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This 3-credit course offers an introduction to research methods as well as tools for becoming a critical consumer of the body of research that exists in experiential education. Class members will conduct secondary research that can be used toward the completion of a Capstone Project. The course design will offer a combination of readings, individualized secondary research, presentations, and interactive learning exercises.

This course engages learners in critical examination of definitional and controversial issues in experiential education and utilizes a variety of large and small group discussion, readings, and interactive exercises to investigate these issues. Class members will research and present their positions through group and individual forums.

Students will examine the writings of individuals who have made contributions to experiential learning and educational reform. Current national education reform initiatives will provide examples of how K-12 education and higher education have reformed teaching methods and educational practices. Learners will apply information to develop programs or curricula useful to their specific disciplines and interests.

Students will acquire a solid foundation of teaching methods in experiential learning. Learners will discuss and practice implementation of various teaching approaches that promote experiential learning including active learning, project based learning, service learning, place based education, and problem based learning. Learners will design curriculum that promotes hands-on learning and develop performance based assessment tools. Learners will collaboratively develop lessons that utilize experiential learning, and create assessment tools to align with lessons. This course meets program needs and introduction of assessment tools that align with experiential learning.

This course examines the complexities of ethical dimensions of leadership utilizing theoretical ethics, historical and contemporary ethical conceptual lenses, and case studies focused on leadership and moral dilemmas.

This graduate level course examines key aspects of guiding reflective group processes including principles, techniques, best practices, and activities. The design of this course uses active learning, discussion of readings, and applied practice through participating in reflective individual and group exercises.

This course offers opportunities to survey the past and current literature pertaining to experiential education and subsequently engage in meaningful philosophical and interpretive discourse. Comprehensive foundational readings about the philosophy, principals, and values of experiential education will be included.

This course explores strategies and approaches that are commonly used for facilitating experiential learning and are compatible with the principles and philosophies of experiential education.

A field-based course typically used for independent research or projects. This course can be repeated in the degree plan of study.

This course provides a venue for the completion of the Creative Project, one of the options for the graduate Capstone Experience required by the College of Graduate Studies and Research. The intent of a Creative Project is to develop a professional project that provides evidence of mastery in selected areas within the field of experiential education.

This course provides a venue for the completion of an Alternate Plan Paper, one of the options for the graduate Capstone Experience required by the College of Graduate Studies and Research. The intent of an Alternate Plan Paper is to engage in secondary research and scholarly writing using APA format and citation style. The APP is usually focused on an in-depth review of literature on a topic of choice within experiential education and is usually a minimum of 24 pages.

This course entails the creation of an assessment portfolio that documents student's progress and growth throughout their master's program. Portfolio components will include coursework, field experiences, essays, learning proposals, reflection papers, and capstone experiences.

This variable credit course is for the development and completion of the Thesis Capstone option for the MS in Experiential Education. Typically, after consultation with their advisor, students register for 3 credits of ExEd 699 for thesis proposal writing that entails the introduction, review of literature, and method chapters. In the following semester(s), 3 additional credits of ExEd 699 entail data collection, data analysis and writing of the final complete thesis.

This course emphasizes cognitive, emotional, and social development within our diverse society. Multi-generational local and national-level underrepresented/diverse family forms and practices are highlighted, relating to inter/intrapersonal communication, conflict resolution, mate selection, marriage/family dynamics, sexual development, family strengths, stress and crisis, parenting, decision-making, parent-child relationships, and the balancing act of family and work. As an introductory level course, no prerequisite knowledge is required.

Graduation Requirements:

Goal Area 5 - History and the Social and Behavioral Sciences | Diverse Cultures - Purple

Areas of Interest:

Education and Training

Programs:

Child Development and Family Studies Minor | Child, Youth, and Family Services (CERT) | Family Consumer Science Education (BS) | FCS-Child Development & Family Studies (BS)

An overview of the scope of family consumer sciences and the career potentials of the profession.

Graduation Requirements:

Goal Area 2 - Critical Thinking

Areas of Interest:

Education and Training

Programs:

Child Development and Family Studies Minor | Consumer Studies Minor | Family Consumer Science Education (BS) | FCS-Child Development & Family Studies (BS)

Relationship of clothing to people from cultural, social, psychological, economic and aesthetic perspectives.

