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2020-2021 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses

 

Finance
  

  • FIN 9904:Dissertation Research

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission into the Coles DBA program, completion of 12 hours of graduate level research courses, and permission of advisor.
    Course work supports and guides doctoral candidates in the implementation of their research and the development and defense of the dissertation. This format and structure will provide individual time with the Doctoral Committee and collegial and academic support from their peers. Course may be repeated as necessary.

Foreign Language Education
  

  • FLED 6650:Yearlong Clinical Experience I

    0 Class Hours 20 Laboratory Hours 4 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Approval of the FLED Graduate Committee.
    This course is the first semester of an intensive and extensive co-teaching yearlong clinical experience in foreign language education. Under the guidance of a collaborating teacher and university supervisor and working in a diverse environment that includes students with exceptionalities and English learners, candidates practice professional competencies that impact student achievement. This experience includes regularly scheduled professional seminars. Proof of liability insurance is required.
     
  

  • FLED 6660:Yearlong Clinical Experience II

    0 Class Hours 25 Laboratory Hours 5 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: FLED 6650  
    This field experience is designed to provide candidates with an intensive classroom experience that includes planning, implementing, assessing, and adjusting instruction appropriate to the needs, abilities, and learning styles of all learners. Candidates will be placed in appropriate school settings where they will have the opportunity to apply and reflect on concepts addressed in previous course work. 
     
  

  • FLED 7703:Language Pedagogy and Second Language Acquisition Research

    3 Class Hours 1 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the MAT in Foreign Languages.
    This course examines theories of second language acquisition (SLA) and practical application of SLA theories to second language teaching and learning. The course is designed to address the theoretical and conceptual foundations of working with second language learners. It then focuses on the classroom applications of this theoretical base to interactions with language learners, curriculum, instruction, and assessment. Students are encouraged to interpret relevant SLA research that informs language teaching and to take ownership of SLA theories and research as a rationale for pedagogical decisions.
  

  • FLED 7708:Curriculum and Assessment in Foreign Language Education

    2 Class Hours 1 Laboratory Hours 2 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the MAT program (Foreign Languages).
    This course focuses on research-supported, standards-based practices of foreign language education related to curriculum planning and performance-oriented, alternative assessment of student learning. FLED 7708 students apply principles of backward design to thematic planning for instruction and adhere to the tenets of ongoing and varied assessment. The course introduces edTPA.

    Note Proof of professional liability insurance is required for field experience.
  

  • FLED 7710:Current Trends in Foreign Language Pedagogy

    2 Class Hours 1 Laboratory Hours 2 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the MAT in Foreign Languages
    This course focuses on effective practices for teaching a foreign language to P-12 learners. FLED 7710 students apply principles of standards-based, communicative language teaching and methods for enacting a research-supported approach to P-12 foreign language instruction through implementation in a P-12 classroom during clinical practice. 

    Note Proof of professional liability insurance is required for field experience.
  

  • FLED 7711:Technology for the 21st Century Foreign Language Teacher

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    This course introduces teacher candidates to the use of instructional technology in foreign language education, otherwise known as Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL). Specifically, teacher candidates learn to evaluate, design, create, and implement a variety of technology-enhanced teaching and learning materials. A particular focus is placed on forming the essential connections between Second Language Acquisition theories, sound pedagogical approaches, and cutting edge technologies to ensure that teacher candidates are able to integrate technology meaningfully into P-12 curriculum planning and teaching practices.
  

  • FLED 7712:Teaching Culture with Authentic Materials

    3 Class Hours 1 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the MAT in Foreign Languages 
    This course focuses on effective practices for meaningful teaching of culture to P-12 learners of foreign language. FLED 7712 students apply a text-rich approach to curriculum design that cultivates learners’ intercultural competence via research-supported, standards-based, communicative language teaching. The course integrates diversity assignments that are implemented in a P-12 classroom during clinical practice. 
  

  • FLED 7720:Foreign Language Education Practicum II

    0 Class Hours 20 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Approval of the FLED Graduate Committee.
    This course is designed to prepare prospective foreign language teachers for development of instructional materials and implementation of effective teaching methods and management techniques. Candidates will choose two field placements among elementary, middle, and high school levels.

    Note This course requires approximately 20 hours per week in the field. Verification of Liability Insurance is required.
  

  • FLED 7730:Foreign Language Education Practicum III

    0 Class Hours 40 Laboratory Hours 6 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: FLED 7720  
    This field experience is designed to provide candidates with an intensive classroom experience that includes planning, implementing, assessing, and adjusting instruction appropriate to the needs, abilities, and learning styles of all learners. Candidates will be placed in appropriate school settings where they will have the opportunity to apply and reflect on concepts addressed in previous course work.

    Note This course requires approximately 40 hours per week in the field. Verification of Liability Insurance is required.

Geography
  

  • GEOG 7100:Geographic Information Systems for Administrators

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to graduate study.
    This course is designed for administrators (not GIS managers) who wish to integrate a geographic information system into the operations of their local agency. Students will be introduced to basic GIS technology, but course emphasis is placed on conceptualizing and understanding how GIS can aid daily operations in administrative capacity. Guest lectures and specific case studies, including, planning and zoning, transportation, utilities, emergency services, taxation, and waste management, will be examined in class. Students at a minimum should be comfortable working in a Windows environment, have some experience working with databases, and be accomplished Internet users (ftp, browsing, etc.). No previous exposure to GIS or mapping is necessary.
  

  • GEOG 7701:Peoples of the World

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to graduate study in education.
    Understanding diversity is the cornerstone of this course, which presents comparisons of human groups throughout the world in a geographic case study format, focusing on cultural, political, economic, and social themes. Students will develop culturally-focused and geographically-based lesson plan strategies and present their research in a seminar format. The use of international resources from academic and local communities adds to the advancement of disciplinary knowledge and cultural awareness.
  

  • GEOG 7900:Special Topics

    1-9 (Repeatable, Regular Grades) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to graduate study in education and permission of advisor, instructor, department chair, and director, graduate study in education.
    Special topics of interest to faculty and students.
  

  • GEOG 7950:Directed Study

    1-9 (Repeatable, Regular Grades) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to graduate study in education and permission of advisor, instructor, department chair, and director, graduate study in education.
    This course covers special topics external to regular course offerings.

