KU Online: SUMMER 1 Semester 2013 Distance Education Courses
NOTE: This is a list of all distance education courses offered this semester. It does not indicate open courses.
If you see a course you are interested in from the list below, please note the course ID and section number and check for seat availability in the MyKU course catalog.
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ACC - 121 810 - Financial Accounting
Course Description: Accounting has been called "the language of business." Accordingly, this course emphasizes the provision of relevant and reliable information used by investors, creditors and managers in making financial and business decisions. Areas of emphasis include the basic concepts and principles of financial accounting, the accounting cycle, financial statement preparation, information systems and processing, and internal control. Recognition, measurement, and classification of assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses are examined and the alternative forms of business organization are covered. BSBA majors only.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Robert Derstine, derstine@kutztown.edu
ANT - 130 810 CDWI - Marriage and the Family in Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Course Description: this course examines the forms taken by marriages and families in various world societies. The following questions will be addressed: What aspects of marriage and family are the same for all humans, and what aspects are variable? What factors account for major cross-cultural differences in the organization of marriage and the family? Why are some features the same (or nearly so) all over? is there a biosocial base? How are marriage and family relationships used as metaphors in organizing other aspects of social life?
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: William Donner, donner@kutztown.edu
ANT- 10 CD 810 - Cultural Anthropology
Course Description: An introduction to the cross-cultural study of human behavior with emphasis on non-Western cultures. Selected ethnographic material as well as general theories of technology, social, political, religious, family, and economic organization will be examined.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Jennifer Schlegel, jschlege@kutztown.edu
ANT - 101 810 - North American Indian
Course Description: The comparative ethnology of non-literate tribes of North and Central America as they existed at Spanish contact times.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: James Delle, delle@kutztown.edu
ANT - 138 810 - Caribbean Cultures
Course Description: Although it is a relatively small region, the Caribbean is a richly diverse place; this diversity is the result of the settlement and colonization of the region by people from all over the world. To understand the diversity of the contemporary Caribbean, we will spend the first half of the course examining the history of the Caribbean from its first prehistoric inhabitants to the mid 20th century, concentrating on the dynamics of colonialism as they affected the development of culture in the Caribbean. In the second half of the course, we will examine the diversity of peoples and cultures that inhabit the region today, particularly focusing on the relationship that music has played in the development of Jamaican popular culture.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: James Delle, delle@kutztown.edu
ANT - 140 CD 810 - Race and Ethnicity
Course Description: The sources and consequences of prejudice and discrimination; minorities in the social structure; strategies and programs to prevent and control inter-group tensions and conflicts.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Albert Fu, afu@kutztown.edu
BUS - 171 810 - Business Information Systems: Theory & Practice
Course Description:
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Su Kong, kong@kutztown.edu
BUS - 131 810 - Business Law I
Course Description: This course is a survey of legal principles found in transactions typified in today's business world. The course features current events, case summaries, e-commerce and cyberlaw, and ethical and critical thinking, CPA exam references, and important regulatory reforms including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Emphasis is placed on the case study method with the following topics examined: the legal and social environment of business, contracts, agency and employment, business organizations, securities regulation, and accountants' liability and malpractice.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Donna Steslow, steslow@kutztown.edu
COM - 235D 810 - Public Relations Cases and Campaigns
Course Description: This course provides an in-depth approach to the development of Public Relations programs for various types of organizations and publics. The course will utilize a case study approach to analyzing and understanding the factors necessary to develop appropriate public relation programs and strategies.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Joseph Harasta, harasta@kutztown.edu
COU - 540 801 - Role of the School Counselor with Diverse Learners
Course Description: The purpose of this course is to provide School Counselors-in-Training with the conceptual framework for working with diverse learners and English language learners (ELL). School Counselor-in-Training will acquire the knowledge and skills required to understand and perform the duties of the school counselor when working with diverse learners. Students will gain an understanding of the role of the school counselor with diverse learners as defined by the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) and the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE). PDE outlines the competencies required in Chapter 49 guidelines regarding the accommodations and adaptations for diverse learners that inform the work of the school counselor. Specified duties of the school counselor included in these guidelines are to: 1. Promote a positive educational environment. 2. Collaborate and consult in the provision of accommodations and adaptations for diverse learners and ELL students in all areas of academic, personal, and career development. 3. Utilize data to generate program development and direct the use of evidence based intervention with all students. 4. Understand the legal rights and responsibilities of the school counselor related to diverse learners and ELLs. 5. Assist in screening, assessment, and identification process for students with special learning needs.
