Courses

Educational measurement and evaluation with special emphasis on uses of measurement data such as standardized testing and emerging evaluation models such as alternative and authentic assessment.

A study of research-based instructional methods appropriate for students with high programming. Course content includes methods for teaching students with learning behavior disorders and other high incidence disabilities. Emphasis placed on adaptation, parents, paraprofessionals, general education teachers, and other educational professionals.

This course will require students to examine, in depth, the science of reading. Reading subskills, including phonological awareness, fluency and comprehension, will be covered, as well as specific teaching methodologies proven effective for literacy instruction. These strategies will include explicit and systematic instruction, guided practice, error correction, corrective feedback, and multisensory language instruction.

Advanced Course. The objective of this course is to increase familiarity with classic renal physiology terminology, improve understanding of mechanisms for evaluating renal function, and to become familiar with the forefronts in research related to renal physiology and disease.

A rigorous development of linearized and nonlinear fluid flow theories and application. Lifting surfaces, lifting bodies, duct flow, boundary layer effects, shock and expansion waves and method of characteristics.

This course presents complex principles and practices used in high precision civil engineering survey projects. Topics include Alabama law as applied to modern surveying, minimum technical standards, use of electronic surveying equipment, and Global Positioning Systems (GPS). Upon completion of the course, the student should be able to complete a survey using minimum technical standards accurate to 1:10,000.

Seminar topics are presented which address a wide variety of current issues Topics are designed to assist doctoral students gain currency in specific areas international literacy, literacy in an electronic age, to planning literacy pedagogy

This course is an advanced study of exceptionality with emphasis upon the educational implications of disability and current issues in special education and rehabilitation. May count RSED 5000, RSED 6000, or RSED 6006.

This course is an advanced study of exceptionality with emphasis upon the educational implications of disability and current issues in special education and rehabilitation. May count RSED 5000, RSED 6000, or RSED 6006.

This course examines the consumption and production of energy and the principles and technologies behind renewable energy sources. It also introduces the basics of energy storage systems such as batteries, gravitational, and hybrid. Current research in the field is examined.