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EDU 515 - Web 2.0 Tools for Educators
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
This course provides a holistic overview of a wide range of Web 2.0 tools (social bookmarking, blogs, wikis, video and image sharing sites, podcasts, social networking sites, and so forth) in relation to K-12 education. Participants will also be given the opportunity to immerse themselves in how the emerging Web 2.0 tools can be used to support and develop collaboration, exchange of knowledge and learning processes.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing
Credit: 3
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EDU 516 - Continuing Professional Development through Research
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
This course is designed to introduce pre-service and practicing teachers to research and the ways in which it can be used for professional development. It will help candidates compare alternative philosophies of research, ways of formulating questions/hypotheses, research plans, and analysis procedures as they relate to improving teaching skills. Candidates evaluate existing studies and investigate a range of research approaches. This course uses a seminar format in which candidates investigate educational issues to formulate research questions, select methods of data collection, analyze ethical issues, and reflect on ways this research will improve their practice.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing
Credit: 3
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EDU 517 - GESA Works! Essential Classroom Instructional Elements to Improve Student Achievement
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
Synthesizing several decades of research and applying the findings to practice, the content is based on the award winning Generating Expectations and Student Achievement (GESA) professional development program. This course is designed on experiences and findings drawn from hundreds of studies, observations and interviews with those working in instructional settings, especially with diverse populations and with non-traditional students. Participants will review essential classroom instructional elements that have resulted in improving student achievement, productivity and retention. They will examine the correlation between perceptions, expectations, behaviors and achievement and the implications for specific populations of students. They will explore updated information on research-based areas of disparity in the learning environment and they will consider the use of positive, supportive, motivational instructional strategies, designed to counter the areas of disparity and be used as data sources for decision making in the classroom setting.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
Credit: 3
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EDU 519 - School Law for Teachers
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
This course focuses on how teachers and administrators in the field and graduate students in education can learn about tort (civil wrong doing) and case law and how it impacts them as well as their students. Topics, readings, and discussions are timely and focus on why it is important to have a good understanding of the law as it pertains to schools. Issues such as Common Core Learning Standards, Annual Performance Reviews, High Stakes Testing, Students with Disabilities, Student Discipline, Student Privacy and Free Speech Rights, Regulation of Off-Campus Speech, Curriculum, and other pertinent topics will be discussed. Most recently, school safety in general has come to the forefront, and peer bullying has emerged as a key issue for educators and policymakers; therefore, our study will also include a focus on federal and state anti-bullying initiatives.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing
Credit: 3
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EDU 525 - Project Smart: Topics in Education
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
Project SMART participants will examine current research and experience practices of a specific educational topic relevant to improving teaching and learning to meet NYS Learning Standards.
NOTE: Repeatable for credit with different topic.
Prerequisite: Acceptance into the Project Smart program.
Offered: Summer
Credit: 3
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EDU 530 - Culminating Seminar: Professionalism & Social Justice
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
This course examines professionalism during the candidate’s student teaching experience through a social justice lens. The class will be completed through research and analysis in the student teaching classroom with consideration for social justice; candidates will participate in on-line discussions with their instructor, and complete a presentation at a professional conference. Candidates actively participate in a professional conference by sharing some aspect(s) of their teaching and reflection. The ability to publicly share one?s reflective thoughts, or how one connects a set of ideas (or actions, teaching strategies, curriculum, etc.) to another set of ideas (literacy theories, social justice theories, etc.) is a key characteristic of professionalism. Please contact department for information on this course.
Credit: 2
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EDU 545 - Cooperative Learning
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
The course introduces a variety of cooperative learning structures and research on the effects of cooperative learning.
Prerequisite: graduate standing.
