Non-Matric Courses for Fall 2009 - GSE

6/24/2009

Continuing and Professional Education

The Graduate School of Education has a selection of 1 credit hour mini courses for fall 2009 aimed at providing continuing and professional education. Please visit www.gse.buffalo.edu/ccpe to view the list of courses and the registration process.

Contact person: Ms. Sarah Watson,
(716) 645-2110, sjwatson@buffalo.edu

More Non-Matric Options

In addition, the following 3 credit hour courses offered for fall 2009 would be good options for anyone interested in taking Education related courses as a non-matric, without being formally admitted to a program in the Graduate School of Education.

A more comprehensive listing of fall courses is available at: src.buffalo.edu/schedule

Please use the specific links under each department to apply for permission to take these courses.

Department of Counseling, School, and Educational Psychology (CSEP)

Apply for permission to take the courses using the CSEP Non-Matric Application
Contact person: Ms. Nancy Myers, (716) 645-1110, nmyers@buffalo.edu

CEP 541 Human Growth and Development: This course is designed to engage students in a meaningful exploration of human development from prenatal experience through adolescence. The central questions of developmental psychology concerning the nature and sources of development, as well as the importance of the cultural contexts in which development occurs, will be considered throughout. Special attention will also be given to contemporary themes, such as the meaning of childhood, cognitive development and schooling, identity formation, and cultural influences on development. This course is especially useful for professionals who work with children in a variety of settings, such as schools, daycare centers, or child service agencies.

CEP 653 Foundations of Counseling Theory: The main function of this course is to introduce the major theories of counseling and psychotherapy, their background or history, the theories of personality from which they are derived, and their applications to counseling practice. The course also includes consideration of professional and ethical issues in counseling. In addition to learning about established counseling theories, each student will have the opportunity to develop her/his own counseling theory. Class time will be divided among lecture presentations, viewing of videotapes of various counseling approaches, and small group discussions and activities.

CEP 680 Career Development: Work in America and basic aspects of vocational psychology; theories of career development and choice; relationship between education or training and work; career counseling in various settings and with diverse populations; special problems (e.g., job satisfaction, displacement, dual-career families, indecision, and indecisiveness, etc.); assessment and information issues; impact and development of interests, abilities, and values.

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Department of Educational Leadership and Policy (ELP)

Apply for permission to take the courses using the ELP Non-Matric Application
Contact person: Ms. Susan Ellsworth, (716) 645-2471, se7@buffalo.edu

ELP 501 Higher Education in the US: Development of higher education in the U.S. and its historical antecedents; purposes, organization, administration, relations with society, curriculum, financing, and the major trends and issues.

ELP 548 Foundations of Education: An educational course designed to look at the relationships of school to society; contemporary social problems affecting education, social groups and institutions; school and community relations; national, state, and community organizations affecting education programs and the development of social understandings in pupils.

ELP 605 Collective Bargaining: Examination of policies and procedures that guide collective bargaining and contract administration among employees in educational institution. Simulated collective bargaining and role playing are course requirements.

ELP 646 School Business Administration: Issues and problems in school business administration; including accounting, budgeting, purchasing, facilities management, food services, transportation, and data processing.

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Department of Learning and Instruction (LAI)

Apply for permission to take the courses using the LAI Non-Matric Application
Contact person: Ms. Karen Klie at 716-645-4039; krklie@buffalo.edu

LAI 567 Intercultural Communication in the Classroom: This course is designed to help teachers better understand the impact of culture on education. We will explore cultural variations in communication processes, social interaction and interpersonal relationships with a special emphasis on language usage, empathy and managing conflicts. We will concentrate our efforts on how to work successfully with culturally diverse students, how to raise cultural awareness, increase intercultural sensitivity and develop competence in intercultural communication on the day-to-day basis. We will carefully examine how to build an intercultural community of learners in our classrooms, how to make our classrooms culturally inclusive; how to develop culturally compatible pedagogical strategies, and how to use cultural diversity as a powerful resource for the benefit of all students.

This is an experiential, discussion-based, and workshop-oriented course appropriate for all GSE master's and doctoral students, allowing everyone a maximum of active participation with an emphasis on creative thinking and sharing personal experiences. The final projects are open to student interests and offer opportunities for exploring the implications of this work for teaching, leading, counseling, and researching.

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Department of Library and Information Studies (LIS)

Apply for permission to take the courses using the LIS Non-Matric Application
Contact person: Ms. Rita Packard, (716) 645-2412, packard@buffalo.edu

LIS 512 Legal Information Sources: Introduces students to basic legal research in primary federal and state law, with an overview of the American legal system. While New York is used for most of the state law examples, the skills acquired transfer to the primary law of other states.

LIS 519 Selection, Acquisition and Management of Non-Book Materials: An examination of the various aspects of selection, acquisition, management and preservation of non-book materials in libraries. Includes: archival and local history resources; audio recordings; film and video formats; maps; microforms; models, pictures, reproductions, and art originals; CD-Roms and multi-media computer software; formats which meet the needs of patrons, students, and staff with special needs; and relevant developments in communications technology.

LIS 561 Information Systems Analysis and Design: Principles for analysis, development, evaluation, and selection of computer-based information systems in libraries and other information environments. Includes seminar presentations based on individual research in information systems. Prerequisite(s): LIS 506 or permission of instructor.

LIS 566 Digital Information Retrieval: Emphasis is twofold: the practical aspects of online bibliographic retrieval and its implications for the library and information profession. Students develop skills in searching, with numerous laboratory assignments in bibliographic and full-text databases. They also study issues of question negotiation, search strategy formulation and database evaluation. Discussions, readings and some assignments require a consideration of the place of on-line retrieval in reference services and its impact on libraries and information centers, on the professionals who work in them, and on the people who use them, and on providing equal access to patrons with assistive technology needs. Prerequisite(s): LIS 518 or permission of instructor.

LIS 575 Introduction to Research Methods: Study of research, problem-solving, and evaluation of services in library, media and information environments. Students will learn to identify and define problems requiring systematic analysis and to review, evaluate, synthesize, appreciate, and use existing reports of research. Study includes librarianship and the philosophy of science, theory and hypothesis testing. Problems include evaluation of circulation, effectiveness, collections and overlap, online services, budgeting allocation, status of librarians, salaries, citation analysis, bibliometrics. Not a statistics course; background in mathematics and statistics is not required.

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