Each course is priced at $225.00 per graduate credit. THE COST OF EACH 3 GRADUATE CREDIT COURSE IS $675.00.
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Psychology
EPSY 594 - Advanced Multicultural Competencies for Teachers, Counselors and Administrators
EPSY 599 - Substance Abuse Counseling
EPSY 597 - Advanced Child and Adolescent Development
EPSY 590 - Family and Group Counseling
Physical Education
EDPH 573 - Applied Sports and Fitness Psychology
EDPH 577 - Advanced Theories of Coaching and Team Building
EDPH 574 - Current Issues in Sports and Physical Education
EDPH 593 - Developing Student Athletes: Theory and Practice
Art
EDAR 526 - Early Medieval Art
EDAR 527 - History of Women in the Visual Arts
EDAR 534 - Impressionist Art from France to America
English
EDEN 526 - Literature, Culture, and War in the Twentieth Century
EDEN 527 - Contemporary American Fiction
EDEN 525 - Victorian Poetry
History
EDHS 530 - Democracy in America
EDHS 528 - The USA in World War II
EDHS 529 - United States History from 1865 to Present
EDHS 590 – God, Terror and History: When Religion Becomes Evil
EDHS 538 - The Vietnam War
On-Line Content Course Descriptions
Psychology
EPSY 594 – Advanced Multicultural Competencies for Teachers, Counselors and Administrators
The purpose of this course is to enhance cultural competence among professionals by fostering congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that come together in a system, agency, or among professionals and enables that system, agency, or those professionals to work effectively in cross-cultural situations. Operationally defined, the purpose of this course is to facilitate the integration and transformation of knowledge about individuals and groups of people into specific standards, policies, practices, and attitudes used in appropriate cultural settings to increase the quality of services; thereby producing better outcomes.
EPSY 599 - Substance Abuse Counseling
Substance abuse etiology, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment planning are studied in this course. Special counseling issues and concerns will be covered related to various aspects of substance abuse counseling.
EPSY 597 - Advanced Child and Adolescent Development
This course deals with development of children and adolescents from birth to early adulthood. It covers the periods of infancy, early childhood, childhood, early adolescence, mid-adolescence, late adolescence and early adulthood. Attention is given to the influence of the go, cognitive social, emotional, moral, and sexual development on the psychology of learning, student achievement, and on understanding the diagnosis of potential learning disorders and issues at each stage. Both normal and abnormal aspects of development are discussed.
EPSY 590 - Family and Group Counseling
This course will focus on understanding human interaction patterns and influences from the perspective of major family and group therapy paradigms. Consideration of family treatment for both adult and child clinical presentations will be examined as well as an exploration of the use of group therapy to effect change for individual problems. In addition to the theoretical introduction, the curse will cover practical topics such as: when to choose family or group treatment, dealing with the beginning therapist’s anxieties, assessing interactional styles, structuring initial treatment sessions, developing a treatment focus, and basic treatment skills.
Physical Education
EDPH 573 - Applied Sports and Fitness Psychology
The course is designed to help the student apply concepts in sport and fitness psychology to real world experience as an athlete, coach, fitness instructor, parent, or teacher. Emphasis is placed on application of theories and ideas in sport psychology, rather than exploring theory alone.
EDPH 577 - Advanced Theories of Coaching and Team Building
This course will help you use effective coaching and team-building tools in sports, whether you are a professional coach, a high school coach, a youth sports coach, a club coach, or an athlete. It will also show you how these tools can be used in a variety of situations in your life – including in business and in family life. This course helps the student to learn new ways to manage a variety of challenges that come from working with people.
EDPH 574 - Current Issues in Sports and Physical Education
This course examines contemporary issues and controversies in the world of sports today. This includes topics such as violence in sports, race and ethnicity in sports, economics issues related to sports, youth sports, sports and the media, sports and politics, performance-enhancing substances, and sports and religion. The course will provide in-depth analysis of these topics and ask students to explore their views on these issues.
EDPH 593 - Developing Student Athletes: Theory and Practice
This course is designed to provide the student with knowledge and experiences in counseling and helping skills with an emphasis on traditional counseling theory and skills. The major modalities covered will include examples of Psychoanalytic, Neo-analytic, Person-centered, Humanistic, and Affective, Behavioral, Cognitive, and Family Systems therapies. This course will utilize an eclectic approach to developing intervention strategies for dealing with psychological, emotional, relationship, and adjustment problems for the student athlete.
Art
EDAR 526 - Early Medieval Art
The course surveys the visual culture of the early medieval West, from the turn of the seventh century until the middle of the eleventh, including the church decoration, illuminated manuscripts, and other works of art made in the lands that are now Italy, Spain, Switzerland, France, Germany, England, and Ireland.