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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EDU 555 - Curriculum Development
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
This course provides candidates with an introduction to the curriculum development process. Strategies and techniques for planning, designing, and implementing changes in curriculum’s will be presented.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
Offered: Spring, Fall, Summer
Credit: 3
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EDU 557 - Capstone: Creating and Sustaining Learner-Centered Educational Institutions
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
This is the capstone experience for students completing dual certification as a Special Education 7-12 Generalist and a Science, Mathematics, or TESOL specialist. Through selected case studies, students will explore technological, ethical, moral, and legal concerns as they impact high needs classrooms. Prerequisite: Successful completion of all other courses in MAT program
Credit: 1
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EDU 581 - Schools and Urban Society
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
This course will guide candidates in critical inquiry regarding schooling within the social context of an urban setting. Through a combination of study and practical experience in an urban school setting, candidates will gain an understanding of contextual, personal, and pedagogical issues related to teaching in an urban school.
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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EDU 583 - Teaching English Language Learners Across the Curriculum
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
This course develops essential understandings of the backgrounds and the linguistic, educational, emotional, social and cultural needs of English language learners (ELLs). Teacher candidates learn methods and techniques proven effective for the instruction and assessment of ELLs. The course is designed for those in the Childhood or Adolescence Education program.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
Credit: 3
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EDU 584 - Education in Global Contexts
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
This course is designed to explore a broad range of research and scholarship that encompasses the fields of comparative, international, development and global education. It examines the historical contexts of neoliberal globalization and its infrastructure of communications technologies that impact public K-12 education and teacher education worldwide, against the interlocking backgrounds of social class, ethnic/racial, gender and sexuality, and ability constructs.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing
Credit: 3
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EDU 590 - Exploring Culture in the Cuban Context
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
The purpose of this graduate course taught in Spanish is to promote the in-depth examination of Cuban culture through in-country study, living, and travel experiences. It is intended to promote the development of conceptual understandings in regard to culture, approaches for examining culture complexly, and active engagement in cultural and cross-cultural comparisons. Students will systematically explore authentic Cuban cultural practices and products and analyze underlying cultural perspectives, with emphasis on their unique social and political nature and implications of these. Students will design and develop a capstone project that integrates course concepts, Cuban culture, and the Spanish language. This is the companion course to the Spanish language course students will take in the FLEX (Facultad de Lenguas Extranjeras) program at the Universidad de la Habana.
Prerequisite: Acceptance into the SUNY Oswego Cuba Summer Study Abroad Program, which requires demonstrated Intermediate High or above Spanish language proficiency.
Credit: 3
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EDU 595 - Portfolio Development and Professional Synthesis
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
This course introduces pre-service and/or in-service teachers to issues related to professional development especially in terms of professional portfolio development and other professional activities to further support and contribute to the betterment of the field of education In this process, portfolio development will serve as the main measure of preparedness and readiness with class activities to support this process. Equal attention will be given to professional development topics to be determined by student interest and need. Additionally, the course content will give attention to the department’s continuing commitment to social justice, mentoring, and building collaborative relationships.
Prerequisite: graduate standing.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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EDU 599 - Independent Study
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
With the approval of an advisor, a student may register for independent study to be carried out under the supervision of the advisor or another professor. This may be undertaken in lieu of an elective in the student’s program. The outcome must be evaluated and approved by the advisor.
NOTE: Credit:˜1 to 3.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing and instructor permission.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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SSHS 1020 - Safe Schools, Healthy Students
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer, WinterSession
Credit: 0
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EAD 601 - Fundamentals of Administration
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
At the conclusion of this course, students will be able to: identify the relationship between people’s behavior and their belief structure; utilize group process as a problem solving device; identify various leadership styles and their consequences; describe their own concept of Educational Administration; demonstrate a commitment to their own continued professional growth; and analyze a school district issue.
Prerequisite: permanent teaching certification and thirty graduate hours.
