Historical and legal landmarks in special education from a national and international perspective. Sociological, philosophical, and cultural perspectives addressed. A field component, introduction of the IEP, and the community special education approach.

Introduction to causes and characteristics of learning disabilities and educational programs and strategies for learning disabled children and youth. Includes overview of assessment techniques and current research.

Advanced knowledge and procedures for evaluating treatment outcomes using single-subject research designs. Topics include assessment, experimental design, and data evaluation.

Essential skills for conducting educational research. Stating purposes and hypotheses, instrument development, research design, sampling, data analysis, interpreting results, and preparing research projects.

Identifies the theories of language acquisition, normal language development, and language disorders. Examines language assessment strategies, select assessment and intervention strategies appropriate for integrated settings, and conducts two language samples.

This course is designed to provide beginning graduate students in education and related fields with an understanding of the basic statistical techniques necessary for conducting research. Prerequisite: Educ 555.

This course is designed to provide beginning graduate students in education and related fields with an understanding of the basic statistical techniques necessary for conducting research. Prerequisite: Educ 555.

Skills needed to design and implement training programs for personnel in nonformal education, human services, and community development. Provides some direct experience in designing and conducting training exercises and assessing their outcomes. Emphasis given to non-classroom settings with cross-cultural components.

This is the first of a two semester course required of all entering students in the Master's 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 though about.

Overview of the history, philosophy, theory and professional practice of student affairs administration in American higher education. Emphasizes roles and responsibilities of effective administrators, and application of theory to practice.