Concepts of control methods used by environmental health and engineering practitioners. Topics include water, wastewater, solid wastes, food sanitation, vector control, housing, and accident control measures.

Air pollution is presented as a major public health problem. Topics include air pollutant sources and atmospheric transformations, meteorology, health and economic effects, climate change, sampling and analysis, indoor/outdoor exposures, control technology and air quality criteria (including air quality standards, policy and regulations).

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.

Theory and practice of group counseling with special emphasis on individual needs, group processes and societal/community context.

Relationships between social policy and disability in a democracy are explored, specifically, with particular reference to the ever changing landscape of societal values associated with the evolving paradigms that frame disability research and policies.

Contemporary issues facing administrators. Topics include special education finance, law, and policy.

Supervised on-the-job doctoral school psychology experience. Work includes delivery of indirect and direct services in the areas of assessment, prevention, intervention, case management, and system level service delivery.

This course presents and discusses the major theories regarding the concept of "test validity" and the major practices involved in test validation. The skills taught in this course will enable students to be experts in testing tests. Prerequisites: EDUC 656, 591J or 632

Examination of ethnographic theory, methods, and techniques of researching language, literacy, and culture in educational settings. It involves conceptualizing and conducting a full ethnographic study and learning how to use reflection on the fieldwork experiences to construct (or deconstruct) and articulate the theoretical basis, methods, and findings of your research. The course is organized to highlight both knowledge acquisition and reflection. Year-long course. Prerequisite: Doctoral status, 9 credits of study in Doctoral program.

Designs and research on counseling and mental health services, professional and ethical standards, issues in cultural, political, and historical contexts of helping. Consent of instructor required (Doctoral Section).