Offered: Fall
Credit: 6
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EAD 610 - School Principalship
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
At the conclusion of this course, students will be able to: develop an organizational structure for the middle manager to facilitate the goals and objectives of the unit; implement the management process for the middle manager most appropriate to specific middle manager’s position, and predict the consequences of that particular management process selected; verbalize and demonstrate technical skills that are necessary to perform formative and summative teacher evaluations; verbalize and demonstrate supervisory skills.
Prerequisite: EAD 601.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 6
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EAD 620 - School Business Management for Building and District Leaders
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
At the conclusion of the course, students will: understand the resource allocation process as embodied in a school’s budget and how it can be used to benefit the school; understand the evolving nature of state aid to public education in New York State, and its role in promoting equity in funding for education; understand and be able to explain to others how school taxes are determined and the role that property assessment and equalization rates play in establishing tax rates; and understand the role and responsibilities of the school business administrator.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
Offered: Spring
Credit: 3
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EAD 621 - School Personnel Management for Building and District Leaders
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
At the conclusion of this course, students will be able to: develop an effective teacher selection process; identify the key features of effective orientation and induction programs for teachers new to the district; state their beliefs as to the key criteria and standards of performance teacher applicants and candidates for tenure should meet; and understand the legal process for teacher discipline and dismissal.
Prerequisite: EAD 601 and 610.
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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EAD 622 - School Law for Building and District Leaders
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
At the conclusion of this course, students will be able to: use the resources available in the library for analyzing and reporting legal problems; understand procedures for analyzing case law and legislation.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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EAD 641 - Supervision: Improvement of Instruction for Building and District Leaders
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
At the conclusion of this course, students will be able to employ the skills of clinical supervision, describe various alternate models for teacher supervision (i.e., peer coaching), and discuss major current issues in the field.
Prerequisite: EAD 601 and 610.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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EAD 652 - Curriculum Administration for Building and District Leaders
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
At the conclusion of this course, students will be able to supervise the successful implementation, monitoring and evaluation of well designed curricula.
Prerequisite: EAD 601 and 610.
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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EAD 660 - Organizational Change for Building and District Leaders
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
This course acquaints candidates with central concepts of organizational change in educational settings. Candidates are expected to read and discuss theories and paradigms related to organizational change; to reflect on their own experiences in organizations undergoing change; and to analyze and issue related to organization change.
Prerequisite: EAD 601.
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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EAD 661 - Professional Adults as Learners for Building and District Leaders
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
This course is a laboratory in understanding the professional adult as a learner. Students reflect on their own professional learning; develop questions related to adult professional learning; identify and use resources to frame responses to their questions and share their activities; students gather, analyze and report data relating to the professional learning environment in the course.
Prerequisite: EAD 601.
Offered: Summer
Credit: 3
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EAD 691 - Conceptual Models of Leadership
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
This is the first course in a three course sequence to assist middle-level school administrators (principals, directors, coordinators, assistant superintendents) in understanding and preparing for the school superintendency. In this first course students are introduced to a conceptual model that presents four types of leadership the successful superintendent must exhibit (instructional, political, organizational, strategic) in both the district and community environment. The model also incorporates the impact of the superintendency on one’s personal life. In addition, students develop a first draft of their educational platform (beliefs) as a superintendent and will begin to examine superintendent-level thinking about issues of practice by working in a cohort team with two local superintendents on real problems of practice.
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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EAD 692 - Superintendent Development - B
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
This is the second course in a three course sequence to assist middle-level school administrators (principals, directors, coordinators, assistant superintendents) in understanding and preparing for the school superintendency. In this second course students explore the conceptual model that presents four types of leadership the successful superintendent must exhibit (instructional, political, organizational, strategic) in both the district and community environment. They also reflect on how a superintendency might impact their personal life. In addition, students participate in workshops and seminars on various aspects of the superintendency, work on a team to analyze real problems of practice, and read about/discuss the superintendency.
Prerequisite: EAD 691.
