This course is intentionally designed to prepare students to become active change agents as planners and facilitators of intergroup dialogues using a reflective practice training model.

Introductory vocabulary and definitions, descriptions of the dynamics of oppression at the individual, institutional, and cultural levels. Focus on developing personal awareness of social group memberships in relationship to two specific forms of oppression. Introduction to selected literature on two specific forms of oppression.

Course is designed to provide future administrators with the background and individual understanding necessary to address assessment appropriately in whatever context they find themselves.

Theories of social identity development in a family systems frame. Focus on skills and critical consciousness needed for multicultural counseling in schools, including analysis of ones's own ethnic and racial heritage.

Introductory overview of major dysfunctional behavior syndromes commonly encountered in educational and mental health settings. Topics include early detection, classification, referral, and remediation of behavioral problems.

This is the second of a two semester course required of all entering students in the doctoral program in higher education. It provides an overview of higher education in America and investigates the ways higher education is constructed, defined, managed, studied, and thought about.

This course is the capstone course of the Master's program in higher education. The purpose is to demonstrate a command of the program's competencies through a culminating project.

This course focuses on theories of grammar. We use these theories to design, implement, and reflect on the academic language of development of linguistically and culturally diverse students.

Discovery processes in science and in science students, nature of reasoning, learning, and understanding through mental models. Research studies of factors affecting learning processes. Conceptual change and cooperative learning methods.

Procedures and criteria for curriculum development. Determining goals, creating and organizing learning opportunities, and evaluating effectiveness of curricula.