Jun 17, 2024  
2021-22 Graduate Catalog 
    
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2021-22 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses

NOTE: Certain courses and programs require the use and/or handling of hazardous materials or equipment. Students are expected to follow all safety instructions and to take the required safety precautions including, but not limited to, the use of personal protection equipment (PPE) during the course or program to prevent incidences of injury to self or other students.
 

Agriculture
  
  
  
  

Animal Science
  
  
  
  
  

Anthropology
  
  
  

Applied Music
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  • MUAP 6700 - Private Instruction

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of undergraduate recital. Consult graduate coordinator as to performance area availability. One-hour private lesson per week in the selected performance field. In-depth study of stylistic, technical, and musical problems in music performance and exploration of advanced repertoire in the applied area. Course may be repeated with no limit, but only three hours of credit may be applied toward the degree within the nine-hour private instruction requirement.


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  • MUAP 6701 - Private Instruction Voice

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of undergraduate recital. Consult graduate coordinator as to performance area availability. One-hour private lesson per week in the selected performance field. In-depth study of stylistic, technical, and musical problems in music performance and exploration of advanced repertoire in the applied area. Course may be repeated with no limit, but only three hours of credit may be applied toward the degree within the nine-hour private instruction requirement.


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  • MUAP 6702 - Private Instruction Piano

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of undergraduate recital. Consult graduate coordinator as to performance area availability. One-hour private lesson per week in the selected performance field. In-depth study of stylistic, technical, and musical problems in music performance and exploration of advanced repertoire in the applied area. Course may be repeated with no limit, but only three hours of credit may be applied toward the degree within the nine-hour private instruction requirement.


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  • MUAP 6703 - Private Instruction Organ

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of undergraduate recital. Consult graduate coordinator as to performance area availability. One-hour private lesson per week in the selected performance field. In-depth study of stylistic, technical, and musical problems in music performance and exploration of advanced repertoire in the applied area. Course may be repeated with no limit, but only three hours of credit may be applied toward the degree within the nine-hour private instruction requirement.


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  • MUAP 6704 - Private Instruction Brass

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of undergraduate recital. Consult graduate coordinator as to performance area availability. One-hour private lesson per week in the selected performance field. In-depth study of stylistic, technical, and musical problems in music performance and exploration of advanced repertoire in the applied area. Course may be repeated with no limit, but only three hours of credit may be applied toward the degree within the nine-hour private instruction requirement.


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  • MUAP 6705 - Private Instruction Winds

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of undergraduate recital. Consult graduate coordinator as to performance area availability. One-hour private lesson per week in the selected performance field. In-depth study of stylistic, technical, and musical problems in music performance and exploration of advanced repertoire in the applied area. Course may be repeated with no limit, but only three hours of credit may be applied toward the degree within the nine-hour private instruction requirement.


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  • MUAP 6706 - Private Instruction Strings

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of undergraduate recital. Consult graduate coordinator as to performance area availability. One-hour private lesson per week in the selected performance field. In-depth study of stylistic, technical, and musical problems in music performance and exploration of advanced repertoire in the applied area. Course may be repeated with no limit, but only three hours of credit may be applied toward the degree within the nine-hour private instruction requirement.


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  • MUAP 6707 - Private Instruction Percussion

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of undergraduate recital. Consult graduate coordinator as to performance area availability. One-hour private lesson per week in the selected performance field. In-depth study of stylistic, technical, and musical problems in music performance and exploration of advanced repertoire in the applied area. Course may be repeated with no limit, but only three hours of credit may be applied toward the degree within the nine-hour private instruction requirement.


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  • MUAP 6708 - Private Instruction Guitar

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of undergraduate recital. Consult graduate coordinator as to performance area availability. One-hour private lesson per week in the selected performance field. In-depth study of stylistic, technical, and musical problems in music performance and exploration of advanced repertoire in the applied area. Course may be repeated with no limit, but only three hours of credit may be applied toward the degree within the nine-hour private instruction requirement.


