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L&I 702 - Human Abilities
Unit(s): 3
A historical examination of empirical theories of cognitive abilities. Theories of intelligence, aptitude, achievement, cognitive style, and learning style are presented. Special emphasis is placed on the use of factor analysis as a statistical technique.
Restriction: College restricted to School of Education; Field of study restricted to Learning and Instruction, Special Education Major
School of Education
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L&I 707 - Literature Reviews
Unit(s): 3
The course provides an introduction to the skills and practices required for constructing a literature review. Students will focus on an area of research of their own choosing and develop their ability to read, critically evaluate and synthesize research in their area.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Doctoral
School of Education
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L&I 709 - Dissertation Proposal Seminar
Unit(s): 3
Development of a research proposal leading to the dissertation.
Prerequisite: GEDU 706 with a minimum grade of B- and GEDU 708 with a minimum grade of B-
Restriction: College restricted to School of Education; Level Restricted to Doctoral
School of Education
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L&I 710 - Disability and Impairment
Unit(s): 3
Research approaches and discourse in psychology and medicine tend to place disability as a problem that resides within the individual body/mind. By contrast, disability studies perspectives help to contextualize our understanding of disability more broadly within society and culture, while at the same time, acknowledging individual variation. Students will be immersed in the debates, theoretical perspectives, methods, and findings that have been used to explain and address disability and impairment across disciplines.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Doctoral
School of Education
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L&I 711 - Intercultural Competence in Ed
Unit(s): 3
This course explores the complexity of the overlap in the learning, instruction, and assessment of students with disabilities and students in urban environments that are from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Historical, legal, and policy issues as well as theoretical perspectives that can be used to interpret and examine the inequality of placement in special education programs are examined. Students gain knowledge and skills so that they may competently address the cultural and linguistic backgrounds and talents of students with disabilities in school districts or schools; or to work within universities to improve the education of students with disabilities.
School of Education
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L&I 712 - Perform-Based Assessment
Unit(s): 3
This course covers methodological issues, and practical applications of performance-based and cognitive-based assessments. The rationale underlying performance assessment and the procedures essential to its design and execution and to the interpretation and use of its results for decision making will be addressed. Recent research in cognition will be explored for its application to educational testing.
Prerequisite: GEDU 714
School of Education
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L&I 713 - Essentials for HE Teach
Unit(s): 3
Teaching strategies for becoming an effective college teacher. Students will assess their philosophy of teaching, learning style, and teaching style; learn how to enhance motivation for learning; and acquire methods of assessment and techniques for teaching using case studies.
School of Education
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L&I 714 - Inquiry-based Learning
Unit(s): 3
This course explores the basic concepts and practices associated with problem-, project-, and inquiry-based learning. Students will critically examine the current literature and exemplar projects/curricula that utilize problem-, project-, and inquiry-based learning approaches. Students will gain a deeper understanding of these instructional approaches as well as apply this knowledge to the design of effective learning environments.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Doctoral
School of Education
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L&I 716 - Multiliteracies in TE
Unit(s): 3
The concept of “multiliteracies” refers to a broad and inclusive model of literacy that accounts for the complex and rapidly changing modes of meaning making within our diverse society. While at least eighty percent of students classified as having a disability have difficulty reading, all students can benefit from some kind of literacy support: learning to read words, vocabulary, and comprehending text, and/or understanding language in context, using a cell phone, operating a washing machine, recognizing an important street sign or bus stop, following a recipe, or reading a prescription. This course is designed to survey the current research on teacher education with an emphasis on best practices for addressing a wide range of student literacies. Supported higher education teaching experiences will be provided, offering career advancement towards adjunct and faculty positions.
Restriction: College restricted to School of Education
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L&I 717 - Disability Studies in Educ
Unit(s): 3
Across the field of disability studies, disability is defined not as a deficit inherent in certain body/minds, but rather as a relationship of differential power/privilege and constructed contextually. In this course we will look at the social meaning and material consequences of disability in various cultural and historical spaces, and how these have influenced educational opportunities for students who are labeled with disability. Epistemological and theoretical differences between disability studies in education, and traditional, special education will be explored to understand deeply-divided approaches to research and practice, as they relate to student disability. We will also understand how disability intersect and co-constructs other identity markers in educational spaces, nationally and globally.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Doctoral
School of Education
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L&I 718 - Disability Law & Public Policy
Unit(s): 3
This course provides a historical perspective to understand the emergence of disability law and public policy. Topics include early industrialization, compulsory schooling, American eugenics, institutionalization, and the Disability Rights Movement. Federal legislation, key statues, and landmark court cases associated with both disability rights and educational rights for students with disabilities are explored. Disability memoir, case law, guest speakers, as well as seminal and current critiques of the law are used, to support students in understanding the variation in interpretation of law, and the implications of this variation for students with disabilities in P-22 schools.