Type/Format: 80-99% Online
Professor: Helen Hamlet, hamlet@kutztown.edu
CJR - 370 810 - Selected Topics in Criminal Justice
Course Description: Extensive readings, critical evaluations and papers on selected research monographs relating to issues in Criminal Justice. Selection of topics will vary depending upon the needs of eligible students. Course may be repeated for credit.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Glenn Walters, walters@kutztown.edu
CJR - 10 810 - Introduction to Criminal Justice
Course Description: This is a course designed to provide the student with a broad, but basic, understanding of the criminal justice system. As the first course to be taken in the field of criminal justice, it will introduce the student to the roles of the police, prosecutor, criminal court, and treatment and correctional facilities within the system. With the completion of this course, the student will be familiar with the essentials of the criminal justice system. Prerequisite to all other courses in criminal justice.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Pietro Toggia, toggia@kutztown.edu
CJR- 200 810 - Comparative Criminal Justice Systems
Course Description: This course is structured to cover the four major criminal justice systems in the world. It offers a topical approach, comparing cross-national criminal justice systems based on substantive and procedural laws, police, corrections, and juvenile justice. In addition, the course explores genocide and the international criminal tribunals that are organized under the auspices of the United Nations.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Pietro Toggia, toggia@kutztown.edu
CJR - 301 810 - Investing and Intelligence
Course Description: This course is a study of the role of information and information usage in the investigation of completed or predicted crime and the compilation of data useful in the anticipation of criminal or terroristic activities - either on American soil or abroad. The effects of varying scale of agency size and functions will be examined as key variables.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Keith Logan. logan@kutztown.edu
EDU - 502 801 - Seminar in Educational and Psychological Research Pertinent to Reading
Course Description: T his course deals with various research designs, the interpretation of statistical data, the analysis of research findings, and the application of those findings to curriculum and instruction, reading instruction in particular. Sources of research (reports), and the comprehension and interpretation of those reports as reflected through the preparation of abstracts, are major undertakings in this course.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Jeanie Burnett, burnett@kutztown.edu
EDU - 528 801 - Student Diversity and Critical Pedagogy
Course Description: This course is designed to help preservice and inservice educators and others in the education enterprise to clarify the philosophical and definitional issues related to pluralistic teaching strategies that reflect diversity, and to derive sound guidelines for multicultural/multilingual programs and practices. The life realities, needs, and aspirations of linguistically and culturally different children and youth are analyzed. Critical theory and more specifically strategies and approaches for facilitating a critical literacy in students will be emphasized in this course. Participants in this course will undertake a comparative approach to similarities and differences between U. S. culture and other cultures with the goal of developing cultural understanding and sensitivity of diverse students and families living in the United States.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Patricia Walsh Coates, coates@kutztown.edu
EDU - 100 CT 810 - Perspectives on American Education
Course Description: The course will provide an introduction and overview to the philosophy, history, sociology, and organization of American education. The study of American education will stress the relationships among social, economic, and cultural forces affecting the development of public education; historical and philosophical perspectives will be investigated.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Patricia Walsh Coates, coates@kutztown.edu
EEU - 211 810 - Family Collaboration and Diversity
Course Description: This course is designed to provide elementary teacher candidates with the professional knowledge, skills, context, and strategies to facilitate learning for students from diverse cultural/linguistic backgrounds.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Kristen Bazley, bazley@kutztown.edu
EEU - 130 810 - Early Childhood Development: Theories and Practices
Course Description: A survey course focusing on early childhood educational continuum from infancy through age nine. Consideration will be given to historical backgrounds, existing programs, and relevant research in each approach. Candidates must know and understand child development, theories of learning, and developmentally appropriate practice when working in the field of early childhood education. Emphasis will be placed upon the role and value of play, working with families, and designing effective learning environments that meet the needs of all learners. Field experiences and observations in preschool programs, day care settings, nursery schools, kindergarten and primary classrooms are an integral part of the course. (10 hours of required fieldwork in Pre-K setting)
