Contemporary educational practices. Emphasis on promising developments in curriculum staffing, and organization of public schools, and past and future innovations.

In the U.S. approximately 82% of the work force and 80% of the GDP is accounted for by service. To create value for customers, firms must connect with the customers and must create experiences that are memorable and have value for each individual customer. Service experience management is the process of strategically managing a customer's entire experience with a product, service, and company. This course focuses on understanding service experience management in terms of external, internal, and interactive marketing and management principles.

This seminar is designed for incoming doctoral students in social justice education. It examines different epistemological orientations and inquiry methods used in conducting research by scholars in the field. The course explores the boundaries between theory, research, policy and practice in social justice education; examine personal, practical, epistemological and political dilemmas in producing scholarly work, and review and apply inquiry methods and tools that support critical, systematic scholarship and evidence based practices in social justice education.

Analysis of behavioral observation and assessment procedures used to develop recommendations for use by school and community agency personnel. Overview of research evaluating these techniques.

This course provides students with theoretical and practical experiences related to the education and training of special needs students. Emphasis is placed on curriculum development, methods and materials, assessment, vocational programming and research.

Topics may include nature and proper role of the state, nature and justification of legal obligation and rights.

This course will focus on key issues, such as privacy, ownership, access, international balance, and cultural accountability in the use of newer communication technologies. Students will work in groups to identify a social problem and will implement research to benefit a specific community faced with the challenge of dealing with social change. Students will write individual research papers, and work on major group project.

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The biological aspects of being human. Evolution, how and where the human species originated, and biological similarities and dissimilarities among contemporary human groups. (Gen.Ed. BS)

This course emphasizes how race/ethnicity and gender affect work, primarily in the contemporary United States. Though we will focus on women and men of color and white women as targets of work inequality, we will also discuss the dynamics of masculinity and white privilege. A variety of methods from qualitative to quantitative purely theoretical will be utilized.