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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EAD 693 - Assessment of School Leadership Models
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
This is the third course in a three course sequence to assist middle-level school administrators (principals, directors, coordinators, assistant superintendents) in understanding and preparing for the school superintendency. In this third course students will assess themselves against the conceptual model that presents four types of leadership the successful superintendent must exhibit (instructional, political, organizational, strategic) in both the district and community environment. The students also evaluate the impact of the superintendency on their personal lives and assess whether this is the appropriate career path. Also, students participate in workshops and seminars on various aspects of the superintendency, work on a team to analyze real problems of practice, and read about/discuss the superintendency.
Prerequisite: EAD 692.
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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EAD 695 - Internship for Building and District Leaders
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
At the conclusion of the internship, students will be able to: demonstrate the development of a professional competency program related to the student’s concentration and the internship experience; demonstrate the evaluation of a professional competency program in the internship experience, supplying documented validation of competency.
NOTE: Course is repeatable for total of 9 credits.
Prerequisite: EAD 601 and 610.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credit: 3
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EAD 699 - Independent Study
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
At the conclusion of this course, students will be able to: gain specific and individual knowledge, skills and competency in an area where the student desires work beyond that offered in structured program courses.
NOTE: Variable credit one to six, may be repeated for a total of 15 credits.
Prerequisite: EAD 601 and 610.
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
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ENG 502 - Theories of Teaching Composition
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
This course examines issues surrounding contemporary theories and practices of teaching expository writing, considering the pedagogical, political, linguistic, and psychological assumptions which underlie them. Recent research as it addresses such topics as the acquisition of language skills, strategies for the evaluation of and response to writing, writing across the curriculum to promote discovery and learning, and links between reading and writing, speaking and writing, and critical thinking and writing serves as a course focus. Through considering such issues, students will develop criteria for choosing among the many approaches and materials for teaching writing which compete for attention.
Prerequisite: graduate standing or the permission of the instructor.
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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ENG 510 - Literature of Medieval England
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
Readings of literature from Beowulf to Malory, including epic, romance, dream vision, fable, fabliau, and the lyric.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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ENG 512 - 17th Century Prose and Poetry
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
Survey of English non-dramatic literature from Ben Jonson through John Bunyan.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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ENG 515 - British Romantic Writers
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
Study of the major figures of the Romantic period in English Literature; emphasis on their philosophy and artistry and on the society in which they lived.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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ENG 519 - Shakespeare’s Development
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
The course examines the poetic and dramatic writings of William Shakespeare. The course studies Shakespeare’s development as a writer who explores new possibilities for his poetry and his plays while altering, amplifying, or discarding old strategies. We examine the full range of Shakespeare’s writing: (1) from his somewhat early work in the sonnets and narrative poems along with his early experiments in the comedies to his more mature developments in the history plays and festive comedies, (2) from his first attempts at tragedy to the breakdown of comic form in the problem plays, and (3) from his exclusive attention upon tragedy to his almost exclusive work in the later romances. Our readings will be selected from each phase and genre.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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ENG 521 - 18th-Century English Novel
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
This course generally covers the first century of the English novel by concentrating upon the established major figures Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Smollett, and Austen as well as others such as Goldsmith, Walpole, Radcliffe, Beckford, Lewis, Smith, Maturin, Day, or Brooke.
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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ENG 522 - 19th-Century English Novel
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
This course concentrates on key works?for instance those by Scott, the Brontes, Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot, Meredith, Trollope, or Hardy?as well as those by less well established writers who are representative of other aspects of the period.
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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ENG 523 - 20th-Century British Novel
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
A study of modern and contemporary authors writing in the context of 20th Century British culture. May include Commonwealth, Colonial, and Post-Colonial writers. Some attention to the cultural and critical contexts of the works studied. May include authors such as Ford, Joyce, Woolf, Forster, Lawrence, Waugh, Beckett, Murdoch, Lessing, Rhys, Naipaul.