Restriction: College restricted to School of Education
School of Education
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L&I 719 - Practicum in SPED Higher Ed I
Unit(s): 1
The college teaching practicum will prepare special education doctoral students to deliver instruction in a special education teacher credential program for mild-moderate disabilities.
Restriction: College restricted to School of Education
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L&I 721 - Models of Teach/Instruc
Unit(s): 3
A survey of empirically-based models of teaching and instruction. Models include individualized instruction. Carroll’s model of school learning, Bloom’s theory of school learning, process-product models and Rosenshine’s explicit instruction, Cronbach and Snow’s aptitude-treatment interaction model, and Brown and Campione’s cognitive apprenticeship models.
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L&I 722 - Rsrch, Teach, Collab Dis Just
Unit(s): 3
The focus of this course is on interdisciplinary research, for the purposes of teaching and/or community engagement for disability justice. Research will be produced that promotes collaboration with communities. Findings will be presented to teachers and/or teacher educators in order to prepare doctoral students for leadership positions in education and advocacy, for the purpose of social change.
Restriction: College restricted to School of Education; Field of study restricted to Learning and Instruction, Special Education Major
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L&I 724 - Grant Writing
Unit(s): 3
The objective of this course is to prepare doctoral students to develop the skills needed to write an effective grant proposal in a higher education setting. Since federal grants are some of the largest potential sources of funding, this will be the primary focus of the course.
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L&I 725 - Instructional Design
Unit(s): 3
This course teaches the fundamentals of instructional design. Students will be introduced to the process of instructional systems design (ISD), and provided opportunities to develop skills and techniques necessary in the analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation of instruction (often referred to as the ADDIE framework).
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L&I 726 - Pract Sch Cons & Collab
Unit(s): 1
This practicum is designed to provide students with the opportunity to enhance and apply content knowledge and pedagogical skills through school consultation and collaboration at high-need local educational agencies. By participating in the practicum, doctoral students will support schools to apply research knowledge to improve educational outcomes for students with disabilities. In turn, doctoral scholars will get first-hand experience with the issues and challenges related to implementing research-based practices in school settings, allowing them to develop and refine their skills as special education faculty. At their practicum site, students will be mentored by a site-based administrator(s) who has responsibility for special education programs and services. They will also consult with the school staff to provide professional development on evidence-based practices to improve the learning of students with disabilities. In addition, they will collaborate with the mentor on the use of data-based decision making strategies to evaluate the instruction for students with disabilities.
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L&I 729 - Proposal Development
Unit(s): 3
Continuation of proposal development, if needed
Prerequisite: GEDU 706 with a minimum grade of B- and GEDU 708 with a minimum grade of B-
Restriction: College restricted to School of Education; Level Restricted to Doctoral
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L&I 732 - Motivation
Unit(s): 3
Motivational theories with an emphasis on models in intrinsic motivation and how they affect instructional practice. Theories include situational and personal interest, flow, achievement, attribution, goal, control, feedback, and self determination theories. Special emphasis is placed on the use of focus groups as a research technique.
Restriction: College restricted to School of Education; Level Restricted to Doctoral
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L&I 743 - Constructivism & Technology
Unit(s): 3
This hands-on course covers the history of constructivism as a learning theory, constructivist teaching strategies, curriculum designs, assessment, and the appropriate uses of technology to support student-centered learning.
Restriction: College restricted to School of Education; Level Restricted to Doctoral
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L&I 752 - Data Decision School Leader
Unit(s): 3
The course will emphasize how school leaders can collect, analyze, and use data to make instructional decisions to improve the learning of a diverse student populations. Specifically, school leaders will focus on academic outcomes for learners who are at risk for academic failure and often forgotten or neglected such as students with disabilities, students from low-income backgrounds, students of color, and English learners.
Restriction: College restricted to School of Education; Field of study restricted to Learning and Instruction, Special Education Major
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L&I 790 - Dis Proposal Development
Unit(s): 1 to 3
Directed proposal development in consultation with dissertation advisor and committee.
Restriction: College restricted to School of Education; Level Restricted to Doctoral
School of Education
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L&I 791 - Dissertation Rsch & Writing
Unit(s): 1 to 3
The design, preparation, and writing of the dissertation research study in consultation with the dissertation advisor and committee. Advancement to candidacy required.
