Courses

This course will provide a comprehensive overview of the different areas of research in numerical cognition research and how they have shaped various approaches to learning and teaching mathematics. The focus of the course is to provide students with an understanding of the neural, cognitive, and cultural factors that affect numerical cognition and its implications for k-12 math and science teaching and learning. Writing proficiency is required for a passing grade in this course.

This course will focus on the varied neuroimaging methodologies used by our Educational Neuroscience faculty. Faculty will present a different methodology in each iteration of the course. These methodologies include EEG, NIRS, Eye-tracking, and MRI. Please contact the department for information on semester-specific course offerings. Writing proficiency is required for a passing grade in this course.

In this special topics course, students will develop a deeper understanding of how educational neuroscience research can inform science instruction and learning. Writing proficiency is required for a passing grade. A student who does not write with the skill normally required for an upper-division student will not earn a passing grade, no matter how well the student performs in other areas of the course.

Readings, discussion, and analysis of major works of the Age of Enlightenment. Authors studied may include Montesquieu, Marivaux, Prevost, Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, Beaumarchais, and Laclos. May be repeated once for credit provided the topic is different.

Study of specific entrepreneurship topics of current interest, providing additional depth of knowledge in such areas as family business, innovation, new venture creation, venture capital, corporate entrepreneurship, and social entrepreneurship. May be repeated for a maximum of 12 credits.

Scientific aspects of varied environmental topics, which may include waste disposal, repeated for credit as topics vary.

Literature of one or more ethnic groups. Course may be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours.

Study and application of ethnomusicological theory, method, and literature in a variety of historical and geographical contexts. May be taken four times for credit.

Special Studies in European History. May be repeated.

This course covers a range of special topics in European History. Typically taught as a combination of lecture and discussion, with emphasis on primary sources, its topics cover major themes in medieval, early-modern, and modern European civilization. These include, among others, the origins of medieval and early modern Europe, national and cultural identity, revolution, gender, sexuality, consumerism, daily life, war, transnational exchange, and the environment.