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Tracy Keyes, keyes@kutztown.edu
ENG - 230 WICT 810 - Advanced Composition
Course Description: This course invites students to examine and practice writing as an essential tool for exploring, questioning, and creating knowledge in academic, professional and public spaces. Through advanced study in genre conventions, rhetorical tools, grammatical choices and style, students will be better prepared to analyze and respond to academic, professional or public writing tasks. Students will practice sustained research, close reading, deep revision and reflection on writing processes.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Robert Folk, folk@kutztown.edu
EEU - 10 810 - Introduction to Literature
Course Description: This course is designed to develop and intensify the student's aesthetic, intellectual, and emotional response to imaginative literature. It is designed as an introductory course in literature for students who are not majoring or minoring in literature, is intended to be used almost exclusively as a course in General Education, and is not applicable to the Major in the B.A. in English/General or Professional Writing, to the Specialization in the B.S. in Secondary Education/English, or to the Minor in Literature.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Ellesia Blaque, blaque@kutztown.edu
ENG - 23 810 - College Composition I
Course Description: This is a sustained examination of and practice with college-level writing. Students will generally take ENG 023 in their first year of college. The course focuses on the writing process and provides sustained practice in critical thinking, reading, and writing demanded by academic, public, and professional writing. Students gain experience in writing in a variety of genres which may include, but are not limited to, proposals, reviews, personal narratives, digital texts, rhetorical analyses, persuasive essays, reports, and critical analysis essays. Readings are assigned to provoke discussions, provide opportunities for the analysis and synthesis of arguments, and finally to generate essay topics. Particular attention is paid to research processes and the conventions of including research in texts. In addition, the mechanics of good writing, which may include diction, grammar, syntax, usage, and structure are addressed as part of the process of writing; however, the focus of this course is not grammar instruction. ENG 023 (or ENG 025) is a General Education requirement for all students in all majors. In addition, ENG 023 is a prerequisite for all upper-division English department courses.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Ellesia Blaque, blaque@kutztown.edu
ENG - 138 810 - Literature Banned in Iran
Course Description: Inspired by Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi, this course will study some of the works read in secret by Nafisi and her students. These works, banned by authorities in Iran as "corrupt," include some of the masterworks by Vladimir Nabokov, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, Emily Bronte, and Jane Austen. The class will apply multiple lenses to the works: those of traditional Western critics and those of Dr. Nafisi and her students. This course may be used in general education.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Kristina Fennelly, fennelly@kutztown.edu
ITC - 425 801 - Computer Networks for Education
Course Description: The course is designed to introduce educators to networking topologies, infrastructure, operating platforms, hardware, evaluation techniques, research findings, and troubleshooting basics for meeting the immediate and future needs of today's schools and classrooms. Future developments will also be examined.
Type/Format: 80-99% Online
Professor: Kelly Cockrum, cockrum@kutztown.edu
ITC - 425 810 - Computer Networks for Education
Course Description: The course is designed to introduce educators to networking topologies, infrastructure, operating platforms, hardware, evaluation techniques, research findings, and troubleshooting basics for meeting the immediate and future needs of today's schools and classrooms. Future developments will also be examined.
Type/Format: 80-99% Online
Professor: Kelly Cockrum, cockrum@kutztown.edu
ITC - 525 801 - Technologies for the 21st Century Education
Course Description: This course examines the uses of technology in education. Students explore methodologies, theories, and techniques endemic to the use of computers in education. Criteria for evaluating and selecting computer software and courseware are examined. Students design and implement a number of technology-based projects suitable for use in the K-12 classroom.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Michelle Sims, sims@kutztown.edu
LIB - 440 810 - Selected Topics in Library Science
Course Description: Topics that are of current interest in the field of librarianship will be selected for in-depth study. Course content will change each time the course is offered. The course may be repeated once for credit. (Permission of the instructor.)
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Eloise Long, long@kutztown.edu
LIB - 440 801 - Selected Topics in Library Science
Course Description: Topics that are of current interest in the field of librarianship will be selected for in-depth study. Course content will change each time the course is offered. The course may be repeated once for credit. (Permission of the instructor.)