Gerontology
  

  • GERO 6100:Sociocultural Aspects of Aging

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Focuses on the social and cultural aspects of aging. Topics covered: demographic variables and trends, culture and socialization, social structure (family, politics, religion, work and retirement, education), social problems associated with aging (living arrangements, transportation, crime, abuse, health status, income), diversity among the aged population, issues of conflict, the health care system, programs and services, and death and dying.

    Note Any KSU graduate student may register for these classes. Decisions concerning substitution of one or more of these courses for specific graduate degree requirements are made by the Program Director of the degree program.
  

  • GERO 6200:Health Care for Older Adults

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Designed to serve a variety of students who are interested in the health care of the aging adult. This course addresses the normal and psychopathological aspects of aging, treatment regimes, end of life issues, and health promotion strategies within the context of cultural perspectives.

    Note Any KSU graduate student may register for these classes. Decisions concerning substitution of one or more of these courses for specific graduate degree requirements are made by the Program Director of the degree program.
  

  • GERO 6300:Psychology of Aging

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Psychological perspectives in the field of gerontology are presented. This course covers current psychological theory and research in aging as well as the practical application of these materials. The major topical areas covered include biological, cognitive, and psychosocial aspects of aging.

    Note Any KSU graduate student may register for these classes. Decisions concerning substitution of one or more of these courses for specific graduate degree requirements are made by the Program Director of the degree program.

Graduate Business Administration
  

  • GBA 7010:Institutional Excellence.

    9 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 9 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: GBA 7005  
    This course examines topics that form the basis for determining institutional excellence. The Lotus Notes/Learning Space distance learning platform continues to be incorporated this semester. The use of this technology serves as an extension of in-class time by providing associates the ability to discuss, with fellow associates and faculty, readings and issues pertaining to each on-campus weekend.

    Note Families in Business EMBA program only
  

  • GBA 7020:Business Excellence.

    11 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 11 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: GBA 7010  
    This course examines topics that form the basis for determining business excellence. The Lotus Notes/Learning Space distance learning platform continues to be incorporated this semester. The use of this technology serves as an extension of in-class time by providing associates the ability to discuss, with fellow associates and faculty, readings and issues pertaining to each on-campus weekend.

    Note Families in Business EMBA program only
  

  • GBA 7030:Product/Service Excellence

    9 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 9 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: GBA 7020  
    This course examines topics that form the basis for determining product/service excellence. The Lotus Notes/Learning Space distance learning platform continues to be incorporated this semester. The use of this technology serves as an extension of in-class time by providing associates the ability to discuss, with fellow associates and faculty, readings and issues pertaining to each on-campus weekend.

    Note Families in Business EMBA program only.
  

  • GBA 7211:Business Acumen Foundations

    3-6 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3-6 Credit Hours
    As the inaugural course for the Executive MBA program, this course covers certain business acumen foundations needed to support learning throughout the program, with a focus on developing basic knowledge and skills associated with identifying and using information that serves as the basis for managerial planning and control. Students are introduced to the fundamentals of economics, finance, accounting, and statistics, as well as selected common techniques for financial analysis, planning, forecasting, and managing. The course is centered on critical skills and knowledge required of managers at all levels to effectively understand and employ basic analytical tools, while also learning how they support business strategy and leadership principles.
  

  • GBA 7212:Principles of Leadership


    Today most experts agree that the degree to which organizations effectively compete-and in many cases, succeed or fail-is determined by how effectively they apply both business acumen and teamwork. A manager’s ability to work “smart” and interact effectively within a team setting will significantly determine her personal success in any career. In addition to its focus on leadership principles, it also introduces the student to the foundations of lifelong learning, the role and impact of personality on team dynamics, the principles of coaching, and the basic building blocks of high performance teams.
  

  • GBA 7221:Business Strategy & Analysis for Executive Decision Making

    6-9 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 6-9 Credit Hours
    The fundamental challenge self-imposed on any business is the development and implementation of a sound business model and strategy. Those that succeed are also characterized by in-depth competencies in financial and operational analysis to support other competencies inherent in their human capital assets. This course provides the foundational techniques and models for sound business strategy development and management, and introduces the student to several of the traditional tools, methodologies, and techniques employed in the areas of accounting, finance, marketing/sales, and operations for decision-making.
  

  • GBA 7222:The Business of Teaming and Coaching

    3-6 Credit Hours
    This course sets the stage for understanding the unique dynamics of working collaboratively with people by understanding the differences in how people think, learn, and behave. It also covers teaming in a business environment, the effective use of oral and written communications, and interpersonal transactional analysis. Students are given several opportunities to apply the principles covered in the course in a simulated, interactive teaming environment, equipping them with the critical knowledge and skills required of any successful manager, at any level, to work effectively with others to assure that business results are achieved.
  

  • GBA 7231:The Enterprise Value Chain

    2-4 Credit Hours
    All organizations operate as a complex system of integrated business processes, specific activities dependent on the availability of sufficient financial and human capital. The degree to which an organization’s performance incrementally improves is generally directly related to the degree to which its processes change in response to opportunities for improvement. This course provides an in-depth examination of the business processes commonly associated with an enterprise’s value chain, as well as with general project management, and introduces the student to traditional business process improvement methodologies.
  

  • GBA 7232:Managing Human Capital

    2-4 Credit Hours
    Human capital is the fuel that runs the engine of the business enterprise; without it, a business is nothing more than an idle collection of products and/or services. Attracting and retaining the best employees, and effectively managing employee performance and reward and recognition programs, are crucial to optimizing an enterprise’s human capital business model. This course covers several of the critical skills, knowledge, and abilities required of managers at all levels to be able to effectively manage human capital assets, and explores in depth the strategic partnership role of the Human Resources function in an organization. A special section covers post-merger workforce integration.
  

  • GBA 7233:Personal and Professional Development Planning

    2-4 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 2-4 Credit Hours
    In today’s business environment, self-reflection and continuous personal planning are important leadership skills. Naturally, managers who master these skills are more likely to achieve personal career goals, but they are also more likely to produce superior business outcomes for the organizations which employ them. This course includes the creation of a Personal Plan of Action and introduces the student to the practice of journaling as a method of critical reflection around career-related topics. The latter is integrated into personal coaching sessions to help the student deepen reflection and understanding of the unique and individual aspects of his/her personal and professional life. Most of the instructional activity for this course is delivered in a combination of a “virtual classroom” environment (using a technology unique to the Executive MBA program) and private in-person meetings with a member of the faculty who specializes in career coaching.
  