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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ENG 525 - Chaucer
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
This course studies The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde against the background of the later Middle Ages; it places an emphasis on the narrative technique of the poet. There may be some oral interpretation of the Middle English originals.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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ENG 526 - Early English Drama: City Comedy and Revenge Tragedy
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
A survey of diverse play texts from the early 1600s, up to and including the antitheatrical English civil war period of the 1640s. Examines popular comedies and tragedies as well closet dramas and court masques.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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ENG 528 - Milton
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
Representative verse and prose of Milton studied against the background of Renaissance, Reformation and Revolution. Early prose and verse, major prose, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes.
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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ENG 531 - American Romanticism
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
This course studies the fiction, nonfiction prose, and verse of mid-nineteenth century American writers whose work reflects (and sometimes reacts against) intellectual, religious, aesthetic, and political currents associated with Romanticism.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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ENG 532 - American Realism and Naturalism
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
Examination of the primary literary movements between the Civil War and 1914 seen through social, political, and intellectual developments in the United States. Authors studied include the following: DeForest, Chopin, Clemens, Howells, James, Wharton, Cather, Bierce, Garland, Crane, Norris, London, Anderson, and Dreiser.
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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ENG 534 - English Drama: City Comedy and Revenge Tragedy
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
A survey of diverse play texts from the early 1600s, up to and including the anti-theatrical English civil war period of the 1640s. Examines popular comedies and tragedies as well closet dramas and court masques. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
Credit: 3
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ENG 535 - English Drama: Satire and Empire
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
Examines some of the most popular satirical comedies from the Restoration era of the 1660s to the late 1700s in light of changing theatrical practices, evolving social relations and the advent of British imperialism. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
Credit: 3
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ENG 537 - Ethnicity and Cultural Difference in Literature
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
Study of the theoretical backgrounds and consequences for study of ethnic and minority literatures, concentrating on English-speaking nations with a primary emphasis on the United States a second emphases on English-language literatures of Africa and Asia. Readings in critical and literary-historical literature, along with study of representative writings of these ethnic groups.
Offered: Summer
Credit: 3
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ENG 540 - Modern American Drama
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
This course is an analysis of the important trends in 20th century American drama, from Eugene O’Neill to the present.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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ENG 542 - The 19th Century American Novel
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
Development of the American novel from beginning to 1900.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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ENG 551 - American Poetry Since 1945
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
This course examines American poets and poetry since World War II, including various movements, such as: the academic poets, the Black Mountain School, the Beat poets, the New York school, the New American poetics, and the Neo-formalist and L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E schools of poetry.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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ENG 557 - Black Women Writers
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
This course will examine major works of black women writers of the African diaspora. Post colonialism, feminism, and critical race perspectives are a few of the orientations explored through the works of black women writers in Africa and the Americas.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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ENG 560 - Literature in a Global Context
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
This course will introduce students to a variety of literary texts from around the world and situate those texts in their cultural, historical, and literary contexts. Although not strictly post-Colonial in emphasis, the course will focus primarily on non-Western literature.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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ENG 566 - Literary Criticism
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
An overview of mainly contemporary developments in literary criticism, with some reference to classical esthetics and to developments through the new criticism mainly as preparation for understanding contemporary trends.
Offered: Summer
Credit: 3
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ENG 567 - Literature and Psychology
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
An interdisciplinary approach to the study of literature through selected readings in literature, psychology, and psychological criticism.