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Eloise Long, long@kutztown.edu
MAT - 45 810 - Women in Mathematics
Course Description: This course examines women and minorities who have made significant contributions to the field of mathematics. Both their lives and their work will be explored as well as gender and multicultural issues surrounding their endeavors. Furthermore, mathematical topics related to their contributions will be discussed.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Lyn McQuaid, mcquaid@kutztown.edu
MAT - 121 810 - Mathematics for Business and Information Sciences
Course Description: This course focuses on the application of mathematical concepts and methods to problems that arise for students who major in Business or Computer Science. The topics include a review of algebraic concepts and problem solving, systems of linear equations, matrix algebra, linear programming with graphical and simplex method solutions, and probability. A graphing calculator is required for this course. MAT 105 or two years of high school algebra is the prerequisite for MAT 121.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Francis Vasko, vasko@kutztown.edu
MAT - 105 810 - College Algebra
Course Description: This course is intended for students with an elementary knowledge of algebra who need more work in algebraic topics before taking more advanced mathematics courses. Topics include properties of the real numbers, problem-solving using equations and inequalities, algebraic functions, graphing, and systems of equations. A graphing calculator is required for this course.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Francis Vasko, vasko@kutztown.edu
MAT - 105 811 - College Math
Course Description: This course is intended for students with an elementary knowledge of algebra who need more work in algebraic topics before taking more advanced mathematics courses. Topics include properties of the real numbers, problem-solving using equations and inequalities, algebraic functions, graphing, and systems of equations. A graphing calculator is required for this course.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Kunio Mitsuma, mitsuma@kutztown.edu
MAT - 104 810 - Fundamentals of Mathematics II
Course Description: This is the second course in a two-course sequence that is required for all Elementary Education and Special Education majors. It is restricted to only Education majors or permission of the department. Topics include informal geometry; measurement; probability; statistics; and computer applications. A calculator is required. A grade of "C" or better in MAT 103 is a prerequisite for MAT 104.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Paul Ache, ache@kutztown.edu
MGM - 351 810 - Operations Management
Course Description: This course is designed as an introduction to the operation problems of a business organization with emphasis on the decision making function of the manager. This course takes an analytical approach to important operational issues, including forecasting, capacity planning and allocation of resources (linear programming), quality control, inventory management, scheduling and project management.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Huaite Chao, chao@kutztown.edu
MGM - 350 810 - Organizational Behavior in Management
Course Description: This course examines the interaction and interdependence between the formal organization and the human being, emphasizing how human behavior and organizational processes can be integrated to achieve organizational effectiveness. The course draws on research in management and from psychology, sociology, and anthropology, to explore individual, interpersonal, group and organizational issues.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Carolyn Gardner, gardner@kutztown.edu
MKT - 210 810 - Principles of Marketing
Course Description: Principles of Marketing is a broad study of the field of marketing as seen from a managerial perspective. Emphasis is on demand analysis, customer need satisfaction, product planning and development, distribution selection, promotional decision making, price determination and social responsibility. This course is not to be taken until students have completed 42 credits. BSBA majors only.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Victor Massad, massad@kutztown.edu
MKT - 320 810 - Marketing Mangagement
Course Description: This course emphasizes managerial decision-making and problem-solving in such areas as product development, pricing, promotion and distribution. Focus is upon the concepts and techniques a firm must employ to anticipate and satisfy consumer needs. It will utilize text, case situations and readings to give experience in managing the components of the marketing mix.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: James Williams, jwilliam@kutztown.edu
MUS - 10 810 - Introduction to Music Literature
Course Description: A survey of western music designed to increase the student's understanding and enjoyment of music. Through lecture, discussion and directed listening the student will be introduced to representative works of the major stylistic periods in music history with reference to the political, social and artistic milieu in which they were created. Opportunity will be provided for listening to recordings, films, and live performances.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Jeremy Justeson, justeson@kutztown.edu
MUS - 108 CD 810 - Introduction to World Music
Course Description: This course is a survey of music focusing on non-Western cultures. Selected musical traditions from throughout the world will be explored, with emphasis on how music functions as part of the daily life in particular societies. Through lecture, discussion, and direct listening, students will become more familiar with other cultures, values, and traditions and gain a better aesthetic appreciation of music from diverse societies.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: John Metcalf, metcalf@kutztown.edu
MUS - 311 810 - Music from Ancient Times to 1750
Course Description: This course is a study of the music literature from ancient times to 1750. It integrates the role of music in a broad overview of historical, artistic, and cultural traditions. Emphasis is placed on the analysis of forms, styles, genres, and compositional approaches as found in musical scores, to better understand the music in its historical context.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Russell Rober, rober@kutztown.edu