  • GBA 7241:Experiencing Business in a Global Environment

    6-9 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 6-9 Credit Hours
    Rapid and persistent advances in technology, along with constantly improving efficiencies in transportation and logistics, have created unprecedented opportunity for global market access amidst an ever-changing landscape of country-specific cultural, political, legal, and economic infrastructures. This course discusses the global-scale issues faced by today’s multi-national corporations, with a special focus on developing the personal knowledge and skills needed to compete effectively in this environment. Topics include the international aspects of accounting, finance, marketing, economics, and law.

    A focal point of the course is an integrated co-learning experience with students from one of the largest Executive MBA-only educational institutions in Eastern Europe, known as ASEBUSS, which is located in Bucharest, Romania. Students and faculty travel to Romania and London to join students from ASEBUSS in the initiation of a team project focused on a wide range of international business practices. The project is ultimately concluded in the U.S. when the same ASEBUSS students travel to Atlanta seven months later. In the interim, the joint student teams work virtually using remote collaboration technologies.
  

  • GBA 7242:International Leadership and Collaboration

    6-9 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 6-9 Credit Hours
    Working effectively in multi-national business enterprises and, specifically, multi-cultural teams, requires an understanding of some unique dynamics associated with this environment.
    This course is designed to allow students to learn and practice the skills needed to work collaboratively with people from multiple countries by understanding the differences in national and regional cultures and business practices norms. By integrating with the special joint activities in GBA7251 with students from ASEBUSS in Bucharest, Romania, U.S. students experience international virtual teaming, the role of emotional intelligence and interpersonal transactional analysis in inter-cultural collaboration, and the nuances of international leadership models.
  

  • GBA 7251:Application of Business Acumen and Leadership

    6-9 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 6-9 Credit Hours
    This course is the capstone course of the Executive MBA program, integrating the principles, methodologies, techniques, and skills covered in the overall program. As a comprehensive practicum, the course covers application of the business acumen, leadership, teaming, and coaching topics developed extensively in prior program courses. In addition, several closing topics in specialized areas such as executive compensation, business taxation, corporate governance, and other ever-changing contemporary issues facing managers today are included in the course curriculum.
  

  • GBA 7253:Managing Your Career

    2-4 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 2-4 Credit Hours
    Career management involves identifying, pursuing, and maintaining one’s personal ideal work environment - the type of business in which one is engaged, the places where one performs their work, the work colleagues with whom one interacts, and one’s specific work responsibilities and activities. Virtually nothing in the world of work is perfectly stable, so continuous monitoring of these factors is critical to personal career satisfaction. In conjunction with GBA7233, this course enables implementation of a student’s Personal Plan of Action via a combination of a “virtual classroom” environment (using a technology platform unique to the Executive MBA program) and private in-person meetings with a member of the faculty who specializes in career coaching.
  

  • GBA 7314:Telecommunications Public Policy

    4 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 4 Credit Hours
    The telecommunications industry works in a very political arena, both at federal and state level. This course gives the historical background to present telecommunication regulation, present day regulatory issues, the methods to affect political decisions (including lobbying), and future trends and forecasts.

    Note AT&T EMBA Program only
  

  • GBA 7341:Business in a Global Environment

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Rapid and persistent advances in technology, along with constantly improving efficiencies in transportation and logistics, have created unprecedented opportunity for global market access amidst an ever-changing landscape of country-specific cultural, political, legal, and economic infrastructures. This course discusses the global-scale issues faced by today’s multi-national corporations, with a special focus on developing the personal knowledge and skills needed to compete effectively in this environment. Topics include the international aspects of accounting, finance, marketing, economics, and law.
  

  • GBA 7344:Quality Management

    5 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 5 Credit Hours
    Excellent execution is what separates great organizations from good organizations. This course teaches the basic principles of quality management, so that participants can ensure that processes at their organizations can achieve their organization’s goals effectively and efficiently. After successful completion of the course, participants are awarded a Six Sigma Green Belt certificate.

    Note AT&T EMBA Program only
  

  • GBA 8095:International Internship

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of at least 18 hours of 8000-level MBA courses; must be approved by the MBA program academic coordinator; no internship work can be completed in the student’s country of legal residence or country of origin.
    A supervised three-credit hour work experience of one academic semester with a previously approved business firm or governmental agency substitutes for one elective.

    Note A research paper is required to receive credit. The course will be graded on a satisfactory or unsatisfactory (S/U) basis.
  

  • GBA 8950:Special Projects in Business and Accounting

    1-3 (Repeatable not to exceed 6 semester hours) Credit Hours
    Corequisite: Must be approved by academic coordinator and selected instructor.
    Special projects for students who wish to pursue advanced work on a particular subject in a specialized area.

Healthcare Management and Informatics
  

  • HMI 7510:Introduction to Healthcare Management and Informatics

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Full admission to the MS-HMI program or permission of the graduate program director.
    This class will provide an overview of the current landscape of healthcare; introduce the role of information systems in healthcare; emphasize the use of clinically motivated use of information technology for quality, efficient, delivery and practice of healthcare; the management challenges in the current healthcare landscape; and the profound role and impact of informatics. An examination of how information is captured, converted, and stored in machine readable form and used in the various facets of the health care system; the impact of Electronic Medical Record (EMR); and personalized medicine will also be examined.
  

  • HMI 7520:Data Analytics via SAS

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Courses that may be taken concurrently:
    HMI 7510  
    The course is designed to give students core skills and competency in statistics and data analytics via SAS. This is a core degree requirement for the Masters in Healthcare Management and Informatics program.
  

  • HMI 7530:Data Analytics via R

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Courses that may be taken concurrently:
    HMI 7510  
    The course in Data Analytics via R aims to provide relevant skills and competency in data analytics and statistics via R to the graduates with the goal to enable them to enhance patient safety and impact the quality, safety, and cost-effectiveness of healthcare delivery and practice.
  