Restriction: College restricted to School of Education
School of Education
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L&I 797 - Directed Study
Unit(s): 1 to 3
Independent, in-depth study of a specific educational topic.
Restriction: College restricted to School of Education; Level Restricted to Doctoral
School of Education
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L&I 798 - Special Topic Seminar
Unit(s): 1 to 3
Exploration of one or more selected topics in Learning and Instruction.
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MAIS 614 - IS Master’s Res Proj or Thesis
Unit(s): 4
Students receive guidance and supervision in completing their own research projects. In the final semester of the program, students present their research to faculty members.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
College of Arts and Sciences
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MAIS 620 - Global Critical Social Theory
Unit(s): 4
This interdisciplinary course examines the dynamics of the current global system. Students develop an understanding of the structural, cultural, and relational shifts that have emerged in response to globalization, with a critical focus on the relationship between developed and developing countries.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MAIS 621 - Governance, Rights & Justice
Unit(s): 4
This course examines law, politics and processes in the international system, and the relationship between these global entities and local efforts to promote and protect human rights and justice. Students consider these substantive issues, while also gaining critical policy and argumentation skills.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MAIS 622 - Environment & Development
Unit(s): 4
This seminar considers the environment, development, and sustainability from aninterdisciplinary perspective and evaluates the programs pursued by multiple actors. We explore the relationship between development and the environment, as well as how local beliefs and movements shape policy change.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate; Field of study restricted to International Studies Major
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MAIS 623 - Culture, Identity & Social Chg
Unit(s): 4
This course focuses on the role of culture in shaping global processes, changing notions of identity and belonging in a globalized world, and interconnected processes of social change. Students review key texts from a variety of disciplines in order to analyze diverse social and political movements.
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MAIS 624 - Graduate Writing Seminar
Unit(s): 2
Writing well is one of the most important skills you will develop in the MAIS program and this course will assist you in cultivating this skill. In this course students will develop their writing skill from an interdisciplinary perspective across a range of academic and professional writing tasks.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MAIS 625 - Research & Project Design
Unit(s): 4
This course is about how to conduct rigorous social science-based research on topics with a global, interdisciplinary focus. The goal is to expose students to multiple research methods through in-class projects and discussions and to prepare students to conduct their own independent research.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MAIS 626 - MAIS Capstone Course
Unit(s): 4
This final capstone class provides a space for students to receive vital information regarding the elements of the capstone project, from introductions and abstracts, to the front and back matter of the final submission. Students also hold individual meetings with advisors, as well as peer reviews of elements of the final capstone project. This course also includes professional development workshops, helping students to improve how they present the skills they have learned to a broader audience. The course is a supplement to work students do independently and in direct consultation with their primary advisors. The course aims to help students achieve a successful final thesis/applied project and understand how to position their project within the broader field and in the working world. Students are expected to put in 180 hours of work over the course of the thesis/applied project writing process, which extends over more than one semester.
Restriction: Program restricted to MA-International Studies,
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MAIS 630 - Politics of Conflict and Peace
Unit(s): 4
In this seminar, we explore the everyday experience of conflict as well as violent conflict at the state level, but also consider the many aspects of peace that already exist in our lives. Students engage material from a variety of perspectives to explore the different ways we approach these issues.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate; Field of study restricted to International Studies Major
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MAIS 632 - Comparative Law & Policy
Unit(s): 4
This seminar explores the relationship between different cultures and historical conceptions of law, the legal traditions which develop from these cultures and histories, and how these legal traditions shape both the domestic and international policies of states in the world today.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MAIS 633 - Global Food & Water Security
Unit(s): 4
Food and water insecurity are two of the biggest challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. Using a series of case studies, this class will study relevant actors and approaches in an effort to address these challenges, particularly in relation to issues of justice and sustainability.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MAIS 634 - Refugees & Forced Migration
Unit(s): 4
This course examines the international regime designed to deal with refugee and displacement crises; the relevant legal frameworks; critiques of the ways in which refugees and displaced persons are dealt with at the institutional level; as well as best practices for refugee service professionals.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MAIS 635 - Transnt’l Comm & Social Change
Unit(s): 4
Combining study and application, students will develop their analysis the structures of media power and media content, and practice some of the more educational media techniques used by social change organizations, including blogging, radio and video production, media relations, and campaign design.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MAIS 636 - Globalization
Unit(s): 4
The course examines theoretical approaches to globalization, including the changing nature of relations between states, societies, and institutions and how these are reshaping the world in unprecedented ways. This course expands the study of globalization to include readings from across disciplines.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MAIS 637 - Human Rights & Envt’l Justice
Unit(s): 4
This class considers the histories, debates, and contemporary case studies surrounding human rights and environmental justice. The adverse effects of climate change pose a serious risk to fundamental rights to life, health, food, culture, self-determination, and an adequate standard of living; yet protections of some human rights, such as the right to development and right to property, have also resulted in environmental degradation. Utilizing a scholar-activist approach, this course delves into the theories and literature on the human-nature relationship and the development of effective protections, as well as engage in practically-oriented analysis and writing (such as op-eds, policy proposals, and case assessments).
