This colloq serves as a service learning and community engagement experience where students who are planning to become K-12 teachers have opportunities to understand the conditions that culturally and linguistically diverse students need to overcome in order to learn and succeed in school.

The purpose of this course is two-fold: (1) to provide a general understanding of selected past and current research regarding undergraduate students, and (2) to provide knowledge of and practical experience in the assessment of various aspects of undergraduate student life. One major goal of the course is for students to learn to analyze survey data and write a research paper based on survey data. The following topics will be studied: research, assessment, and evaluation; survey design; data collection and analysis; literature reviews; report writing; and writing for publication.

The purpose of this course is to help students: (1) increase their knowledge of the laws that apply to higher education; (2) examine the ways courts resolve conflicts among students, faculty and administrators; (3) develop skills in legal analysis, research, writing and in practicing preventive law; and (4) assess the costs and benefits of resolving controversies through the legal process and alternative approaches to conflict resolution.

Drawing on sociolinguistic, narrative and historical studies, we explore how sociocultural dimensions of bilingualism and biculturalism are researched. Also, sociopolitical theories are examined that account for historical responses to educating bilinguals.

Workshop addresses the dynamics of racism on personal and institutional levels.

This course investigates major contemporary educational issues that affect the lives of teachers and students in today's classrooms. It explores the complex web of issues that children, families, and educators face in our diverse society. (Gen Ed SB)

The primary purpose of this course is to provide advanced knowledge and practice in several areas of supervision as it relates to psychological service delivery. Content of the course is oriented toward context, philosophy, relationship and pragmatics of supervision. Major topics include the fundamentals of supervision, clinical supervision, and administrative supervision including supervision of professional practice and evaluation. Issues of ethnicity, class, gender, school change, and technology in supervision will also be addressed.

This course provides graduate students with an introduction to Halliday?s theory of systemic functional linguistics (SFL). The course is designed for students with an interest in critical discourse analysis, literacy development, composition studies, multilingual education, curriculum studies, political discourse, social justice education, communication, and linguistic anthropology.