  • HMI 7540:Healthcare Information Systems Development

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HMI 7510  
    This course will provide students with the knowledge and skills needed to develop applications in a development environment. Students will learn programming logic and practice through developing hands on application development. The course will use Java programing platform.
  

  • HMI 7550:Database Systems in Healthcare

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HMI 7510  
    This course examines contemporary strategies for the design and implementation of applications supported by back-end database systems. Topics include data administration, data mining, user-interface design, reporting, data integrity issues, and distributed databases. Multidimensional and Hierarchical databases are also covered. The course will be under the context of Healthcare Information Systems.
  

  • HMI 7560:Management and Application of Electronic Health Records

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HMI 7510  
    This course is intended exclusively for students enrolled in the Masters in Healthcare Management and Informatics degree program. This course provides an overview of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) including the management, functional/technical knowledge, and business applicability of EHRs in the contemporary healthcare landscape and meeting the Triple Aim of improving outcomes, reducing cost, and effective healthcare delivery to diverse population groups. VLAB is leveraged in the course to provide students an opportunity to get hands-on-experience with functional EHRs. Additionally, the course leverages cases and real-world scenarios to have an in-depth understanding of the constraints, challenges, and opportunities associated with strategies underlying adoption and management of EHRs at diverse health settings - urban, suburban, rural. This course entails students working in groups and on individual assignments during the semester.
  

  • HMI 7570:Healthcare Processes and Workflows

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HMI 7510  
    This course is intended exclusively for students enrolled in the Masters in Healthcare Management and Informatics degree program. Contemporary healthcare systems have many complex processes and overlapping workflows supporting the day to day functioning. This course provides an understanding of existing healthcare processes and workflows with the objective to re-engineer processes and workflows to impact Triple Aim - improve patient outcomes, reduce cost, and manage population health. The course provides students the tools to identify and analyze business processes, and to model organizational effectiveness through business process innovations enabled by Information Systems. The first part of the course examines business processes and innovations while the second part examines the strategic impact on organizational success from the perspective of processes and workflows. Further, this course explores the impact of organizational models on processes and workflows and the role of systems in transforming healthcare organizations and markets. This course includes cases and real-world scenarios reflecting organizational processes, innovations, process re-engineering and workflows in the contemporary healthcare setting.
  

  • HMI 7580:Governance, Risk Management and Compliance in Healthcare

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HMI 7510  
    Detailed examinations of a systems-wide perspective of information security, beginning with a strategic planning process for security in the context of healthcare. Includes an examination of the policies, procedures, and staffing functions necessary to organize and administrate ongoing security functions in a healthcare organization. Subjects include security practices, security architecture and models, continuity planning and disaster recovery planning.
  

  • HMI 7590:Health Care Industry: Economics, Strategy, and Leadership

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HMI 7510  
    This course is intended exclusively for students enrolled in the Masters in Healthcare Management and Informatics degree program. The overall objective of the course is to provide the students of the program with the business acumen, analytical and leadership skills needed for the successful creation, distribution, and management of health care services in the contemporary healthcare industry. The course will emphasize the value based approach to health care industry analysis and its use in strategic planning, competitive analysis, strategic decision making and implementation. The course format will include lectures, real examples and cases and some guest lectures by experienced industry leaders. Topics covered will include Economics of Health care Industry, Strategic Gaming and Competitive Analysis and Value Chain in Health Care and how to use these tools for Strategic leadership in the healthcare industry. Each topic will be introduced through the primary text book, cases and articles on relevant topics and presentations. This course provides the student with foundation of business knowledge, and the analytical and leadership skills needed in the complicated economic environments of health care industry.
  

  • HMI 7610:Management & Ethics of Leadership in Healthcare

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HMI 7510  
    This course is intended exclusively for students enrolled in the Masters in Healthcare Management and Informatics degree program. This course provides an understanding of leadership principles and strategic knowledge rooted in ethical management and decision-making in health care delivery systems and applications. Students will gain experience through case analysis, assessments, and presentations that will allow them to identify problems and offer collaborative resolution in areas related to management and ethics of leadership that support quality of healthcare delivery and practice.
  

  • HMI 7620:Data Mining and Visualization in Healthcare

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HMI 7510  
    This course is intended exclusively for students enrolled in the Masters in Healthcare Management and Informatics degree program. The overall objective of this course is to provide the students in the program functional understanding of data mining and visualization in the context of healthcare. Students will gain experience through practical application of data selection, cleaning, coding, using different statistical, pattern recognition and machine learning techniques, and reporting and visualization of the generated structures.
  

  • HMI 7770:Capstone in Healthcare Management and Informatics

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HMI 7510  
    This course offers students an opportunity to integrate knowledge gained in the classroom with real-world problems. Students work in teams and consult with a working professional to identify a real world problem related to healthcare management and informatics and apply the knowledge learnt in class to design a potential solution. Consists of engagement in practical work and research in a major area of health informatics. Potential areas of work include design or analysis of health informatics systems, programs, or applications; program planning; management; and policy development. Encourages community-based participatory projects. To the extent possible, capstone projects have as a goal a practical contribution to the health informatics field. Students initiate and design capstone projects in consultation with faculty members who provide guidance and mentoring.
  

  • HMI 7910:Special Topics in Healthcare Management and Informatics

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HMI 7510  and must be approved by the graduate program director.
    Exploration of selected contemporary topics of interest to the student and sponsoring faculty.
  

  • HMI 8900:Directed Study in Healthcare Management and Informatics

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the program and permission of the director
    The directed study is a focused course on an area that the student wants to explore deeply with a faculty. This class will provide an opportunity for student(s) in the MSHMI program to conduct a study with a faculty on an area of mutual interest.

High Performance Computing Clusters
  

  • HPCC 6820:Big Data Analytics I

    3 Class Hours 3 Laboratory Hours 4 Credit Hours
    This course covers basics of big data analytics platform HPCC and basic program skills on HPCC. Topics include introduction to ECL programming, introduction to Thor, introduction to Roxie, and R programming for HPCC.
  

  • HPCC 6822:HPCC Platform for Big Data Analytics II

    3 Class Hours 2 Laboratory Hours 4 Credit Hours
    This course covers advanced topics of big data analytics on HPCC. Topics include advanced ECL programming, advanced Thor operations, and advanced Roxie operations. Lab exercises will be provided for each of these topics.
  