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MAIS 650 - Advocacy Skills
Unit(s): 2
Advocacy is a key for pursuing change at the local, national, and global level. In this course, students gain an understanding of what makes for effective advocacy, with a focus on practical experience in some of the key advocacy skills. Students will complete a portfolio of work product samples.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MAIS 652 - Global Media/Journalism Skills
Unit(s): 4
This course gives students intensive, hands-on practice in the craft of reporting, writing, storytelling and online publishing for a mainstream audience. Through a step-by-step process - from story research and interviewing to the editing and production of professional articles for on-line publication - students learn the skills required to harness their writing voice and tell clear, compelling, engaging narratives about international issues. In the process, students will create and provide the content for a professional journal for the MA in International Studies program, including learning web-based design and editing. Students emerge from the course with a published work that they can pitch and sell to potential employers.
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MAIS 653 - Building Peace in Colombia
Unit(s): 2
A historic peace accord between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia FARC-EP and the Colombian government was reached in November 2016, but has not yet fulfilled its promise of ‘stable and lasting peace’ nor prevented a wave of violence and death in the country. This skills course is designed to analyze the history of this conflict, to interrogate hypotheses for its future, and to workshop methods to build community-level peace processes that can be applicable in other contexts. It employs a participatory, collaborative and experiential methodology where students learn by doing. The course is run and designed by the Instituto de Estudios Interculturales in Cali, Colombia - one of the important actors in promoting the peace process, and engaging communities to implement the peace process. The major assignment for this course is a proposal addressing a peace process-driven problem that originates from a community in the Valle del Cauca region of Colombia. Working in teams and in a participatory fashion, student learn community-level peace building techniques.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MAIS 654 - Urban Development
Unit(s): 2
In this skills course students travel to Jakarta, Indonesia in order to observe the second largest metropolitan area in the world first-hand and analyze the challenges of urban development from the point of view of stakeholders on site. The course introduces students to dynamics and challenges of urban development in the Global South while training them in the techniques of urban planners, regional and national governments, developers, foundations and others who seek to promote sustainable development in one of the world’s fastest growing cities. Four urban sub-themes are explored: Traditional Areas (kampungs and marketplaces), Modern Commercial Areas (Central Business District), New Towns/Gated Communities, and State-controlled Public Areas/Tourist Zones.
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MAIS 690 - Special Topics
Unit(s): 2 to 4
Exploration of one or more selected topics in the field.
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MAIS 698 - Directed Reading
Unit(s): 1 to 4
Majors initiate and complete significant reading under the direct supervision of faculty.
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MFA 605 - Foundations of Writing
Unit(s): 3
An introductory course where students learn the history, forms, and techniques of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, as well as the basics of literary citizenship. Emphasis is placed on close reading: analyzing texts for how they are constructed and developing a critical vocabulary to discuss creative work.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MFA 612 - Writing Workshop I
Unit(s): 3
The first of four workshops in long fiction, short fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Students share their writing and critique the writing of other students working in their genre. Offered in the Fall.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MFA 622 - Writing Workshop II
Unit(s): 3
The second of four workshops in long fiction, short fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Students share their writing and critique the writing of other students working in their genre. Offered in the Spring.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MFA 632 - Writing Workshop III
Unit(s): 3
The third of four workshops in long fiction, short fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Students share their writing and critique the writing of other students working in their genre. Offered in the Fall.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MFA 642 - Writing Workshop IV
Unit(s): 3
The fourth of four workshops in long fiction, short fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Students share their writing and critique the writing of other students working in their genre. Offered in the Spring.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MFA 650 - Word for Word
Unit(s): 3
Examines the inventive use of diction, syntax, punctuation, and cadence by writers in all genres. Students study the impact of language use on literary meaning and apply new linguistic strategies to their own writing. Offered in the Spring.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MFA 651 - Developments in the Novel
Unit(s): 3
Beginning with novels in the mid-nineteenth century and advancing to the mid-twentieth century, this course addresses major literary movements, such as psychological realism, modernism, and postmodernism, and considers literaturein English and in translation. Novels are analyzed in relation to historical context and aesthetic tradition.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MFA 653 - Research for Writers
Unit(s): 3
This course covers a range of research techniques useful for writers of long and short form nonfiction, from finding the necessary background information and interviewing experts to lending authority to a first-person account of events and issues in literary nonfiction. The course covers the use of print and electronic media and databases and basic reporting techniques. Some fiction reading may be included, and the course may be open to fiction writers.