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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ENG 570 - Women in Literature
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
A focus on literature by and about women. Applying techniques of literary analysis to works in several genres, students will concentrate on acquiring more sophisticated interpretive skills while at the same time examining literature from a feminist perspective.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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ENG 573 - Theories of Language
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
A survey and analysis of recent theories of language as the ground of literature, including reading, writing, speaking, and understanding. The course will examine the interplay between language and the issues of class, culture, gender, race, and childhood that affect our use of languages.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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ENG 575 - Theories of Diverse Sexuality
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
This course examines the contributions of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered and transsexual studies to literature, art, politics and culture as well as many of the intellectual issues that surround controversies about non-normative human sexuality.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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ENG 580 - Narratives of Identity
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
This course uses narratives that define individuals and their relationships to a larger world. It utilizes approaches from different disciplines to investigate ways a personality or individual consciousness can be defined.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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ENG 581 - Narrative Theory
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
This course offers a theoretical examination of narrative and the various literary components and critical values associated with narrative. It concentrates on investigating key theoretical and critical statements that have helped define the way narrative is perceived. It also offers an opportunity to examine different examples of narrative by applying theoretical narrative principles to specific texts.
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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ENG 587 - Business and Literature
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
This course studies the historical, political, and theoretical relations of vision and the visual arts to both literary and nonliterary writing.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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ENG 588 - Film Genre
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
A history and analysis of film genre. The course will examine the notion of film genre as distinct from other notions of genre, in particular, literary genre. Special attention will be paid to horror, melodrama, film noir, musicals, science fiction and teen pics.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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ENG 595 - Specialized Studies
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
Topical courses which treat authors, genres, or issues of concern that go beyond or challenge the generic and historical framework of other first-level graduate course.
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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ENG 599 - Independent Study
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
An independent project carried out under faculty supervision. Permission of the instructor, the graduate director, and the department chair is required.
Offered: Fall, Spring and Summer Sessions
Credit: 3
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ENG 627 - Shakespeare and Interpretive Theories
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
This course studies a selection of Shakespeare?s writings in light of recent theories and their applications in literary criticism.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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ENG 643 - Critical Response/Critical Reputation: William Faulkner
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
This course examines issues surrounding the formation of the canon of American literature, using as a primary example the status of William Faulkner in that canon. Students read a selection of Faulkner’s work, the evolving critical responses to that work which ultimately created the Faulkner’s reputation as America’s preeminent twentieth-century fiction writer, and the recent variety of critical response to Faulkner, reflecting varied critical stances.
Prerequisite: graduate status. It is recommended that students enrolling in this course have taken Eng 566
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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ENG 650 - Special Topics in Fiction
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
Seminar course which focus on individual authors, groups of authors, and on topics.
NOTE: Topics will be announced one or two semesters before the courses are offered.
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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ENG 690 - Internship in College Teaching
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
Internship experience working with Oswego faculty in the design, preparation, and presentation of undergraduate courses in composition and/or literature. Interns will be expected to prepare and present several class sessions, critique and comment upon the course, consult with the faculty member, and examine student writing, although evaluation of undergraduate work remains the responsibility of the faculty member. A written analytic and evaluative study of the project is required. One course emphasizes teaching composition; the other, literature.
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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ENG 691 - Literature
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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ENG 695 - Thesis
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 6
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ENG 699 - Reading for Examination
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
A program of independent reading, reviewed in tutorial sessions, designed to supplement course in a particular area of literary study in which the student wishes to specialize. The project will culminate in an examination designed and administered by faculty.
NOTE: It satisfies the Independent Study requirement for the Culminating Track, option B.
Offered: 1 to 6
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GST 598C - Cooperative Education
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
This course provides work experience with a college approved employer in an area related to the student’s program of study. Emphasis is on integrating classroom learning with related work experience. Upon completion, students should be able to evaluate career selection, demonstrate employability skills and satisfactorily perform work-related competencies. This course represents the actual Co-op placement. It is not a classroom or online based course.
Prerequisite: Meet any college or major specific requirements as determined by the academic advisor prior to Co-op. Under the advisement of the academic advisor, determine if a Cooperative Education preparatory class is required based on individual student circumstance. If the course is required, the student must complete and pass the course with a Satisfactory (S) grade, maintain good academic standing as defined by SUNY Oswego’s policies, obtain approval of the Co-op placement by the Cooperative Education coordinator and comply with any pre-employment expectations required by the employer.