  • HPCC 6890:HPCC Project Capstone

    1 Class Hours 4 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: CS 6021  
    This is the project/capstone course for the HPCC certificate program requiring students to work as a team on a group project assigned by the instructor. Students will analyze, design, implement, test, and demonstrate a successful implemented system, culminating in a presentation to the class and the submission of a short paper.

History
  

  • HIST 7710:Local History Research and Resources

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to graduate study in education.
    Candidates will gain a working knowledge of local historical resources and will examine what history is and the processes used by historians in interpreting and uncovering the past. They will build individual skills in these processes through the researching and writing of a term paper on a local topic using primary materials. Candidates will also explore strategies to incorporate local history into their classrooms; to increase their own and their students’ civic awareness and involvement; to teach critical thinking skills; to facilitate the learning of history by use of local examples; and, to use local history to illustrate or challenge major viewpoints about both Georgia and national history.
  

  • HIST 7720:Continuity and Change in Selected Nation/State

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to graduate study in education.
    An examination of the development of a particular nation/state including its relative place in the world. Themes will include economic and political systems, social structures, belief systems, population and migration, and environmental and geographic influences. Candidates will read selected works and consider teaching applications for engaging adolescents and young adults in responding to and interpreting a variety of sources.
  

  • HIST 7730:Minorities in America

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to graduate study in education.
    An examination of the roles minorities have played in the development of America. Special attention will be given to racial, ethnic, and political minorities. Included will be the ways family, economic, and political issues have affected peoples of different ethnic and racial groups and how to make ethnic diversity a source of unity rather than divisiveness in our civic culture. Emphasis is placed on the use of a variety of resources that speak from diverse perspectives. Candidates will develop strategies for incorporating issues of diversity and social understanding in their classrooms.
  

  • HIST 7740:Economy and Society

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to graduate study in education.
    This course will examine major themes in the history of economic thought. Students will read selected works by and about the major theorists and their times and consider teaching applications for engaging adolescents and young adults in understanding and responding to economic theory and content.
  

  • HIST 7900:Special Topics

    1-9 (Repeatable, Regular Grades) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to graduate study in education and permission of advisor, instructor, department chair, and director, graduate study in education.
    Exploration of a specifically designed topic.
  

  • HIST 7950:Directed Study

    1-9 (Repeatable, Regular Grades) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to graduate study in education and permission of advisor, instructor, department chair, and director, graduate study in education.
    A concentrated investigation of selected topics of an advanced nature.

    Note The content will be determined jointly by the instructor and the student.

Inclusive Education
  

  • INED 6400:Effectively Supporting Students with Exceptionalities in Inclusive Settings

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Candidates must be admitted to the MAT.
    Courses that may be taken concurrently:
    ARED 6650  or ENED 6650  or MAED 6650  or SCED 6650  
    This course prepares candidates to work collaboratively with families and school personnel to have a positive impact on the educational, social and behavioral development of all students, including those with a full range of disabilities, in a diverse society. It focuses on knowledge of legislative mandates for serving exceptional students, characteristics of exceptionality, best practices in facilitating teaching and learning, and accountability through assessment of outcomes. This course requires a ten-hour observational and instructional experience (i.e., teaching a lesson plan) in assigned school placement(s). This course requires an observational experience and an instructional experience in an assigned school placement. Verification of professional liability insurance is required prior to placement in the field experience. This course fulfills Georgia HB 671 requirement. Candidates must be currently enrolled in a MAT program. Verification of professional liability insurance is required prior to placement in the field experience. Candidates must have an issued preservice certificate for this course. Candidates must also be enrolled in the Yearlong Clinical I while taking this course. Failure to meet both criteria will result in removal from the course. If a change occurs in the YCE I placement while enrolled in this course, notify your instructor immediately. If you are removed from your field placement you will receive an F in this course. This course is a three-credit hour course. This is a fully online course. Beginning July 1, 2019, all candidates must earn a “B” or higher in this course for certification as stated in the Georgia PSC 505-2-.24 Special Georgia Requirements.
  

  • INED 6410:Foundations and Historical Perspectives in Special Education

    1 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 1 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Acceptance into the MAT Program
    This course prepares candidates to work collaboratively with families and school personnel to have a positive impact on the educational, social and behavioral development of all students, including those with a full range of exceptionalities, in a diverse society. It focuses on knowledge of legislative mandates for serving exceptional students, characteristics of exceptionality, best practices in facilitating teaching and learning, and accountability through assessment of outcomes. This course, along with INED 6411 and INED 6412, fulfills Georgia HB 671 requirement. Pre-requisite: Admission to the MAT program. Part 1 introduces teacher candidates to the history and laws which govern the education of students with exceptionalities. Emphasis is placed on the origin of the law, the responsibility of the Local Education Agency to abide by the law, the referral and identification process, and the support services offered to students and staff.
     
  

  • INED 6411:A Strength-Based Perspective of Students with Exceptionalities

    1 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 1 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: INED 6410  
    This course prepares candidates to work collaboratively with families and school personnel to have a positive impact on the educational, social and behavioral development of all students, including those with a full range of exceptionalities, in a diverse society. It focuses on knowledge of legislative mandates for serving exceptional students, characteristics of exceptionality, best practices in facilitating teaching and learning, and accountability through assessment of outcomes. Part 2 gives candidates a thorough understanding of the exceptionality areas recognized under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. The most common characteristics of each exceptionality area and students who are gifted will be explained and classroom strategies for each will be explored. Candidates will be able to recognize common characteristics and will be able to plan for educational access for each. This course, along with INED 6410 and INED 6412, fulfills Georgia HB 671 requirement. Pre-requisite: Admission to the MAT program.
     