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  • MUAP 6709 - Private Instruction Conducting

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of undergraduate recital. Consult graduate coordinator as to performance area availability. One-hour private lesson per week in the selected performance field. In-depth study of stylistic, technical, and musical problems in music performance and exploration of advanced repertoire in the applied area. Course may be repeated with no limit, but only three hours of credit may be applied toward the degree within the nine-hour private instruction requirement.


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Art
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  • ART 5640 - Advanced Art Problems

    1 to 3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Structure and content determined by the Art faculty on the basis of individual need. Student should be prepared to do independent research and experimentation in the area selected. Arrangements must be made prior to registration for acceptance to proper assignment of course credit. (A maximum of nine credits may be applied toward a degree.) Three-six hour studio course.


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Assessment, Learning, and School Improvement
  
  
  
  

  • ALSI 7040 - Teacher Observation, Evaluation, and Improvement

    3 credit hours
    Focuses on providing students with in-depth knowledge about research behind the concepts of teacher observation, evaluation, and improvement methods as well as applied skills in implementing these evaluative methods, with an emphasis on using these methods to improve instructional practice and ultimately student achievement.


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  • ALSI 7410 - Highly Effective Schools and School Districts

    3 credit hours
    Examines the research base related to the cultures and practices that characterize highly effective schools and school districts. Stresses the process skills educational leaders need to be change agents and to apply research findings to specific educational settings with an emphasis on developing consensus for substantive change.


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  • ALSI 7440 - Improving Student Achievement in Core Academic Areas and Sub-Groups: Best Practices

    3 credit hours
    Examines the research base on best practices as well as applications for improving student achievement in specific core curricular areas (emphasis on math and literacy) and among specific subgroups (emphasis on children with disabilities, children of poverty, and children whose primary language is not English). Applies this knowledge base to designing timely, directive, and specific systems of intervention.


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  • ALSI 7600 - Educational Statistics

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: One undergraduate statistics course or permission of instructor. Provides students with knowledge and skills needed to understand, interpret, and apply appropriate statistical methodologies and concepts to the educational settings. A survey course for basic statistical methods, including descriptive statistics, confidence intervals, sampling, distribution, Central Limit Theorem, logic and procedure of hypothesis testing, z-tests and t-tests of means and proportions, chi-square tests, correlation and simple regression, and one-way ANOVA. Statistical software packages such as SPSS and SAS will be utilized for data analysis.  Prerequisite for ALSI 7620  and ALSI 7630 .


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  • ALSI 7620 - Advanced Quantitative Research Methodologies

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: ALSI 7600  and ALSI 7610 . Provides students with advanced quantitative research methodologies that can be applied in an educational setting. Topics include power and effect size, ANOVA (One-Way Analysis of variance, Two-Way Analysis of Variance), MANOVA (Multivariate Analysis of Variance), ANCOVA (Analysis of Covariance), Factor Analysis, Multiple Regression, Logistic Regression, and ranking or Non-Parametric tests. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) will be used. The course will include the study of the methodologies used in growth models.


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  • ALSI 7630 - Advanced Qualitative Research Methods

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: ALSI 7600  and ALSI 7610 . Provides students with advanced qualitative research methodologies that can be applied in an educational setting. Course content focuses on conceptual issues, ordering, framing inquiry, applying appropriate approach and design, selecting and collecting data, approach-specific analysis, interpretation of data, and reporting procedures. Course tasks provide opportunities to develop skills in qualitative coding, bracketing, restorying, descriptive culture sharing, and cross-case theming.


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  • ALSI 7640 - Dissertation Research

    1 to 6 credit hours
    Selection of a research problem, review of pertinent literature, collection and analysis of data, and composition of the dissertation. Once enrolled, students must register in at least one credit hour of dissertation research each semester until complete. Open only to students who are in the Assessment, Learning, and school Improvement Doctor of Education degree program. S/U grading.


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