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MFA 654 - Contemporary American Poetry
Unit(s): 3
Students explore topics in contemporary American poetry, ranging from the Language poets of the early 1980s to the Dark Room Collective of today. The course follows shifting ideologies and social contexts and examines the way literary schools and counter-influences create a new American poetry for the contemporary. Students read both the poetry and poetics of selected authors and write creative responses.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MFA 655 - Forms of Writing
Unit(s): 3
This course looks at the craft and techniques that lie behind literature’s creation. Through close reading and group discussion, students learn the structures of literary forms and how writers’ choices with language contribute to a text’s emotional, sonic, or thematic effects.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MFA 661 - Evolution of the Short Story
Unit(s): 3
This course concentrates on the masters of the short story from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. Addressing major literary movements, such as psychological realism, modernism, and postmodernism, the course considers literature in English and in translation. Stories are analyzed in relation to historical context and aesthetic tradition.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MFA 662 - Contemp. Experiments/Fiction
Unit(s): 3
This course on experimental and radical approaches to fictional prose emphasizes writers who work against the conventions of realism and how they make meaning out of their departures. Readings drawn from around the world make use of such strategies as discontinuous narratives, metafictional techniques, and non-narrative forms and serve as models to encourage students to take risks in their own writing.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MFA 664 - Poetry International
Unit(s): 3
This course examines major developments in modern world poetry by looking at a range of literary traditions and historical contexts of non-English-speaking poets. Though most work is read in translation, reference to original languages is encouraged. Students work on translating from chosen languages, and the class examines both the problems and the excitement of reading beyond one’s borders.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MFA 665 - Topics in Writing
Unit(s): 3
This class look at works addressing, portraying, or critiquing some subject or theme, to understand the ways writing directly engages with the culture. With emphasis on the public role of the contemporary writer, students learn how and why to write for purposes beyond aesthetic pleasures.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MFA 670 - Intention and Design in Prose
Unit(s): 3
This course examines how a writer’s plans for prose narratives develop from idea to sketch to final draft. Close examinations of literary works in fiction and nonfiction are augmented by the writer’s letters, essays, notebooks, preliminary drafts, and other aesthetic statements. Students investigate how sensibility is expressed by craft, with an emphasis on the process of composition and revision.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MFA 671 - Techniques of Long Fiction
Unit(s): 3
With an emphasis on contemporary novels, this course engages students in close readings of long fiction, examining ways in which different authors use formal elements, including characterization, structure, point of view, chapter structure, and figurative language. Craft analysis integrates craft theory and emphasizes how students may apply these techniques in their own novels-in-progress.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MFA 672 - The Craft of Short Fiction
Unit(s): 3
With an emphasis on contemporary short stories, this course engages students in close readings of short fiction, examining ways in which different authors can serve as models for crafting the formal elements of fiction, including structure, characterization, point of view, imagery, and style. Craft analysis integrates craft theory and emphasizes how students may apply these techniques in their own stories.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MFA 673 - Truth, Ethics, and Memory
Unit(s): 3
Some writers provide extensive footnotes and back matter detailing their sources and research, while others don’t provide any information at all. This course looks at the variety of methods available to nonfiction writers to find the truth, assemble facts, and piece it all together into a gripping story. How do we establish authority to get readers to trust us? How do we write about family, friends, and strangers without exploiting them? How do we work with the unreliability of memory, and when is it okay to fudge the truth? Reading a variety of memoirs, essays, and works of reportage, students will examine the different ways authors seek truth in nonfiction and learn practical techniques for successfully navigating these issues in their own work.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MFA 674 - Prosody: Meaning/Poetic Form
Unit(s): 3
An in-depth study of poetic elements, with an eye to the history and evolution of poetic forms. Students look at the organizing principles of syllable, stanza, and line; of stress, meter, rhyme, and a variety of countings, as well as contemporary explorations of fragmentation, interruption, chance, and silence. Readings are drawn from the ancients as well as from postmodern contemporaries to demonstrate a range of structural elements, radical and classic.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MFA 675 - Developments in Writing