POL - 20 CD 810 - International Relations
Course Description: A study of the diplomatic, organizational, military, and legal relationships among states. Designed to provide a conceptual framework leading to a better understanding of international developments, the course considers the nation-state system, sovereignty, nationalism, the sources of national power, the foreign policy making process, and conflict and conflict resolution.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: John Riley, riley@kutztown.edu
PSY - 11 810 - General Psychology
Course Description: An introduction to the psychological bases of behavior in motivation, learning, memory, development, personality, perception, abnormal behavior, psychotherapy, attitude change, and group behavior.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Michele Baranczyk, baranczy@kutztown.edu
PSY - 125 810 - Life Span Development
Course Description: This course examines human development across the life span from infancy to old age. The emphasis will be on physical, cognitive, social and personality development. Normal development will be stressed but aspects of abnormal functioning will also be considered.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Thomas Robinson, robinson@kutztown.edu
PSY - 360 810 - Introduction to Clinical Psychology
Course Description: This course is a survey of the field of Clinical Psychology, its problems, methods, and areas of application. The student will be presented with rudimentary background knowledge in testing techniques, interviewing, and psychotherapy.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Emmanuel Akillas, akillas@kutztown.edu
PSY - 250 810 - Abnormal Psychology
Course Description: This course reviews the history, causes, symptoms, and treatment of the various types of abnormal behaviors. Special emphasis is placed on neurosis, psychosis, and psychosomatic disorders as well as organic bases of psychological functioning. Each diagnostic category is considered in light of traditional as well as current theory with special attention given to current research in the field.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Judith Rauenzahn, rauenzah@kutztown.edu
SEU - 567 801 - Curriculum of the Secondary School
Course Description: The course emphasizes critical appraisal of existing curriculum theory and practice in American secondary schools. Identification and evaluation of current trends will be discussed.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Joseph Elias, elias@kutztown.edu
SEU - 544 801 - Cultural Anthropology
Course Description: This seminar is designed for practicing teachers and others who are involved in instructional activity. The state-of-the-art in instructional theory will be investigated. Consideration will be given to the factors related to effective teaching, teacher credibility, and the planning and implementation of a feedback system.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Joseph Elias, elias@kutztown.edu
SOC - 280 CD 810 - Social Movements
Course Description: This course is a comparative analysis of the major contemporary forms of behavior which are relatively unstructured and not institutionalized. Major emphasis will be placed upon the causes, mechanisms, and processed by which collective actions unfold, and the consequences of such actions. Special attention will be devoted to the theoretical perspectives in collective behavior, as well as riots, disasters, and social movements.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Jason Crockett, crockett@kutztown.edu
SOC - 130CDWI 810 - Marriage and the Family in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Course Description: This course examines the forms taken by marriages and families in various world societies. The following questions will be addressed: What aspects of marriage and family are the same for all humans, and what aspects are variable? What factors account for major cross-cultural differences in the organization of marriage and the family? Why are some features the same (or nearly so) all over? is there a biosocial base? How are marriage and family relationships used as metaphors in organizing other aspects of social life?
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: William Donner, donner@kutztown.edu
SOC - 10 CD 810 - Principles of Sociology
Course Description: The concepts, theories and methods that form the core of the sociological perspective on human behavior. This course is a prerequisite for all other SOC courses.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Joleen L. Greenwood, greenwoo@kutztown.edu
SOC - 140CD 810 - Race and Ethnicity
Course Description: The sources and consequences of prejudice and discrimination; minorities in the social structure; strategies and programs to prevent and control inter-group tensions and conflicts.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Albert S. Fu, afu@kutztown.edu
SOC - 271 810 - White Collar Crime
Course Description: This class is designed as an intermediate level sociology course for students interested in the scientific study of white collar crime. The course will examine various individuals and businesses that commit white collar crimes, the contributing factors for these types of crimes, the various methods of detection and measurement of these crimes, the different types of white collar crime and their effects on the specific victims and society in general and the theories attempting to explain the causes of white collar crime.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Timothy O'Boyle, oboyle@kutztown.edu
SOC - 235 CDWI 810 - Sociology of Gender
Course Description: The course will deal with the implication of the sociological perspective on gender differences in contemporary society. More specifically, discussion will be focused on such aspects as gender inequality as an aspect of social stratification, origins of gender differences, gender socialization, gender and social policy, gender and personal relationships, and the future of gender
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Joleen L. Greenwood, greenwoo@kutztown.edu
SOC - 120 CDWI 810 - Marriage and the Family