  

  • INED 6412:Effective Instruction for Students with Exceptionalities

    1 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 1 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: INED 6410  and INED 6411  
    This course examines the demographic changes in America’s schools that influence teaching and learning. Attention is given to assisting candidates in developing a socio-cultural consciousness and the disposition that all students, including those with exceptionalities, can learn complex content. Candidates engage in in-depth study of students with exceptionalities and their educational needs as well as the creation of culturally responsive and inclusive classrooms that support all students. In Part 3, teacher candidates must demonstrate the ability to foster learning environments that are culturally responsive, inclusive, caring and accepting of all individuals. This course prepares prospective content area middle and secondary teachers with a greater understanding of diversity as well as the collaborative tools necessary to bringing all students, including those with exceptionalities, to high educational standards. Universal Design for Learning, differentiation, assistive technology will be the tools taught in this course. The concepts of assessment of and for learning will be emphasized. Pre-requisite: Admission to the MAT program. Successful completion of INED 6410 and INED 6411.
     
  

  • INED 6421:Linguistically Diverse Students as Learners

    1 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 1 Credit Hours
    In this course, middle and/or secondary content teachers are introduced to first and second language acquisition, linguistic elements, and linguistically responsive pedagogy. In addition, students will begin to develop an understanding of these concepts as they relate to meeting the needs of English learners and recognizing the vast cultural resources that they bring to the content classroom in relation to the larger sociopolitical context.
     
  

  • INED 6422:Instruction for Linguistically Diverse Learners

    1 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 1 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: INED 6421  
    This course focuses on developing effective instruction for linguistically diverse students in middle and/or secondary content classrooms. Specifically, teacher candidates will begin to develop the skills necessary for the differentiation, scaffolding, and assessment of content for students that are learning English while also developing content proficiency. The course will introduce prospective teachers to language objectives and academic language as tools for developing content instruction that is comprehensible for English learners.
     
  

  • INED 6423:Assessing Linguistically Diverse Learners

    1 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 1 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: INED 6421 , and INED 6422  
    Teacher candidates will be exposed to formative and summative assessment strategies appropriate for linguistically diverse students. Students will be asked to create and use a variety of rubrics and other appropriate assessment instruments to assess content and developing English language proficiency through speaking, listening, writing, and reading. In addition, the prospective teacher will begin to make connections between instruction and assessment and how this relates to advocacy for English learners as a content teacher.
     
  

  • INED 6431:Foundations for Teaching Diverse English Learners

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Acceptance into the KSU MAT program.
    This course introduces Master of Teaching candidates to today’s diverse English learner population, education policies that impact these students and how cultural resources can be leveraged to meet their academic needs. This course focuses on developing effective instruction, assessment, and literacy development for English learners and other linguistically diverse learners in middle grade classrooms. Specifically, candidates will a.) examine the academic, linguistic, and social needs of linguistically diverse learners, b.) explore the differences between teaching reading and writing to English learners and native English speakers; and c.) develop skills necessary for differentiation and scaffolding language and content for English learners at a variety of language proficiency levels.
  

  • INED 6650:TESOL Yearlong Clinical Practice I

    0 Class Hours 15 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to MAT TESOL graduate program.
    Corequisite: EDUC 6610 
    This first semester of a TESOL yearlong clinical field experience requires 15 hours per week in classrooms with ELs. This course provides the initial field experience which continues into the second semester as a full-time field experience. Candidates will also visit other field settings to meet all four grade level clusters required for P-12 certification. Notes: Proof of liability insurance is required.
  

  • INED 6651:Yearlong Clinical Experience I

    0 Class Hours 15 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admitted into a graduate program.
    Corequisite: EDUC 6610 
    This course begins the yearlong clinical experience and is designed to prepare prospective special education teachers for planning and development of instructional materials and implementation of effective teaching methods, management techniques, and assessment practices. This course requires approximately 225 hours in the field over the course of 15 weeks. Verification of Liability Insurance is required.
  

  • INED 6660:TESOL Yearlong Clinical Practice II

    0 Class Hours 30 Laboratory Hours 6 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: INED 6650  
    This course is designed to provide prospective TESOL education teachers the opportunity to increasingly assume instruction over time and responsibility for all class or caseload instruction for a minimum period of 10 consecutive school days. In this clinical experience, candidates spend 35-40 hours per week in the classroom across the semester. Employed candidates may conduct the internship in their classrooms if they have English Learners as students. Otherwise, the internship site will be organized through the Center for Education Placements and Partnerships (CEPP).

    Note Proof of liability insurance is required.
  

  • INED 6661:Yearlong Clinical Experience II

    0 Class Hours 30 Laboratory Hours 6 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Candidates must have successfully completed all concentration INED core courses with a grade of “B” or higher. A candidate must maintain a GPA of 3.0 in order to register for this course (INED 7710 , INED 7630 , INED 7650 , INED 7660 , and INED 6651 ).
    This course is designed to provide prospective special education teachers the opportunity to increasingly assume instruction over time and responsibility for all class or caseload instruction for a minimum period of 10 consecutive school days. In this clinical experience, candidates spend 35-40 hours per week in the classroom across the semester. an issued GaPSC Pre-service Certificate or other teacher certification license is required for this course.
  

  • INED 7610:Characteristics of Diverse Learners

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to Graduate Program
    This course focuses on understanding laws at the national and state levels, policies and procedures, as well as current legal trends and issues that impact students with disabilities. Emphasis is placed on eligibility procedures including providing services and developing and implementing the Individualized Education Program. In addition, information regarding disability categories, characteristics and how they manifest in the classroom, as well as approaching disability from a culturally responsive, asset-based perspective will be addressed.
     
  

  • INED 7620:Positive Behavior Intervention Support

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission into a KSU graduate program.
    This course focuses on developing skills in implementing proactive strategies for positive behavior management. Basic application of school-wide positive behavior support strategies (e.g., RtI), functional behavioral assessment, creating a positive classroom environment, using classroom positive behavior support strategies, and cultural influences on student behavior provide the course’s framework. Candidates will apply research-based principles and strategies through an application project while working in the field with a student with challenging behaviors. Field experience required.
  

  • INED 7630:Assessment for Diverse Learners

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission into a KSU graduate program.
    This course is designed to provide knowledge and skills regarding assessment procedures, processes (including pre-referral and Response to Intervention), and protocols utilized in making eligibility and instructional decisions regarding individualized education programs and placements. In addition, candidates develop an understanding of assessment terminology, accommodations, and fidelity of implementation, as well as culturally appropriate assessments, and gain expertise in communicating assessment results to key stakeholders including students and families. Field experience is required.
  