Unit(s): 3
A course focused on historical and contemporary trends in literature. Emphasis is placed on how texts within a certain genre, school, or literary mode speak to each other. In reading across time and national boundaries, students learn how their own work fits within or outside literary traditions.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MFA 679 - Thesis I/II
Unit(s): 3
Students work with an individual Major Project Instructor to formulate, plan, and execute the Major Project. Consultation with a Program Advisor is required. Offered in the Summer.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MFA 680 - Style in Fiction
Unit(s): 3
To deepen a student’s understanding of style and its relation to content, this course examines fiction at the level of language, emphasizing short stories as a convenient means to analyze a broader range of styles. Elements of style studied include sentence structure, tone, rhythm, voice, and imagery. There may also be a focus on different schools of style, such as such as stream of consciousness, minimalism, magical realism, or surrealism.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MFA 681 - Blurred Boundaries:Beyond Genr
Unit(s): 3
This course focuses on modern literary works that cross or combine genres and therefore stand outside the conventions of any single genre. By studying such works, students learn to draw from a variety of models and modes in order to increase their stylistic and structural range. Readings are drawn from genre theory and works such as “short short,” the “lyric essay,” the “illustrated novel,” the “prose poem,” and the “novel in verse.”
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MFA 682 - Nonfiction Theory & Technique
Unit(s): 3
An in-depth study of nonfiction craft elements and how writers use them to produce a variety of effects. Students read contemporary work with a close eye on such elements as scene, setting, characterization, argument, voice, narrative authority, use of facts, finding a form, and others. The course will also investigate the genre as a whole-what it is, what makes it distinct, and how an understanding of technique can help us form aesthetic judgements toward any piece of nonfiction
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MFA 683 - The History of Nonfiction
Unit(s): 3
This course looks at the history and development of nonfiction from the classical to the contemporary era. Readings-in both long and short forms-investigate a variety of modes and subgenres: essay, memoir, history, critique, manifesto, portrait, lyric, reportage, and others. Students learn how popular subjects and approaches to the genre have shifted over time, and use this knowledge not only to apply structure and technique to their own work, but also to see their work as part of a greater tradition.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MFA 684 - Contemp Experiments Nonfiction
Unit(s): 3
This course on innovative approaches to nonfiction emphasizes present-day writers who work against conventional understandings of the genre. Readings will investigate the lyric essay, segmented essay, the uses of fabrication and falsification, hypertext and digital experiments, formal innovations, and more. Students will learn how contemporary authors are continuing to push the boundaries of the genre, and practice using such techniques to expand the possibilities of their own nonfiction.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MFA 685 - Professional Development
Unit(s): 3
This course focuses on aspects of the writing life and the business of creative writing beyond the MFA degree. Students learn about current and major issues in the field. Publishing, job tracks within and outside of academe, and ideas of literary citizenship are covered.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MFA 686 - Poetics
Unit(s): 3
The articulation of ideas of aesthetic judgment in poetry has a long history from Aristotle and Longinus to Stephen Burt and Marjorie Perloff. Students will read essays and poems that give shape to aesthetic judgments and will be encouraged to respond in their own writing to the history of poetic ideas.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MFA 687 - POV and Characterization
Unit(s): 3
This course offers a close study of how writers construct complex points of view and how these points of view shape characters and the reader’s deepening understanding of them. Technical considerations may include the choice of person, single or multiple narrators, voice, degree of access to characters, and the question of reliability. Readings will be in both short and long fiction.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MFA 688 - Finding Form
Unit(s): 3
This course examines the relationship between form and content in works of fiction of varying lengths, with a primary focus on two “in between” forms, the story cycle and the novella. Other works, such as a novel with multiple plotlines or a series of stories by a single writer written over time about the same characters, may be studied as well. The reading list includes both classics and contemporary works from the U.S. and around the world.