Course Description: An intensive analysis of contemporary marriage and family patterns and interactive processes in the United States viewed from historical and cross-cultural perspectives.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Joleen L. Greenwood, greenwoo@kutztown.edu
SPT - 285 810 - Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
Course Description: This course is designed to address the various techniques and strategies used in meeting the needs and wants of sport consumers. It also focuses on how sport can be used to assist in the marketing of other companies and products. Special attention is devoted to the uniqueness of sport marketing in comparison to traditional marketing, the importance of market research in identifying and segmenting sport consumers, and the development of sponsorship programs.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Yongjae Kim, ykim@kutztown.edu
SPT - 290 810 - Fundamentals of Sport Law
Course Description: This course introduces students to a variety of legal principles associated with leisure and sport event and facilities operations. Relevant tort, contract, property, governmental, and constitutional law will be examined through case study. Special consideration will be given to negligence issues in the sport and recreation industry. Course not available to Business majors.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Yongjae Kim, ykim@kutztown.edu
SPU - 314 810 - Effective Instructional Strategies for Students with Disabilities In Inclusive Settings
Course Description: This course addresses the knowledge base and skills necessary for general education teachers to successfully include students with disabilities into their classrooms. Emphasis is placed on structuring inclusive environments and designing and implementing appropriate accommodations for elementary and secondary students possessing specific disabilities.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Diane King, king@kutztown.edu
SPU - 514 800 - Effective Instructional Strategies for Students with Disabilities
Course Description: This graduate course addresses the knowledge base and skills necessary for general education teachers to successfully include students with disabilities into their classrooms. Emphasis is placed on structuring inclusive environments and designing and implementing appropriate accommodations for elementary and secondary students possessing specific disabilities. Emphasis will be placed on extending principles of learning, intellectual, social, emotional and physical development to exceptional individuals in inclusive schools.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Debra Lynch, lynch@kutztown.edu
SWK - 255 WICD 810 - Social Welfare Policy
Course Description: The course defines social welfare policy in the context of social policy and examines its philosophical and historical roots. The policy making process is examined and the major actors associated with it are identified. A significant part of the course will be spent in the study of major welfare policies and the groups affected by them. Strategies and involvement of people for policy change are examined.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: John Conahan, conahan@kutztown.edu
SWK - 130 CDCT 810 - Poverty and Social Welfare
Course Description: This course defines poverty and examines groups in poverty in the United States. It traces poverty in America from a historical perspective, reviews major social welfare programs designed to respond to poverty and examines their effectiveness. Special populations and groups at risk encountered by social workers in practice will be examined with emphasis on viewing individual, family, and community functioning from a person-in-environment perspective. Major oppressive institutions and their effects on people in poverty are examined. Social work methods for social change to prevent, alleviate and resolve poverty are introduced. PREREQUISITE: None.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: John Vafeas, vafeas@kutztown.edu
SWK - 160 CD 810 - Human Behavior and Social Environment
Course Description: This course teaches students to evaluate and apply biological, psychological, and social theories to client's situation with a particular emphasis on the examination of the effects of the interplay of biological, psychological, social, economical and cultural elements of the social environment on human functioning. The impact of social and economic forces on the individual's behavior are presented. Systems promoting or deterring people in the attainment and maintenance of optimal health and well-being are explored with particular attention on the effects of these systems on ethnic and racial minorities, sexual minorities, women, and persons with disability. Required of all social work majors.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Varshe Pandya, pandya@kutztown.edu
WGS - 45 810 - Women in Mathematics
Course Description: This course examines women and minorities who have made significant contributions to the field of mathematics. Both their lives and their work will be explored as well as gender and multicultural issues surrounding their endeavors. Furthermore, mathematical topics related to their contributions will be discussed.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Lyn McQuaid, mcquaid@kutztown.edu
WRI - 270 WICT 810 - Writing for the Workplace
Course Description: Theory of and practice in written business communication. Letters and memoranda, reports, and a research paper are required. Models and case studies are used extensively.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: William Prystauk, prystauk@kutztown.edu
WRI - 280 WI 810 - Creative Writing: Exploring Forms
Course Description: This course explores the various forms of creative writing through practical examination of the writing process, writing practice in multiple genres, and experiments in the transformations of familiar forms. While the course is useful particularly to creative writers, it is also designed to develop and sharpen academic or professional writing through creative practice. The course will be modeled as an apprentice workshop. In addition to writing, students will read poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and drama.
Type/Format: 100% Online
Professor: Heather Thomas, hthomas@kutztown.edu