  • INED 7650:Curriculum and Instruction for Students with Disabilities

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to a KSU Graduate program.
    This course introduces candidates to current best practices in curriculum and instruction. This course is designed as an introduction to the systematic process of planning for effective classroom instruction and assessment for students with disabilities. Special emphasis is placed on planning for effective design through evidence-based models such as: Understanding by Design (UbD), differentiated instruction, and Universal Design for Learning (UDL). In addition, candidates will learn about standards-based instruction, the instructional cycle, and culturally relevant and sustaining strategies for individualized learning and instruction.
  

  • INED 7660:Evidence-Based Practices for Students with Disabilities in the Content Areas

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission into a KSU graduate program.
    This course prepares candidates to plan for delivery and assessment of evidenced-based instructional practices that promote positive academic and behavioral outcomes. Candidates will use knowledge of Common Core Curriculum standards, the learner and learning context, the instructional cycle, as well as culturally responsive strategies that focus on academic language to individualize learning and instruction.
  

  • INED 7705:Legal and Educational Foundations for Diverse Learners

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the MAT SPED or M.Ed. program in Inclusive Education or graduate inclusive education add-on program.
    This hybrid course focuses on understanding laws, policies and procedures, as well as current legal trends and issues that impact both students with disabilities and those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Emphasis is placed on eligibility procedures, providing services, and the Individualized Education Plan (IEP). Professional ethics as it relates to diverse students are addressed. Candidates will also develop basic understanding of educational research paradigms.
  

  • INED 7710:Foundations in Special Education

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to KSU graduate program.
    This course focuses on understanding laws at the national and state levels, policies and procedures, as well as current legal trends and issues that impact students with disabilities. Emphasis is placed on eligibility procedures including providing services and developing and implementing the Individualized Education Program. In addition, information regarding disability categories, characteristics and how they manifest in the classroom, as well as approaching disability from a culturally responsive asset-based perspective will be addressed.
  

  • INED 7720:Positive Behavior Intervention Supports

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    This course focuses on developing skills in implementing proactive strategies for positive behavior and academic supports. Basic application of culturally responsive school-wide positive behavior support strategies, individualized behavioral supports, and positive classroom support strategies are emphasized. Candidates will apply research-based principles and strategies through an application project while working in the field with a student with challenging behaviors. 
  

  • INED 7725:Education of Students with Severe Disabilities

    2 Class Hours 3 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to M.Ed. program in Inclusive Education or graduate inclusive education add-on program. INED 7715 and INED 7740 .
    This course focuses on a systematic analysis of the physical, affective, behavioral and educational problems of individuals with severe disabilities (intellectual and behavioral). There is an emphasis on etiological, perceptual motor, language and functional academic aspects of the problems with consideration for parental involvement in the educational process. It addresses age-appropriate curriculum, community-based instruction and adaptive and assistive technology.

    Note Proof of professional liability insurance is required prior to field experience placement.
  

  • INED 7730:Assessment of Diverse Learners

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission into a graduate program in any education major.
    This course is designed to provide knowledge and skills regarding assessment procedures, process (including pre-referral and Response to Intervention), and protocols utilized in making eligibility and instructional decisions regarding individualized education programs and placements. In addition, candidates develop an understanding of assessment terminology, accommodations, and fidelity of implementation, as well as culturally appropriate assessments, and gain expertise in communicating assessment results to key stakeholders including students and families.

    Note Field experience required.
  

  • INED 7731:Assessment of English Language Learners

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to MEd TESOL or MAT TESOL program; INED 7781  and INED 7782  
    In this course candidates learn practical application of assessment theory to advance learning for English learners in P-12 classrooms. The focus is on performance-based formative and summative assessment of both language development and content learning. Candidates develop and utilize assessment tools (e.g., rubrics, checklists, peer-assessment) to support learning and provide equity. Candidates study issues of testing for identification, placement, and reclassification of English learners. Policy and educational issues of standardized testing will also be considered.
  

  • INED 7735:The Law and It’s Impact on Programs for Diverse Learners

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to M.Ed. program in Special Education.  EDUC 7700  
    This course focuses on the laws protecting the students with disabilities and English language learners as well as their families. Particular emphasis will be placed upon how the law translates to daily practices for teachers and school leaders. As part of the study, candidates will analysis of research data, federal and state law, rules of the Georgia State School Board, summaries of legal decisions, etc.
  

  • INED 7740:Advanced Behavior Strategies

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to M.Ed. program in Inclusive Education or graduate inclusive education add-on program. INED 7720  
    This course focuses on the advanced application of the principles of applied behavior analysis, functional analysis, classroom ecology, and positive behavior support for the challenging behaviors of students with more significant disabilities and/or severe emotional or psychiatric disorders. This course will also focus on the use of single subject research methodology in designing and evaluating behavior interventions. Students will apply these principles through the development of an action research project using a single subject design.
  

  • INED 7741:Teacher Inquiry and Research in TESOL

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to KSU graduate program.
    Candidates explore and gain understanding of educational research processes, including the epistemological and theoretical frameworks that undergird diverse research paradigms used to study English learners and their needs. Candidates gain expertise in reading, analyzing, critiquing, comparing, and synthesizing research to become critical consumers of research. Candidates design and conduct research focused on the academic achievement of English learners in their own classrooms/schools. Major topics include epistemology, theoretical foundations, validity/trustworthiness, methodology, reflexivity, data collection, analysis, and ethics.
  

  • INED 7742:Data-based Inquiry

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to KSU graduate degree program.
    Candidates develop a basic understanding of educational research paradigms including qualitative, quantitative and action research designs. Candidates will develop expertise as consumers and producers of research, critically examining the use of data in policy aimed at improving student outcomes. Major topics include use of district-state wide assessment data to inform instruction, the ethical use of data, and teacher evaluation.
  

  • INED 7745:Social Skills Strategies

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to M.Ed. program in Inclusive Education or graduate inclusive education add-on program. INED 7720  and INED 7740  
    This course focuses on means of reducing inappropriate behaviors through a multifaceted pro-social skills curricula.
  