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MFA 689 - Thesis I
Unit(s): 3
Students work with individual Major Project Advisors to formulate, plan, and begin to execute the Major Project. Consultation with the director of the program is required. Offered in the Summer.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MFA 690 - Special Topics
Unit(s): 3
These courses emphasize particular aspects of literary craft. In Intention and Composition, students examine the ways in which writers’ conscious plans for their work are conceived in diaries, letters, and interviews, and how these intentions are realized in the final product. In The Architecture of Prose, emphasis is placed on strategies for developing complexity as well as breadth in full-length works of prose. Topics vary from year to year.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MFA 692 - Contemporary Global Fiction
Unit(s): 3
This course emphasizes the literary techniques employed by contemporary international fiction writers and may also reference classic works of the late twentieth century. Studying both long and short fiction, students will examine the strategies writers use to render a social world, whether in the form of realism, magical or fantastic realism, or metafiction, and consider how literary influence traverses cultural borders and is shaped and re-shaped in the process. Students will apply what they learn to their own creative work.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MFA 699 - Thesis II
Unit(s): 3
Students work with individual Major Project Advisors to complete the Major Project. Consultation with the director of the program is required. Offered in the Summer.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MATH 100 - Great Ideas in Mathematics
Unit(s): 4
Math 100 is an overview of some of the seminal achievements in mathematics from ancient to modern times. Topics include Problem Solving, Number Theory, Geometry, Fractals, Topology, Probability and Statistics, and applications to other fields.
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MATH 101 - Elementary Statistics
Unit(s): 4
This course will introduce students to the processes by which valid statistical inferences may be drawn from quantitative data. Topics include design of experiments; sample surveys; measurement; summary and presentation of data; regression and correlation; elementary probability; the law of averages; the central limit theorem; the normal, t and chi-square distributions; confidence intervals; and hypothesis testing. A computer laboratory component will introduce the student to spreadsheets and statistical applications. Offered every semester.
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MATH 102 - Biostatistics
Unit(s): 4
This course, required of biology majors, is a survey of statistical concepts and methods, with an emphasis on concepts critical to the life sciences. Topics include design of experiments; measurement; summary and presentation of data; regression and correlation; elementary probability; the normal, binomial, t-, and chi-square distributions; confidence intervals and standard error; and hypothesis testing. Offered every Spring.
Prerequisite: Placement-Mathematics with a minimum score of 12 or MATH 104 or SAT Mathematics with a minimum score of 460 or ACT Math with a minimum score of 19 or S16 MATH SECTION SCORE with a minimum score of 500
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MATH 103 - Statistics for the Social Sci
Unit(s): 4
This course is a one semester introduction to statistics with an emphasis on techniques and examples in the social sciences.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to International Studies Major
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MATH 104 - Algebra for Business & Science
Unit(s): 2
This course covers mathematical theory and techniques fundamental to university level scholarship. Topics include: the real number system with number theory concepts (algorithms for computation); percentage; simple and compound interest; linear and exponential functions; systems of linear equations; descriptive statistics. Two hours lecture. Offered every semester.
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MATH 105 - Mathematics for Educators
Unit(s): 4
This course provides the requisite mathematics preparation for Multiple Subject Teaching Credential Candidates. The curriculum satisfies the California Subject Examination for Teachers (CSET) content domain categories: number sense; algebra and functions, measurement and geometry; statistics; data analysis and probability.
Prerequisite: Placement-Mathematics with a minimum score of 12 or MATH 104 or SAT Mathematics with a minimum score of 460 or ACT Math with a minimum score of 19 or S16 MATH SECTION SCORE with a minimum score of 500
Restriction: Course area restricted to DDC_DUAL; Course Student Attribute Restricted to Dual Degree (MAT)
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MATH 106 - Business Statistics
Unit(s): 4
Applied mathematics and statistics taught through the medium of spreadsheets (Excel). Topics include Introduction to Excel; basic algebra for spreadsheet modeling; descriptive statistics; elementary probability theory.
Prerequisite: Placement-Mathematics with a minimum score of 12 or MATH 104 or SAT Mathematics with a minimum score of 460 or ACT Math with a minimum score of 19 or S16 MATH SECTION SCORE with a minimum score of 500
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MATH 107 - Calculus for the Liberal Arts
Unit(s): 4
This course provides a one semester introduction to the theory of differential and integral calculus with an emphasis on technical fundamentals. The curriculum is designed for non-science majors for whom advanced coursework in mathematics is not required.
Prerequisite: Placement-Mathematics with a minimum score of 12 or MATH 104 or SAT Mathematics with a minimum score of 460 or ACT Math with a minimum score of 19 or S16 MATH SECTION SCORE with a minimum score of 500
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MATH 108 - Precalculus
Unit(s): 4
Topics include polynomial functions; factor and remainder theorems; complex roots; exponential, logarithmic, and trigonometric functions; and coordinate geometry. May not be taken for credit after completion of 0206-109. Offered every semester.
