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Students are required to design a 4-semester-hour program from any of the following components.
Seminar topics have included: The Politics of multiculturalism, Living and Working in Small and Rural communities, Ethical Dilemmas of the Modern Professional, Caring as a Moral Dimension of the Professions, Comparable Worth as a Gender Issue in the Workplace, The Culture of the Deaf, Balancing Work and Family Life, Marginality, Constructive Conflict and Community, and Cross-cultural Perspectives on Peace.
Critical Issues seminars are offered at least one weekend per
semester. Graduate students may complete up to one semester hour for the
Core requirement. In some cases students may choose to earn and apply
additional seminar credits toward degree completion.
Prerequisite: None.
Credit: .5 semester hour per seminar.
CORE 503 Adult Development in Organizational
Life
Participants explore ideas about adult development by considering the
interplay of cultural norms with the norms of their families, peers, and
work organizations. This involves an examination of individual choices
and commitments in the context of organizational life. Through diverse
approaches to learning, participants consider the continuities,
discontinuities, and paradoxes of balancing personal and professional
life. Course readings are drawn from disciplines including anthropology,
sociology, psychology, literature, education, and organizational
theory.
Prerequisite: None.
Credit: 3 semester hours.
CORE 510, 531 Writing In the
Professions
A workshop in how a community forms through writing and how writing
motivates and sustains a professionalšs thinking. Basic assumptions are
that effective writing in the professions is fundamentally an act of
clear thinking about complex issues, and that clear thinking within a
professional community follows from shared curiosity and responsibility.
Topics include process, audience, purpose, collaboration, critical
thinking, and personal voice. CORE 510 is a weekend workshop and CORE 531
is a weeklong workshop.
Prerequisite: None.
Credit: CORE 510, 1 semester hour. CORE 531, 2 semester hours.
(Credit may be earned for both 510 and 531.)
CORE 520 Comparative Community: Professions In
Different Cultures
The ramifications of power, examined through similarities and differences
in how the cultures of the United States and other nations affect
professional activity. The course considers how professional authority
and organizational agencies combine to affect clients and consumers.
Prerequisite: None.
Credit: 2 semester hours.
CORE 521 Ecological Knowledge for Enviromental
Problem Solving
Study of perspectives from a variety of disciplines in examining
environmental problems, beginning with examples of natural history
writing and appreciation. Students participate in extensive field study
and focus on the interaction of organizations with other components of
the community in fostering solutions. Also listed as SS 505 and SCI 550
(Teacher Education).
Prerequisite: None.
Credit: 2 semester hours.
CORE 524 Creating Collaborative
Communities
How professionals can collaborate at work to achieve trust,
effectiveness, and growth. Participants examine approaches to
collaborative leadership and mutual empowerment. Processes and skills
that facilitate shared learning and high levels of effectiveness are
demonstrated and tried. Participants observe and interview professionals
in the work setting, learning to apply collaborative processes.
Prerequisite: None.
Credit: 2 semester hours.
CORE 525, 535 Life Span: An Interdisciplinary
Approach
Theoretical principles of human development and key issues related to an
individualšs life and growth. Drawing from fiction, biography, and
autobiography and using the traditions of psychology, sociology, history,
and anthropology, participants examine the notion of a ŗsituated life˛
and explore relationships among such themes as adulthood, aging,
morality, gender, relationships, ethnicity, exceptionality, and social
class. CORE 525 takes a survey approach to the life span. In CORE 535
students also consider the interplay of organizational life and human
development through additional readings and assignments.
Prerequisite: None.
Credit: CORE 525, 2 semester hours. CORE 535, 3 semester hours.
(Credit may not be earned for both 525 and 535.)
CORE 526, 536 Narrative and Voice: Themes of
Gender and Culture
Narrative as it is used to make meaning from the predicaments and
possibilities of human life. Drawing from different cultural traditions
in psychology, anthropology, literature, and biography, participants
explore gender and culture as meaning systems that affect individual
responses in cognitive, social, and moral realms. Participants draw
connections between their own biographies, individuals they serve as
professionals, and lives addressed in selected narratives. In CORE 536
students make more extensive connections to ethics and moral life through
additional readings and assignments.
Prerequisite: None.
Credit: CORE 526, 2 semester hours. CORE 536, 3 semester hours.
(Credit may not be earned for both 526 and 536.)
CORE 528 Professional Ethics and Organizational
Authority
An intensive institute, usually a week long, in which participants
examine their role as professionals within organizational settings. Focus
is on conflicts between what we think is best, based on our professional
judgment, and what the organization for which we work thinks is best.
participants examine a case study to address the following questions:
What are the ethical boundaries of our professional autonomy? Who
determines these boundaries? What limits can and should organizations set
on our discretionary capacity? Participants prepare and present their own
case in a follow-up session.