  • INED 7746:Models of Development and Procedures for Assessment

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to Preschool/Inclusive Education Add-on Program.
    This course focuses on the physical, sensory, affective, behavioral, language and cognitive development of infants and children. There is an emphasis on the etiological, sociological, medical and intervention effects on both typical and atypical development. Issues concerning procedures for formal and informal assessment are stressed. The importance of collaborating with families as partners through a family- centered approach is also emphasized. Clinical applications in a field site are included.

    Note Proof of professional liability insurance is required for placement.
  

  • INED 7747:Developmentally Appropriate Practices for Curricular Design and Methods of Intervention

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to Preschool/Inclusive Education Add-on Program.
    This course focuses on developmentally appropriate and developmentally different practices for infants and preschool children with disabilities. Accommodations for appropriate settings, parental and/or family involvement and collaboration with other professionals are emphasized.

    Note Proof of professional liability insurance is required prior to field experience placement.
  

  • INED 7748:Language Learning & Emergent Literacy

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to Preschool/Inclusive Education Add-on Program.
    The development and interaction of oral, written and social language are presented. Students will learn ways to access and enhance oral and social language development in infants and preschool children with disabilities. The effect of cultural context and different language backgrounds will be addressed.
  

  • INED 7750:Language, Power, and Pedagogy

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to KSU graduate program; successful completion of INED 7781 , INED 7782  and INED 7783  
    This course is designed to engage students in an investigation of critical pedagogy, theory, and philosophy as these concepts relate to their emerging roles as ESOL teachers and teacher leaders. Students will examine historical and current language policy, theoretical concepts related to language and power, the impact of theory on pedagogical decisions of ESOL teachers, develop an educational philosophy for the ESOL classroom, and hone their knowledge concerning advocacy for culturally and linguistically diverse students.
  

  • INED 7752:Explicit Approaches to Literacy Instruction for P-12 Students with Disabilities

    3 Class Hours 1 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the KSU graduate degree program.
    This course focuses on the design, implementation, and evaluation of literacy instruction for P-12 students with disabilities. The teaching methodology emphasized is explicit, systematic, intensive, and developmental. Course topics include: (1) Manifestations of reading disabilities, (2) Trends and issues, such as Response to Intervention, including assessments to determine instructional decision-making, (3) Features of effective instruction, (4) Explicit evidence-based phonological awareness, word study, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing strategies, and (5) Collaboration. Field experience required.
  

  • INED 7760:Curriculum Development for Diverse Learners

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to graduate studies.
    Curriculum Development for Diverse Learners prepares teachers to develop curriculum and instruction that is universal in design and based on best practices research in General Education, Special Education, and Teaching Speakers of Other Languages. The proposed curriculum model follows the precepts of Universal Design for Learning and provides built-in adaptations to lessons that reduce the amount of time needed to create individual accommodations and modifications for diverse students (i.e., students with exceptionalities and those who are culturally and linguistically diverse). Key concepts addressed in this course include Curriculum Mapping, Backwards Design, Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP), Universal Design for Learning (UDL), and Interdisciplinary Unit Development. Additional attention will be paid to the Core Curriculum and other Georgia Performance Standards as they continue to unfold from the Georgia Department of Education.
  

  • INED 7761:Instructional Approaches I

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to KSU graduate program.
    This course prepares candidates to provide safe, inclusive, culturally responsive learning environments for students with disabilities. Candidates will develop knowledge, skills, and dispositions to deliver evidenced-based instruction that promotes positive academic and behavioral outcomes. Candidates will use knowledge of Common Core Curriculum standards to individualize learning and instruction. In addition, an emphasis is placed on encouraging student self-determination and successful transitions.
  

  • INED 7762:Instructional Approaches II

    3 Class Hours 1 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to KSU graduate program and INED 7761  
    Candidates completing this course will continue to expand their professional knowledge base of individualized learning and the context of schools, families, and communities. They will identify, select, and implement a repertoire of evidence-based intervention strategies for students with disabilities to include assistive technology and information literacy. Candidates will use current research in teaching as a rationale for strategy selection. Field experience required.
  

  • INED 7763:Curriculum Development for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: INED 7783  or departmental approval 
    This course prepares candidates with the historical, theoretical and research-based knowledge to evaluate English language programs, and develop curricula for culturally/linguistically diverse P-12 students. Candidates critically examine curricula for promotion of critical thinking, language development, content area learning, and learner engagement. Candidates develop an interdisciplinary, learner-centered, culturally relevant unit that applies Universal Design, Sheltered Instruction, project-based learning/assessment, arts-based learning, and 21st Century technologies to enhance the engagement and academic achievement of English learners.
  

  • INED 7765:Characteristics of Gifted Children

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to any graduate level education program in the Bagwell College of Education
    This course provides an introduction to the psychological and personality characteristics of gifted and talented children with implications for their education. It includes: philosophy of gifted education; definition (according to federal, state and local guidelines); identification procedures; characteristics; types of gifted children; learning environments, description of teaching-learning models; implications for program development, administration and evaluation; and characteristics of teachers and other personnel concerned with the education of gifted students

    Note Proof of professional liability insurance is required prior to field experience placement.
  

  • INED 7766:Curriculum Materials and Methods for Gifted Children

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: INED 7765  
    This course is designed to explore and apply knowledge about curriculum theory, measurement, learning theories and evaluation procedures to plan qualitatively different educational experiences for the gifted and talented. The course will orient prospective gifted educators to the attitudes, skills and knowledge deemed appropriate and necessary for assuming instructional leadership roles.
  

  • INED 7767:Assessment of Gifted Children and Youth

    3 Class Hours 1 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: INED 7765  
    This course explores theories of mental abilities and provides knowledge and skills in the measurement of intelligence, achievement, creativity and other dimensions of giftedness. Various plans for identification are examined including the case study and State of Georgia regulations.
  

  • INED 7768:Curriculum Development and Program Design in Gifted Education

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: INED 7765  
    This course is designed to explore and apply knowledge about curriculum theory for the development of effective programs in gifted education. A number of exemplary models recommended by national authorities are examined for their use in creating and evaluating programs for gifted students. The course will orient prospective educators of the gifted to the attitudes, skills and knowledge deemed appropriate and necessary for assuming instructional leadership roles. This course provides a study of program planning for gifted students, including curriculum inventory and development, program models, and evaluation. 
 

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