From the world of Gregory the Great to the dynasty of Otto the Great, the course will seek first and foremost to develop the student’s ability to look closely and intensively at visual material and will cultivate associated skills, such as spatial reasoning, the observation of details, visual recall, the recognition of patterns, and visual differentiation. The course will also seek to develop art historical skills, such as the precise description of the form and content, the recognition of traditional and innovative elements in a work of art, the discernment of program, and the placement of a work of art against the background of the moment of its creation through the meaningful interrelating of image and text.
EDAR 527 - History of Women in the Visual Arts
This course covers the history of women as artists in the European and American traditions. Art by women in non-western cultures will also be studied, together with related issues such as images of women and feminist art analysis.
EDAR 534 - Impressionist Art from France to America
The France of the mid to late 1800’s gave birth to a group of revolutionary artists who were given the name of the Impressionists. These painters endured the rejection of the French art establishment to eventually change the world of art forever. After the Civil War, American artists traveled to Europe to study and exhibit their work. Many of these Americans met the French Impressionist painters and learned their painting techniques. Some Americans chose to stay in France to paint, while others brought their own brand of Impressionism back home to America. In this course, students will explore the artistic and social consequences of Impressionism from France to America.
English
EDEN 526 - Literature, Culture, and War in the Twentieth Century
This is a course about war and culture, with a focus on twentieth-century England and America. Our primary concern is to consider how literary forms have developed to make sense of the twentieth century's mass wars, how wars are remembered and forgotten, and how war has been adapted to the dominant aesthetic and cultural movements of the century. The bulk of our readings will center on the First World War, primarily from the British perspective, and on the Vietnam War, primarily from the American perspective, but we will also read material from the Second World War and from more recent conflicts such as the first Persian Gulf War. Issues of national identity, memory, gender, irony, and protest will be at the forefront of our inquiry. We will read both combatant and civilian writers, and our readings will be drawn from a variety of genres, including fiction, poetry, memoir, film, cultural studies, and theory.
EDEN 527 - Contemporary American Fiction
This course examines a selection of contemporary American fiction in historic, aesthetic, and social contexts. In other words, we will explore the relationship between contemporary American literature and the world we live in. Topics may include literature and postmodern culture, how aesthetic style may be influenced by social and historical conditions, the blurring of fact and fiction in contemporary literature, and how literature is affected by issues of race, class, and gender. While the range of contemporary American fiction is extremely broad and varied, and impossible to cover in one semester, students will become acquainted with several of the major trends in American literature since 1965. The course is divided into three main units: 1) post W.W.II and postmodernism; 2) new journalism and popular culture; 3) issues of race, gender and family. As students will discover, these categories are not mutually exclusive. They overlap and intersect one another.
EDEN 525 - Victorian Poetry
This course examines the works of the major English poets of the period 1830-1900. We will pay special attention to Alfred Tennyson and Robert Browning, and their great poetic innovation, the dramatic monologue. We will also be concentrating on poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Christina Rossetti, Matthew Arnold, A. E. Housman, and Thomas Hardy.
History
EDHS 530 - Democracy in America
This course considers the history of politics and government in the United States by examining the history of American democracy in theory and practice. To what extent have American politics and government been democratic? What does the history of democracy in America suggest about the future of politics and society in the United States and the world? This course will examine the rise of parties and mass politics, machine politics and reform movements, the history of citizenship and suffrage as relates to race, ethnicity, and gender, the relationship between war and democracy, and the problem of reconciling democratic ideals with social and economic inequalities.
EDHS 528 - The USA in World War II
What was the nature of the relationship between Rosie the Riveter and GI Joe? Using the U.S. experience in World War II as its focus, this course encourages students to participate in new approaches to the historical study of warfare by challenging traditional divisions between home front and battle front. We will investigate the connections and conflict between soldiers and civilians, as well as their divergent and shared experiences.
EDHS 529 - United States History from 1865 to Present
This course provides students with an introduction to the field of U.S. History since 1865. It is intended to give students the broad foundation required for them to understand and practice outstanding historical scholarship. Readings include some of the most important recent works in the field. They also suggest the diverse range of topics and sources used, and research methods and narrative strategies that are employed by highly respected historians.
Because of its topical and chronological scope, this course will prepare students to become better scholars of American history. The overview it provides will be invaluable in forming a more complete understanding of American history.
EDHS 590 – God, Terror and History: When Religion Becomes Evil
This course will examine the growing alliance between religion and violence from a historical, political and sociological perspective. Religion seems to be connected with violence everywhere. The September 11 assaults were only the most spectacular of a series of bloody religious incidents. In recent years, for example, religious violence has erupted among right wing Christians in the United States, Angry Muslims and Jews in the Middle East and indigenous religious communities in Africa and Indonesia and in other parts of the world. Like the activists associated with Osama bin Laden, those involved in these events have relied on religion to provide political identities that give license to vengeful ideologies.
EDHS 538 – The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War created one of the most divisive eras in United States’ history. What began as a noble cause ended as a painful defeat politically, socially and emotionally. This course will examine the impact and legacy of the war as told by the many people involved.
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