Advisor Note: a Co-op placement is not guaranteed.
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
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GST 691 - Graduate Professional Internship
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
Must be accepted into graduate program at Oswego. Approved learning agreement is required and students must register through Experience-Based Education Office.
NOTE: Variable credit 2 to 6.
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Geology |
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GEO 581 - Geology Field Program
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
Field course in geologic mapping and interpretation of regional geology.
Offered: Summer
Credit: 6
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GEO 599 - Independent Study
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
Topics related to a student’s interests but not otherwise available at Oswego.
NOTE: This course may be taken for credit more than once for a maximum of six hours.
Prerequisite: admission to graduate standing and a minimum of nine credit hours of undergraduate study in geology or the equivalent.
Offered: Fall, Spring
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Gerontology |
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GRT 501 - Introduction to Gerontology
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
As a multidisciplinary survey of the processes of aging, this course is intended to introduce the student to concepts in Gerontology, and broader understanding of aging or older persons. A variety of topics such as myths, biology of aging, gender issues, social roles, cultural expectations and aging, history, environmental issues, aging in diverse populations, and mental health will be introduced. The course includes an overview of programs and institutions that serve the elderly and their families and care providers.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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GRT 520 - Social Gerontology
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
An intensive study of aging from an interdisciplinary perspective. Students will study the social conditions that affect human aging and the profound effects of aging on social dynamics and institutions, all of which will be examined in socio-historical contexts. Various sociological and psychosocial theories will be examined and used to help explain popular representations and stereotypes of the aging, social/public/governmental policies, employment issues, and political power. Issues of multiple jeopardy caused by the intersections of race/ethnicity, gender, affectional orientation, language, religion, social class with age will be examined.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
Equivalent Course:
CPS 520
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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GRT 524 - Adult Development and Aging
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
This course examines the process of human development across adulthood, or the period of life from youth to death. It focuses on theory and evidence from diverse fields such as psychology, biology, history, sociology, and anthropology.
Prerequisite: graduate standing or permission of the instructor.
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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GRT 532 - Wellness and Fitness for Older Americans
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
This course provides an overview of healthy aging and wellness promotion for the older adult. Topics include an overview of the aging process and its effect on major body systems.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission of the instructor.
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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GRT 540 - Mental Health And Aging
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
This course is intended to provide an introduction to psychosocial and mental health aspects of aging. This class will examine concepts, issues, and research relevant to working with older adults who have mental health issues. This course will provide familiarity with psychosocial assessment and intervention strategies.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission of the instructor.
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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GRT 550 - Psychology of Death and Dying
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
This course will examine the psychological implications of the inevitability of death and the experience of death and dying from social, economic, transpersonal, and political perspectives. Students will be introduced to various cross-cultural and historical interpretations of the meaning of death, and to the multifaceted function of the death system in contemporary society.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission of the instructor.
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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GRT 571 - Professional Seminar in Gerontology
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
This capstone experience will provide a structured opportunity for gerontology students to integrate knowledge and experiences from coursework and internships to explore a variety of theoretical, methodological, and professional issues in gerontology.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission of the instructor.
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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GRT 590 - Internship in Gerontology
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
A supervised experience in gerontology services in an agency setting under the joint supervision of a college faculty member and a professional on-site supervisor. The internship is designed to involve the student in the day-to-day functioning of a gerontology professional.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission of the instructor.