Prerequisite: None.
Credit: 2 semester hours.
CORE 529 Racism: Social, Legal, and Educational
Aspects
Racism and its effects in U.S. society from sociocultural, legal, and
educational perspectives. Topics include organizational,
personal/individual, and cultural barriers to social justice.
Participants survey issues such as affirmative action, school
desegregation, criminal justice, and multicultural education as they
reflect the struggle against racism in our society. Also listed as SS 542 (Teacher Education).
Prerequisite: None.
Credit: 2 semester hours.
CORE 530 Women at Midlife
An overview of the issues faced by the current generation of midlife
women. General themes of midlife, drawn from the literature on adult
development, are considered as a theoretical backdrop to recent research
on midlife women. Emphasis is on themes shown by recent research to be
most significant to midlife women today. Students are encouraged to
explore how the material applies to their personal or professional lives.
Also listed as CPSY 554.
Prerequisite: None.
Credit: 2 semester hours.
CORE 531 Writing In the
Professions
See CORE 510, 531.
CORE 532 Ways of Seeing, Ways of
Knowing
An exploration of how individuals construct and are formed by their
cultures. Each individualšs way of knowing and seeing is influenced by
his or her ethnicity, gender, social class, sexual orientation, and
learning history. Factors that create an individualšs experience of what
is valuable, aesthetic, acceptable, or taboo are examined. Readings,
films, field trips, discussion, and writing help participants articulate
their perspectives on self and culture.
Prerequisite: None.
Credit: 2 semester hours.
CORE 533 Cross-National Perspectives On
Organizational Culture
An intensive field experience in Oaxaca, Mexico, examining the context
and dynamics of human services in a distinctive sociocultural setting.
Through direct contact with local practitioners, academic specialists,
and organizations, participants explore a range of issues and challenges
in service delivery, including leadership, professional training,
staff-client relations, planning, ethical dilemmas, and the management of
organizational change. Spanish language study is included.
Prerequisite: None.
Credit: 3 semester hours.
CORE 535 Life Span: An Interdisciplinary
Approach
See CORE 525, 535.
CORE 536 Narrative and Voice: Themes of Gender
and Culture
See CORE 526, 536.
CORE 537 Seminar In Moral Development, Ethics,
and Education
Exploration of problems and ways of knowing about the moral and ethical
realm, particularly as related to educational thought and practice.
Issues include whether morality is a social or an individual phenomenon,
the relationship between moral reasoning and behavior, ethical theories,
emotivism, relativism, universalism, and indoctrination. Morality as
justice and as care, including gender issues, is a central focus of the
course. Narratives of fiction and autobiography from individuals of
different backgrounds and case studies are the key modes of inquiry. Also
listed as ED 575, LA
575, and SS 575 (Teacher
Education).
Prerequisite: None.
Credit: 3 semester hours.
CORE 538 Race, Culture, and Power
Exploration of the concepts of race, culture, and power: Are they simple,
separate, and natural facts of life in a heterogeneous, rational,
achievement-oriented, and egalitarian society, or are they interrelated
social and ideological constructs with profound implications for onešs
status, well-being, access, and legitimacy in a diverse and stratified
world? The course addresses the serious and real tensions in our society,
where a substantial percentage of school-age children are minorities.
Also listed as SS 547 and ED 547 (Teacher Education).
Prerequisite: None.
Credit: 3 semester hours.
CORE 539 Cultural Diversity and Professional
Collaboration
An exploration of the ways culture shapes the human experience and how
issues regarding identity development, family life, time, and racism are
reflected in the professional setting. Students evaluate their
expectations and examine their professions in terms of culturally
appropriate practices.
Prerequisite: None.
Credit: 3 semester hours.
CORE 540 Envisioning A Sustainable
Society
A consideration of cultural changes needed in response to the
environmental crisis. Modern industrial societies are premised on
uninhibited growth; planetary limits now challenge this possibility. The
course explores the implications of this fundamental shift in our
material conditions and what it may mean for those who work in public
institutions. Also listed as LA 591 and SS 591 (Teacher Education).
Prerequisite: None.
Credit: 2 semester hours.
CORE 541 The City In Modern
America
Historical perspectives on the modern city; the impact of city life on
various groups such as women, children, the elderly, the poor, workers,
unions, and minorities; urban issues in politics, economics, housing,
transportation, planning, education, and the media; various efforts to
reform city life; the impact of current political and economic trends on
cities and their populations. Also listed as SS 517 and Ed 517(Teacher
Education).
Prerequisite: None.
Credit: 3 semester hours.
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