Prerequisite: Placement-Mathematics with a minimum score of 12 or MATH 104 or SAT Mathematics with a minimum score of 460 or ACT Math with a minimum score of 19 or S16 MATH SECTION SCORE with a minimum score of 500
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MATH 109 - Calculus & Analytic Geom I
Unit(s): 4
Differentiation of algebraic, exponential, logarithmic, trigonometric, and inverse trigonometric functions; implicit differentiation; curve sketching; indeterminate forms; velocity and acceleration; optimization; other applications of differentiation; Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, with applications to area and volume. Four hours lecture. Offered every semester.
Prerequisite: Placement-Calculus Readiness with a minimum score of 15 and (Placement-Mathematics with a minimum score of 22 or SAT Mathematics with a minimum score of 580 or ACT Math with a minimum score of 25 or S16 MATH SECTION SCORE with a minimum score of 600) or MATH 108
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MATH 110 - Calculus & Analytic Geom II
Unit(s): 4
Topics include: Techniques of integration, including trigonometric substitutions, partial fractions, and integration by parts; selected applications ofintegration, including arc length, surface area, and volume; introduction to differential equations; parametric equations and polar coordinates; infinite sequences and series, including Taylor series. Offered every semester.
Prerequisite: MATH 109
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MATH 111 - Mathematics and Digital Art
Unit(s): 4
What is digital art? It is easy to make a digital image, but what gives it artistic value? These questions will be explored in a practical, hands-on way by having students learn how to create their own digital images and movies in a laboratory-style classroom. We will focus on the Sage/Python environment, and learn to use Processing as well. There will be an emphasis on using the computer to create various types of fractal images. No previous programming experience is necessary.
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MATH 195 - FYS: First-Year Seminar
Unit(s): 4
First Year Seminars are designed and taught by faculty who have a special passion for the topic. All FYSeminars are small classes (16 students) that count toward the university Core. Many FYSeminars include enrichment activities such as excursions into the city or guest speakers. FYSeminars are only open to students in their first or second semester at USF, and students may only take one FYS, in either Fall or Spring. For a detailed description of this course, and other FYSeminars this semester, go to this webpage by cutting and pasting the link: https://myusf.usfca.edu/arts-sciences/first-year-seminars
Restriction: Class restricted to Freshman
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MATH 201 - Discrete Mathematics
Unit(s): 4
Topics include algebraic structures, graph theory, combinatorics, and symbolic logic. Offered every Fall.
Prerequisite: CS 110
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MATH 202 - Linear Algebra & Probability
Unit(s): 4
Matrix arithmetric and matrix algebra (determinants, adding and multiplying matrices, matrix inverse, using matrices to solve systems of equations), geometric applications of linear algebra (matrices as transformations, vectors in 2- and 3-dimensions, equations of planes, etc.); discrete probability, random variables, discrete and continuous probability distributions (including binomial and normal), expected value and variance. Offered every Spring.
Prerequisite: MATH 201 with a minimum grade of C
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MATH 211 - Calculus & Analytic Geom III
Unit(s): 4
Topics include analytic geometry in three dimensions; vector functions; arc length and curvature; motion in space; partial differentiation and chain rule; directional derivative and gradient; optimization and Lagrange multipliers; multiple integrals, line integrals, and surface integrals; divergence and curl; theorems of Green, Gauss, and Stokes.
Prerequisite: MATH 110
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MATH 230 - Elementary Linear Algebra
Unit(s): 4
Topics include systems of linear equations, matrices and determinants; the geometry of vectors in Euclidean space; general properties of vector spaces, bases and dimension; linear transformations in two and three dimensions, eigenvalues and eigenvectors. Offered every Fall.
Prerequisite: MATH 109
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MATH 235 - Introduction to Formal Methods
Unit(s): 4
Topics include logic and mathematical proof; set theory, equivalence relations, and mappings; mathematical induction; modular arithmetic; isomorphism; groups; structures of real numbers; convergence and continuity. Emphasis on concepts of proof and mathematical formalism. Offered every Spring.
Prerequisite: MATH 110
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MATH 310 - History of Mathematics
Unit(s): 4
A history of the development of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and calculus. Selected topics from recent mathematical history.
Prerequisite: MATH 110
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MATH 314 - Mathematical Circles
Unit(s): 4
An introduction to the Eastern European Mathematical Circles culture. Students will learn mathematical folklore and problem-solving methods drawn from geometry and discrete mathematics, and will both observe and teach students in several mathematical circles in the Bay Area. In addition to the mathematics and pedagogy, students will explore issues of equity in educational opportunity. This is a service earning course designed for math, physics, or computer science majors who are interested in teaching.
Prerequisite: MATH 110
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