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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Health Promotion and Wellness |
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HSC 510 - Mind-Body Wellness
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
Wellness should be seen as a combination of biological, psychological, and social factors rather than purely in biological terms. Topics in alternative health and healing introduces the fundamental concepts of complementary and alternative health and wellness methods and practices.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Irregularly
Credit: 3
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HSC 512 - Healthy Weight Management
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
The interrelationship between wellness and weight management with a focus on obesity and healthy weight loss.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Irregularly
Credit: 3
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HSC 514 - Wellness and Addictions
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
Biological and psychological explanations which have been and continue to be used to explain the etiology and meaning of addiction will be examined. This exploration will include considerations of the role of social, cultural, and population differences as they may relate to addictive behaviors. Topics will include the relationships between addictions and drugs, over eating, over exercising, computer use, alcohol, sex, and gambling.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Irregularly
Credit: 3
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HSC 520 - Health Behavior Change Process
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
Influential theories of health-related behaviors, processes of shaping behavior, and the effects of community and environmental factors (i.e. socio-ecological model and transtheoretical model [TTM] or stages of change model). Assessment of health risk factors.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Irregularly.
Credit: 3
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HSC 525 - Interactive Health Technologies
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
Students will develop an on-line portfolio to showcase 1) interactive health technology skills such as, but not limited to: blogging, use of apps and games to improve health; and using wikis and social media to communicate health promoting messages; and, 2) knowledge, skills and dispositions from a health promoting experience (e.g. research, internship, clinical experience, service learning, employment, co-op, etc.).
Prerequisite: Graduate standing or instructor permission
Credit: 3
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History |
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HIS 500 - Historiography: The Historian as Professional
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
A survey of historical writings, historical methods, and historical careers.
Offered: Fall
Credit: 3
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HIS 507 - World War I
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
A survey of the causes, course and results of World War I.
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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HIS 512 - The Early Middle Ages
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
The political, social, and cultural development of Western Europe from the decline of the Roman Empire to the First Crusade.
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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HIS 513 - The High and Late Middle Ages
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
The cultural flowering of Western Europe in art, architecture, music, literature, theology, philosophy, and science; the rise of monarchies, the growth of cities, the dynamics of high medieval society, the limits of growth and the social, political and economic crises of the late Middle Ages.
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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HIS 514 - Ancient Greece
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
A survey of Greek cultural, social, and political development from early Aegean civilization, through the era of independent city-states and the Hellenistic world, to the coming of the Romans.
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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HIS 515 - Ancient Rome
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
An exploration of the development of the Roman Empire from prehistoric Italy through the rise of the city of Rome; its imperialistic expansion in Italy, the Mediterranean, and Europe; the transformation from Republic to Empire; the coming of Christianity; and the Empire’s decline.
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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HIS 516 - Seminar in Medieval History
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
The examination of an important topic in medieval history, which vanes from year to year, by analysis of primary and secondary sources and by pursuit of independent research.
NOTE: May be repeated for credit if the second seminar is on a different topic.
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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HIS 517 - Renaissance Europe
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
Cultural, social, and economic life of fourteenth and fifteenth century Western Europe, with particular emphasis on cultural life in Italy.
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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HIS 518 - Reformation Europe
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
Cultural, social, and economic life of sixteenth century Europe with particular emphasis on late humanism and the Protestant and Catholic Reformations.
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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HIS 520 - The French Revolution and Napoleon
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
A detailed analysis of the European Revolutionary Era of 1789-1815, with emphasis upon the old regime and its decay, the course of the French Revolution, the rise and decline of Napoleon.
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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HIS 523 - Europe Between the Wars, 1917-1939
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
A comprehensive survey of European history from the Russian Revolution to the outbreak of the Second World War. Primary emphasis is on ideological movements (Communism, Fascism, and Democracy) and will concentrate on the major European countries.
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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HIS 524 - Seminar in Modern European History
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
Independent research and intensive study of selected topics in Modern European history.
NOTE: May be repeated for credit with departmental approval.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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HIS 526 - World War II
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
A survey of the major events and issues of World War II. Comparisons will be drawn between the European and Asian war theatres.
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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HIS 544 - History of American Immigration
Catalog Year: 2016-2017
Emphasis on Irish, German, Italian, Black, and Jewish immigration and acculturation; nativism; and impact on American life.
Offered: Irregular
Credit: 3
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