Graduation Requirements:

Diverse Cultures - Purple

Areas of Interest:

Education and Training

Programs:

Child Development and Family Studies Minor | Family Consumer Science Education (BS) | FCS-Child Development & Family Studies (BS)

An introductory nutrition class which emphasizes the scientific method and natural science principles from biochemistry, physiology, chemistry, and other sciences to explain the relationships between food and its use by the human body for energy, regulation, structure, and optimal health. GE-3 non-lab

Graduation Requirements:

Goal Area 3 - Natural Sciences

Areas of Interest:

Education and Training

Programs:

Child Development and Family Studies Minor | Exercise Science (BS) General Exercise Science | Family Consumer Science Education (BS) | FCS-Child Development & Family Studies (BS) | Health and Physical Education (BS) | Physical Education & Developmental Adapted Phy Ed (BS)

Introduces students to basic food science, food preparation and culinary techniques. The course is taught from the lens of different global cultures and the roles of individuals and nations in a global context using food habits as a model. Foods from around the world are prepared by students to develop culinary skills.

Areas of Interest:

Education and Training

Programs:

Agribusiness and Food Innovation (BS) | Child Development and Family Studies Minor | Family Consumer Science Education (BS) | FCS-Child Development & Family Studies (BS) | Food and Nutrition Minor | Food Science Technology (BS) | Nutrition and Dietetics (BS)

An analysis of the child life specialist occupation; emphasis on the unique role this profession plays within the medical community.

Areas of Interest:

Education and Training

Programs:

Child Development and Family Studies Minor | FCS-Child Development & Family Studies (BS)

This course provides an overview of pediatric palliative and end-of-life care issues. This course will aid students who are seeking a Child Life Specialist internship.

Areas of Interest:

Education and Training

Programs:

FCS-Child Development & Family Studies (BS)

The science of six nutrient classes, including digestion through metabolism and excretion, sources, functions, deficiencies and excess symptoms. The course covers the foundational knowledge and application of nutrition knowledge to clinical care, including weight control and common chronic conditions requiring nutrition therapy.

Prerequisites:

Select One Course: CHEM 106 or CHEM 111

Areas of Interest:

Education and Training

Programs:

Applied Health Science (BS) Pre-Athletic Training | Food and Nutrition Minor | Food Science Technology (BS) | Nursing (BS) | Nutrition and Dietetics (BS)

This course will provide students with knowledge of appropriate health, safety, and nutrition practices implemented in developmentally appropriate educational programs for children ages birth through eight years. Emphasis includes childhood acute and chronic illness, social, emotional and environmental health, health appraisals, health practices, safety promotion and first aid.

Areas of Interest:

Education and Training

Programs:

FCS-Child Development & Family Studies (BS)

Physical, psychological, social, and managerial aspects of housing. Reciprocal relationship between housing and people. Guidelines and basic principles in planning for individual and family needs.

Areas of Interest:

Education and Training

Programs:

Child Development and Family Studies Minor | Family Consumer Science Education (BS) | FCS-Child Development & Family Studies (BS)

Economic decision making related to achieving maximum satisfaction from resources spent in the marketplace on housing, food, clothing, transportation, and other dimensions of the family. Basic information about the functions and responsibilities of the consumer, laws and agencies affecting consumer well-being and sources of help.

Graduation Requirements:

Diverse Cultures - Purple

Areas of Interest:

Education and Training

Programs:

Child Development and Family Studies Minor | Consumer Studies Minor | Family Consumer Science Education (BS) | FCS-Child Development & Family Studies (BS)

This class will explore the complex modern food system from a systems lens, including the development, establishment, and execution of policies regarding the production and availability of food and food/nutrition practices as well as the environmental impact of those practices. Policies that are explicit (set by law) and implicit (not the result of legislation) and the programs that derive from them will be explored. Agricultural systems and policies at the personal, local, national and global level will be considered.

Graduation Requirements:

Goal Area 10 - People and the Environment

Areas of Interest:

Education and Training

Programs:

Food and Nutrition Minor | Nutrition and Dietetics (BS)