Applications and Technical Writing in Speech-Language Pathology

DESCRIPTION:  This course examines fundamental concepts of computer systems, computer applications, and their technical application to the field of speech-language pathology.  Emphasis is placed on developing awareness of considerations related to utilizing specialized software for evaluation and treatment of communication disorders, researching professional information, and the development of technical writing skills utilizing word processing applications. 

SLP 5910(4)                Normal Language Development

DESCRIPTION:  This course is a detailed study of the behavioral, cognitive and linguistic aspects of normal language development.  Major theories of language development are examined as well as the development of specific semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic aspects of language behavior in children and adolescents.  It also includes study of sociolinguistic and dialectal variations. 

SPED 4910/5910         Education of Autism and TBI

DESCRIPTION:  This course is a study of the characteristics, identification, evaluation, and educational programs including appropriate assistive technology and resources for individuals with the special education categorical diagnosis of Autistic and Traumatic Brain Injured, (TBI).  Consideration is also given to the training of parents and the collaboration required in development of an educational program through the IEP process required by special education law and policies. 

SPED 4910/5910         Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders

DESCRIPTION:  This course will provide information regarding the history, diagnosis, medical and alternate treatments for ADHD.  Myths, misconceptions, as well as helping children and adults with ADHD will be covered. 

SPED 5910(2)             Educational Strategies for Young Children with Special Needs

Prerequisite(s):  SPED 4123

DESCRIPTION:  This course is a study of the growth and development of typical and atypical young children.  Included will be identification of specific disabilities with selection of developmentally and functionally appropriate materials, equipment, environments, and teaching strategies. 

CSDY   4910/5910   Beginning the Novel – Dr. Garrison
This course will provide the opportunity for students to practice certain basic techniques for structuring and beginning to write a novel. Students will workshop their own fiction and examine two published novels in an attempt to expand their own understanding of the requirements of narrative. Students must produce a complete plot outline and the first twenty-five pages of a novel. 

HUM 3990: FOLK CULTURE – Dr. Vaughan 

Folk Culture serves as an introduction to the academic study of folklore and folklife. The class will cover many aspects of verbal lore (such as myth, legend, and folktale) as well as social custom and material culture (folk art). We will explore examples from numerous Western and non-Western cultures.

 Theresa A. Vaughan, Ph.D.
Department of Humanities and Philosophy
University of Central Oklahoma
100 North University Drive
Edmond, OK  73034
(405) 974-3434
fax (405) 974-3823 

Vienna:  Splendor to Twilight – Dr. Heit
Humanities 4913/14223
Humanities 5913/14224

Course Description:
This course will introduce students to an interdisciplinary and in-depth study of an extraordinary city.  Few cities in history have so captured the world’s imagination as the fabled city of Vienna.  This uniquely European locale has a schizophrenic past, i.e., the birthplace of both the waltz and psychoanalysis, Zionism and Nazism, and home to Mozart, Beethoven, Adolf Hitler, Marie Antoinette, Leon Trotsky, Sigmund Freud, Martin Buber, Billy Wilder, Fritz Lang, Franz Kafka, and countless other artists, scientists, philosophers, composers, madmen, and saints.  From the reign of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius to the controversial rise of former President Kurt Waldheim, Vienna:  Splendor to Twilight offers a richly detailed portrait of a city with untold influence upon the development of Western Civilization as we know it today.

 4910   Journalism Seminar:  Journalism Ethics
CRN13924
Dr. Clark 

Journalism in America demands the highest of standards because of the critical role of the press in a free society. * Accordingly, the objectives of the course are:

* To help you sharpen your ability to think through ethical problems that professionals encounter in print and broadcast journalism and in other media work;

* To help you understand the ethical problems facing journalism professionals in today’s society;

* To help you understand the vital importance of ethical journalism practices in a free society;

*  To acquaint you with the ethical norms of journalism and mass communications and some of the most important ethical cases in American journalism;

* To emphasize the process of making ethically defensible decisions.

The class should make you more aware of your own ethics and how to put them into practice.

Political Science
Course Descriptions
Fall 2003 

POL 3990 (3 credits)
Contemporary International Issues 

An in-depth analysis of selected issues confronting the international political, security, and economic environment.  Coverage of issues will vary depending on the interests of the instructor and on recent international developments.             

POL 3990 (3 credits)
U.S./China Relations  

This course focuses on the evolution of US-China relations since the early 1930s to present.  The beginning of the semester deals with China in world politics between the 1920s and 1949 and the roles the United States played during this period.  We will then move onto the turbulent time the country has been through for the past fifty years and how the US perception of China has been changed since the Nixon era.  Some important topics for the course are the relationship between culture and politics, economic and military security, and the issue of human rights in foreign policies of these two countries. 

POL 3990 (3 credits)
Politics of Globalization  

The term “globalization” has, namely since the end of the Cold War, become an important concept in both academic and policy debates.  But what does it mean?  What are its political, economic, and cultural dimensions?  What counter-forces and backlashes does it unleash?  What are its implications for democracy and relationships within and between states?  This course explores these and other topics through a critical review of competing accounts of the causes, consequences, and significance of globalization, focusing on its political dimension.  Topics will be examined in an historical, conceptual and comparative perspective, addressing both the industrialized and the developing regions of the world.  Finally, the course will critically assess whether “globalization” is a positive thing, or not.

POL 3990 (2 credits)
Model United Nations
Permission Required for Enrollment 

This course is intended for students who wish to participate in the American Model United Nations Conference, to be held in Chicago during mid-November 2003.  This course has two primary objectives: 1) to introduce students to the basic structure and function of the United Nations, and 2) to prepare students to participate in the Model UN by acquainting them with the countries and issues which they will be engaged in a this year’s Model UN.  Enrollment requires membership in UCO Envoys. 

Title:  Cervantes and Don Quixote – Dr. Bird 

"In this course students will read and analyze in Spanish the two parts (1605, 1615) of Don Quixote.  The will study Don Quixote in the context of Cervantes' Spain and reflect, through research, on the importance of this novel as a symbol of modernity in Western literary tradition."

 Rosa Julia Bird, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Spanish
Modern Languages, Literatures, and Culture Studies
University of Central Oklahoma
100 North University Drive
Edmond, OK  73034
Phone:(405)974-5846
Fax: (405)974-5848

CHEM 4913 - Nuclear Chemistry
Fall 2003 Semester 

This course is an introduction to nuclear chemistry, the application of procedures and techniques of chemistry to study the structure of the nucleus and to define the nature of fundamental particles. Radiochemistry, the application of nuclear physics to solve chemical problems, is also considered. Students will learn the basics of nuclear phenomena and their applications in chemistry and related fields. Grades will be based on homework, quizzes, exams, and team assignments.

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