The course will apprentice new doctoral students to the practices in which researchers interested in the intersection among the fields of language, literacy, and culture approach the scholarly activities of second language, bilingualism, world languages, reading, and writing research.

Students will be introduced to foundational philosophies and strategies for qualitative data analysis, coding their own data sets in weekly workshop and discussion settings. Strategies will be presented for setting up and organizing a database, coding and sorting data into categories, modifying and refining the scheme, aggregating data into larger themes or patterns, establishing audit trails, triangulating among data sources, participants and methodologies, and establishing trustworthiness of the data set.

The purpose of this course is to allow graduate students to apply research skills and knowledge to a research project in the area of higher education.

Instruction and personal supervision in administration, scoring, and interpretation of most used psychological tests such as the WISC-R, WAIS-R, WPPSI-R, and Stanford Binet. Prerequisite: Educ 705.

This practicum provides individualized instruction and supervision in individual counseling. Admission to a Counseling Master's program and certification of readiness for the practicum by the student's advisor is required before enrollment. All students counsel clients at an off-campus agency or school.

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Student teaching and/or internship

Practicum arrangement with faculty member. For registration, students must submit a completed contract prior to the end of the add drop period. Contracts are available in the Academic Affairs Office, 123 Furcolo Hall, or in the Administrative Support Office, 161 Hills South.